Showcasing important digital humanities scholarship and news of interest to the DH community.
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Editors’ Choice: The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature
Editors’ Summary: This paper uses geocoding to study 19th century Russian literature. The authors extracted location data using NER to quantitatively measure the literary “transition…
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Editors’ Choice: Designing Mars: Transforming Scientific Data Into Human Understanding
Editors’ Summary: Rhea Shukla’s work combines graphic design seamlessly into data processing and visualization. This project reminds us about visual accessibility: information needs to be…
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Editors’ Choice: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed
Editors’ Summary: This piece provides a detailed report on using AI to transcribe manuscripts and the development of standards for transcription of medieval manuscripts. The…
News
- Job Announcement: Newspaper Digitization Project Manager at Stanford University
- Job Announcement: Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D) – Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing”
- Job Announcement: Online Resources Librarian at Drexel University
- Job Announcement: American Museum of Natural History Portal | Digital Media Asset Manager
- Job Announcement: Digitization Coordinator – Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
- Job Announcement: Information Technology Manager at Boston Athenaeum
- Event Announcement: Webinar on the state of 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage
- Event Announcement: Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI | Data School Virtual Information Session
- DHNow Newsletter, January 13, 2026
- Announcement: TEI-C Survey on Membership and Activities
- Announcement: Douglass Day 2026
- DHNow Newsletter, January 7, 2026
- Resource: Responsible Datasets in Context
- Resource: Textcavator renewed: new name, new upload feature, and new corpora
- Resource: Refactoring the IIIF Artificial Intelligence Community
- Resource: AI Afterlives Workbook
- Resource: Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts | Zine Bakery
- Resource: Universal Viewer
- CFP: CSDH/SCHN Congress 2026
- CFP: 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
- CFP: International Spatial Humanities 26
- CFP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders” | EADH – The European Association for Digital Humanities
- CFP: Black Information Futures Symposium (February 21-23, 2026) – CALMA – Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives
- CFP: Programming Historian Call for Proposals (English edition)
- Opportunity: OAH Digital History Reviews
- Opportunity: Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries
- Opportunity: Leo Transcription Grants: apply for up to 100,000 free credits – Leo
- Opportunity: CFA: Join the DO Team 2025/26
- Opportunity: 2021 ADHO Communications Fellowships
- Opportunity: DITI Call for Partnerships, Summer and Fall 2021
- Report: Prototyping semantic search for case law
- Report: Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026
- Report: Q&A: In the AI age, why are the humanities still relevant?
- Report: New UChicago project explores how humanities can advance AI research | University of Chicago News
- Report: Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive
- Report: Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: African Population and Health Research Center
