Digital Humanities Now

Resource: The continuous critical edition: publish to the rhythm of the encoding

Clement Godbarge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This French-language lesson shows how to implement a critical “continuous” edition of a TEI corpus, define an ODD, generate a RELAX NG scheme, complete the validation with Schematron and produce outputs (text/HTML/Markdown) via XSLT 2.0. The example is based on the correspondence of Filippo Cavriana.

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Tool: Z-Profile

Tim Sherratt — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Z-Profile is a new tool aimed at helping researchers create their own sites, manage their online identity, and share their publications. Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site is built, you can publish it using any web host, or for free through GitHub Pages.

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Report: The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report: Running to stay in place

Invest In Open Infrastructure — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out. This is the third annual analysis of where and how funding flows (or doesn’t) to the infrastructure that underpins research and scholarly communication. Some of the disruptions over the last two years have been very loud, with budget cuts and policy shifts across the globe. Herein, we try to spotlight some of the ripple effects that often are quieter and harder to see. The biggest take-away may well be that the fragility the field feels today is not new,: instead, it is a built-in characteristic of the structures and models used to fund open infrastructure for decades.

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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Media Industries and AI

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Media Industries and AI. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching examines artificial intelligence as a media industry phenomenon, including its infrastructures, labor, political economy, regulation, and cultural, artistic, and social implications. We welcome candidates working on any global region and through any critical, historical, or empirical methodology, including but not limited to production studies, platform and infrastructure studies, science and technology studies, critical algorithm studies, political economy, labor studies, cultural and industrial history, and creative or practice-based research on generative media.

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Event Announcement: Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship – SCARLA

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? Are you curious about finding and creating resources and communities that oppose big tech’s influence on the information environment? Let’s talk about it! Join SCARLA, the Student College, Academic and Research Libraries Association for the event, Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship on Wed, Oct 21 6:30-7:30 PM EST via Zoom.

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Weekly Highlight: Programmable Mutter

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Our take: Programmable Mutter, written by Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins Professor, is a personal blog that considers AI and technology from a social science perspective, as well as pieces about politics. For readers of DHNow, this blog is a useful resource for current discussions of large language models and computational social science.

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Resource: Digital Roofs: an iDAI.field Configuration and Guideline

Friederike Fless — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This dataset was created within the framework of the Digital Roofs project (2020–2025), a research initiative of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project focuses on the development and evaluation of methods and technologies for the high-quality digital documentation and publication of large quantities of archaeological roof tile finds. Ancient roof tiles, particularly from Greek and Roman contexts, represent a challenging category of material due to their size, weight, and the large number of fragments typically recovered during excavations and surveys. Despite their research potential, especially unornamented tiles are often insufficiently documented and rarely published in a form suitable for comparative analysis.

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Editors’ Choice: The (Im)possibility of Autonomous Feminist Infrastructures

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Our take: Can a digital infrastructure ever be truly autonomous from the systems it seeks to challenge? In this article, Cécile Chevalier, Irene Fubara-Manuel, and Sharon Webb explore this question through an experiment in building a feminist server using Raspberry Pi computers. From hardware shortages to institutional dependencies and barriers to technical knowledge, their experience reveals the practical contradictions of pursuing technological autonomy. Drawing on queer phenomenology, the authors suggest that care, collective learning, and intentional slowness offer alternative ways of building and maintaining digital infrastructures.

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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan

BRIAN Wong — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Our take: In this post, Brian Wong brings overlooked local archives into conversation through AI-assisted transcription, historical geocoding, and interactive mapping. By tracing the spatial relationships between banks and factories in Kyoto, Wong identifies patterns of wartime financial mobilisation, including newly established Shiga Bank branches located near munitions manufacturers. The post demonstrates how digital methods can uncover new connections within historical records and open up further questions about the financing of war.

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DHNow Newsletter, October 14, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor.

Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and reports, including a new assistant professor of media and AI position.

Interested in being part of the editorial process for DHNow? We are pleased to announce our Fall call for guest editors! This role is critical to helping DHNow reflect community interests, ideas, and opportunities. Learn more and apply!