Zhaleh Nayebossadrian (Sapienza University of Rome) has published “De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project” on The Digital Orientalist. Nayebossadrian describes the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) and the digital turn in Persian studies, noting that WWQI represents a landmark project in documenting women’s lives during ...

Published on The Gale Review, Gale International’s blog, “Collisions: Driving Through Digital Humanities in Search of Roadkill” by Gilberto Mazzoli (University of Konstanz) describes using digitized primary sources, keyword searching, GIS, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Google My Maps to investigate the environmental history of automobility in the United States. The post discusses the difficulty of tracing ...

Kalani Craig (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Michelle Dalmau (Indiana University Bloomington), and Sean Purcell (University of California, San Francisco) have published “Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher” on In the Library With the Lead Pipe. The article discusses the authors’ experiences working on two minimal ...

Models All the Way Down, a Knowing Machines project written by Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp, breaks down the relationship between a large AI model and its training data. The authors focus their article on the LAION-5B training set, which is a enormous, open dataset of captioned images. The model is widely used for research and ...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released a statement on March 20, 2026 outlining the organization’s concern and stance on recent events affecting Iran, the Gulf Region, and the Eastern Mediterranean. The full statement is quoted below: In light of increasing hostilities affecting Iran, the Gulf Region and the Eastern Mediterranean, the ...

The University of California Press Blog has published an interview with Cindy Anh Nguyen (Department of Information Studies and Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles), author of a new monograph titled, Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam.  The book “examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam, uncovering the ...

Authors of “Exploring Data Detective Practices as a Class Activity” discuss their experiences as students and instructors in their data feminism course where they take on the role of ‘Data Detectives.’ In the course students learn data visualization and analysis tools as well as creating an “active practice through which we document our investigations of ...

In a recent “Topics in Dataviz” post in Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, Alyxander Burns reflects on the use of data comics to help students learn data and information literacy skills. In “Learning To Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics,” Burns (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College) shares ...

Nick Ruest (York University) posted a blog, “ManoWhisper Visualizations,” detailing his work on ManoWhisper in partnership with University of Waterloo for the Digital Feminist Network. ManoWhisper is a compilation of “an ever-growing dataset of podcast transcripts comprising over 11,000 episodes from 20 podcasts associated with the Intellectual Dark Web, conspiracy theories, QAnon, the Alt-Right, White Supremacist/Nationalist movements, and the Manosphere.” ...