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261 gap statements mined from Digital Humanities and Scholarship papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,624 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • STS theory focuses on functionality and efficiency but lacks cultural dimensions, - The theory's explanation of technical elements seems incomplete, - Whether it can specifically explain DH technologies is an open question, - How can STS theory explain this complex, temporal dynamic change?

    Digital Heritage from a Socio-Technical Systems Perspective: Integrated Case Analysis and Framework Development · 2025 · DOI

  • The lack of empirical research in the field of digital heritage. The need for a comprehensive understanding of the integration of multiple fields in digital heritage research. The limitations of current STS theory in explaining the complexity of digital heritage.

    Digital Heritage from a Socio-Technical Systems Perspective: Integrated Case Analysis and Framework Development · 2025 · DOI

  • The lack of metadata fields shared across the whole collection in the NMKK database.

    Digitization of Museum Objects and the Semantic Gap · 2025 · DOI

  • The mere availability of data does not automatically translate into a real capacity to activate it culturally. The emergence of large digital ecosystems has made it clear that missing data are a significant challenge in digital cultural heritage. There is a need to understand how Advanced Design can transform incompleteness into a generative space for knowledge and innovation.

    Designing with Absence: Advanced Design Approaches to Missing Data in Digital Cultural Heritage · 2025 · DOI

  • The gap is not explicitly stated, but it can be inferred as the need for effective analysis of historical culinary practices using large language models. The lack of dedicated analytical tools for in-depth analysis of historical texts.

    Mapping Keywords in Granny Josie’s Culinary Heritage Using Large Language Models · 2025 · DOI

  • The need for a comprehensive and interoperable resource for digital Latin philology. The lack of a unified environment for reading, searching, and analysing Latin texts.

    Corpus Corporum · 2026 · DOI

  • The conversion process of digital versions of older print materials is famously error-prone, adding a lot of noise to the finished digital objects. The absence of a gold standard for evaluating the accuracy of NLP tasks. The need for more efficient and accurate methods for text analysis in digital humanities.

    Bridging the gap between digital humanities and natural language processing: Text cleaning and NLP accuracy evaluation of a sample of 20th century Romanian novels · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests the potential for further improvements in OCR technology and NLP models. The study recommends redoing the OCR of the entire DMRN archive using an open-source OCR engine such as Tesseract. The study highlights the need for more research on the application of NLP techniques to large-scale digital archives.

    Bridging the gap between digital humanities and natural language processing: Text cleaning and NLP accuracy evaluation of a sample of 20th century Romanian novels · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should explore the implications of AI-native intellectual biography for various fields. Future research should develop new methodologies for analyzing the archive's provenance event.

    AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception — Provenance, Heteronymy, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap is related to the lack of understanding of the archive's provenance event.

    AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception — Provenance, Heteronymy, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author · 2026 · DOI

  • The need for guidelines for digital publishing in the context of the Corpus Vitrearum. The lack of control over published data on social media platforms.

    Recommendations on Digital Publishing in the International Corpus Vitrearum · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a recoverable hyperlink grammar for field-based web discovery. The limitation of traditional hyperlinks in optimizing directness and immediacy.

    Brown Hyperlinks / Burylinks: A Recoverable Hyperlink Grammar for Field-Based Web Discovery · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the need to consider the complete process when designing a DR.

    Design Questions All the Way Down · 2026 · DOI

  • Hermeneutics underpins humanities and Information Systems (IS) research methodology, yet it remains understudied as a form of skilled labor across many professional domains, especially in the context of generative AI (GenAI).

    The Tension Of Time And Attention: Generative Ai And Historians’ Hermeneutic Work · 2026

  • The lack of a detailed inventory of Albert Szenci Molnár's library makes it challenging to reconstruct his legacy. The study requires a comprehensive overview of previous research on Molnár's library.

    Szenci Molnár Albert hagyatéka · 2026 · DOI

  • The study faced challenges in terms of the limited accuracy of transcription, particularly for more demanding handwritten texts. The study faced challenges in terms of the potential for errors and over-interpretations in the outputs of the generative language models.

    The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Digitisation of Printed and Manuscript Documents and Its Contribution to Historical and Archival Education · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should explore the use of generative language models in more advanced forms of analysis, such as semantic analysis and entity recognition. Future research should investigate the potential of these models in supporting archival and historical work with handwritten texts from different languages and time periods.

    The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Digitisation of Printed and Manuscript Documents and Its Contribution to Historical and Archival Education · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to recenter writing in conversations about AI. The impact of GenAI on writing in academic contexts is not well understood.

    Introduction: The Present and Future(s) of Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence/Le Présent et le(s) Futur(s) de la Rédaction à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle · 2026 · DOI

  • Studies has traditionally focused on literary texts as primary objects of analysis, neglecting the institutional and performative structures of literary production.

    Modeling Institutional Literary Networks: A Relational Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Theatre Archives · 2026 · DOI

  • The development of new corpora to investigate other areas of language. The integration of AI features into other areas of language learning and teaching.

    Opportunities and Synergies for Structured Corpora, AI and TESOL: An Interview with Professor Mark Davies · 2026 · DOI

  • Understanding digitisation as a culturally embedded process can help bridge disciplinary perspectives and improve future museum data infrastructures - Improving metadata standardisation and thoughtful…

    Digitization of Museum Objects and the Semantic Gap · 2025 · DOI

  • Tuttavia, al fine di garantire una più agevole importazione dei file XML/TEI all’interno di portali come MDL, risulta necessario definire un protocollo condiviso – o uno standard specifico – che regoli in modo uniforme l’inclusione di elementi complessi quali gli stemmi, i collegamenti ipertestuali e i riferimenti interni ad autori, opere e manoscritti.

    Mirabile Digital Library (MDL) · 2026 · DOI

  • Introducing AI for specific tasks such as automatic translations and semantic indexing. Developing a free and optional log-in for habitual users. Improving the existing PoS determination and lemmatisation with AI tools.

    Corpus Corporum · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the concept of entity resolution and composition layer. The paper identifies a gap in the use of AI-assisted execution in book writing.

    The Parable of Mary Lee: Book Work Plan — From Dossier to ISBN (Master Specification v1.1) · 2026 · DOI

  • Update internal process DDH data management space Coordination with French trusted sources ❏ 115 journals excluded ❏ 473 journals validated ❏ 340 managed by OpenEdition ❏ 100+ not managed by OpenEdition AEGIS-OA Advancing Diamond Open Access Publishing…

    Improving the Visibility of Diamond Open Access Publications: Services and Use Cases · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The lack of a unified environment for reading, searching, and analysing Latin texts (“Corpus Corporum”, 2026); (2) Future research should explore the implications of AI-native intellectual biography for various fields (“AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception —…”, 2026); (3) The lack of control over published data on social media platforms (“Recommendations on Digital Publishing in the International Corpus Vitrearum”, 2026); (4) The lack of a recoverable hyperlink grammar for field-based web discovery (“Brown Hyperlinks / Burylinks: A Recoverable Hyperlink Grammar for Field-Based…”, 2026); (5) The lack of a detailed inventory of Albert Szenci Molnár's library makes it challenging to reconstruct his legacy (“Szenci Molnár Albert hagyatéka”, 2026). 261 gap statements have been mined from Digital Humanities and Scholarship papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,624 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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