This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. This week’s issue features an Editors’ Choice posts that explores the potential of AI for digital blackface. The second selection considers the growing trend on social media of accounts depicting the likenesses of Black women through AI-generated characters. We have also included multiple useful […]
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes project proposals and liaison applications for the eleventh Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie, New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026. This year ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment both for collaborative project teams and for individuals. […]
The International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH) is a new doctoral school jointly established by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI) in Rome and the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (PhF) of the University of Zurich (UZH), funded by the Max Planck Society (MPG) for […]
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it […]
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. See full post.
So much of our nation’s contentious history is hidden in plain sight. Consider, for instance, how we routinely pass by houses, buildings, and sites whose complex and controversial histories we are unaware of. The Layered Memories: History in One Square Block project excavates these everyday histories by using what I call lieux de souvenir analysis. […]
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to study human behavior, yet their rapidly evolving nature poses challenges for research rigor. GUIDE-LLM provides a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility, and ethical accountability across behavioral and social science research. In particular, GUIDE-LLM supports researchers in clearly describing how LLMs were used, why specific methodological […]
Remove bleed-through from medieval manuscript scans. Translucens separates ink show-through from recto/verso folio scans, combining guided-filter estimation, NMF source separation, and Wiener deconvolution into a single browser-based tool. See full post.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice calls for the need to reconsider digital knowledge through the perspective of decolonial data narratives and oral history practices. The second selection considers the empowering possibilities of vibe-coding small scale digital history projects. […]
Create a compact offline Wikipedia archive as a ZIM file for any region in the world – perfect for hiking, expeditions or areas without network coverage. See full post.
