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.
The call for papers was launched on the 20th of September 2024, with submissions accepted until the 8th of December 2024 (after an extended deadline). It was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese thanks to the collaboration of several colleagues from the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee. The motto “Building […]
The results of vibe coding have been far from what early enthusiasts promised. Well-known software developer Armin Ronacher powerfully described some of the issues with AI coding agents. “When [I first got] hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and […]
This March, Black Beyond Data joined researchers, artists, activists, students, and teachers from across the African diaspora in Puerto Rico for the Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia (Cumbre Afro), the International Afro-Summit. See full post.
The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17–18 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR’s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students and academic staff […]
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it […]
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. See full post.
