Save Our Signs (SOS) is a rapid-response digital archive working to preserve U.S. National Park Service interpretive signs and exhibits at risk of removal under new federal mandates. The initiative began as an urgent response to Executive Order 14253 and Secretary Order 3431, which directed NPS sites to review and replace materials seen as “inappropriately ...

The Post45 Data Collective announces a new dataset, “Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction.” According to the website, “this dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.” From the website: The Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction dataset collects ...

The Internet Archive has released a new digital collection, the Drug Policy Alliance Library. An Internet Archive blog, authored by Caralee Adams, describes the source of the collection and the impetus for digitization: For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York ...

The Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA) brings together scattered archives of 19th and early 20th century Black women intellectuals, organizers, and activists. From the project site: BWOA moves Black women unapologetically to the forefront of recovery and Black digital history projects to highlight Black women’s often lost, erased, or forgotten contributions to our intellectual histories ...

Zine Bakery released the zine, Footpath for the People? A Zine Companion to a Data Quilt about the Appalachian Trail  by Claudia Berger (Pratt Institute), a companion piece to “Footpath for the People?” analog data quilt, created as part of Berger’s Virtual Artist-in-Residency with the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The Zine Bakery post describes ...

The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project is a comprehensive resource for the 1,000+ “miracle stories” written about and the 2,500+ images painted of the Virgin Mary in these African countries, and preserved in Geʿez between 1300 and the present. It was developed by collaborators in the Department of Comparative Literature ...

The Digital Humanities Awards are annual, community-driven awards recognizing innovation and expertise in digital humanities. Resources are nominated and voted on entirely by the public. This year, over 90 resources have been nominated across eight categories, including “Best Use of DH for Fun,” “Best DH Dataset or Model,” and “Best DH Resource.” These awards aim ...

Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online is a scholarly platform for introducing concepts, terms, projects, and resources for teaching and working with the art, architecture, and visual culture of Islam. The project was founded in 2020 by a team of researchers and students, lead by Professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan, Christiane Gruber, ...

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico (DECM Project) is an effort to share and analyze datasets of the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España, 16th and 17th century documents that provide insight into indigenous and colonized groups of the Virreinatos, or regions of the early Americas that were being colonized by Spanish viceroys.  The project combines ...

Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College/Pratt) and Gabriella Evergreen (Pratt) created Pockets of Information: Community Care in a Speculative New York, a StoryMap as a companion to an in-person exhibit. Project of Information “imagines how data could be shared in the aftermath of severe flooding and climate change in New York City. It is a garment-based ...

Sara Woodbury (William & Mary) created the StoryMap, “The Federal Community Art Center Initiative, 1935-1942: Mapping Art Access in the Great Depression.” From the introduction, In 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) launched one of its most ambitious arts-sharing initiatives when it opened its first community art center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in cooperation ...