DARIAH is seeking a data steward and community manager to be involved in STARDAST, a project funded by the European Commission: “STewardship and Recognition for DAta Science Talent” led by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The aim of this  project is to design and implement a pan-European training ecosystem for data experts. This cross-sectoral programme will support professionals across the full data lifecycle – from stewardship and curation to analysis, AI, ethical and legal implications, and policy integration. 

You will coordinate the research and analysis on data stewardship roles and workforce integration across institutions, focusing on identifying essential skills, responsibilities, and existing competence centers. You will contribute to the creation of a career development framework for data professionals working in the Digital Humanities sector in particular.

Important information

Key Responsibilities

Analysis and process of complex information across institutions & policies

• You will coordinate research and analysis on data stewardship roles and workforce integration across institutions, focusing on identifying essential skills, responsibilities, and existing competence centers. This includes developing a comprehensive understanding of how data stewardship functions within academic and research environments.
• You will conduct a landscape review of open science policies across participating organizations, assessing how policies support or hinder effective data stewardship practices.
• You will lead an institutional readiness assessment to evaluate how prepared organizations are to adopt and integrate data stewardship roles, including identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
  

Implement and pilot professional ecosystems

• You will lead the designing and piloting of new hiring practices to support the integration of data stewards into institutions, testing innovative approaches to recruitment and role definition.
• You will contribute to develop practical guidelines and career pathways for data stewards, helping institutions create sustainable roles and professional development opportunities within their organizations.
• You will contribute to the development of open science and FAIR data practices, including mapping current cross-disciplinary approaches to data sharing and management, and supporting the creation of supportive infrastructure.
• You will analyse the needs assessment and profile mapping to understand the skills, training, and support required for data stewards, ensuring upskilling initiatives are targeted and effective.

Outreach and stakeholder engagement

Finally, you will help capture and share key findings and best practices through accessible formats such as reports, toolkits, and workshops, ensuring knowledge is widely disseminated to the broader research community.

Required Qualifications

• Experience (+3 years) with research data , its frameworks and standards: FAIR principles, Data Management Plan tools and guidelines, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) competency model;
• Relevant higher education degree or equivalent qualification;
• Experience with research in Arts and Humanities;
• Experience within research support and/or open science;
• Experience with handling qualitative and quantitative data, especially when:
  • surveying and interviewing stakeholders, evaluating and benchmarking results;
  • performing content and comparative analysis;
  • reviewing literature and policy.
• Knowledge of best practices and methods related to research data management and data science; 
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team;
• Fluency in English (spoken & written, C1 level is highly recommended)

What we offer 

• The ability to work at the centre of research infrastructure in Europe and make a difference in the development of data services and IT systems key to researchers  and heritage professionals working in the digital arts and humanities 
• An opportunity to work on a European projects in a friendly and collegial experienced  coordination team 
• Collaborate with a broad network of research infrastructure professionals across all scientific disciplines 
• Be part of an experienced EU project coordination team
• Opportunities to develop one’s professional skills

Who we are 

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.

DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners. 

Application procedure 

If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment-data-steward@dariah.eu by 12.06.2026 at the latest.

For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.

The third call for contributions to Transformations invites researchers, educators, practitioners, and cultural heritage professionals to reflect on the theme of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society. 

Guest editors of this volume are Susan Schreibman and Edward Pinot Gray, co-chairs of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 Programme Committee.

In keeping with the DARIAH Annual Event theme, we invite submissions that  explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens. We welcome contributions that provide the theoretical grounding and case studies for research projects that engage public audiences, addressing questions such as: who is digital scholarship for, what are its social and public benefits, and how can research in the digital arts, humanities, and culture  foster new forms of dialogue within the public sphere, including both formal and informal education. 

We are particularly interested in reflections on how new technologies can create and mediate new forms of connection: between research or memory institutions and society; through collaborative and participatory engagement; or by creating alternative spaces in which people can interact and co-construct knowledge through  hybrid networks of physical and technology-mediated encounters. We also invite contributions that focus on pedagogy and teaching practices that provide opportunities for students to engage in real-world projects through collaborative and  participatory approaches.  

