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Welcome to the Digital Library Federation DLF serves all who are invested in the success of libraries, museums, and archives in the digital age. About Events What’s the DLF? Networked member institutions and a robust community of practice—advancing research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital Read More

Apply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia

Visual presentations for TPI prison data.

A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation. See all past Digests here.  Hello DLF Community!  It’s October, and the 2026 Virtual DLF Forum is almost here! On the 14th and15th, we’ll come together online for two days of learning, collaboration, and shaping Read More

This online event marked the conclusion of the Traceable AI Answers for Public Data project under the AI Learning Labs initiative, showcasing AI integration with open data portals. You can now watch the full event recording and explore all presentation materials.

AI Crawlers and Library Infrastructure

We present Apollo Restore, a 24-billion-parameter large language model for restoring lacunae---physical gaps---in fragmentary Ancient Greek texts. Fine-tuned from Mistral Small with a...

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Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virginia Agency Website: https://www.lva.virginia.gov Recruitment Type: General Public - G Job Duties The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation that supports the sustainability and...

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Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.

This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host...

African Studies scholars have been involved in Digital Humanities (DH) projects since the 2000s. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), have expanded the possibilities for textual analysis and archival research, but implementation raises difficult questions: who controls access, whose data trains these systems without consent, whose languages remain underserved, and who bears the labour and environmental costs. This position paper is the collective work of a Volkswagen Foundation-funded scoping workshop in Hanover, Germany, in February 2026, with twenty-six scholars from sixteen countries. Across four working groups – language technologies; archives and visual heritage; infrastructure, governance, and access; and epistemologies, decoloniality, and ethics – one question recurred: for whom and for what purpose is this work undertaken? Ownership and sovereignty, access, sustainability, and standardisation emerged as transversal problems, which we set in dialogue with critiques of data colonialism and extractivism. We propose situated practices: licensing that conditions openness on return to source communities; digitisation agreements as living documents; ontologies built collaboratively; design grounded in access, governance, and sovereignty; and ethics treated as a process rather than a deliverable. Many of the problems we examine are common across DH and AI: consent, standardisation that erases variation, algorithmic bias, hidden labour, and the funding of innovation over maintenance. African contexts make them sharper and more visible, and Africa-based practice has produced concrete responses. We therefore argue that African epistemologies and decolonial critique belong at the centre of both fields, and that African scholars, practitioners, and institutions belong where these technologies are designed and governed.

Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.

Mark Bernstein is a visionary in hypertext and electronic publishing. He founded Eastgate Systems, the first publisher of electronic literature, in 1982, to advance nonlinear, intertwingled storytelling and thought through creating tools, publishing non-linear works, authoring peer-reviewed scholarly articles, fostering discourse, and much more.  In this interview, Mark Bernstein reflects on hypertext, electronic literature, Storyspace, Eastgate Systems, literary publishing, large language models, and the continuing problem of form, structure, and reading in digital literary culture. Bernstein covers his work as a theorist, software designer, publisher, critic, and creative practitioner, situating hypertext within the humanities and arguing that ‘Computing is a Humanism.’

Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata This post was written by members of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG). Learn more about the Assessment Interest Group. It was authored by: Xiaoli Ma (University of Florida), xiaolima[at]ufl.edu Stasha Gardasevic (University of Hawaii at Manoa), gardasev[at]hawaii.edu  Anna Goslen (University of North Read More

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand

Last week the United Nations General Assembly voted to institute the Equal Earth projection system as the basis for the default world map, following a campaign by Togo and other African nations. Al…

The verb "to ninja" means "to act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth." LaTeX adventures, demystifying digital tools for…

Sun Sept 27, 2026 · Alexandria, VA · at ACM HCOMP & CI 2026 · submissions open on a rolling basis through Sept 1 (AoE). 3rd annual edition: exploring solutions to the field's challenges, together.

Speaker Dr Kathryn Brown, Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University Kathryn Brown is Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets (2017), ed. Digital Humanities and Art History (2020), Henri Matisse (2021), Dialogues with Degas

Look a little closer. A photo-enhancement lab.

The Lexos Python text analysis library. Contribute to scottkleinman/lexos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). We support all aspects of dataviz education, literacy, history and design. Get involved!

La #SemanaHD es un encuentro abierto, gratuito y colaborativo que reúne, en un mismo espacio virtual, proyectos, actividades e iniciativas vinculadas con las Humanidades Digitales en América Latina y el Caribe ¡Inscríbete!

Neruda Archives is a public gateway to historical correspondence, with digitized letters, images, metadata, transcriptions and selected translations online.

A review of Palestinian Oral History Archive, a digital archive of testimonies from Palestinian refugees, founded by Kaoukab Chebaro and directed by Mona Assi

A follow-up course to “Introduction to XR for cultural heritage” is now live on Europeana “Planning XR projects for cultural heritage” is an introductory course that provides a foundation for understanding XR and its applications in cultural heritage, developed as … Continue reading →

Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.

Recipe-driven extraction of structured text blocks from EPUB files - jtauber/epub-blocks

Why the détente between students and professors over AI will end in 2026.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.