The University of Missouri Libraries seek to hire a librarian to serve as the Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian. This position designs and delivers services to faculty and students that support scholarly research involving the use of digital platforms, analytic and computational software, and visualization tools for the purpose of research analysis, access, or […]
An interactive visualization tracing enslaved people forcibly migrated from U.S. states into Texas between 1800 and 1870 — reconstructed from the voter registration records of 1867–1870, in which more than 50,000 of the 140,073 Texans who registered are identified as freedmen. See full post.
THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that […]
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe […]
Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their news page. This multi-institutional library is a rich resource that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choice selections this week include a discussion of how the internet and AI have reshaped literature and the act of writing, and a six-part series that defines the digital humanities before providing practical suggestions […]
Editors’ Summary: In “Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy,” a Spanish-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Douglas McRae shows researchers how to start a Tropy project to manage digital images of their primary sources. Addressing the overload historians face when accumulating hundreds of archival photographs, McRae presents Tropy—a free, open-source tool developed by the Roy […]
Agents have experienced significant growth in recent years, largely due to the rapid technological advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs). Although these agents benefit from LLMs’ advanced generation proficiency, they still suffer from catastrophic forgetting and a limited context window size compared to the agents’ needs in terms of contextual information. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are […]
The Transgender Media Portal (TMP) is a website and database that aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, researchers, instructors, and the public. In this position, you would help Carleton professor Laura Horak (Film Studies) and the Transgender Media Lab team build the […]
The Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (Argentine Association of Digital Humanities) is an open community of practice whose objective is to promote the research, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Digital Humanities, building bridges between different disciplines and lines of research. The association features publications, the podcast “Cinco preguntas a humanistas digitales,” […]
