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

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 ...

RESOURCE: Archival Images of AI Playbook

AIxDesign is an independent organization working to “democratize AI literacy and critical discourse and prototype and practice new ways of understanding, talking about, and using AI” through community led projects. In this AI tool free resource, the Archival Images of AI Playbook  invites readers to “create better images of AI” by “remixing and reusing digital ...

RESOURCE: In Our AI Era (Library’s Version)

Rebekah Cummings (University of Utah) has shared her keynote from the Utah Academic Library Consortium’s 2025 Professional Development Retreat, “Library Futures: Supporting Faculty, Students, and Librarians in a Changing Environment.” Cummings’ talk, “In Our AI Era (Library’s Version),” explores how libraries and librarians can respond to emerging opportunities and challenges posed by artificial intelligence across ...

RESOURCE: Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change

Elizabeth C. Bogar-Wyman (Johns Hopkins University) explores the intersection of digital preservation and environmental sustainability in her paper, “Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change,” shared via JScholarship, Johns Hopkins’ repository. From the paper abstract: Digital preservation is a process that inherently contributes ...

RESOURCE: Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) has curated a list of Black Digital Humanities Projects, Events, and Resources. The CCP is, as stated on their website, “a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life.” The list is currently 23 pages long and organized alphabetically ...

RESOURCE: Virulent Hate Project’s Google Drive Index

Jake Gibson (Pratt Institute), Project Manager for the Virulent Hate Project, has published a Python script for generating an index of files and folders within a Google Drive directory using the Google Drive API. Hosted on GitHub, the script is openly licensed and may be valuable for Digital Humanities practitioners who similarly use Google Drive ...

RESOURCE: Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project

A recently published article in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS Vol 12, Article 3) highlights the Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project. Written by Emily Vinson (University of Houston) and Bethany Scott (Yale University), “The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project: Providing Equitable Access to Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History,” ...

RESOURCE: Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python

Programming Historian has released a lesson by Luling Huang (Missouri Western State University), titled “Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python.” The description for the lesson describes how, “Using two news media case studies, this lesson provides a practical guide for making digital humanities research outputs more accessible and engaging.” From ...

RESOURCE: TrOCR Model for Medieval Manuscripts (12th-16th Centuries)

TRIDIS (Tria Digita Scribunt) is a Handwritten Text Recognition model trained on and for medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. While trained specifically for legal, administrative, and memorial writings from the Late Middle Ages, it may also be useful for a more diverse range of materials including literature and treatises. The model was originally trained on ...

RESOURCE: Digital Preservation Coalition Competency Framework

The Digital Preservation Coalition has released version 2 of The DPC Competency Framework that “builds on previous work on identifying competencies for digital preservation and guidance from key models of good practice to provide a framework” that is accessible for professional development, training, and easy access. Like version 2, the original version contained 5 competency areas ...

RESOURCE: SMILE, Social Media Intelligence & Learning Environment

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released an updated version of SMILE, Social Media Intelligence & Learning Environment (formerly the Social Media Macroscope). The platform is a free GUI wrapper/application that does not require coding knowledge, for collecting social media data from both the YouTube and reddit APIs, ...