This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice critiques DH for its entanglement with environmentally damaging digital infrastructures and asserts that DH is not neutral in the climate crisis. The authors propose a new framework that would reframe DH as a field in relation to the environment. The […]
The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS), and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts. Over 2 days, participants will be involved […]
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 […]
