Tool: OCR on the Hub
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.
Category: News
Tool: epub-blocks
epub-blocks is a dependency-free Python library for reproducibly extracting ordered, structured text blocks from EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files. A declarative recipe selects an edition’s XHTML, assigns block types, and generates stable identifiers without edition-specific Python code or a pre-existing output table. See full post.
Resource: Planning XR projects for cultural heritage
Editors’ Summary: “Planning XR projects for cultural heritage” is an introductory course that provides a foundation for understanding XR and its applications in cultural heritage, developed as part of the EUreka3D-XR project. Aimed at Cultural Heritage professionals, XR-focused project managers and coordinators, educators, researchers and enthusiasts of XR, the course explores the core concepts of […]
Announcement: #SemanaHD – Semana de Humanidades Digitales 2026
The #WeekHD is an open, free and collaborative meeting that brings together, in the same virtual space, projects, activities and initiatives related to the Digital Humanities in Latin America and the Caribbean. For a week, we seek to make visible the diversity of people, communities, institutions and projects working from the Digital Humanities in our […]
DHNow on break!
The DHNow team is taking vacation this week, and will return next Wednesday September 9!
Announcement: Zotero 10
We’re excited to announce Zotero 10, which adds a host of powerful new features for searching and managing your library, a major improvement to Read Aloud, and a new Reading Mode for PDFs. See full post.
Report: Connections, ideas and renewed hope: reflections from Wikimania Paris 2026
From 21–25 July 2026, Wikimedians from around the world gathered in Paris for Wikimania 2026, the annual conference celebrating the people, projects and communities behind the Wikimedia movement. This year, we supported our largest-ever contingent of staff, trustees and volunteers to attend. For some, it was their first experience while for others, it was an […]
Report: From language patterns to digital possibilities: Tanja Gaustad’s Journey in computational linguistics
Across South Africa, women in science and research are helping shape a more inclusive digital future, one in which our languages, knowledge and communities are represented. Their contributions may take many forms, but together they are helping ensure that technological progress leaves no language behind. For Tanja Gaustad, a fascination with language patterns sparked a […]
Resource: Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine
Editors’ Summary: In “Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine,” a French-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Pascal Martinolli provides a tutorial on using OpenRefine to enrich a set of research data with other linked data from external sources such as Wikidata. OpenRefine can be used for a process called “reconciliation” or “alignment” […]
Conference: AI and History Conference 2026
The AI and History Conference 2026, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University, is a practitioner-focused convening for historians at all career stages who are working with, teaching, or trying to evaluate AI and computational methods in their research and institutions. This event is anchored squarely in historical practice: its organizing questions are what AI […]