Whether through research papers, data or workflow papers, we seek contributions that  explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, while nurturing generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts and humanities.

We welcome contributions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

• Infrastructures of engagement: designing open, inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable platforms
• New models of collaboration across academia, memory institutions, and society
• Pedagogies of engagement and public-facing (digital) humanities education
• Mapping engagement: Evaluating and evidencing public value and impact in digital research
• Co-creation, citizen science, public and participatory humanities, and community-driven, engaged scholarship
• Creative and artistic practices as forms of public engagement and dialogue
• The use of participatory practices by digital archives and memory institutions, and how these participatory practices help shape collective memory and identity
• Ethical and sustainable approaches to participatory digital-enabled  research
• Implementing CARE: Designing digital infrastructures that foster trust, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Intercultural and transnational perspectives on public digital humanities, examining the practices of participatory and public digital humanities across the globe.

When submitting your contribution, you must choose the right volume (vol. 3 ‘Infrastructures of Engagement’) and the appropriate section (research articles, data papers, workflows) corresponding to the type of submission.

Timeline

• Call opens: May 29, 2026
• Submission Deadline: All contributions must be submitted to Transformations by 30th December 2026, Midnight CET. (No extension deadline will be given)
• Notification of acceptance: expected around March, 2027
• Publication: July 2027

Contact

transformations@episciences.org 

Editorial Board of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal

Toma Tasovac, Editor-in-Chief

Françoise Gouzi, Managing Editor

Anne Baillot, Managing Editor

Megan Black, Managing Editor

Eliza Papaki, Outreach and Communications Officer

DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resources Showcase

Where: DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Rome, Italy

When: Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm

Open to all upon registration!

The DARIAH-EU Community Engagement Working Group and the DARIAH-Campus Editorial Board invite participants to join us during the DARIAH Annual Event in Rome for a DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase.

This event will take place on Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm in the Aula Bisconti in the main conference venue.

Please register your intention to attend by completing this form by Friday 22nd May:

This event is targeted at early career researchers, practitioners and those who are currently engaged in training provision as educators (e.g. lecturers, academics, trainers) as well as postgraduate students and lifelong learners.

The session will showcase DARIAH-Campus resources through demonstrations from leading educators, using examples from their own teaching practices. Following the demonstrations a moderated discussion will afford the DARIAH-Campus team the opportunity to gain a deeper insight from the community in how they engage with Open Education Resources (OERs) such as those available on DARIAH-Campus.  Potential topics of discussion will include:

• What formats work best?
• How are training materials identified?
• What sources are trusted for recommendations in OERs?

Participants in the workshop will leave with a deeper understanding of using DARIAH-Campus as a resource for teaching, training and learning and will also have played an active role in informing and shaping the direction of DARIAH-Campus and the development of training materials in current and future projects (e.g. ATRIUM, ARTEMIS, ECHOES).

If you have any questions please contact Vicky Garnett, DARIAH’s Training and Education Officer and Joan Murphy, Community Engagement WG co-chair.

DARIAH ERIC is seeking a EU Projects & Policy Officer to assist with the day-to-day management of both internal DARIAH projects as well as externally grant-funded ones.

This successful candidate will also play a key role in developing policy, sustainability, and governance documentation, particularly for EU-funded projects in which DARIAH partners. The position holder will support DARIAH’s growth as a European Infrastructure and contribute on its behalf to European projects such as ECHOES, CHIRON and ECHOLOT.

