Digital Humanities Now

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay arguing for the importance of crowdsourcing and participatory projects for GLAM work and an article assessing how effective automated quality assurance is for web archives. We have also included announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a zine […]

Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). It features high-quality articles covering many of the applications of data visualization—including history, sports, how-to, best practices, and any other aspect or implementation of visual information design we find compelling. The journal covers everything from personal stories to exploratory research to interviews with communi…

The Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) is a searchable digital platform hosting approximately 1,000 hours of testimonials from the first generation of Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine during Nakba (“the catastrophe”). The primary focus of the archive is centred on the personal narratives surrounding the Nakba, and life accounts in the pre-1948 Palestinian era. The […]

Editors’ Summary: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of participatory transcription for GLAM work through a case study of Zooniverse. Zooniverse is a platform for crowdsourcing data, including transcription. This article provides a framework of four common challenges in the creation, design, and execution of these projects. The authors identified variety, units of […]

Neruda Archives is an independent cultural archive dedicated to historical letters, documents and traces of correspondence, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The physical originals are privately held, while selected records and research materials are made publicly accessible. See full post.

A 23-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Based on the 11/25/2024 virtual workshop co-sponsored […]

Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.

epub-blocks is a dependency-free Python library for reproducibly extracting ordered, structured text blocks from EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files. A declarative recipe selects an edition’s XHTML, assigns block types, and generates stable identifiers without edition-specific Python code or a pre-existing output table. See full post.

Editors’ Summary: “Planning XR projects for cultural heritage” is an introductory course that provides a foundation for understanding XR and its applications in cultural heritage, developed as part of the EUreka3D-XR project. Aimed at Cultural Heritage professionals, XR-focused project managers and coordinators, educators, researchers and enthusiasts of XR, the course explores the core concepts o…

The #WeekHD is an open, free and collaborative meeting that brings together, in the same virtual space, projects, activities and initiatives related to the Digital Humanities in Latin America and the Caribbean. For a week, we seek to make visible the diversity of people, communities, institutions and projects working from the Digital Humanities in our […]

The DHNow team is taking vacation this week, and will return next Wednesday September 9!

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay describing an AI-assisted workflow for organizing archival images and an article discussing the tensions between incorporating AI into the classroom and maintaining traditional standards. We have also included CFPs, announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a French-langu…

Editors’ Summary: This post details a workflow to use AI to assist with archival research. The author, a PhD candidate in history, discusses returning from a trip to the archives with hundreds of cell phone images of documents and struggling to organize them. He describes his method of using Zotero and Claude to organize these […]

The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities (UJDH) seeks to promote undergraduate research and learning in the digital humanities as the field is becoming increasingly important in academia and the world. Article submissions for the Fall 2026 edition of UJDH are due on Thursday, October 1st at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. See full post.

HD LAB is a research space in Digital Humanities in Argentina that combines the organizational and collaborative model of a laboratory with the Humanities. Their projects are intended for multiple audiences, inside and outside academia, understanding Digital Humanities through Minimal Computing and the principles of Open Science. They offer courses on digital humanities methods, a […]

CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected essays, books, etc.) in front, with CollectionBuilder in the back supporting media embeds and customizations. See full post.

From 21–25 July 2026, Wikimedians from around the world gathered in Paris for Wikimania 2026, the annual conference celebrating the people, projects and communities behind the Wikimedia movement. This year, we supported our largest-ever contingent of staff, trustees and volunteers to attend. For some, it was their first experience while for others, it was an […]

We’re excited to announce Zotero 10, which adds a host of powerful new features for searching and managing your library, a major improvement to Read Aloud, and a new Reading Mode for PDFs. See full post.

Across South Africa, women in science and research are helping shape a more inclusive digital future, one in which our languages, knowledge and communities are represented. Their contributions may take many forms, but together they are helping ensure that technological progress leaves no language behind. For Tanja Gaustad, a fascination with language patterns sparked a […]

Editors’ Summary: In “Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine,” a French-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Pascal Martinolli provides a tutorial on using OpenRefine to enrich a set of research data with other linked data from external sources such as Wikidata. OpenRefine can be used for a process called “reconciliation” or “alignment” […]