On March 18 at 1:00 PM EDT, eLabs will host a webinar that invites researchers to explore questions around the environmental impact of digital humanities work. The session draws on the approaches and resources developed by the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC), a collaborative and cross-institutional initiative focused on understanding and minimizing the environmental impact […]
Interested in being part of the editorial process for DHNow? We are pleased to announce our call for guest editors! This role is critical to helping DHNow reflect community interests,ideas, and opportunities. Our new Guest Editor program gives volunteers more agency in the publication process, directly selecting an Editors’ Choice post each week. They sign […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice argues that generative AI has fundamentally shifted which disciplines are considered most valuable. The second selection considers the importance of making informed decisions when creating data visualizations. Our third selection features an oral history […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice considers the experience of data repositories from the perspective of researchers who have deposited datasets. The second selection also discusses user experience, specifically comparing the experience using Google and DuckDuckGo. Our third selection interrogates […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author grapples with the tension between open access and AI bot scraping. The second selection also considers AI, specifically theorizing on the rise of AI bot social media accounts. Our third selection […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author considers the growing problem of zombie citations, or fake citations constructed by generative AI. The second selection attempts to chronicle the origins of the field of digital archaeology. Our third selection […]
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. May be useful if you are:› Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics› Wanting to understand data journalism and story-telling with data› A words […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author encourages debates over large language models (LLMs) to move past the question of their ability “to think.” The second selection considers the experience of incarcerated students in order to develop […]
Zotero 8, which we announced today, is a huge release, representing more than a year of development. It brings together a large number of new features, improvements, and internal changes that have been in progress for quite some time. Going forward, we’ll be changing how we manage Zotero releases, with the goal of getting stable […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice provides an assessment of Marimo Notebooks, a new tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. The second selection is a case study of agentic coding for text analysis of newspapers, highlighting the continued difficulty of OCR on newspapers. Our […]
