Digital Humanities Now

The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. We seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Our current coverage includes the following areas – with links to recent contributions within each of these teams – though […]

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a LibGuide on the environmental impacts of AI and discussion of AI and book history. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, opportunities, and reports, including a digital archive of cartography. As part […]

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.

Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and […]

Now & Here is a collection of original research projects created by emerging scholars in collaboration with partners in communities, historic sites, and public lands. Now & Here shares the work of the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. See full post.

Ecosystem Notes is where we share updates on what is happening across LifexCode labs, projects, and members! If you like what you see, please support LifexCode by sharing this newsletter, attending events, or just dropping a note in the comments! See full post.

Editors’ Summary: The tools we use are not neutral. This LibGuide intends to offer librarians, instructors, and others within the higher education community a gateway for learning more about how AI development and use are impacting the environment. By providing a set of resources that can be inserted within broader AI literacy training, the LibGuide […]

Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to conduct research focused on societal AI. See full post.

Reporting to the Collections Director, the Digitization Archivist will be responsible for implementing digitization services and managing resources that support the current and future needs of our team and community. The Digitization Archivist will support the Collections Director in key areas of digitization project management, data preservation, workflow strategy, and design and launch of the […

In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means time, as in […]

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…

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, so JSTOR Daily gathered some of our favorite stories to celebrate. All with free and accessible scholarly research. See full post.