The successful candidate will work in collaborative, international project environments, playing a central role in  managing DARIAH projects as well as designing high-quality policy and governance documentation that promotes and sustains network collaboration across a wide European partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage several EU-funded projects on which DARIAH partners: collaborate with both internal and external partners to fulfill grant objectives, while keeping DARIAH staff on track in terms of time and budget management. 
• On  behalf of DARIAH lead Work Packages in the areas of policy, sustainability, and governance documentation, coordinating with other project partners for the successful completion  of deliverables. 
• Contribute to Work Packages on behalf of DARIAH to author documentation, white papers, etc. to fulfill project objectives.
• Advise and assist colleagues in DARIAH to develop and revise existing internal documentation in the areas of policy, governance, and sustainability.
• Collaborate with European partners to deliver project goals and to develop network synergies.
• Contribute to dissemination, communication, and reporting activities in line with EU funding requirements.
• Support the development of new grant and funding proposals.
• Other duties within the scope of the contracted projects’ implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in management, business administration, information systems, data science, humanities or social sciences.
• At least two years experience in project management and/or participation in the implementation of European Commission (EC) Framework Programmes, and/or two years of policy, governance, regulatory, compliance, and/or sustainability research and documentation, particularly within research organisations.
• Experience working in international, project-based environments.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Willingness to travel when required. 
• An adaptable team player.

What we offer 

• The ability to work at the centre of research infrastructure in Europe and make a difference in the development of data services and IT systems key to researchers  and heritage professionals working in the digital arts and humanities.
• An opportunity to work on a European projects in a friendly and collegial experienced  coordination team. 
• Collaborate with a broad network of researchers, GLAM professionals, and IT specialists,  as well as European and National officials throughout Europe.
• Be part of an experienced EU project coordination team.
• Opportunities to develop one’s professional skills.

Who we are 

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.

DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners. 

Application procedure 

If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 29.05.2026 at the latest.

For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.

DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article #dariahTeach is Expanding its Remit: Teaching and Learning across the Digital Arts and Humanities. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.

Written by Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture – Comparative Literature, Aarhus University and Monika Barget, Assistant Professor in the History Department, Maastricht University and co-chairs of the #dariahTeach Working Group (WG), this article presents the origins of the #dariahTeach WG, its development since its launch in 2017 and its current plans for expansion.

#dariahTeach has been a DARIAH WG since 2017 with a focus on the #dariahTeach project and platform, which hosts some 30 Open Educational Resources. The guiding principle behind the #dariahTeach platform is to create reusable teaching materials that could easily be integrated into university courses, or could be used by ‘lone learners’, meaning individuals who do not have access to digital humanities expertise. #dariahTeach has since diversified its content beyond the technical to provide courses in areas such as the integration of social justice into digital scholarship and taking a design thinking approach to project design.

The #dariahTeach WG is now expanding its focus beyond the #dariahTeach platform to embrace the wide range of teaching being undertaken by the DARIAH community, from traditional face-to-face teaching, to the development of open educational resources, to workshops, summer schools, and hackathons. The chairs are inviting anyone interested to join them in Rome for the WG meeting organised during the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 to discuss topics such as Research software and coding skills, Accessibility and inclusivity of DH teaching beyond higher education, Artificial intelligence as an opportunity and challenge in DH teaching.

This article is part of DARIAH’s latest outreach campaign, DARIAH Spotlight, which makes research within the DARIAH network more visible. This monthly series will showcase digital scholarship in the humanities, from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network. Follow this campaign for more Spotlight articles.

The ECHOLOT consortium – “European Cultural Heritage Optimised Linked Open Tools” – is proud to announce the launch of this innovative project, funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) under the powers delegated by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme.

ECHOLOT revolutionizes the provision and reuse of high-quality, interoperable Cultural Heritage data with AI-powered enrichment, integrating seamlessly in the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) and empowering the research and creative sectors. Bringing together major initiatives, such as Europeana and the Wikimedia movement, alongside key EU-infrastructure projects, including ECHOES, EOSC, and the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (DS4CH), ECHOLOT contributes innovative, easy-to-use and accessible technical solutions and collaboration models.

The activities and goals of ECHOLOT are based on four main pillars:

• Integration and interoperability: Development of the software and interoperability models to be seamlessly integrated as a service in the Cultural Heritage Cloud infrastructure.
• Workflows & Enrichment: Development of hybrid curation workflows based on AI-enhanced processing and human input.
• Innovation & Sustainability: Development of innovative collaboration and business models driving the necessary long-term social and organisational changes.
• Collaboration & Communities: Validation and engagement with diverse CHIs across Europe through a series of five distinct case studies, in addition to capacity building activities and training modules.

