Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies is “a digital scholarly archive of the annual directory of London sex workers, published between 1760 and 1794. This project provides access to all eighteen surviving editions (the earliest from 1761) and explores the lives of women in Georgian London’s sex trade through critical historical analysis.” Edited by Alexander Huber, the website “recover[s] the histories of marginalized women in Georgian London while maintaining awareness of the problematic male perspective inherent in the source material” using “digital facsimiles, structured data extraction, and critical analysis.” The site features a IIIF viewer to explore the editions, a searchable set of entries, map, a network analysis, and several visualizations. The site also provides rich background on a range of historical contexts, from local government to health & medicine.

The methods essay outlines the care with which the site was constructed, including the process of data extraction, the critical framework employed, and various ethical considerations, particularly the insistence that the project resist the objectification and exploitation of women that pervades the original source material.

The Early Black Boston Digital Almanac (EBBDA) is “a site dedicated to highlighting the various movements, locations, art, and rhetoric of Black figures and coalitions that shaped Boston’s history, and thusly, its present.” Developed by a team of researchers at Northeastern University, with connections to the Department of English, the Department of History, the Africana Studies Program, as well as the NULab for Humanities and Computational Social Science and the Digital Scholarship Group in Snell Library, the project offers multiple exhibits and collections along with teaching materials: curriculum, student work, and resources.

Highlights of the site include exhibits dedicated to Places & Maps, Important Figures, Literature and the Arts, Black Citizenship & Service, the Black Press, Social Movements & Spiritualities, Contemporary Connections, and Texts. Each exhibit includes curated digital collections with accompanying bibliographies. Of particular note is the team’s discussion of their methodology and principles of care which models ethical and consensual digital humanities work.

The team also welcomes proposals for new exhibits, making it an ideal example of community-engaged digital humanities work.

Library Futures intern Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen developed As long as the sun shines: Indigenous digital libraries across North America, a StoryMap that explores questions of Indigenous sovereignty in Canadian digital libraries. As he reflects in his introductory blog post:

In North America, libraries and archives have traditionally participated in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Stolen artifacts are scattered across the world in colonial museums, and mainstream classification schemes relegate Indigenous peoples to the past.

But a new generation of digital libraries is emerging. They leverage the possibilities of the digital age to put power back where it belongs: in the Indigenous nations. They create culturally-relevant metadata, devise nuanced permission systems that map onto local protocols, and imagine governance models that avoid the pitfalls of the past. They forge new futures for Indigenous cultural sovereignty and preservation.

As long as the sun shines takes us from Inuvialuit lands in the Western Arctic to a Passamaquoddy reservation in northeastern Maine, with stops in Wet’suwet’en territory in the Rockies and Anishinabe communities in northern Quebec. We meet trailblazing Indigenous librarians who paved the way for today’s digital libraries.

Ultimately, the story invites the reader to reflect on their role as a librarian in a world where cultural heritage is increasingly under threat and on how to build resilience in the face of adversity.

The project is a model of how digital humanities/digital scholarship library workers can interrogate questions of indigenous sovereignty in their own work, and models the ways of bringing these questions into instruction and internship supervision.

A former member of a student-run university broadcasting station at Kyonggi University in South Korea has developed the VOKU (Voice of Kyonggi University) Archive, a digitization project including detailed documentation of a workflow for LLM-assisted name redaction to preserve the privacy of students and staff whose names appear on the over 66,000 cue sheets used in the project. Jeoung Geun-Yeong, the independent creator of the project and a former station member of the radio station, digitized cue sheets created for the station’s student-produced campus radio broadcasts from 1988-2019, which can be explored through the project’s main website.

The project does not make publicly accessible the documents themselves nor the OCR’d full-text of the cue sheets, but it does attempt to preserve the history of student broadcasting through the application of human-and-agent-redacted versions of many of the cue sheets, making the materials accessible to the public in a way that prioritizes privacy by replacing real names of students and staff with consistently reused/ID-linked pseudonyms, carrying the synthetic name identifiers of people mentioned in the cue sheets across multiple documents. The project workflow is documented in a GitHub repository and the project data is hosted on Hugging Face, including some selected document images and text but not the full OCR of the complete real scripts, operational databases, real-name mappings, or private review records.

The project’s README discusses how Jeoung utilized GPT-6 to map named entities to persistent identifiers and perform the redaction of the documents in the archive.

Chinese Red Record documents anti-Chinese lynchings, riots, massacres, and expulsions in the American West between 1850 and 1915. Created by Kevin Hegg as a companion to his dissertation work conducted at James Madison University, The Chinese Red Record: Western Lynch Law and the Nationalization of Racial Terror, 1853–1915, the archive takes its title from Ida B. Wells’s The Red Record. It traces how lynching, exclusion, and expulsion worked together to drive Chinese communities from mining camps, railroad towns, and cities across the region. The project draws on a compiled dataset of documented incidents, assembled from newspapers digitized through Chronicling America, the California Digital Newspaper Collection, and Newspapers.com, as well as existing resources such as the CSDE Lynching Database.

