Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Summary: This post considers the extent to which the field of DH has embraced the principles of Data Feminism once the initial buzz died down. The author notes how DH is increasingly being shaped by machine learning tools and data-driven methods, making the need for a robust ethical framework for the field more urgent […]

Editors’ Summary: The Data Center Policy Database, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, offers a vital open-access resource tracking the infrastructure and regulations governing global digital architecture. By mapping the policy frameworks that dictate data storage, this project provides digital humanists with a critical tool to interrogate the material, political, and environm…

DARIAH is seeking a data steward and community manager to be involved in STARDAST, a project funded by the European Commission: “Stewardship and Recognition for DAta Science Talent” led by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The aim of this  project is to design and implement a pan-European training ecosystem for data experts. This cross-sectoral programme […]

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, Mehul Desai, and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the role of Data Feminism in digital humanities and a call for more digital single-use tools and proposes a conceptual framework for open and community-curated tool registries. We […]

As the United States approaches July 4th and the nation’s 250th anniversary, a fundamental democratic question is becoming harder to ignore: who is responsible for preserving the public record, and what happens when it disappears? On June 23 at 10am PT, a conversation featuring Merrilee Proffitt (Democracy’s Library at the Internet Archive), James Jacobs (Stanford […]

The Bibliographical Society of America events present the study of material texts to our community, bringing people and ideas together. They celebrate, nurture, and incubate new ideas around research, practice, and pedagogy, and almost all are open to the public. Virtual and in-person events offered year-round include lectures, panel discussions, receptions, and workshops. If you […]

Annual meeting of the Association of Digital Humanities in the German-speaking world, organized by the University of Marburg. 1. to 5. March 2027 in Marburg. Submission deadline: 1. August 2026. Gaps are constitutive of knowledge. They mark blank spaces, raise new questions and drive processes of knowledge. The DHd 2027 focuses on these productive, problematic […]

PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) is a digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world. This research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital […]

Editors’ Summary: In “Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata,” Till Grallert, Sophie Eckenstaler, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, Nicole Dresselhaus, Isabell Trilling, and Sophie Stark address a familiar challenge in digital humanities: how to document and sustain knowledge about the field’s many digital tools without creating yet another static directory that quickly beco…

Digital Humanities Intersections (DHI) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities. Published by KSHIP, IIT Indore, it focuses on applications and reflections of digital methods and humanities research. This new journal recently published its first issue and is a useful resource for readers of DHNow. See journal.

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the possibilities of coding with AI and a case study on large-scale quantitative analysis of rhyme and meter in poetry. We have also included many CFPs, reports, and resources, including […]

The Digital Shift, written by Rosalyn Metz, explores how technology is transforming libraries, cultural heritage, and higher education. For readers of DHNow, this blog is an important resource for current discussions and debates on the role of the digital within libraries and higher education. See feed.

We are delighted to announce that the call for submissions for the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27) is now open! The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal between 9-12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is, FAIR DO’s: Centering People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. The FAIR principles […]

Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the […]

In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their […]

PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure. See full post.

On Friday 22 May, Internet Archive Europe’s Amsterdam space hosted two very different events that, in retrospect, belonged together: A Funeral for the Networks We Lost and Fifteen Years of Open Government. See full post.

Editors’ Summary: This article uses two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of newly developed algorithms designed to detect rhyme within the ELTE Poetry Corpus, which includes the complete works of 53 canonical Hungarian poets. The author used this rhyme pattern detecting algorithm to generate a rhyming dictionary of Hungarian poetry, as well as an […]

This Special Issue positions Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) as a coherent, critically urgent, and future-facing interdisciplinary research field, bringing into sustained dialogue scholarship and practice across electronic literature, digital arts, performance studies, Human-Computer Interaction, AI and creativity research, game studies, and computational design. While these domains have hi…

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. […]