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Editor’s Choice: A Conversation with the Authors of The AI Con @ SJSU
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/editors-choice-a-conversation-with-the-authors-of-the-ai-con-sjsu/
Published: June 18, 2025 18:44
For their South Bay book launch of The AI Con, Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna joined us in conversation with Rhonda Holberton, Digital Media Arts & Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at SJSU. In THE AI CON: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype…
Resource: Femiber
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/femiber/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:41
Interested in how women were portrayed in medieval chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula? Look no further! This open-access website provides structured information on every woman mentioned in the anonymous Crónica de Castilla (ca. 1300, Castile-León). The…
Announcement: Reimagining cultural heritage in 3D and XR
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/reimagining-cultural-heritage-in-3d-and-xr/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:40
A Hybrid Capacity Building Event in Brussels by EUreka3D-XR. EUreka3D-XR is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D or 3D into extended reality scenarios. At the same time, the European cultural heritage sector is facing the 3D digitisation and…
Announcement: Zotero for Android
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/zotero-for-android/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:40
We’re excited to announce the release of Zotero for Android, the best way to work with your Zotero library on an Android device. Zotero for Android lets you work with your Zotero data no matter where you are. See full post.
The post Announcement: Zotero…
Conference: Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/visualizing-as-a-form-of-collective-care/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:40
This year at VISAP—a mini conference and exhibition exploring the intersection of data visualization, art, and science—we’re asking what it means to approach visualization not just as a practice of analysis and synthesis, but as a form of collective care.…
Resource: Freedom and Constraint: Writing Daily
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/freedom-and-constraint-writing-daily/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:40
Rebecca Foote recently invited me to be a part of an ACH panel on publishing in digital humanities along with Jojo Karlin and Nat McGartland. My reflections on the conversation have led to a range of posts that you can find here. I recently wrote about the…
Editors’ Choice: Prompt Anxiety
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prompt-anxiety/
Published: June 18, 2025 13:40
The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1999: 12). The disruption that Benjamin identified in the…
Resource: Machine Learning & Close Reading Resources
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/machine-learning-close-reading-resources/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:49
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AIÂ and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive. Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly. See full post.
The post Resource: Machine…
Resource: American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/american-trade-with-revolutionary-haiti-a-dataset-for-public-use/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:49
What follows is an introduction to that greater mass of information, and an invitation to others to take a look and use it. With lots of help, and trial and error, I’ve learned a bit about how to use ArcGIS software, and have crafted a story map that, I…
Report: Medieval Institute 3D Modeling Workshop
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/medieval-institute-3d-modeling-workshop/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:49
This spring, the Digital Medieval Studies Institute, a full day of programming on digital scholarly methods for medievalists and pre-modernists, was hosted by Harvard and BC’s McMullen Museum. Several of the workshops were hosted on BC’s campus, including…
Report: Trans + History Week Edit-a-thon
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/trans-history-week-edit-a-thon/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:48
On 9th May 2025, Wikimedia UK proudly collaborated with WMLGBT+ and the National Library of Wales on a Trans + History Week Edit-a-thon hosted by Cardiff Central Library. The aim was to celebrate the contributions of Trans people here in Wales by improving…
Conference: DH2026 is in Daejeon, South Korea
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/dh2026-is-in-daejeon-south-korea/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:48
The Digital Humanities 2026 (DH2026) Conference will take place in Daejeon, South Korea, from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31, 2026, under the theme “Engagement”. The event will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) in…
Editors’ Choice: Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/volunteers-leverage-ocr-to-transcribe-library-of-congress-digital-collections/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:48
The Library of Congress launched the By the People crowdsourced transcription program in 2018. Since then, we have invited anyone to volunteer by transcribing Library of Congress digital collections through our online platform, Concordia. Completed…
Editors’ Choice: DHQ Special Issue–Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities
https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/dhq-digital-humanities-quarterly-2024/
Published: June 4, 2025 15:47
The journey to conceptualizing this special issue started in a summer seminar organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Since 2004, through its postdoctoral fellowship program, CLIR has recruited, trained, and established…