Users can browse individual records by date, place, and type of violence, read transcribed newspaper clippings alongside their citations, and explore a timeline, map, and charts, including a visualization comparing lynchings of Black and Chinese victims over time. The dataset is available to download in CSV, Excel, and PDF formats, with fields covering location, accusation, occupation, and method of killing. The site also includes “Ask the Archive,” an AI chat feature for questions about events and themes, which the project notes is not a substitute for browsing the records directly. Visitors can submit evidence of additional incidents for review.

Archive Stories is an open-access website about working with creative and non-traditional archives. It is curated by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, designed by Frederick Kannemeyer, and funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rather than offering a new definition of the archive, the curators focus on archiving as a creative practice and as a response to the limits of institutional archives, including national archives that have been destroyed or made inaccessible and colonial archives that reproduce colonial power. The site now gathers dozens of contributions, several of them in Arabic, and many of them trace histories of anticolonial and revolutionary solidarity. Topics include the Palestine Poster Project Archives, traces of PFLP cinema in Beirut, a community-built archive of Syrian cassettes, Chilean revolutionary arpilleras, and oral history traditions in Palestine. The site is designed to be explored without a set path, and the curators welcome new submissions.

Old Toronto turns more than 37,000 archival photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and Toronto Public Library into walking tours of the city. The tool builds on OldTO, the geocoded photo map originally created by Sidewalk Labs and later revived by Back Lane Studios. While OldTO showed what was photographed in a given place, Old Toronto actually generates walking routes of the city. Users pick one of 25 starting points and one of 12 historical eras, from 1788 to 2018. The Planner then generates an optimized walking route anchored by landmarks, with clusters of archival photos along the way. Because each era’s photographs are distributed differently across the city, each era produces a different route through the same collection. The project explores approaches to visualizing archival collections that bridge the organizational logic of the archive, arranged by provenance, date, and description, and the lived experience of a city, organized by place and movement.

The Prison Data Explorer is a project of Trans Pride Initiative (TPI), a Texas nonprofit, that presents live data from TPI’s correspondence with trans and queer people in prison, primarily in Texas, but also in other state and federal prison systems. The Explorer charts more than 28,000 letters exchanged with over 2,000 people, including the volume of letters sent and received each quarter and correspondents’ race, age, gender, and sexual orientation. It also documents more than 18,000 incidents of violence and mistreatment reported to TPI, each classified using TPI’s published definitions. Users can filter charts and search individual records. Companion pages track prison systems’ responses to TPI’s complaints and data for Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) auditors. The project offers a community-generated approach to documenting conditions in carceral facilities.

The team behind America’s Essential Data, with support from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), and The Impact Project, has curated a list of United States federal datasets, variables, and data tools which have been terminated or removed from public online access in 2025.

This resource – briefly renamed “Dearly Departed Datasets” during Halloween 2025 – attempts to capture losses to federal data that go beyond routine updates or removals, and is a direct response to federal agencies’ move to comply with White House executive orders since January 2025 that are aimed at removing language related to gender, DEI, and climate change from the public record.

A longer blog post authored by Denise Ross (Federation of American Scientists, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist) provides a more in-depth look at the methodologies used to identify threatened data and the broader implications of their removal.

OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented narratives. The site hosts over 200 scholarly and community-curated digital exhibits and timelines, such as the collaborative living resource The Transgender History Timeline, all of which use primary source materials to analyze how gender and sexuality have been discussed, defined, and lived over time.

OutHistory is an actively maintained resource, serving as a vital digital counter-archive against historical erasure and distortion. Recent highlights include exhibits documenting recent government censorship, such as the “The Queer History of Women’s Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025” exhibit. This project archives historian Wendy Rouse’s original essay after the National Park Service (NPS) unilaterally altered and deleted it, specifically by removing all references to gender-nonconformity, transgender, and non-binary people. Other efforts include the exhibit “Trumping the Trumpians: OutHistory and American Oversight, 2025“, which reprints Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed to investigate federal actions against LGBTQ+ history. Furthermore, OutHistory cultivates new scholarship through the OutHistory Fellowship Program (OFP), which provides a US$1,800 honorarium for projects on under-represented topics relating to LGBTQ+ history in North America.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, survivor testimony, and spatial data, supporting deeper inquiry into the scale and impacts of wartime atrocities.​

Among the new resources is an interactive ArcGIS map visualizing crimes against ethnic Chinese communities, drawing on documentation from postwar Allied war crimes trials and highlighting patterns of targeted violence. Additionally, a new text-searchable archive, digitized using Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards, offers access to statements from General Imamura Hitoshi’s 1947 war crimes proceedings, providing insight into prisoner abuse and the Allied trials.

UH Mānoa’s Hamilton Library plays a pivotal role in stewarding, hosting, and contextualizing these materials for public use. As WCDI project lead and history professor Yuma Totani observes, “WCDI has a terrific team of librarians whose expertise in digital technologies, knowledge in the humanities, and commitment to collaborative work have been invaluable.”