digital-humanities

The internet has not only changed the kinds of answers historical study can provide, but also what questions can be asked.

The Aeneas system promises ‘useful research starting points’ – and it seems to deliver.

We invite chapter proposals for a new Open Access edited volume, Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities, currently being developed as a book proposal for UCL Press. This volume asks: under what conditions does Digital Humanities flourish, and under what conditions does it struggle to take root, survive, or be recognised? Rather than mapping DH […]

Editors’ Summary: This six-part series by Adam DJ Brett on the digital humanities seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to DH, practical approaches to undertaking digital humanities, and an argument for the importance of data preservation and resilience. Part one asks what the digital humanities are. The second part surveys tools for dissertation […]

Predicting the Past connects Gemini with Ithaca and Aeneas so historians can restore, map and compare ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions without coding. Google DeepMind has introduced the Predicting the Past Skill for Google Antigravity, built with Thea Sommerschield from Durham University. Google DeepMind has introduced the Predicting the Past Skill for Google Antigravity , an AI research tool…

Experts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher.

The collection adds virtual tours, eight 3D models, and a NotebookLM built from more than 150 historical sources for students, teachers, researchers, and the public. A historical interpreter speaks during an event marking the Google Arts & Culture and Colonial Williamsburg digital history project. Image credit: Google Arts & Culture and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Google Arts & Culture …

Phool Jahan, Amity Law School Patna ABSTRACT Digitalization of court proceedings around the world has resulted in the emergence of several legal questions which existing laws have been unable to deal with successfully. In this research paper, attention will be paid to the following legal problems related to the digitalization of court systems: admissibility of electronic evidence; effects of usin…

The Geographic and Cartographic Professional Societies and Organizations Web Archive preserves the websites of groups shaping our understanding of the world. In this interview, Carissa Pastuch discusses how the collection was built, what it includes and why preserving born-digital content is increasingly important for documenting the field of geography and cartography. See full post.

Carolina Coimbra Vieira from the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), successfully defended her doctoral thesis, “Migration, culture, and inequalities in algorithmically-mediated societies“, at the Saarland University. Her findings contribute to our understanding of how digital trace data can be used to measure and analyze culture, mig…

Padala Tharun Prabhakar, Damodaram Sanjivaya National Law University, Visakhapatnam ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of digital technology has significantly transformed communication, governance, democratic participation, and the exercise of constitutional rights. In response to these developments, the concept of digital constitutionalism has emerged to ensure that constitutional values such as freed…

AHA director of teaching and learning Brendan Gillis was interviewed for an article about new AI-generated “history influencers” producing video…

Editors’ Summary: This post considers how historians can make use of LLMs and NLP without flattening the individual stories that make up history. In the author’s words: “the challenge is how to do that without losing sensitivity to individual lives, how to move from large-scale datasets to arguments about trends like the rise of nonviolence […]

This project investigates cross-cultural differences in multimodal narratives in online comics, with a particular focus on webcomics as a rapidly growing yet still underexplored form of digital storytelling. While comics have attracted increasing attention in multimodal studies, digital humanities, and cognitive psychology, webcomics remain relatively understudied despite their global popularity …

Archaeologists have used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, offering a new way to understand one of history's most famous natural disasters.

Thanks to the work of Digital Collections & Initiatives, the American Geographical Society Library has recently made available a digitized 1478 copy of Ptolemy’s Geography. The AGSL holds over 30 volumes from copies of Ptolemy’s Geography, with this digitization marking the tenth … The post Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online appeared first on UWM Libraries .

In recent years, a new field known as cyber-archaeology has emerged, combining traditional archaeology with advanced digital technology. This approach is especially valuable in preserving cultural heritage sites damaged or destroyed by war, natural disasters, or neglect. Cyber-archaeology uses tools such as 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry, and virtual reality to document and reconstruct histori…

Before the internet, Victorian innovators used the electric telegraph to play chess across the world.

In the last couple of years, the rise of artificial intelligence has permeated almost every aspect of society, but (outside exhibitions and other ways of presenting the past) archaeology has remained very

Infographic for 'Privacidad Digital Global ES (2020-2024)'. Language: Bahasa Indonesia. Platform: Mendeley Data. Parent dataset DOI: 10.17632/mt2hmvxs8s.1. Author: de la Serna Tuya, Juan Moisés. ORCID: 0000-0002-8401-8018.