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Our new Guest Editor program gives volunteers more agency in the publication process, directly selecting an Editors’ Choice post each week. They sign up for a semester-long commitment to identify exciting work in the DH community and nominate scholarly work and news items digitalhumanitiesnow...

Interested in being part of the editorial process for DHNow? We are pleased to announce our call for guest editors! This role is critical to helping DHNow reflect community interests, ideas, and opportunities. Learn more and apply! digitalhumanitiesnow...

digitalorientalist.comMapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime JapanThe Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing foreign loans and reserves and being subject to sanctions. It did so by systema…

Editors’ Choice: Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan

newsletter.dancohen.orgThe Slow Formation of Durable SoftwareHow a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

Editors’ Choice: The Slow Formation of Durable Software

programmablemutter.comProgrammable Mutter | Henry Farrell | SubstackTechnology and politics in an interdependent world. Click to read Programmable Mutter, by Henry Farrell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Weekly Highlight: Programmable Mutter

scarla.rutgers.eduTalking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship - SCARLAAre you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? […]

Event Announcement: Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship

recruit.ap.ucsb.eduAssistant Professor in Media Industries and AIUniversity of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Media Industries and AI

investinopen.orgThe 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report: Running to stay in placeInsights on open infrastructure funding trends and emergent issues in scholarly communication

Report: The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report: Running to stay in place

programminghistorian.orgL’édition critique en continu : publier au rythme de l’encodage (Partie 1)Cette leçon montre comment mettre en place une édition critique « en continu » d’un corpus TEI définir un ODD, générer un schéma RELAX NG, compléter la validation ave...

Resource: The continuous critical edition: publish to the rhythm of the encoding

repo.dainst.orgDigital Roofs: an iDAI.field Configuration and Guideline - iDAI.repoThis dataset was created within the framework of the Digital Roofs project (2020–2025), a research initiative of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project focuses on the development...

Resource: Digital Roofs: an iDAI.field Configuration and Guideline

updates.timsherratt.orgIntroducing Z-Profile – a simple website builder for researchers | Tim SherrattHave you ever wanted a simple website to publish your details and showcase your research? Good news! Z-Profile is a new tool aimed at helping researchers create …

Tool: Z-Profile

Editors’ Choice: Stop Choosing Tools. Start Building Them. activehistory.ca/blo...

datasittersclub.github.ioWhat's the Deal with Topic Modeling?Are Topics Real?

Editors’ Choice: What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?

diglib.orgDigital Library Federation - DLFWelcome to the Digital Library Federation DLF serves all who are invested in the success of libraries, museums, and archives in the digital age. About Events What’s the DLF? Networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital Read More

Weekly Highlight: Digital Library Federation

CFP: DH 2027 dh2027.adho.org/cfp/

jobs.virginia.eduDeveloper and Emerging Technologies Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at University of VirginiaApply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia

Job Announcement: Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist at University of Virginia

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-...

tpride.orgTrans Pride Initiative, TPI Project -- Prison DataVisual presentations for TPI prison data.

Project: Trans Pride Initiative: Prison Data Explorer

diglib.orgDLF Digest: October 2026 - DLFA monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation. See all past Digests here. Hello DLF Community! It’s October, and the 2026 Virtual DLF Forum is almost here! On the 14th and15th, we’ll come together online for two days of learning, collaboration, and shaping Read More

Report: DLF Digest: October 2026

blog.okfn.orgTraceable AI Answers for Public Data: Event Recording & Field Guide - Open Knowledge BlogThis online event marked the conclusion of the Traceable AI Answers for Public Data project under the AI Learning Labs initiative, showcasing AI integration with open data portals. You can now watch the full event recording and explore all presentation materials.

Report: Traceable AI Answers for Public Data: Event Recording & Field Guide

rosalynmetz.substack.comLook Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times!AI Crawlers and Library Infrastructure

Report: Look Mom, Libraries are in the New York Times!

arxiv.orgApollo Restore: A Foundation LLM for Historical Greek Optimized...We present Apollo Restore, a 24-billion-parameter large language model for restoring lacunae---physical gaps---in fragmentary Ancient Greek texts. Fine-tuned from Mistral Small with a...

Editors’ Choice: Apollo Restore: A Foundation LLM for Historical Greek Optimized for Fill-in-the-Middle Restoration of Ancient Greek Texts

ancientworldonline.blogspot.comAWOL - The Ancient World OnlineISSN 2156-2253

Weekly Highlight: AWOL The Ancient World Online

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium msuglobaldh.org/call...

jobs.virginia.govBorn-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United StatesTitle: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virginia Agency Website: https://www.lva.virginia.gov Recruitment Type: General Public - G Job Duties The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation that supports the sustainability and...

Job Announcement: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator at the Library of Virginia

Job Announcement: Data Services Librarian at Boston College ds.bc.edu/hiring-dat...

datascience.virginia.eduFaculty Jobs — School of Data ScienceJoin UVA’s School of Data Science and help shape a growing discipline through interdisciplinary teaching, research, and real-world impact.

Job Announcement: Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Data Science in Natural Language Processing

aaronland.infoshared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.

Report: shared vector embeddings

programminghistorian.orgCreating and Hosting Basic IIIF Images and Manifests Using GitHubThis lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host...

