Digital Humanities Now

CFP: Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

We are inviting graduate students and early career researchers who are applying new digital methodologies to the humanities, and related fields, to share that research at the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026 in Oxford on Wednesday 18 November 2026.

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Resource: Mozilla Data Collective

Mozilla Data Collective — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: On July 30, the Mozilla Data Collective launched Compensated Data Sets: responsibly sourced data where data providers retain control over pricing and licensing terms, helping advance a more transparent and sustainable approach to data sharing grounded in human agency and fair value exchange.

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CFP: Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities

Jin Gao, Univeristy College London — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

We invite chapter proposals for a new Open Access edited volume, Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities, currently being developed as a book proposal for UCL Press. This volume asks: under what conditions does Digital Humanities flourish, and under what conditions does it struggle to take root, survive, or be recognised? Rather than mapping DH by region, method, or tool, the book examines the institutional, linguistic, infrastructural, pedagogical, and political conditions that shape interdisciplinary DH in different parts of the world.

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DHNow Newsletter, August 5, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors.

Our Editors’ Choice selections this week include a discussion of how the internet and AI have reshaped literature and the act of writing, and a six-part series that defines the digital humanities before providing practical suggestions for DH dissertations, data preservation, and minimal computing. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, projects, and resources, including a resource on how to disable unwanted or intrusive AI features.

Project: THANADOS

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that contributed data are featured. New sites are added on the project basis and the platform is open for hosting datasets for any period. It aims at providing a best practice way on how to disseminate archaeological sources and research in the 21st century against the background of digital humanities.

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?

Adam DJ Brett — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This six-part series by Adam DJ Brett on the digital humanities seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to DH, practical approaches to undertaking digital humanities, and an argument for the importance of data preservation and resilience. Part one asks what the digital humanities are. The second part surveys tools for dissertation writers. Part three turned to focus on DH specifically for theology and religious studies. The fourth part makes an argument for the need for digital humanities. Part five considers preservation of digital projects and the importance of data resilience. The final part lays out practical suggestions and techniques for using minimal computing as a method for digital preservation. The series is very informative and well organized, so each essay can be read alone. This post links to part one in the series, “What are the Digital Humanities?” and can be used to navigate through the entire series.

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Project: Enslaved Texas: Tracing Forced Migration into Texas

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

An interactive visualization tracing enslaved people forcibly migrated from U.S. states into Texas between 1800 and 1870 — reconstructed from the voter registration records of 1867–1870, in which more than 50,000 of the 140,073 Texans who registered are identified as freedmen.

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Editors’ Choice: I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key

Steve Tomasula — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: Steve Tomasula’s I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key is a thought-provoking exploration of how digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and networked systems are reshaping literature, identity, and human consciousness. Drawing on the scholarship of Joseph Tabbi, Tomasula argues that storytelling is moving beyond individual, character-driven narratives toward posthuman perspectives shaped by data, distributed cognition, and technological mediation. Blending literary criticism, cultural theory, and personal reflection, the essay examines how the internet, AI, and surveillance have transformed both the act of writing and the experience of being human, challenging readers to rethink the future of narrative itself.

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Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their news page. This multi-institutional library is a rich resource that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research materials held in archives, libraries, museums, private collections, and other institutions of memory and preservation. dLOC offers a Map Search where you can search for items across their 172 collections based on a selected area or specific point on a map of the Caribbean, as well as teaching materials and tutorials.

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Job Announcement: Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian at University of Missouri–Columbia

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The University of Missouri Libraries seek to hire a librarian to serve as the Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian. This position designs and delivers services to faculty and students that support scholarly research involving the use of digital platforms, analytic and computational software, and visualization tools for the purpose of research analysis, access, or preservation. The position consults with subject librarians and campus IT to support faculty and researchers as they plan for managing research data throughout the research life cycle. In addition, the position identifies and collaborates with campus partners focused on supporting research conducted by faculty and students. Reporting to the Director of Digital Initiatives, the Digital Scholarship & Data Management Librarian will provide vision and capability in the Libraries for further developing our capacity to meet the emerging research needs of faculty and students at the University of Missouri.

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