The Vanderbilt Television News Archive will share the results of its recently completed database migration project. Vanderbilt’s database of one million tv news stories and half-a-million commercial breaks, 1968 to present, has undergone several transformations over the decades. Starting as a print catalog in the 1970s, then debuting as an early website in the mid-1990s, […]
For some time, I’ve been gathering tools and activities to help me [introduce students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets]. (Things come and go so fast on the web that I have to do it every year!) It’s always a challenge to find high-quality tools, especially since they’re buried in layers and […]
The event ‘Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context’ was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and community leaders. The event which started at 10am focused on how open data can drive evidence-based advocacy for vulnerable children facing […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice provides an assessment of Marimo Notebooks, a new tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. The second selection is a case study of agentic coding for text analysis of newspapers, highlighting the continued difficulty of OCR on newspapers. Our […]
Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower emerges from this critical juncture in the humanities, where the decline in tenure-track positions and the rise of part-time and contingent roles necessitate explorations of the extensive career paths that are both meaningful and viable for DH scholars. Synthesizing recent advice-oriented monographs such as Katina Rogers’s Putting […]
Digital environments have generated a vast ecosystem of literary and para-literary production, including fan fiction communities, transmedia projects, Alternate Reality Games, Wiki-based Storyworlds, and countless hybrid forms that challenge older taxonomies. At the same time, social platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Substack, and Wattpad have become powerful engines for the creation and circulation of American […]
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at Université de Montréal between June 3rd and 5th, that coincides with the INKE Partnership annual meeting and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). The Society encourages submissions on all topics relating […]
Organized by Heritage Malta and the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of a groundbreaking global survey carried out in the context of Heritalise project to exame the current state of the […]
The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. ESWC welcomes original research and application submissions covering all aspects of Semantic Web technologies and […]
Join Dr Eleanor Dare, Convenor of the Cambridge Data Schools, at this virtual information session for Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI, a brand new course offering in our Cambridge Data School suite. The newly developed School will take place over five days in July 2026 at the University of Cambridge. […]
