The Digital Archivist will play a key role in growing the BDA Team’s capacity and capability toacquire, preserve and provide access to born digital archival material that is a record ofcontemporary Irish life. Core tasks will include pre-acquisition assessment, rights-management, collection analysis, processing, arranging and description. The role will involvedirect engagement with donors and creators […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author grapples with the tension between open access and AI bot scraping. The second selection also considers AI, specifically theorizing on the rise of AI bot social media accounts. Our third selection […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author considers the growing problem of zombie citations, or fake citations constructed by generative AI. The second selection attempts to chronicle the origins of the field of digital archaeology. Our third selection […]
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data for a fixed-term period of 36 months, starting in May 2026. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by […]
Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces […]
June 15, 2026 – June 16, 2026 | University of Luxembourg The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines. Generative AI has emerged as a transformative tool in historical research, serving as a method to answer historical questions, a means to streamline historians’ workflows, or […]
Jeremy Silver had been enjoying his retirement when he was asked to take the helm of the beleaguered British Library three months ago. Silver, a tech entrepreneur and investor, had been a trustee of the library since 2019. He had a front-row seat for its crippling by the hacking group Rhysida in October 2023, which […]
The next Electronic Literature Organization conference, ELO 2026, will be held online. This year’s event will continue ELO’s tradition of bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world. For preliminary details and updates, visit the conference site: https://anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/. The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might […]
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. May be useful if you are:› Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics› Wanting to understand data journalism and story-telling with data› A words […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author encourages debates over large language models (LLMs) to move past the question of their ability “to think.” The second selection considers the experience of incarcerated students in order to develop […]
