Digital Humanities Now

Report: RECAP: Black Beyond Data at the CumbreAfro in Puerto Rico

Admin @ LifexCode — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This March, Black Beyond Data joined researchers, artists, activists, students, and teachers from across the African diaspora in Puerto Rico for the Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia (Cumbre Afro), the International Afro-Summit.

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Editors’ Choice: Building Tableau Dashboards for the PowerPoint Download

Rituparna Das — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This article engages with the transition between a dynamic (or dynamic-esque) software, like Tableau, to a more static presentation format, like PowerPoint. However, some of the philosophies mentioned here are transferrable to various types of presentations beyond Tableau and PowerPoint that we are familiar with in DH, including poster design and static website design. As scholars, we hold our research and academic inquiries to a high standard, but it is also important that it is our responsibility to create clear and approachable presentation and delivery of our work to both our colleagues and the public.

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CFP: DARIAH Digital Arts and Humanities Training and Summer School Small Grants Call 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities.

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Editors’ Choice: “How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025)”

Munazza Jabeen & Claudia Lux — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This paper uses scientometrics to analyze how AI has been incorporated into university libraries and services to provide information literacy. The authors examine over 1,600 papers or research published between 2020 and 2025. This paper is a helpful overview for academics, especially librarians, to track the different directions and methods that other scholars or librarians have been using in the past five years.

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Editors’ Choice: Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study

Eric C. Weig — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This article articulates an AI-assisted workflow in developing a Python script to collect information at scale from the Internet Archive (IA) via IA’s API. IA is a large online container of websites, print materials, audios, newspapers, and others. The author correctly identifies a need to share more information about how users could interact with IA at scale. This article acknowledges the user of AI in building its tools and shares with its readers the prompts used during the interaction with AI. With IA being the repository of a large amount of primary (and secondary) sources used in many scholars and students’ research, the workflow developed here will be a great reference to the DH community.

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Announcement: When a Monument Talks: A Groundbreaking Digital Revival of Saint Neophytos From Digital Twin to Memory Twin in Cyprus

Susanna Capannini — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This upcoming project in Cyprus uses 3D technology to recreate the Enkleistra of Saint Neophytos and the figure of Saint Neophytos. By extending the idea of a “digital twin” to a “memory twin,” this project will provide important insight on how we should not view digitization as just a way of copying what’s in reality to the digital world. Instead, producing something in the digital world is a creation in itself, even if the content is the same as the physical world. This means that, as DH practitioners, we should also rethink our intention in creating digitized projects and ask ourselves what does our digital work do that a physical work cannot.

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DHNow Newsletter, April 1, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor.

Our Editors’ Choices this week outline best practices and standards for presentations, using a case study of transitioning between dynamic and static presentation formats, the process of developing an AI-assisted workflow for extracting very large corpora from the Internet Archive, and a consideration of how AI has been implemented across university libraries in the last five years. We also have announcements and CFPs, as well as multiple useful resources and reports.

CFP: Applications open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History

RRCHNM — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History is sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University (GMU). It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at GMU, to honor his life and work as a pioneer in the field of digital history.

This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history. The current prize amount is $4,000, funded by donations to GMU’s AHA/RRCHNM Rosenzweig Prize Fund (see below).

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Report: Bridging Language and Technology: Advancing NLP Skills at the University of Zululand

Tshego Rapoo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17–18 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR’s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students and academic staff in a collaborative effort to strengthen skills in corpus development, data management, and linguistic annotation.

The workshop formed part of ongoing initiatives led by SADiLaR to advance digital language resource development and promote the integration of South African languages into cutting-edge technological spaces.

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DHNow Newsletter, March 25, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:11:40 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager.

This week’s issue features an Editors’ Choice posts that explores the potential of AI for digital blackface. The second selection considers the growing trend on social media of accounts depicting the likenesses of Black women through AI-generated characters. We have also included multiple useful resources and reports, including a tool to remove bleed-through from medieval manuscript scans.