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 […]
Throughout the month of October, Internet Archive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived and available for use in the Wayback Machine! Together with more than 1,300 libraries, we’ve helped preserve a living record of the web for future generations. To mark this once-in-a-generation achievement, we’re inviting all libraries to join the […]
We want to extend our thanks and recognition to the Fall 2025 DHNow Guest Editors: Rachel Hogan, Augustine Fariola, Abirlal Mukherjee, and Lívia Clarete. Thank you so much for your contributions to DH Now! We have been fortunate to receive a significant number of Guest Editor applications since we relaunched this Spring. Due to this, […]
Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good (CACASG) is a collaborative project of the University of Illinois, African archivists, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), and Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev). The project seeks to foster the preservation of African knowledge and cultural heritage, developing memory practices that enable local organizations and communities to tell their […]
