Our take: The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of academic and public libraries, museums, and related institutions. Their in-person meetings and year-round working groups provide opportunities for DLF members to collaborate and get stuff done. Meanwhile, DLF staff and […]
Our take: AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University. This source primarily highlights open access materials and articles related to the ancient world. See source.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article announcing a large-scale decoder model for historical Greek and a discussion of a new open infrastructure toolkit focused on wildfire data. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, reports, and resources, […]
Our take: This source is an online magazine, published from Tsukuba, Japan, that highlights digital scholarship on African, Asian, and Middle Eastern spaces and histories. The magazine is run by a team of scholars, librarians, and students, and features many contributors. They describe their use of the term ‘Orientalist’ as follows: “we are making a […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehulkumar Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for the DH community to adopt an agenda on generative AI and a paper on the current state of DH in Africa. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article reflecting on the Equal Earth projection and if there is still a need for a default map projection at all. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and tools, including a […]
Our take: This personal blog details experimentations with LaTeX code (packages, classes, templates, and snippets). For readers of DHNow, this blog seeks to demystify the Digital Humanities and digital tools for Humanists, as well as discussions of LaTeX. The blog provides tutorials and theoretical discussions of the state of the Digital Humanities. See source.
Advances in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning have informed new methodologies in the humanities for over a decade, but the uptake of AI models for visual analysis in art history has been piecemeal, and recent discourses have been dominated by computer scientists. This presentation explores some of the tensions, challenges, and possibilities that […]
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is pleased to announce its pilot Regional Events Series. These one-day workshops, which will be open to all, aim to foster and facilitate new connections and collaborations between digital arts & humanities researchers and practitioners at a regional level. The pilot series will consist of 5 events that will run […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay arguing for the importance of crowdsourcing and participatory projects for GLAM work and an article assessing how effective automated quality assurance is for web archives. We have also included announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a zine […]
