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, ...

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, writes for The Scholarly Kitchen, “AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.” Amid a flurry of recent articles in LIS journals and higher education blogs on concerns about generative AI and large language models (LLMs) being trained on non-transparent, highly biased swaths of data culled from across the ...

On World Digital Preservation Day (November 2), the Digital Preservation Coalition released the 2023 edition of the “Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species” – an open, community-created resource listing the most at-risk digital materials. The list this year consists of 87 entries, with new entries including “First Nations Secret/Sacred Cultural Material.” From the post ...