Out of all tracks in librarianship, becoming a metadata librarian is not a very common one. This blog post features eight professionals working in the US, reflecting on their paths towards becoming metadata librarians, primarily working with digital object metadata records. Most of us work at a university library or other large institutions with rich […]
The summer conference season is over, and this year marked a return for me to both the international DH conference (held in Daejeon, South Korea for 2026) and the ACH conference (held, as usual, anywhere you are / virtually). They’re always different experiences, but the distinction felt particularly acute this year. See full post.
The Babel Nexus Index is a free, visual way to explore the great public-domain books — the classics whose copyright has expired, so anyone can read them. Instead of a search box and a flat list, it lays knowledge out as a map of connected rooms: each room is a subject, each book sits on […]
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position as a Professor (W2) of Computational Literary Studies with a focus on the intersection of research and research infrastructure (m/f/d) to commence as soon as possible in an employment relationship. Employment will take place in collaboration with the DLA (German Literature […]
The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation. Working closely with the Managing Director, you will ensure that our operations are efficient, our team is supported, and our projects and grants are well managed. See full post.
The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games strand at the Middle Ages in the Modern World, 22 to 24 June 2027. While we will consider any papers relating to the Middle Ages in modern games, we are particularly interested in […]
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the most extensively excavated Roman-period archaeological sites of the Middle East. For more than a decade an American-led team revealed the ancient site, taking thousands of photographs in the process. Among images of artefacts and buildings are many which incidentally recorded images of the people who did […]
Editors’ Summary: On July 30, the Mozilla Data Collective launched Compensated Data Sets: responsibly sourced data where data providers retain control over pricing and licensing terms, helping advance a more transparent and sustainable approach to data sharing grounded in human agency and fair value exchange. See full post.
We invite chapter proposals for a new Open Access edited volume, Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities, currently being developed as a book proposal for UCL Press. This volume asks: under what conditions does Digital Humanities flourish, and under what conditions does it struggle to take root, survive, or be recognised? Rather than mapping DH […]
We are inviting graduate students and early career researchers who are applying new digital methodologies to the humanities, and related fields, to share that research at the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026 in Oxford on Wednesday 18 November 2026. See full post.