Resource: Creating and Hosting Basic IIIF Images and Manifests Using GitHub

Editors’ Choice: An Agenda on Generative AI for the Digital Humanities umanisticadigitale.u...

fmadore.github.ioPosition Paper | Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies 2026African Studies scholars have been involved in Digital Humanities (DH) projects since the 2000s. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), have expanded the possibilities for textual analysis and archival research, but implementation raises difficult questions: who controls access, whose data trains these systems without consent, whose languages remain underserved, and who bears the labour and environmental costs. This position paper is the collective work of a Volkswagen Foundation-funded scoping workshop in Hanover, Germany, in February 2026, with twenty-six scholars from sixteen countries. Across four working groups – language technologies; archives and visual heritage; infrastructure, governance, and access; and epistemologies, decoloniality, and ethics – one question recurred: for whom and for what purpose is this work undertaken? Ownership and sovereignty, access, sustainability, and standardisation emerged as transversal problems, which we set in dialogue with critiques of data colonialism and extractivism. We propose situated practices: licensing that conditions openness on return to source communities; digitisation agreements as living documents; ontologies built collaboratively; design grounded in access, governance, and sovereignty; and ethics treated as a process rather than a deliverable. Many of the problems we examine are common across DH and AI: consent, standardisation that erases variation, algorithmic bias, hidden labour, and the funding of innovation over maintenance. African contexts make them sharper and more visible, and Africa-based practice has produced concrete responses. We therefore argue that African epistemologies and decolonial critique belong at the centre of both fields, and that African scholars, practitioners, and institutions belong where these technologies are designed and governed.

Editors’ Choice: For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

digitalorientalist.comThe Digital OrientalistPractical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.

Weekly Highlight: The Digital Orientalist

Book Announcement: Teaching Back to the University walshbr.com/blog/tea...

CFP: AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee Southern chcinetwork.org/oppo...

Job Announcement: Special Collections Metadata Librarian at University of Rochester rochester.wd5.mywork...

Job Announcement: Assistant/Associate Professor, History of Artificial Intelligence at Rice University apply.interfolio.com...

henryjenkins.squarespace.comWhere Are the Hypertexts Now? Mark Bernstein on Storyspace, Eastgate, AI, and the Future of Electronic Literature — Pop Junctions Mark Bernstein is a visionary in hypertext and electronic publishing. He founded Eastgate Systems, the first publisher of electronic literature, in 1982, to advance nonlinear, intertwingled storytelling and thought through creating tools, publishing non-linear works, authoring peer-reviewed scholarly articles, fostering discourse, and much more.  In this interview, Mark Bernstein reflects on hypertext, electronic literature, Storyspace, Eastgate Systems, literary publishing, large language models, and the continuing problem of form, structure, and reading in digital literary culture. Bernstein covers his work as a theorist, software designer, publisher, critic, and creative practitioner, situating hypertext within the humanities and arguing that ‘Computing is a Humanism.’

Interview: Where Are the Hypertexts Now? Mark Bernstein on Storyspace, Eastgate, AI, and the Future of Electronic Literature

diglib.orgManagement of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata - DLFManagement of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata This post was written by members of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG). Learn more about the Assessment Interest Group. It was authored by: Xiaoli Ma (University of Florida), xiaolima[at]ufl.edu Stasha Gardasevic (University of Hawaii at Manoa), gardasev[at]hawaii.edu Anna Goslen (University of North Read More

Resource: Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata

youtube.comHow LLMs Distort Our Written Language #AIStoriesLarge language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand

Video: How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

stuartdunn.blogProjecting emotions: Mercator and Equal EarthLast week the United Nations General Assembly voted to institute the Equal Earth projection system as the basis for the default world map, following a campaign by Togo and other African nations. Al…

Editors’ Choice: Projecting emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

latex-ninja.comLaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital HumanitiesThe verb "to ninja" means "to act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth." LaTeX adventures, demystifying digital tools for…

Weekly Highlight: LaTeX Ninja’ing and the Digital Humanities

past-meets-future.github.ioPast Meets Future 2026: Human-AI Interaction for Digital Humanities & Cultural HeritageSun Sept 27, 2026 · Alexandria, VA · at ACM HCOMP & CI 2026 · submissions open on a rolling basis through Sept 1 (AoE). 3rd annual edition: exploring solutions to the field's challenges, together.

Conference: Past Meets Future

Event Announcement: UK-Ireland Pilot Regional Event Series in 2027 digitalhumanities-uk...

cdh.cam.ac.ukComputational Methods and Curious Looking: Integrating AI into Art History - CDHSpeaker Dr Kathryn Brown, Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University Kathryn Brown is Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets (2017), ed. Digital Humanities and Art History (2020), Henri Matisse (2021), Dialogues with Degas

Event Announcement: Computational Methods and Curious Looking: Integrating AI into Art History http://www.cdh.cam.a...

color-study-painted-surfaces.kristen368163.chatgpt.siteColor StudyLook a little closer. A photo-enhancement lab.

Project: Color Study: Look a Little Closer

Report: AI and Education aiandeducation.mit.e...

github.comGitHub - scottkleinman/lexos: The Lexos Python text analysis libraryThe Lexos Python text analysis library. Contribute to scottkleinman/lexos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tool: The Lexos Python Library

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Editors’ Choice: A Generalized Framework for Participatory Transcription: Lessons, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Impact from the Zooniverse Platform theoryandpractice.ci...

nightingaledvs.comNightingale - HomeNightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). We support all aspects of dataviz education, literacy, history and design. Get involved!

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Weekly Highlight: Nightingale: The Journal of the Data Visualization Society