Pleased to talk to IOI about our approach at @digitalscholar.bsky.social to developing and supporting open infrastructure, including the many ways our small team is working to support the larger field.

Blogging is painful but essential for preserving my work beyond my lifetime. I discuss the steps I take, from metadata to digital preservation, and why it's worth it. https://eve.gd/2026/04/19/the-necessary-pain-involved-in-blogging-if-you-want-your-work-to-be-preserved-beyond-your-lifespan/

I'm so pleased to be part of this effort to ensure the long-term sustainability of RightsStatements.org!

I see all of you in elder care situations. My Thanksgiving day is a drive to PGH to hang with my Mom, who might not know the day. Still, it's an incredible gift to be together.

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Lost a beloved mentor unexpectedly over the weekend. Such a shock, but at least I know that she knew how important she was to me. Take a minute to tell those people how much they've influenced your life while you have the chance.

Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern

Be sure to check out this upcoming immigration history manuscript workshop from our colleagues with the @ihrc-umn.bsky.social :

“Due to the threat posed by Russian drones operating over Ukraine near the Polish border, Polish and allied air forces have begun preventive operations in our airspace. Ground-based air defense systems have reached the highest level of alert.”

Romania air force just intercepted Russian drone on Romania territory , - Antena 3 CNN

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

Want to explore the various ways Omeka can best serve your project? Join us for our next round of intensive courses for the opportunity to develop your project with the guidance of an Omeka team member! Register at

New issue of my newsletter: "The Reboot of Digital Humanities Now" — Discover the latest work from across the field and around the world newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

I miss a world where we wrote and engaged with each other about DH in small bites. @dhnow.bsky.social helped create that community and I'm glad it's back. digitalscholar.org/dhnow-and-co...

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

This is a global crisis problem as far as I’m concerned. People who say they have historically cared about national autonomy must step up. In years past this would not be a question for the US, regardless of party affiliation.

Release! Classic 3.2 is out. Looks pretty much the same but includes approximately a metric ton of accessibility improvements.

Considering taking an Omeka Intensive? Sign up for this webinar next Wednesday to learn more.

It' that time again! Registration is now open for our Fall intensive trainings. Sign up to reserve your spot in our Classic or S course today:

Registration is now open for “Second Foundings: Universities, Slavery, and Struggles for Justice in Texas and Beyond.” The conference will take place October 10-13, 2025, in Houston and features keynote lectures by Ruth J. Simmons and Crystal R. Sanders! More info …

I took some time to write about the ways that the @omeka.org platforms can help support the creation of FAIR data. Perhaps it will help you think about how you're shaping your collections data. omeka.org/news/2025/08... #FAIRdata

A little research exercise: go find out what the Nazis did to museums they took over, for example in Strasbourg. Once you’ve recovered, report back.

We can all scream together. 🙀 And then start gathering what we can. Get your @waybackmachine.bsky.social finger moving.

Useful. And, also be on the look out for Sourcery in a city near you soon. sourceryapp.org

How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered? New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi... #dh #digitalhumanities

Having sat with it for a bit, I'm still struggling with this document. The document is at once very cautious, and effusive. The text of the guidance itself is pretty good--in fact, I think they point out a lot of ways in which generative AI is a terrible thing for doing history.

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast: historian IAN MILLIGAN in conversation with BREWSTER KAHLE on AVERTING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE & Canada’s role in preserving born-digital history. Moderated by TAKARA SMALL. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes

The submission deadline for #CHR2025 is fast approaching! Authors, you have until Friday, 18 July, to submit your short and long papers, lightning talk abstracts, and workshop ideas. ⚠️ Please note: there will be NO extension of this deadline. 🔗 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

In 2021, the AHA sued the federal government over the proposed closure of the NARA facility in Seattle. It’s worth reading Sarah Weicksel’s #AHAPerspectives article from that period, if you don’t know much about NARA and what it does.

We worked to recover and make accessible 10,000+ defaced websites, captured between 1995–2010. These archived hacks aren't just noise - they reveal political messages, digital protest, and forgotten web aesthetics. Here's how they help us understand web history: journalofdigitalhist...

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

Editor’s Choice: A Conversation with the Authors of The AI Con @ SJSU digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/edit...

Editors’ Choice: Prompt anxiety digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prom...

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

First the Dutch government and now Denmark; EU ministers are cauterising their dependence on US Big Tech and moving to open software to secure basic infrastructure. Baby steps, but they're in the right direction.

“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.

More coverage of the firing of the Historical Advisory Committee for FRUS: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

Contrary to the narrative from the president, sources say that the Trump administration was the one that approached Qatar about acquiring a Boeing 747.

More “founders & framers.” When we opened the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy this spring, I shared how important it is for us to take up our role as founders & framers of the next iteration this republic. Keep fighting. We may not see the results we want now. But nothing is wasted.