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.” ...

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) has released “NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH,” detailing the importance of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) staff and grant programs to cultural organizations amid recent cuts. The statement reads in part: Established in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities is the only entity, federal or ...

A recent guest post on the H-Net Book Channel titled “Assessing Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship” shares some outcomes of the Embedding Preservability project, the second project led by NYU Libraries to address preservation risks for complex digital publications. The authors note that this Mellon-funded project had two broad goals: “The first goal was ...

In this guest blog post on the Internet Archive by Nichole Misako Nomura (Stanford University), the author shares a brief history of the computational translations of knitting punch cards, starting with how they became proto-versions of code and taking us through the ins and outs of a digitization and preservation workflow. This blog post is ...

This open-access article in Public Humanities gives a brief history of HASTAC.org’s inception and growth, with the values of sharing knowledge in a free, open, and ethically minded group of scholars. Cathy N. Davidson (CUNY Graduate Center), the co-founder of HASTAC, writes lessons she learned in the creation and growth of this community of scholars, ...

In a recent post on the Scholarly Kitchen, the official blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, contributor Roy Kaufman offered a summary of a February 2025 court ruling on Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp. V Ross Intelligence, Inc. Known as the Ross case, it is the first U.S. decision directly addressing ...

The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...