Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, December 17, 2025

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Rachel Hogan, DHNow Guest Editor.  This week, our Editors’ Choice selections are considering different use cases for AI in Digital Humanities. The first Editors’ Choice is an article that introduces WOKIE, a tool to aid in automatic translation of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Programming Historian Call for Proposals (English edition)

The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2026. Submissions Open: 15 November 2025Submissions Close: 15 February 2026A Programming Historian lesson is a learn-by-doing resource that empowers readers to develop new, practical knowledge of a computational method or digital tool. Our aim is […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: LACDH Symposium – Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium

The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Transborder DH Center and Consortium (TBDH) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) will host the fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium from September 8-10, 2026, in person at UT San Antonio. The symposium […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 – SADiLaR

The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a […]

News, Reports

Report: New UChicago project explores how humanities can advance AI research | University of Chicago News

The Humanistic AI project, headed by UChicago professors Hoyt Long and Chris Kennedy, aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that generative models present across a wide range of disciplines—including literature, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, computer science and more—and to articulate a strategic vision for how the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and computer sciences can collaborate […]

News, Reports

Report: Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive

More than a decade after its launch, the Science Blogs Web Archive continues to grow and evolve. In this interview, Jennifer “JJ” Harbster reflects on building and maintaining the collection, while intern Yahir Brito brings a fresh perspective on updating and expanding it. Together, they share a few of their favorite blogs and discuss why […]

News, Reports

Report: Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: African Population and Health Research Center

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading Pan African research-to-policy institution dedicated to generating evidence, strengthening research capacity, and informing policy action across Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a West Africa Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal, APHRC is African-based and African-led, committed to nurturing strong research leadership and promoting evidence-informed […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D) – Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing”

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (Italy) invites applications for a Digital Humanities Research Scientist within the Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing,” led by Dr Leonardo Impett. The Machine Visual Culture research group investigates the reciprocal relationship between artificial intelligence […]

News, Resources

Resource: Refactoring the IIIF Artificial Intelligence Community

This talk is a call to participate in the newly reformed IIIF AI community group. The International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium (IIIF-C) formed an AI/ML Community Group in 2023. The utility of IIIF in these contexts is clear, but the best practices in this domain are less so, and awareness of the full extent of […]