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 […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Lívia Clarete, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice selections are concerned with text analysis. The first Editors’ Choice is an article that considers the emotional impact of design choices on data visualizations. The author creates a visualization of the […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Abirlal Mukherjee, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice selections are concerned with text analysis. The first Editors’ Choice is an article that discusses how large language models have improved handwritten character recognition. Handwritten text has long been the biggest […]
We’re pleased to announce that the 13th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Maastricht at Maastricht University. The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. We’re excited […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical […]
To help people connect with the Internet Archive’s celebration of 1 trillion web pages preserved, they have created “The Web We’ve Built,” a cinematic reflection on how humanity came together to build, shape, and now safeguard the web. From the crackle of a dial-up modem to the galaxy of pages preserved in the Wayback Machine, the film traces our shared […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Lívia Clarete, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first Editors’ Choice is a pre-print that claims both humans and AI systems demonstrate a preference for human-created content, regardless of actual quality. AI systems are seemingly reflecting cultural assumptions that devalue machine creativity, underscoring […]
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Rachel Hogan, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the authors argue against the “inevitability” of AI adoption, especially in university contexts. They highlight the potential conflicts of interest that exist when the AI industry is responsible for funding a lot […]
A 2-Day Research and Edit Event for the Visualizing Caribbean Literature Database. The database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors in over 50 languages since 1800. Join us to review and improve the database and to create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! On November 7 and 8, both in-person […]
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our Editors’ Choice posts both consider aspects of AI, one from a research perspective and the other pedagogical. Our first Editors’ Choice selection tackles the difficulties generative AI has created for academic integrity and assessment […]
