Welcome to DAIHUM: Digital & AI Humanities
What is DAIHUM?
DAIHUM (Digital & AI Humanities) is an online community forum that serves as a central hub for digital humanities practitioners and learners. It functions as a living archive, an active forum for discussion, and a comprehensive index of DH resources worldwide, with everything preserved for long-term study and reference.
How Can You Use DAIHUM?
- If you’re a student or simply new to DH: Browse Learning Resources for tutorials and courses, access thematic guides for quick overviews of DH topics and research fields, ask questions in Seek Help or News & Chat, find software tools and ask technical questions in Software, find recommended and trusted software, and discover research papers in Research
- If you’re a researcher or professor: Share your publications and others’ publications in Research, find collaborators through Seek Help or News & Chat, discover relevant conferences in Events, browse materials you or your students could use in Resources, and look at syllabi others have shared in Learning
- If you’re a developer: Get your DH tools listed in Software, answer technical questions, contribute to Q&A threads, and connect with humanities scholars who need technical expertise
- If you’re a librarian or archivist: Add your digital collections to Resources, find preservation tools in Software, share best practices, and connect with peers managing similar collections
- If you’re looking for opportunities: Check Jobs & Calls for positions and CFPs, browse Events for conferences and workshops, find funding opportunities, and discover potential collaborators
- If you need help: Post in Seek Help or chat in News & Chat when you need to find digital resources, access an article, solve technical issues, choose the right tool for a task, deal with students using AI to cheat, or face any other DH-related challenge
- If you simply want to connect with the community: Chat away in News & Chat, share interesting finds, discuss trends in DH, or just introduce yourself and meet fellow practitioners
Main Features
While DAIHUM is built on a forum platform, its main features include:
- Comprehensive Project Index: A growing catalog of DH projects from around the world
- This Week in Digital & AI Humanities: Weekly highlights of important developments, new tools, and community discussions, published in the forum as well as social media outlets
- Curated Software Directory: Curated DH tools and software with admin recommendations (two-star system), community ratings, feedback, and discussions
- Learning Resource Directory: Tutorials, online videos, recordings, articles, and syllabi organized by skill level (beginner, intermediate, advanced)
- Event Aggregation: Conferences, workshops, and seminars collected from across the web
- Career Opportunities: Academic positions, fellowships, and grants relevant to DH
- Research Reviews & Demos (planned): Short reviews, reproductions, and live demonstrations of research articles and projects to help people quickly learn about new research or projects
- DAIHUM Thematic Guide (planned): Enhanced keyword entries providing in-depth overviews and guides for DH topics, building on our Dictionary category
- DH Bibliography (planned): A tagged and categorized DH library to be released
- DAIHUM Scholar Server (planned): A local personal server for research, open source with AI integrations
Our Categories: A Quick Tour
News & Chat
Discussions, news, and announcements about digital humanities and academia in general.
Events
DH conferences, workshops, summer schools, and webinars worldwide with dates, locations, and registration information.
Projects
Index of DH research projects globally, from established digital editions to emerging initiatives.
Software
Living catalog of DH tools from “traditional” to emerging AI applications. Each major tool will have a dedicated mega-thread where we centralize discussions and updates about them. New topics can be created by the community to discuss anything related - technical questions, Q&A threads for troubleshooting, discussion threads for feature requests.
Research
Academic papers, books, dissertations about digital humanities in the broader sense. Includes industry research and work across disciplines such as history, literature, linguistics, computer science, and information science. Also includes online articles such as blogs.
Resources
Datasets, digital collections, databases, and archival materials - from digitized manuscripts to linguistic corpora.
Dictionary
Glossary of DH terms and concepts.
Institutions
Research centers, academic programs, labs, and funding organizations worldwide.
Seek Help
Academic and methodological questions, technical support, research assistance, material access, and community help for any DH-related challenges.
Learning
Educational materials from YouTube tutorials to syllabi and workshop materials, organized by skill level.
Jobs & Calls
Academic positions, calls for papers, grant opportunities, and fellowships.
Support
Forum platform support for technical issues, bug reports, feature requests, and navigation help.
How This Forum is Maintained
This is a DH project currently maintained by Bo An, a scholar of history of technology and incoming professor of digital humanities and history. (You can reach him professionally via bo.an@aya.yale.edu or here for forum-related issues.)
To make DAIHUM’s ambitious goals possible with one person, I built a human-in-the-loop AI agent system to help me. The system includes an agentic content management server as well as custom libraries for content processing. I might write about the system behind DAIHUM in the future. For now, what matters is that I strive to personally review everything that gets posted here. I strictly limit what AI agents can generate - they only provide verified and factual information, never content that could be mistaken for human-generated work. For instance, I do not allow the system to generate abstracts or reviews. I do use it to generate short summaries sometimes for things like software or research center descriptions, but for these, I will try to review them as much as possible.
Do note that the AI system doesn’t interact with users’ information. It only processes publicly posted forum content via API. The forum is hosted on a DigitalOcean instance, and neither I nor the AI system has any access to sensitive user information. For details about the forum platform’s security, see Discourse’s security practices.
As you can see, while I built the system to sustain the running of the forum, the forum really depends on community support.
How You Can Contribute
Share new discoveries, help those who need assistance, answer questions, and participate in discussions. Use the Support forum to make suggestions or do this in replies to relevant topics. Report bugs, report wrong information, and help improve the platform. Share DAIHUM with your colleagues, students, and others in your network who might benefit from this resource. Even simply browsing or sharing helps build the community.
Welcome to DAIHUM and happy exploring!