The current experience of digital librarianship in the U.S. and around the world is defined in part by precarity and crisis. In March 2025, Trump issued an Executive Order that dismantled the IMLS; as of April 2026, his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year does not include IMLS funding. Demands to censor books representing […]
In recent years, the arts and humanities have seen a significant increase in the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches. This kind of research is distinguished by its reliance on formal methods and the development of explicit, computational models – ranging from quantitative and statistical techniques to broader computational methods for processing and analysing […]
We are looking for an experienced writer. The ideal candidate already writes single-authored pieces regularly and publicly for a non-specialist audience, builds arguments based on data and research, and has the range to cover many of the topics we work on. This is a senior role: the person we hire will work closely with Hannah […]
This database designed for students and educators highlights primary sources about the growth of the Black American community in Lënapehòkink, now called Philadelphia, from the 1600s to the 1800s. It includes petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and more. See full post.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2026, a virtual conference, from June 24-26, 2026. Registration is open from April 15, 2026, through June 17, 2026. See full post.
A collection of videos of the presentations from the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, held from April 13–April 17, 2026. See full collection.
A tool for explorers, travellers, and anyone curious about the city that once was — connecting Toronto’s living streets to more than 37,000 archival photographs spanning over two centuries, from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library. See full post.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an overview of a new DH tool that allows you to compare outputs from different LLMs, and an article that overviews the process of turning a collection of Welsh manuscripts into a TEI dataset. We have also included CFPs, […]
Motivated by growing interest in the similarities between problems in learning and social choice, SCaLA-26 aims to bring together researchers across these domains to highlight the benefits of collaboration. Recent work has explored theoretical bounds on the learnability of common voting rules alongside experimental evaluation of these bounds, has shown how neural networks can improve […]
The Timeline of African American Music represents decades of scholarship conducted and led by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby, a pioneer in the study of African American music, as well as the contributions of numerous scholars. From the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music, the timeline is a detailed view of the evolution of African […]
