Aaron Straup Cope recently attended this year’s Fantastic Futures conference, in Washington DC, and spoke about SFO Museum’s efforts to encourage and promote the practice of publicly shared vector embeddings, by and for the cultural heritage sector. See full post.
The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation […]
The 12th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is delighted to return, with events across countries and modalities in mid-May 2027. Michigan State University continues as host and is partnering with the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, as a lead into their annual DH@Guelph Summer Workshops. We invite work at the intersections of critical DH that engages […]
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, […]
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often have specialized workflows and metadata management requirements due to factors such as varied ingest methods and inconsistent source metadata. This blog post features descriptions of ETD metadata management from three institutions in the United States, outlining the systems, tools, and workflows used to process and provide access to ETDs […]
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand how people actually interact […]
The Department of History in the School of Humanities and Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas, seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the history of artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. A PhD or equivalent degree in History or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment. The area […]
Under the direction of the Metadata Operations Librarian, the Special Collections Metadata Librarian leads the creation of bibliographic descriptions for materials in all formats, including books, maps, broadsides, audiovisual materials, continuing resources, and manuscripts with an emphasis on materials acquired or held by Rare Books & Special Collections and Preservation (RBSCP) at the River Campus […]
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 […]
