On January 1, 2026, we celebrate published works from 1930 and published sound recordings from 1925 entering the public domain! Their arrival marks another chapter in our shared cultural heritage: the freedom to breathe new life into overlooked works, remix enduring classics, and circulate the oddities we discover in thrift stores, family attics, and forgotten […]
A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while others see the nation’s rapid shift to AI technology as a forecast of the job market they’ll enter. At the University of Virginia over […]
The Humanistic AI project, headed by UChicago professors Hoyt Long and Chris Kennedy, aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that generative models present across a wide range of disciplines—including literature, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, computer science and more—and to articulate a strategic vision for how the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and computer sciences can collaborate […]
More than a decade after its launch, the Science Blogs Web Archive continues to grow and evolve. In this interview, Jennifer “JJ” Harbster reflects on building and maintaining the collection, while intern Yahir Brito brings a fresh perspective on updating and expanding it. Together, they share a few of their favorite blogs and discuss why […]
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading Pan African research-to-policy institution dedicated to generating evidence, strengthening research capacity, and informing policy action across Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a West Africa Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal, APHRC is African-based and African-led, committed to nurturing strong research leadership and promoting evidence-informed […]
For investigative journalists, data is a source to be questioned, a witness to be interrogated. In Mexico, the agency Data Crítica uses data to uncover critical public health stories. Their challenge is not just analysing data, but first assessing its reliability. They have integrated the Open Data Editor into the core of their methodology, using […]
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 […]
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 […]
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education […]
Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the […]
