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Open research questions in Digital Humanities and Scholarship

248 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,304 Digital Humanities and Scholarship papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The potential absence of public domain books from regular stacks in online collections. The lack of digitization of certain titles despite mass digitization efforts.

    Mass Digitization Leftovers: Digitizing Public Domain Books from the Stacks · 2025 · DOI

  • other universities may want to investigate whether they have a similar percentage of public domain books that are not yet digitized

    Mass Digitization Leftovers: Digitizing Public Domain Books from the Stacks · 2025 · DOI

  • Our findings and methodology may be applicable to other domains, but we have not explored these.

    A Use Case Lens on Digital Cultural Heritage · 2026 · DOI

  • Next integration milestone ChatGPT private/custom MCP connection Not yet established in this conversation; endpoint is ready for client integration.

    CoMMA Research Miner · 2026 · DOI

  • Although it has received consideration in other disciplines, the conceptual issues remain comparatively underexplored in literary studies.

    The question of AI authorship: Literary-theoretical perspectives · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could focus on improving the user experience. Further research could explore the application of the XML-TEI standard to other digital libraries.

    Mirabile Digital Library (MDL) · 2026 · DOI

  • There was a need for a more accessible platform for medieval Latin texts. There was a need to address previous issues with the MDL platform.

    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 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

  • There is a need for a digital glossary dedicated to the Latin lexicon of the Late Antique transition. The existing resources do not provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to the study of the Latin lexicon of this period.

    The LaLaLexiT Digital Glossary: Users’Manual · 2026 · DOI

  • The population of the LaLaLexiT glossary is still evolving. All entries published so far, as well as those forthcoming, are written in Italian. However, the project is open to contributions from any scholar wishing to submit one or more entries based on their research interests and in accordance with the glossary’s criteria and features. In this case, contributions in English, Spanish, French, or German will also be welcome.

    The LaLaLexiT Digital Glossary: Users’Manual · 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 paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on AI-mediated reception. 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

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

    Design Questions All the Way Down · 2026 · DOI

  • The heritage sector has real challenges that need to be addressed. There is a need for improving accessibility, interconnection, and relevance in the heritage sector.

    HAICu's Innovation Labs: Bridging Technology and Heritage through Collaborative Problem-Solving · 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

  • 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 paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the publishing industry in the region.- The study aims to fill this gap by analyzing archival materials.

    Source base for publishing business study in Ternopil in late 19th century and first third of 20th century (based on materials from State Archive of Ternopil Region) · 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

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