Five case studies to test and validate ECHOLOT’s technical system and collaboration model

ECHOLOT is validated through five real-world case studies, each of which addresses a different cultural heritage-related challenge and demonstrates the project’s impact across the sector.

1. Basque Cultural Heritage Data: Establishing the first comprehensive collection of entity identifiers relevant in Basque cultural heritage and beyond. Enabling the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically
rich, interoperable cultural data

2. European Literary Bibliography: Transformation and enrichment of multilingual European literary bibliographic data through the use of relevant Linked Open Data resources.

3. Connecting Media Art Collections: Collaborative harmonisation and enrichment of diverse media art collections, connecting previously dispersed artworks and artists.

4. Flemish Fine Arts and Performing Arts Collections: Making the publication of museum data to Wikimedia Commons and Europeana more efficient through a single, integrated workflow, with a particular focus on the Flemish context.

5. Publishing and Round-Tripping GLAM data: Wikimedia Sweden, together with several Swedish GLAM partners, will test the enrichment and multi-output publishing modules of ECHOLOT, especially focusing on workflows for reintegrating (round-tripping) enriched data back into the source databases.

Although the ECHOLOT consortium has only been operational for three months, it has already held two meetings, demonstrating its enthusiasm for shaping the future of cultural heritage data in Europe. The kick-off meeting, which took place online in January, provided an opportunity to review all the work packages and draw up the project’s roadmap for its 36-month duration. The consortium’s second meeting was held in person in Bilbao, Spain, in early March. In addition to addressing all outstanding issues to enable effective work to begin, the meeting was conceived as a requirements gathering workshop co-organised and hosted by the University of the Basque Country. Focusing on gathering input from the case study third-party participants, the workshop included user-centered design activities such as co-designing user personas, user stories and journey maps.

ECHOLOT is a multidisciplinary project bringing together 15 partners from 12 countries who are experts in arts and culture, media studies, information and library science, knowledge engineering, computer science, design and prototyping, management and communication.

DARIAH participates in the project together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW). While OEAW will contribute to the requirements engineering and system design, DARIAH will oversee the evaluation phase ahead of the final release of the ECHOLOT software. 

Learn more about ECHOLOT:

• LinkedIn
• Mastodon
• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Transformations: A DARIAH Journal invites proposals for a special issue. Alongside our annual regular thematic issue, Transformations: A DARIAH Journal publishes special issues that open up additional conversations in the arts and humanities (see our online Procedures for Special Issues).

We hereby invite proposals that:

• make a clear scholarly case for a focused theme
• build an engaged community of authors and readers
• can be delivered within realistic editorial and review capacity

Special issues follow the same editorial standards and external peer review as regular articles. Guest editors may submit articles, but such submissions will be handled independently and may not exceed 25% of the final special issue. 

All special issues:

• are overseen by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board
• receive the same peer review and editorial scrutiny as regular articles
• are published with clear labelling and transparent editorial roles

Multilingual special issues

Transformations actively welcomes proposals for multilingual special issues. They are subject to the same editorial oversight, peer-review standards, and publication ethics as all other contributions to Transformations.

Special issues may be:

• fully in English
• fully in a language other than English

Proposals for multilingual issues should:

• explain the scholarly rationale for the chosen language(s)
• identify the intended scholarly community
• demonstrate the availability of qualified reviewers in the relevant language(s)

Who can apply

Proposals are welcome from individuals or teams, from any institution or country, including interdisciplinary and cross-sector editorial teams.

How to apply

Please fill-in this template form and submit it (in PDF) to transformations@episciences.org with the subject line: Special Issue Proposal.

Timeline

• Call opens: April 2026
• Deadline for special issue applications: 30 June 2026
• Information about the decision: 15 July 2026 
• Call for papers / invitations / preparation of contributions: 15 July  2026 – May 2027
• Peer review: June – Sept 2027
• Copy editing & Formatting:  Oct  – Nov 2027
• Target publication: December 2027

DARIAH-ERIC is seeking a (Digital) Learning Designer to enhance its expertise in training, digital pedagogy and capacity building. 

The successful candidate will support the further development of DARIAH-Campus, DARIAH’s online platform for open educational resources, and advise the DARIAH team on best practices in the design, delivery and evaluation of both online and face-to-face training activities. 

