Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation Photo by Henrik L. on Unsplash Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” This term refers to references of academic publications that do not ex…

Editors’ Choice: Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation

Editors’ Choice: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology

Editors’ Choice: Designing for discovery: using web maps in the digital humanities dhq.digitalhumanitie...

New ‘Create Impactful Infographics’ seminars for 2026 — Information is Beautiful Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives NEXT DATES » 🇬🇧 Wed 25th & Thu 26th Mar UK/EU/AUS timezone 2...

Announcement: New ‘Create Impactful Infographics’ seminars for 2026

CFP: AI through History, History through AI www.infoclio.ch/de/c...

CFP: ELO 2026 (Un)Supervised Conference eliterature.org/2026...

Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data

Job Announcement: Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data

PhD Research on Digital Heritage Preservation: from Roman Castulo to the Alhambra Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces from different contexts and periods: fragments of Roman cornices made in lime mortar from the archaeological site of Castulo (1st–2nd centuries AD); decorative reliefs carved in bone discovered in the ancient city of Isturgi (1st–3rd centuries AD); and a 14th-century façade of plasterwork and wood in the Islamic tradition, located within the Alhambra Monumental Complex. In all three cases, these decorative surfaces have been heavily affected by the passage of time, which makes them difficult to read, understand, and interpret.

Report: PhD Research on Digital Heritage Preservation: from Roman Castulo to the Alhambra

British Library boss: We’re still healing emotionally from 2023 hack After two and a half years recovering from a cyberattack likened to a ‘dirty bomb’, the new interim boss hopes it’s finally starting to turn a corner

Report: British Library boss: We’re still healing emotionally from 2023 hack

Unreasonable Effectiveness Seriously: Machines Do Not Need to Think to Be Thought About 💡As I am immersed in PhD research I am at risk of becoming increasingly dense and nerdy. So I am adding a "nerd rating" to posts from now on, evaluating my estimation of how niche a post probably is.

Editors’ Choice: Unreasonable Effectiveness

Digital Literacy Strategies to Prepare Incarcerated Students for Education and Work - Ithaka S+R In today’s technology-driven world, digital literacy isn’t just a skill—it’s a lifeline. For individuals who are incarcerated, the ability to effectively use digital tools can mean the difference between returning to the community prepared or being left even further behind. As research shows, digital skills acquisition is critical for navigating all phases of reentry.

Editors’ Choice: Digital Literacy Strategies to Prepare Incarcerated Students for Education and Work

Editors’ Choice: Validity and Verifiability: Toward a Hybrid Framework for Evaluating Digital Humanities in India dhq.digitalhumanitie...

Announcement: A Faster Release Cycle for Zotero

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival 2026 FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is now accepting project submissions and invites artists, researchers, creators, and developers to participate in its next edition. An international reference in the fields of art, technology, and innovation, FILE will take place in … Continue reading →

CFP: FILE – Electronic Language International Festival 2026

CFP: 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Potsdam 2026 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/

Fantastic Futures 2025: highlights and resources Hundreds of information professionals gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage.

Report: Fantastic Futures 2025: highlights and resources

The ZineArranger by Nash High Zine layout tool for PDFs. Play in your browser

Resource: The ZineArranger

Florence University launches digital library showcasing rare historical materials | The Florentine The University of Florence has unveiled Impronte Digitali, a new digital library designed to preserve and make accessible rare historical materials held in the university’s libraries.

Resource: Florence University launches digital library showcasing rare historical materials

Marimo Notebooks In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. In case you are not familiar with notebooks, t…

Editors’ Choice: Marimo Notebooks

Futzing with Newspaper OCR My kid and I were listening to a podcast about Jack the Ripper. We started talking, and I mentioned how newspapers would reprint stories from each other. This led to us developing an interesting qu…

Editors’ Choice: Futzing with Newspaper OCR

How musicals use motifs to tell stories Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables.

Editors’ Choice: Common Threads: Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories

CFP: Digital Americas: Global Perspectives on American Narratives Online journals.us.edu.pl/i...

CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower

CFP: European Association for Digital Humanities 2026 Call for Papers eadh2026.confer.uj.e...

Metadata Matters: Modernizing the Vanderbilt Television News Archive Database Jim Duran, Vanderbilt University Vaibhav Ravinutala, Vanderbilt University

Report: Metadata Matters: Modernizing the Vanderbilt Television News Archive Database

🇳🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy - Open Knowledge Blog This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day's grassroots impact directly from the community's voices. The event 'Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context' was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and

Report: Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy

Resource: Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning miriamposner.com/blo...

Designing Mars: Transforming Scientific Data Into Human Understanding - Nightingale Mars is easy to measure but hard to understand. Numbers can describe it, but they don’t bring it closer. My mars data visualization project began..

Editors’ Choice: Designing Mars: Transforming Scientific Data Into Human Understanding

The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature We examine the large-scale geospatial dynamics of Russian prose literature in the 19th century. Specifically, we analyze how the distribution of location mentions shifts from the early 19th-century romantic era to the late 19th-century realist period. We demonstrate how realist literature moves away from the historical (and often heavily mythologized) landscapes of Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics. Instead, it increasingly focuses on the modern Imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, as well as on Western European countries and the expanding eastern and southern peripheries of Russia, reflecting the country's ongoing military and economic expansion.

Editors’ Choice: The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature

CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the task through the use of generative AI. Their creation is CoMMA, a giant, one-of-a-kind corpus that will now be available to specialists in the humanities, revolutionising the exploration of writing from the Middle Ages.

Editors’ Choice: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed