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Our take: Programmable Mutter, written by Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins Professor, is a personal blog that considers AI and technology from a social science perspective, as well as pieces about politics. For readers of DHNow, this blog is a useful resource for current discussions of large language models and computational social science. See source.
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 arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
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 […]
The Department of Humanities at San José State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities or Humanities, with an expertise that lies at the intersection of critical science and technology studies with the humanities. We seek a teacher-scholar whose research, pedagogy, and community engagement examine the social and cultural roles, implications, […]
The University of Virginia Library seeks a Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist to join the Digital Humanities Center (DHC) as part of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). IATH is an internationally recognized humanities research unit dedicated to advancing digital scholarship at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. The DHC serves […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2027, to be held at the University of Galway, Ireland, from June 28 to July 3, 2027. For DH2027, we invite the community to think about creativity in this broad sense. What does creativity mean when humanistic work is increasingly carried out […]
Our take: In “Look Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times!,” Rosalyn Metz responds to reports that an OpenAI agent tried to break into a University of New Mexico library site. She argues that libraries have faced this pressure for years. Drawing on firewall logs from one of Emory’s library applications, she shows 2.17 […]
Our take: In this post for the Open Knowledge Foundation, Kannika Thaimai shares the recording and materials from the closing event of Traceable AI Answers for Public Data, a project of the AI Learning Labs initiative. Working with government agencies in Brazil and Uruguay, the team built a prototype that connects AI to open data […]
