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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 ...

RESOURCE: Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project

May

15

2025

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,” ...

CFP: Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

May

15

2025

The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship, an open-access and open peer review journal, invites submissions focused on “feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.” From the call for submissions: We accept article manuscripts, literature reviews, and reviews of digital collections, as well as relevant multimedia explorations such as podcast episodes, information visualizations, ...

CFP: Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair

May

15

2025

The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) is hosting “Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair – A Conference on Text Analysis, Tool Building, and Critical Digital Humanities” September 10-12, 2025. From the call for proposals: We welcome submissions of papers, panels, and tool demonstrations for a bilingual ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2025-2026 H-Net Spaces Cohort Program

May

15

2025

H-NET Spaces invites applications for its 2025-2026 Cohort Program. This program supports projects that are still still in the early stages of development and/or scholars in need significant support and hands-on training in DH methods. The program provides additional support to scholars seeking to build a digital project with H-Net Spaces. Projects are open access ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group Co-Chairs

May

15

2025

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking for two new co-chairs for the next academic year. An MLIS is not required, just a passion for the role of libraries in digital humanities. ACH membership is required for the co-chairs (general members of the SIG do ...

EVENT: Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects

May

15

2025

The Libraries & DH Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is co-hosting Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference, a free gathering at this summer’s DH2025 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Being held Monday, July 14, 2025 from 1:30pm-8:00pm (UTC+0), this hybrid event “will consist of presentations, roundtables, and discussions of the ...

PROJECT: The Drug Policy Alliance Library

May

1

2025

The Internet Archive has released a new digital collection, the Drug Policy Alliance Library. An Internet Archive blog, authored by Caralee Adams, describes the source of the collection and the impetus for digitization: For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York ...

POST: ManoWhisper Visualizations

May

1

2025

Nick Ruest (York University) posted a blog, “ManoWhisper Visualizations,” detailing his work on ManoWhisper in partnership with University of Waterloo for the Digital Feminist Network. ManoWhisper is a compilation of “an ever-growing dataset of podcast transcripts comprising over 11,000 episodes from 20 podcasts associated with the Intellectual Dark Web, conspiracy theories, QAnon, the Alt-Right, White Supremacist/Nationalist movements, and the Manosphere.” ...

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

May

1

2025

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)

May

1

2025

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 ...