In this blog post, Stuart Dunn explains the implications of a vote of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the Equal Earth projection over the more commonly used Mercator map, which privileges the degrees of travel between to points on a sphere to surface area. In addition to explaining the differences between the two ...

Alyssa Virker, with the Data Sitters Club, shares a very practical, no-frills post about topic modeling as part of its TL;DR series, which is aimed at people who “don’t know if digital humanities is right for you.” This post is ideal for introducing students to the method as a form of inquiry and exploration, in ...

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 ...