digital-humanities – Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Choice: Where They Actually Went: The Presence Problem in Digitised Travel Writing

Our take: What makes this article particularly compelling is how it questions whether extracting geographical information from historical texts necessarily produces an accurate representation of the past. Using Thomas Roe’s seventeenth-century travel accounts, the author highlights a crucial distinction between places a traveller actually visited and those mentioned through secondhand information. This piece moves beyond […]

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Editors’ Choice: Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType

Our take: In “Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters,” published in The Digital Orientalist, So Miyagawa traces how Unicode has slowly learned to handle the two-dimensional layout of hieroglyphs. Basic signs entered the standard in 2009, but they could only appear in a flat line until control characters for stacking and […]

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Resource: StarTarot English RWS Historical Meanings and Golden Dawn Correspondences

StarTarot English RWS Historical Meanings and Golden Dawn Correspondences gives one structured record for each of the 78 cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck. Each record combines A. E. Waite’s upright and reversed divinatory meanings from Part III of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911; text of the 1922 reprint), with his “additional meanings” […]

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Editors’ Choice: Projecting emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

Our take: Following the United Nations’ recent vote in support of the Equal Earth projection, this article looks beyond the question of which map is more “accurate”, but to ask what map projections actually do. He traces Mercator from early modern navigation and nineteenth-century education to its continued dominance in digital mapping, showing how a […]

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Editors’ Choice: I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key

Editors’ Summary: Steve Tomasula’s I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key is a thought-provoking exploration of how digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and networked systems are reshaping literature, identity, and human consciousness. Drawing on the scholarship of Joseph Tabbi, Tomasula argues that storytelling is moving beyond individual, character-driven narratives […]

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Editors’ Choice: Critical Code Sudies with AI: conversing with LLMs about code | AI & SOCIETY

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. […]

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Editors’ Choice: From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts

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 […]

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Event Announcement: Escuela de otoño 2026

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions

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 […]

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Report: Bridging Language and Technology: Advancing NLP Skills at the University of Zululand

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 […]

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