Editors’ Summary: This article explores how LLMs can assist Critical Code Studies by making code more accessible as a cultural and interpretive object. Using Apollo 11 source code as a case study, Marino and Douglass highlight AI’s potential as a conversational partner for code interpretation while cautioning that hallucinations and misleading readings remain serious risks. […]
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results […]
Editors’ summary: This post announces the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) 2026 Autumn School, a five-session online intensive course running October 26–30 aimed at introducing participants to the theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations of Digital Humanities research. The course is notable for its deliberate centering of non-hegemonic and situated perspectives, particularly those emerging from Latin […]
Editors’ Summary: This two-part selection seeks to better understand and categorize the expressions found in the Fatimid Geniza petitions, a rich primary source for historians of the Mediterranean in the 10th century. The study asks: how are emotional registers distributed across the formal parts of Fatimid petitions? Part one provides context and outlines the methodology […]
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 […]
Editors’ Summary: This article re-emphasizes a sense of Humanities criticality in DH from the perspective of Oral History and how that becomes even more crucial in the Global South. The author highlights the construction of an oral history archive on Partition. This position leans heavily on the works of Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, who redirects focus from […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author shows how the rise of AI has made the critical thinking component of using code in DH even more essential. He details his initial explorations using Claude Code to build DH web apps for use in the classroom. This post argues that the old tools of Digital Humanities […]
Editor’s Summary: The question of scale is something that has been troubling many humanities disciplines even before the popularization of computational technologies. In the field of DH, we often perceive that there is an additional layer of abstraction between the researcher and subject because of the digital “screen” and scale of analysis that our technological […]
Editors’ Summary: This post attempts to provide a history of the origins of digital archaeology, with the author acknowledging the relative lack of attention given to the field’s past. He notes similar challenges in pinning down precise origins for the field of digital humanities. The author highlights scholarship from throughout the twentieth century to determine […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens […]