The position holder will support DARIAH’s training contributions in current and future European projects in which DARIAH is involved (for example and not limited to ATRIUM, OSCARS, ECHOLOT, HABILITER). They will work in collaborative, international project environments, playing a central role in designing high-quality learning experiences that support user engagement, skills development, and network collaboration across a wide European partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop online learning resources, particularly for DARIAH-Campus.
• Contribute to the pedagogical design and continuous improvement of DARIAH’s training portfolio.
• Plan, design and support the delivery of face-to-face training activities such as workshops and summer schools.
• Develop evaluation and feedback mechanisms to assess training impact and effectiveness.
• Support user engagement, coaching, and capacity-building activities across DARIAH.
• Engage with European partners to support collaboration and exchange of educational practices.
• Support communication and knowledge-sharing activities, in line with EU programme expectations.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field such as Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Learning Sciences, Digital Humanities, Information Science or a related discipline.
• Experience in digital learning or instructional design in higher education or research contexts.
• Experience designing and delivering online learning materials.
• Experience delivering face-to-face training.
• Experience working in international, project-based environments.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within EU-funded projects.
• Familiarity with research infrastructures and/or digital humanities.
• Experience working with learning management systems. 
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks and quality assessment mechanisms for training activities.

Who we are 

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.

DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners. 

Application procedure 

If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 8 May 2026 at the latest. 

For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.

The second annual TNA Showcase + Q&A session is taking place on 14th April at 11:00 CET.

TNA participants, prospective applicants, and the wider ATRIUM community are all invited to the session to learn about project outcomes, the different placements available, and to bring any questions they might have about the scheme. 

We are excited to feature previous TNA recipients Eric Okoyo (British Institute in Eastern Africa), Martha Mosha (University of Cologne), Daniel Kansaon (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Dr Nicky Garland (Archaeology Data Service).

Recordings of the session will be made available on the ATRIUM YouTube channel. Previous recordings of the 2025 Showcase are available here.

* This post is republished from the ATRIUM website.

DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities.

Objectives

• Promote methodological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration;
• Support digital skills development for researchers, early stage researchers, and cultural heritage professionals;
• Encourage inclusive and geographically diverse participation;
• Foster knowledge sharing within the DAH community.

Information on Funding

The total allocated to this call is €10,000. Typical grant range: €2,000 – €5,000 per event. Funding may support instructor travel, participant bursaries, teaching materials, technical infrastructure, and organisational expenses related to the event. However, proposals that privilege participant bursaries (travel, accommodation, and daily expenses) will be considered more highly. 

Matched funding involving other funding sources is possible.

Eligible Activities

• Summer schools or training schools
• Intensive workshops
• Hackathons with a strong training component 
• Method-focused training events

Events should normally last between 3–10 days and include hands-on digital arts and humanities training.

Eligibility

Applications may be submitted by universities, research institutions, cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums), or a consortium of partner organisations. The lead institution must be part of a DARIAH national consortium in a DARIAH member state, with the event taking place at the lead institution. For a list of eligible institutions please see the members and partners page on the DARIAH website. Alternatively, non-consortium  institutions in DARIAH member states can be lead institutions, but with the written consent of the DARIAH National Representative of their country. Inquiries about the scheme can be made to funding@dariah.eu.

Selection Criteria

Applications will be assessed based on training quality, relevance to the DARIAH impact, inclusivity and accessibility, and organisational feasibility.

Acknowledgement

DARIAH’s support should be acknowledged in event communications and on any other materials.

Reporting

Grant recipients must submit a short report after the event no later than four weeks after the end of the event, summarizing participation, outcomes, and links to training materials where available. Successful applicants will receive 60% of the funding upon signature of a grant agreement between DARIAH and the lead institution, and 40% upon submission of the report. Reports that are submitted after four weeks of the event may not receive the remainder of the funding.

Deadline

Applications must be submitted by 16 April 2026 at 17:00 CEST*.

