In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their […]
On Friday 22 May, Internet Archive Europe’s Amsterdam space hosted two very different events that, in retrospect, belonged together: A Funeral for the Networks We Lost and Fifteen Years of Open Government. See full post.
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance. See full post.
In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. This includes not only journal articles and ebooks, but also primary sources and archival documents, which researchers increasingly expect to find online in searchable, digital formats. In turn, cultural heritage institutions […]
An interview with an academic who has seen their impact up close and personal. Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he thinks we should do about it. See full post.
In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of […]
We are building a comprehensive map of the individuals and groups with the potential to shape AI policy in the United States. The goal is to produce a structured, shareable, and dynamic resource that identifies who is working on what, where the gaps are, and which partnerships might form across ideological and organizational lines. The […]
A review of Corpora, a digital humanities data infrastructure, developed by Bryan Tarpley. See full post.
In the first episode of our three-part mini-series, Dr. Pam Lach talks about resisting big tech’s influence on higher ed, AI refusal, and what the future holds for AI and the university. Join the conversation! Dr. Pam Lach (she/her/hers) is the Digital Humanities Librarian at San Diego State University, which occupies the traditional lands of […]
A collection of videos of the presentations from the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, held from April 13–April 17, 2026. See full collection.
