The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Communications department is seeking a full-time Digital Media […]
The Digitization Specialist undertakes digitization projects for Chester Fritz Library and its patrons, producing high-quality digital versions of analog documents and materials. They will manage the day-to-day tasks necessary to accomplish these projects, including gathering the materials to digitize, planning and executing the digitization process, training and supervising student workers performing digitization tasks, tracking progress […]
In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped how […]
The Universal Viewer (UV) is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world. The UV software can also play audio and video files, display 3D files, PDFs and more. You can try it for yourself at universalviewer.io. You can see the Universal Viewer displaying different types […]
The DE-BIAS tool, developed as a part of the DE-BIAS project, aims to create and detect a vocabulary of problematic language in the metadata of cultural heritage institutions. Researcher Inna Kizhner shares the work undertaken to identify and flag antisemitic language in cultural heritage collections. See full post.
The Tutankhamun (TAA) Archive is the most significant collection held by the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford. It preserves the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including maps, plans, object cards, drawings, journals, diaries, notes, correspondence, and Harry Burton’s iconic photographs. Today the […]
We are pleased to announce that the proceedings from the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 have been published! The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium was a one-day workshop organized by DHTech and held at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) 2025 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. These proceedings are the first-ever official publication from a DHTech […]
The Information Technology Manager oversees the small but dynamic Information Technology Department that manages and maintains the Athenæum’s computers, networks, servers, and cloud-based systems. The Information Technology Manager also keeps abreast of new technologies and implements those to ensure better and more secure systems. Reporting to the Director of Business Operations & Augusta Thomas Director […]
To help people connect with the Internet Archive’s celebration of 1 trillion web pages preserved, they have created “The Web We’ve Built,” a cinematic reflection on how humanity came together to build, shape, and now safeguard the web. From the crackle of a dial-up modem to the galaxy of pages preserved in the Wayback Machine, the film traces our shared […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Lívia Clarete, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first Editors’ Choice is a pre-print that claims both humans and AI systems demonstrate a preference for human-created content, regardless of actual quality. AI systems are seemingly reflecting cultural assumptions that devalue machine creativity, underscoring […]