* Should the total funding pool remain unexhausted after the initial selection round, the call will move to a rolling application process:
From April 16, 2026 17:00 CEST onwards, applications will be reviewed and granted strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications must still meet all eligibility and quality requirements to be successful.This extension will remain active only until the remaining funds are fully allocated.

Join us for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026—an opportunity to collaborate and innovate in an interdisciplinary setting. The application period is open (until 14 April 2026) – apply now to be part of this year’s cohort.

People talk about hackathons, but there is only one Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon. #DHH26 is the 11th iteration of our international summer school (aimed primarily at master’s students and beyond), which brings together diverse participants from Finland and across Europe. 

In the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon, you will experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.  For everyone, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to address them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. 

Participation in #DHH26 is free for all accepted participants. This year, we also expect to sponsor a limited number of participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (decisions on this to be made after the application period). 

The event is organised by FIN-CLARIAH—particularly its DARIAH-FI component—in collaboration with HELDIG and the Department of Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki, as well as Aalto University. We are supported by CLARIN-EU, HIIT, the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History, and Marie Curie Training Networks CASCADE & MECANO. 5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students, and it also functions as a staff training event for leadership and collaboration across disciplinary borders.

For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH25, #DHH24, #DHH23,#DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.

Themes

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following five themes:

• Parliaments Beyond Borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
• Crimes and Punishments: “True Crime” in Britain during the 19th century
• The Language of Profits: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Corporate and Legal Rhetoric
• Large-Scale Patterns of Knowledge Production Through the Lens of 200 Million Books Across 600 Years
• Decoding the System of Finnic Oral Poetry

See further information on the #DHH26 themes.

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H26

17.3.2026 This year’s themes are unveiled, and the application period starts
14.4.2026 Application period ends
27.4.2026 Registration period ends for #DHH26 for accepted participants
4.5. & 11.5.2026 Two #DHH26 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
20.–29.5.2026 #DHH26 hackathon in Helsinki

Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.

Venue

Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A (see on mapOpens in a new tab)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 20.–29.5.2026. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Mondays 4.5. and 11.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions.

Public presentations of the projects:
29.5.2026 13:00–16:00, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l5

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

• Mikko TolonenOpens in a new tab, professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki
• Eetu MäkeläOpens in a new tab, professor in human sciences – computing interaction at the University of Helsinki
• Jukka SuomelaOpens in a new tab, associate professor in distributed algorithms, logic and complexityOpens in a new tab at Aalto University
• Jouni TuominenOpens in a new tab, university researcher at HSSHOpens in a new tab, University of Helsinki

You can contact the organisers via email: dhh-hackathon@helsinki.fi.

DARIAH ERIC is inviting applications for two new members to join the DARIAH Joint Research Committee (JRC). The JRC plays a central role in shaping and connecting DARIAH’s research, technical development, and innovation activities, facilitating collaboration between DARIAH Working Groups and its executive and governing bodies.

As part of the JRC, members contribute to the strategic direction of DARIAH, helping to develop policies and initiatives that support the future of digital research in the arts and humanities. Alongside supporting the organisation of the DARIAH Annual Event, JRC members engage with an international network of scholars and professionals dedicated to advancing collaboration, innovation, and research excellence across Europe and beyond.

DARIAH’s Joint Research Committee (JRC):

• is one of the two operational bodies of DARIAH ERIC. It contributes to the alignment and strategic vision of DARIAH’s scientific and technical activities across the DARIAH network and to advise the Board of Directors on these matters.  
• is composed of between six and ten experts from DARIAH Member or Observer countries. Their expertise represents scientific and/or technical fields relevant for DARIAH.

Members of the JRC engage in strategic tasks, are dedicated to community engagement, and hold operational responsibilities. More concretely, a JRC member:

• Provides  strategic advice to the BOD throughout the year, including participation in the annual DARIAH Strategy  Days. 
• Bridges community technical infrastructure developments and strategic initiatives. 
• Contributes to DARIAH white papers and strategic task forces.
• Works closely together with the DARIAH Working Groups; monitors their activities,  sanctions new ones, and represents them in the broader DARIAH governance.
• Acts as core of the Programme Committee of the DARIAH Annual Event.
• Acts as Review Board for other DARIAH calls (e.g., Working group funding call).

