The FORBIN Dataset: A Collection of Historical Photographs with Archival Metadata describes a dataset derived from the archive of Victor Forbin, a Paris-based journalist and publisher whose agency circulated news photographs in the early twentieth century. Published in the Journal of Open Humanities Data by Mohamed Chelali (Université Paris Descartes), Sylvain-Karl Gosselet (Centre National de la ...

A Knowledge Graph for Spanish American Notary Records presents a digital project aimed at improving access to seventeenth-century Spanish American notary records using deep learning and knowledge management technologies. Based on digitized manuscripts from the National Archives of Argentina, the project brings together work on handwritten text recognition, information retrieval, and knowledge graphs to support ...

The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is a hub of articles, best practices, and resources supporting education and teaching with primary sources for practitioners across libraries, museums and archives as well as those coming to that work from outside of those spaces. Mae Casey (Penn State University) recently published an article on the TPS ...

Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kidd, and Lingjia Zhao (all Loughborough University) have shared their report, “Sifting the Digital Heap: A scoping study of AI for government archives – access, backlogs, and responsible practice” via Zenodo. Their report details the GLOW scoping study, part of the overall LUSTRE project, which has the overall aim to “connect policy makers ...

An open-access article titled, “Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources,” has been published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2026). Authors Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London), Katherine McDonough (Lancaster University), and Daniel C. S. Wilson (University College London) explore the ecosystem of historical research data in the UK where cultural ...

The Pudding publishes interactive data storytelling stories on a variety of subjects and topics. Most recent articles include, “Happy Map,” “Sizing Chaos,” and “Musical Motifs,” although past articles show a range of topics including political, social, pop-culture, sports, and food. Stories often mix custom imagery with dynamic data visualizations to create engaging visual journalism stories. ...

The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center at Tulane University has launched the Frans Blom Collection of Documents, Maps, and Images, a new digital collection available through the Tulane University Digital Library. Curated from physical materials held in Tulane’s special collections, the collection brings together documents created by—and documenting the career of—archaeologist Frans ...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2025 membership meeting briefing sessions included two presentations on the topic of sustaining digital scholarship & humanities. A recording of this session is available now to watch on YouTube. The first presentation, by Nick Szydlowski (San José State University), is titled “Digital Humanities is for Everyone: Building a ...

The International Council on Archives (ICA) has shared an online training program on “Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions,” recorded from live sessions held between November 26 and December 3, 2025. Available as a 3-part YouTube video series, the series features five speakers on topics related to digitization, cultural heritage data access, and re-use ...

Amelia Acker (Rutgers University) has published an open access book through MIT Press, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms. This book tells the “story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage” through advancing … our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the ...

“Student-Led Digital Projects in Cultural Heritage Sector Collaborations,” by Katrina Grant (University if Sydney) and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (Australian National University), is available open access as a chapter in The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice (Routledge, 2024). The authors present a multi-year teaching model at the Australian National University in which interdisciplinary student teams build ...