News, Projects

Project: Babel Nexus

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 […]

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Job Announcement: Professor of Computational Literary Studies with a Focus on the Intersection of Research and Research Infrastructure at Universität Tübingen

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 […]

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Project: Faces of Dura-Europos

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 […]

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Weekly Highlight: Digital Humanities Monthly

Digital Humanities Monthly is a Japanese-language monthly email magazine published by the International Institute for Digital Humanities. Each month they publish the ‘Monthly Report on Humanities and Information Studies’, which introduces various research that can be positioned as human informatics, with up-and-coming experts from Japan and the world. The magazine contains original research, reports on […]

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DHNow Newsletter, August 12, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article about digital humanities in the Global South that proposes a more inclusive framework for computational humanities and an article that considers ethical AI use in GLAM institutions. We have also included […]

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Project: THANADOS

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 […]

News, Resources

Resource: How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

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 […]

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Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library

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 […]