Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Leo Transcription Grants: apply for up to 100,000 free credits – Leo

We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits for students, academics, and archives to use Leo, our AI-powered transcription and document management platform Leo is a web app designed for historians, archivists, and other researchers working with handwritten manuscripts and printed text in Latin scripts (including English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, German, etc.) from the later medieval […]

News, Resources

Resource: Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library

The Sindhi Halchal Archive is dedicated to the advertisements published in Sindhi books and magazines in India by writers and small scale publishers producing books after 1947. In the absence of state support or major infrastructure to reach wider audiences all over the country – Sindhis are scattered in different cities in India – it […]

News, Reports

Report: 🇺🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Mukono: Evaluating the Role of Open Data in Promotion of Peaceful Settlements

As part of Open Data Day 2025, Solvent hosted a workshop, “Open Data for Peace and Development,” in Mukono, Kampala District, Uganda. It brought together tenants, civil society, district representatives, community leaders and open data experts to explore how open data can resolve land disputes and promote peace in Uganda. Participants learned about open land […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches

Digital Humanities Quarterly invites authors to submit abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI. Some methods show great promise, providing new modes of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Digital Scholarship Specialist | U-M Careers

The Digital Scholarship Specialist partners with students, faculty, staff, and librarians to enhance learning, teaching, and scholarship through application of technologies and knowledge of the latest digital research methods with diverse teams. You will join a network of functional and subject experts, contributing to the evolution of digital scholarship and consultation services at the University […]

News, Resources

Resource: Special Issue on Publishing and Climate Justice

I edited a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Publishing and Climate Justice, which also includes an article I wrote: “Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action”.  This important collection captures urgent and critical research that starts to outline the challenges the climate emergency poses […]

News, Reports

Report: Open Data Editor in Action: Strategic Data Cleansing for Catalan Municipalities

StoryData is a data communication project based in Barcelona. It combines research, analysis, visualisation and storytelling to reveal the stories behind the data. Its mission is to address the current communication gap by rigorously practising data journalism and advocating for the openness of data to citizens, with the aim of democratising public information and combatting […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: AI & Machine Learning Developer at University of Pennsylvania

The Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS) team at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for an AI & Machine Learning (Al/ML) Developer. The University’s Strategic Plan, “In Principle & Practice,” articulates a desire to lead on the great challenges and opportunities of our time using cutting-edge approaches and interdisciplinary thinking. A key challenge […]

News, Reports

Report: Meeting the Moment: K4BL’s Fourth Annual Summer Workshop

Keywords for Black Louisiana, a collective of researchers committed to researching, teaching, and stewarding the history of enslaved and free people of African descent of the Gulf Coast and African diaspora broadly, hosted its fourth Black History in Louisiana summer workshop. This year felt special and important—like an affirmation against enclosure, against fascism, against empire. […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Applications For The 2026-2027 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open

Applications are now open for Praxis Fellowships to be held during the 2026-2027 academic year. The Praxis Program is a unique and well-known training program in the international digital humanities, offered by the UVa Library’s Scholars’ Lab. This fellowship supports a team of University of Virginia PhD students each year as they explore various aspects […]