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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 ...

RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object

Oct

16

2025

Librarians, archivists, and knowledge workers must continually grapple with ethical ways of working with unethical collections. Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig, and Michelle Dalmau offer one possible digital humanities intervention in their recently published article, “The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object” in In The Library With The Lead Pipe. “The Digital Opaque” reflects on their experiences ...

RECOMMENDED: What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford

Sep

18

2025

This is a guest post with Dr. Caddie Alford, who summarizes several readings that she encountered over the summer that explore current realities of technopessimism and technofascism in digital rhetoric studies. We hope you’ll appreciate her thoughtful insights! – The dh+lib Review Editors What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford I’m Associate Professor of ...

RECOMMENDED: dh+lib Summer Reading Series

May

15

2025

Calling all readers! The dh+lib Review is resuming our summer “What Are You Reading” Series. During our regular summer break, we invite our community to share their summer reading choices. Guest editors will create brief posts to discuss what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. The series ...

RECOMMENDED: Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects

Apr

18

2025

Olivia Wikle (Iowa State University) and Evan Peter Williamson (University of Idaho), have published an article in latest issue of the code4lib Journal, on “Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects.” Their article advocates for a reexamination of digital humanities platforms through a minimal computing lens, proposing static web development, “Lib-Static,” ...