The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference, to be held at Kyushu University on September 11-13, 2026. Digital data do not exist in isolation. They come to life only within specific contexts of use, interpretation, infrastructure, and care. Following Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt, this conference […]
The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17–18 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR’s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students and academic staff […]
DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities. See full post.
HathiTrust will cease funding and data sharing with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) at the end of 2026, at which time the Center will be formally closed. Users will still be able to search and use the HathiTrust Digital Library site, with reading and download access continuing as before for material in the public domain […]
In this post, I used Claude Code to extract all 651 papers written by AI Agents at the Social Catalyst Lab’s APE project. These papers were fully automated with no human guidance. They are program evaluation papers, meaning they estimate causal effects with real data using R scripts and modern econometric methods. Additionally, they are […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week outline best practices and standards for presentations, using a case study of transitioning between dynamic and static presentation formats, the process of developing an AI-assisted workflow for extracting very large corpora from the […]
This upcoming project in Cyprus uses 3D technology to recreate the Enkleistra of Saint Neophytos and the figure of Saint Neophytos. By extending the idea of a “digital twin” to a “memory twin,” this project will provide important insight on how we should not view digitization as just a way of copying what’s in reality […]
This March, Black Beyond Data joined researchers, artists, activists, students, and teachers from across the African diaspora in Puerto Rico for the Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia (Cumbre Afro), the International Afro-Summit. See full post.
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History is sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University (GMU). It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at GMU, […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. This week’s issue features an Editors’ Choice posts that explores the potential of AI for digital blackface. The second selection considers the growing trend on social media of accounts depicting the likenesses of Black women through AI-generated characters. We have also included multiple useful […]
