Danica Savonick (SUNY Cortland) published “Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy” in the December 2022 issue (no 21) of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. This was a themed issue dedicated to Open Educational Resources and hosted on Manifold. From the abstract: This article explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy: strategies for ...

UCL Press has published an open-access volume focusing on DH’s processes as “making.” On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley is an homage to John Bradley’s work in DH and “assembles a group of well-known, experienced and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect ...

“Finding the Right Platform,” by Cheryl E. Ball, Corinne Guimont, and Matt Vaughn compares purposes and features of 10 different academy-owned, open-source publishing platforms, including Fulcrum, Humanities Commons, Janeway, Manifold, Mukrtu, Omeka, Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, PubPub, and Scalar. The piece is meant to help researchers, publishers, and librarians answer questions about their projects ...

The most current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), issue 17.2, focuses on Critical Code Studies and Tools Criticism, which the editors define as “the application of the hermeneutics of the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. ‘Extra’ here does not mean ‘outside of’ or ‘apart from’ but instead ...

The latest issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities (vol 4, no 4, April 2023) has been released. This issue features projects that were sourced from their open submission process. This issue’s Editors’ Note highlights the role the reviewers have in the journal and their philosophy towards review., from the piece:  We’ve been fortunate that all ...

The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities has published a virtual special issue, “Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC: Exemplary Publications, 2012-2022,” which makes available selected pieces from the last decade of the journal’s publications. From the introduction: IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities has been published since 1989, ...

An issue brief from Ithaka S+R, “Are the Humanities Ready for Data Sharing?” reports on the paucity of data sharing practices in the humanities, on the heels of the “Nelson Memo,” which states that publicly funded publications (including those with NEH funds) must to deposit their datasets into publicly accessible repositories. The brief introduces the ...

Marcela Y. Isuster (McGill University) and Donna Langille (University of British Columbia – Okanagan) analyzed course offerings in eight Library and Information Science Programs in Canadian Universities in the March 2023 Issue of College and Research Libraries. Their article finds that “[w]all institutions offer at least a few elective courses on data management topics such ...

The Ada Lovelace Institute released a new report, “Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power.” Developed by the Rethinking data working group, co-chaired by Diane Coyle (Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge) and Paul Nemitz (Principal Adviser on Justice Policy, European Commission and visiting Professor of Law at College of Europe), the report sought ...

Explore the latest episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, a podcast that “examine[s] the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable.” ...