The JRC meets about every 6 weeks, and at least once in a year face to face. 

Being a JRC member is an excellent way to make your personal expertise available for the wider network of research infrastructures in the humanities and to shape their future. It is also an opportunity to gain experiences in research management at a European level. 

Conditions of the position

We solicit applications from experts from DARIAH Partner Institutions in DARIAH Member and Observer countries. 

JRC members are selected and appointed by the Board of Directors as individuals based on their expertise and disciplinary focus. No formal legal framework between DARIAH and the DARIAH Partner Institution employing the JRC member is foreseen. However, in the case a member requires formal institutional recognition to secure their time dedicated to the JRC, DARIAH may provide a letter of appointment or a bilateral agreement tailored to the specific needs of the JRC member.

Please note that this appointment is not a paid position. However, DARIAH covers occasional travel expenses, such as to  DARIAH Strategy Days and the Annual Event). The time and commitment is eligible as an official contribution of your country to DARIAH (so-called ‘in-kind’ contributions). So, please contact your DARIAH National Coordinator (see list) while preparing your application.

The appointment is usually for 3 years and can be renewed once. 

Application and Selection Procedure

The application should include a motivation letter (max one page) in which you elaborate why you wish to join the JRC, what expertise you bring to this body including how you envision contributing to DARIAH in this role. Please also add a short CV to this application (no more than four pages) and send it as an email to jrc@dariah.eu by June 26, 2026.

The decision process on this position is as follows: The Joint Research Committee reviews the applications within four weeks and may reach out to the corresponding National Coordinator. The recommendation of the JRC will be shared with the Board of Directors, which approve and appoint the new JRC member.

Please contact jrc@dariah.eu if you have further questions. 

DARIAH is seeking an experienced research software engineer to support the technical integration of ATRIUM, a project funded by the European Commission. 

ATRIUM (“Advancing FronTier Research in the Arts and Humanities”) aims to exploit and strengthen complementarities between leading European infrastructures in order to provide vastly improved access to state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media, building on a shared understanding and interoperability principles established in the SSHOC cluster project and other previous collaborations. The role would support ATRIUM’s work plan from a technical perspective, including multiple interrelated lines of action across data and metadata harmonisation, workflows, and service integration.

Principal duties:

• Testing cloud infrastructures such as EOSC and Galaxy, mainly by deploying ATRIUM workflows there;
• Integrating existing catalogues, especially the SSH Open Marketplace, with OpenAIRE as a prerequisite for broader EOSC integration;
• Develop tooling (scripts, dashboards) to explore, compare and visualise catalogue data across the European A&H landscape;  
• Enhancing metadata and vocabulary harmonisation across ATRIUM catalogues to improve semantic interoperability;
• Contributing to the technical integration of services, catalogues and workflows across DARIAH;
• Supporting the development, testing and maintenance of interoperability solutions, APIs and data pipelines that facilitate the exchange and reuse of data and services. 

The ideal candidate:

• Holds a higher education degree in computer science, information science, digital humanities or equivalent qualification;
• Has experience working on technical integration, preferably in the context of research infrastructures or large-scale digital platforms;
• Has experience with cloud infrastructures and workflow execution platforms, like Galaxy and/or EOSC; 
• Has experience with metadata modeling, vocabulary harmonisation and semantic interoperability;
• Has experience developing scripts, APIs, or data-processing pipelines to support integration across distributed systems; 
• Has the ability to work independently as well as part of a team;
• Is fluent in English (spoken & written); knowledge of German and/or another European language would be an asset. 

Who we are

DARIAH – the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities – is a European research infrastructure whose mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.

DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.

Application procedure

This position is now closed.

For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.

DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article Saints, Scrolls, XML: Rediscovering Bulgaria’s Church Mural Texts. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.

Written by Dimitar Iliev, Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek and Latin at the Department of Classics of the “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia, Bulgaria, National Coordinator for Bulgaria in DARIAH-EU and Co-coordinator of the South-East European DARIAH Regional Hub, this article presents the research and technical implementation of the DH project ORASIS which aims to thorough document, publish (in many cases, for the first time in English), and study the (post-)Byzantine inscriptions accompanying church murals in today’s Bulgaria.

