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RECOMMENDED: The Slow Formation of Durable Software

Oct

15

2026

Marking the 20th anniversary of Zotero’s October 2006 launch, Dan Cohen (Northeastern University) recounts the reference manager’s early history in “The Slow Formation of Durable Software,” published in his Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Cohen describes the Center for History and New Media (now RRCHNM) at George Mason University in the early 2000s, where historians who coded ...

RECOMMENDED: Viewfinder Case Studies from the Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives Project

Sep

30

2026

The IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has published four new case studies, released in September 2026, that show how its Viewfinder toolkit works on real AI projects. Viewfinder is a participatory toolkit for ethical reflection on AI in libraries and archives, organized around different stakeholder perspectives. It was developed by librarians and ...

RECOMMENDED: Embedded Pedagogies Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change

Sep

17

2026

Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia) has released Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change as an open-access volume through Open Book Publishers. From the book abstract: This volume offers a timely and incisive exploration of teaching in an era of institutional instability and political pressure. Drawing on extensive experience as a digital humanities ...

RECOMMENDED: Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza

Sep

17

2026

In the July 2026 issues of the Journal of Palestine Studies, Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University – New Brunswick) authored, “Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza,” an open-access review of the virtual reality project, The Phoenix of Gaza. Mikdashi explores multiple scenes from the project that serve as portals drawing in in her own personal stories ...

RECOMMENDED: Greetings From. . . A Workshop to Visualise Unexpected Stories of a Place Through Data Postcards

May

7

2026

Recently published in the Journal of Visualization and Interaction, Sofia Cretaio and Chiara L. Remondino (both at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy), have authored their peer-reviewed article, “Greetings From. . . A Workshop to Visualise Unexpected Stories of a Place Through Data Postcards,” which addresses their workshop, “Greetings from Naples,” and their exploratory workshop format developed ...

RECOMMENDED: The Digital Preservation Coalition Requests Feedback on Carbon Footprint Toolkit for Digital Preservation

Apr

9

2026

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) seeks feedback on its newly released draft of the Carbon Footprint Toolkit. The toolkit has been being developed by the DPC Carbon Footprint Task Force over the past year to create a resource for organizations to correctly and efficiently calculate the carbon footprint of their digital collections and preservation work. ...

RECOMMENDED: What Altering Historical Images Can Teach Us About History

Mar

27

2026

Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA), has published an article, “What Altering Historical Images Can Teach Us About History” by Mary D. Lewis (Harvard University). Lewis’s piece discusses generative AI, noting that the August 2025 Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education included an “appended chart suggesting that students ...

RECOMMENDED: Reviews in DH, Electronic Literatures and their Worlds

Feb

12

2026

A new special issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities was published in January 2026 on the topic of E-Lit, or Electronic Literature. Guest editors Samya Brata Roy (GITAM Hyderabad), Reham Hosny (University of Cambridge), and Leah Henrickson (University of Queensland) note that, as defined by the Electronic Literature Organization, E-Lit or “literature produced for the ...

RECOMMENDED: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

Dec

4

2025

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of London), Michael Donnay (Software Sustainability Institute), is a new open access volume published by University of London Press. This volume asks “if there is value in failure in digital scholarship, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’?” By positioning failure as an ...

RECOMMENDED: Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals from the America’s Essential Data Project

Nov

13

2025

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 ...

RECOMMENDED: Letters from Freedom: New Digital Resource

Oct

31

2025

Last year, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) received a grant to digitize “655 pages of letters, notebooks, and photographs created by formerly enslaved people.” As part of that initiative, AAS created a new digital resource, “Letters from Freedom,” which features digitized and transcribed letters written between 1863 and 1870 by formerly enslaved students in the ...