Digital Humanities Now

Tool: CB-Essay

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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.

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CFP: Fall 2026 Issue of The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities

UJDH — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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.

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Report: From language patterns to digital possibilities: Tanja Gaustad’s Journey in computational linguistics

Tshego Rapoo-Maloyi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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 career dedicated to ensuring South Africa’s languages thrive in the digital age.

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Conference: AI and History Conference 2026

Johns Hopkins University — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The AI and History Conference 2026, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University, is a practitioner-focused convening for historians at all career stages who are working with, teaching, or trying to evaluate AI and computational methods in their research and institutions. This event is anchored squarely in historical practice: its organizing questions are what AI can do for historians specifically, and what structural, methodological, and professional changes the discipline needs to make computational methods sustainable and rigorous.

The conference addresses the full range of experience, from historians sent by their departments to report back on AI, to scholars already producing advanced computational work, by running sessions leveled for different backgrounds in parallel rather than forcing everyone into the same room. It treats AI as consequential on two fronts at once: as a tool for large-scale research that was previously impossible for a single historian to undertake, and as a way to rejuvenate the classroom. Attendees should leave with a network of peers, a clearer sense of the field’s best current work, and concrete skills or project plans they can use immediately.

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DHNow Newsletter, August 26, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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-language tutorial on OpenRefine and Wikidata.

Resource: Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine

Pascal Martinolli — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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” of data that involves pairing its data with others.

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Weekly Highlight: HD Lab

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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 variety of digital scholarly editions, and coding tutorials.

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Report: Connections, ideas and renewed hope: reflections from Wikimania Paris 2026

Belvin Tawuya — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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 opportunity to reconnect with friends and partnerships built up over many years..

The theme, Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability) felt particularly timely. As Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, the questions facing open knowledge have rarely felt more urgent. Those big questions sat alongside something equally important: the opportunity simply to be together.

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Announcement: Zotero 10

Dan Stillman — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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.

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Editors’ Choice: AI in the Archive: Saving Time by Turning Photos into Structured Metadata

Aaron Freedman — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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 images into text searchable PDFs with structured metadata. The author acknowledges that LLMs are not a good substitute for the historian’s essential functions of close reading, critical analysis, and writing, but can be useful for extracting structured data from images.

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