The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2027, to be held at the University of Galway, Ireland, from June 28 to July 3, 2027. For DH2027, we invite the community to think about creativity in this broad sense. What does creativity mean when humanistic work is increasingly carried out […]
Our take: In “Look Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times!,” Rosalyn Metz responds to reports that an OpenAI agent tried to break into a University of New Mexico library site. She argues that libraries have faced this pressure for years. Drawing on firewall logs from one of Emory’s library applications, she shows 2.17 […]
Our take: In this post for the Open Knowledge Foundation, Kannika Thaimai shares the recording and materials from the closing event of Traceable AI Answers for Public Data, a project of the AI Learning Labs initiative. Working with government agencies in Brazil and Uruguay, the team built a prototype that connects AI to open data […]
Our take: The October DLF Digest from the Digital Library Federation shares news, working group meetings and CLIR program updates. It highlights the 2026 Virtual DLF Forum, which takes place online on October 14 and 15. Registration information is available at https://forum2026.diglib.org/registration/. The keynote will be streamed live and remain available afterward on the DLF […]
Our take: The Prison Data Explorer (https://tpride.org/projects_prisondata/#home) is a project of Trans Pride Initiative, a Texas nonprofit that corresponds with trans and queer people in prison, mostly in Texas but also in other state and federal systems. The site turns thousands of letters into live, interactive charts that show correspondence over time and the demographics […]
Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving initiatives, providing current services, and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning. This position is highly collaborative within the DSG, throughout the Libraries, […]
The University of Virginia School of Data Science is seeking exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs). This search prioritizes faculty making foundational and methodological contributions that improve the understanding or capabilities of language models. We seek a scholar […]
This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host IIIF manifests, this lesson walks through the creation of IIIF-compliant images using three different methods, ranging from beginner to advanced levels of difficulty. See full […]
Aaron Straup Cope recently attended this year’s Fantastic Futures conference, in Washington DC, and spoke about SFO Museum’s efforts to encourage and promote the practice of publicly shared vector embeddings, by and for the cultural heritage sector. See full post.
The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation […]
