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DHNow Newsletter, March 25, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. This week’s issue features an Editors’ Choice posts that explores the potential of AI for digital blackface. The second selection considers the growing trend on social media of accounts depicting the likenesses of Black women through AI-generated characters. We have also included multiple useful…
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Editors’ Choice: AI Blackface: Profiting on racist depictions at scale
Editors’ Summary: This post details the investigation into social media accounts that depict Black women through AI-generated characters in order to identify solutions to this quickly-growing problem. The joint investigation identified over 100 social media accounts running out of 34 different countries. These accounts all used entirely AI-generated media, depicted Black women, and were sexual…
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CFP: ILiADS Call for Proposals 2026
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes project proposals and liaison applications for the eleventh Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie, New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026. This year ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment both for collaborative project teams and for individuals.…
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Job Announcement: Call for Predoctoral Fellowships at the International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH)
The International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH) is a new doctoral school jointly established by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI) in Rome and the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (PhF) of the University of Zurich (UZH), funded by the Max Planck Society (MPG) for…
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Report: Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it…
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Report: What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: March 2026
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. See full post.
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Resource: Layered Memories: Histories in One Square Block
So much of our nation’s contentious history is hidden in plain sight. Consider, for instance, how we routinely pass by houses, buildings, and sites whose complex and controversial histories we are unaware of. The Layered Memories: History in One Square Block project excavates these everyday histories by using what I call lieux de souvenir analysis.…
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Resource: GUIDE-LLM: Reporting checklist for studies with large language models in the behavioral and social sciences
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to study human behavior, yet their rapidly evolving nature poses challenges for research rigor. GUIDE-LLM provides a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility, and ethical accountability across behavioral and social science research. In particular, GUIDE-LLM supports researchers in clearly describing how LLMs were used, why specific methodological…
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Resource: Translucens
Remove bleed-through from medieval manuscript scans. Translucens separates ink show-through from recto/verso folio scans, combining guided-filter estimation, NMF source separation, and Wiener deconvolution into a single browser-based tool. See full post.
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DHNow Newsletter, March 18, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice calls for the need to reconsider digital knowledge through the perspective of decolonial data narratives and oral history practices. The second selection considers the empowering possibilities of vibe-coding small scale digital history projects.…
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Resource: Waedeker: Wikipedia’s knowledge in a handy Baedeker format
Create a compact offline Wikipedia archive as a ZIM file for any region in the world – perfect for hiking, expeditions or areas without network coverage. See full post.
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Resource: AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)
Cambridge’s GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, garden and museums) house millions of objects from across the globe, representing an unparalleled repository of cultural and natural history. However, challenges such as analogue formats, handwritten records, fragmented objects, multilingual sources and complex surfaces make much of this data difficult to access. To address these challenges, the AI…
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Report: What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
I recently traveled to Kenya for a journalism and AI conference. While I was there, I really wanted to meet with Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association. Data Labeling is a huge job in Kenya. Data labelers are the people who train AI, and who also work on ensuring the…
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Job Announcement: Lecturer I at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer I position to teach sections of three introductory courses. For more information about our courses, please check here: https://lsa.umich.edu/computingfor/undergraduates/course-offerings.html This is a non-tenure track position.…
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Event Announcement: LUSTRE/GLOW Workshop 6: Government Records and AI
The workshop (April 20 – April 21) is organised as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative, led by Professor Lise Jaillant and supported by Loughborough University, in collaboration with The National Archives and the UK Cabinet Office. Building on the earlier LUSTRE project, GLOW brings together researchers, government professionals, colleagues from across the GLAM sectors, and…
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Editors’ Choice: Transformers from Scratch
Editor’s Summary: This post provides a detailed explanation of how transformers work. Transformers in this context refers to a tool for sequence transduction (converting one sequence of symbols to another) an essential tool for natural language processing. The author provides a step by step discussion of how transformers work in terms of language, including many…