The RDDS Blog

In June 2026, Penn Libraries hosted a free, in-person supplementary Regional Hub for the virtual Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2026 conference, bringing together digital humanities scholars across the Mid-Atlantic region.

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On November 22nd, RDDS’s Cynthia Heider and SCETLI's Mick Overgard partnered with members of Penn Libraries, the University of Delaware, and the Ginger Arts Community Center to host an event teaching all about community archiving. This post shares an interview with Cynthia and Mick, who discuss the challenges and benefits of hosting community events, preserving family history, and more.

RDDS partners with history faculty and team to launch a new project exploring the history of Philadelphia's long relationship with oil and gas industry.

RDDS recently debuted a tech and data zine rack in RDDSx. Just in time for International Zine Month, learn more about the process and what's next in this blog post from student outreach assistant Vicky Sun.

On October 10–11, 2024, the South Asia Studies Digital Humanities Workshop (SASDHW) convened scholars, librarians, and technologists for two days of collaborative learning on multilingual and computational text analysis of South Asian sources.

Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian and Eug Xu, RDDS Data Science & Society Research Assistant present their work on AI Literacy Interest Group & Data Science Instruction over the last year. Learn more about how they use loom weaving techniques for teaching computation and curate special collections showcases on the history of technology and digital humanities.