This project allowed the first application of an EpiDoc-compliant XML template and front-end to post-Byzantine religious art, as EpiDoc is typically used for monuments of other types and periods. So far, around 30 inscriptions have been digitised, out of the initial set of 230, revealing curious cases of text reuse and reinterpretation, reflecting the shifting boundaries of complex identities so characteristic of South-East Europe during the Ottoman period. The inherent interactivity of digital publication will facilitate the study of the different connections between text and image patterns, many of which are far from obvious, and will thus contribute to our better understanding of the past.

This article is part of DARIAH’s latest outreach campaign, DARIAH Spotlight, which makes research within the DARIAH network more visible. This monthly series will showcase digital scholarship in the humanities, from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network. Follow this campaign for more Spotlight articles.

Following years of participation in DARIAH with Cooperating Partnerships, Slovakia joined DARIAH ERIC as a full member in February 2026.

“The Board of Directors warmly welcomes Slovakia as a full member of DARIAH ERIC” said Dr. Agiatis Benardou, President of the DARIAH Board of Directors. “This milestone reflects years of dedication from the Slovak consortium and strong national support. DARIAH-SK brings valuable expertise in digital research collections, linguistic resources, and Open Science, strengthening both Central European cooperation and the wider DARIAH network. We look forward to close collaboration and to Slovakia’s active contribution to the European Research Area.”

The DARIAH-SK infrastructure

The DARIAH-SK consortium is led by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences and is supported by the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic. It is a distributed research infrastructure composed of a network of geographically dispersed and coordinated domestic institutions. These institutions offer a wide range of digital and analog services to the scientific community and the general public. 

The consortium consists of the following partners:

• Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (IESA SAS) – National Coordinating Institution
• Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics Slovak Academy of Sciences (ĽŠIL SAS)
• Institute of Archaeology Slovak Academy of Sciences (IA SAS)
• Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (CL SAS)
• Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI)
• Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT)
• Off grid lab (OGL)

“It’s been a long journey to get Slovakia into DARIAH ERIC, and we’re thrilled to finally be here,” said Andrej Gogora, National Coordinator of DARIAH-SK. “A huge thanks goes to the Slovak Ministry of Education and the entire DARIAH-EU team for backing this vision. Now that the door is open, my focus shifts to ensuring our community takes full advantage of it. We are ready to turn this membership into real-world collaborations and make a meaningful contribution to the European research landscape.”

National priorities

The strengths of DARIAH-SK are defined by the specific expertise of its partners, with a focus on areas such as thematic research collections, open-source repository systems for presenting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and corpus databases and other linguistic resources. Other significant strengths include the popularization of Open Science Policy and the ethical evaluation of modern technologies. The consortium’s activities also leverage significant human capital, with dozens of researchers, technical staff, and students engaged in research, digitization, and documentation. 

“Slovakia’s membership in DARIAH ERIC represents a significant milestone for our research and innovation ecosystem”, said Simona Foltinová, National representative of DARIAH ERIC on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth. “Our ministry views this step as a strategic investment in strengthening international cooperation, expanding access to advanced digital research infrastructures and supporting the active participation of Slovak institutions within the European Research Area.”

As a nascent platform, DARIAH-SK is currently in a preparatory phase, focusing on community coordination, strategic development, and securing financial resources to fulfill its mid-term priorities. DARIAH-SK is an open platform, willing to accept new thematically and professionally relevant domestic partners.

By joining DARIAH ERIC, DARIAH-SK aims to strengthen its collaboration, particularly with partners from Central Europe and the surrounding regions and to revitalize the activities of the DARIAH Central European Hub, with the participation of Czech (LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ), Austrian (CLARIAH-AT), Polish (DARIAH-PL), and Hungarian (Eötvös Loránd University) DH initiatives.

Furthermore, DARIAH-SK is interested in establishing closer collaborations with selected university departments in Slovakia to accelerate the creation and implementation of DH subjects in domestic higher education programs. The expertise of DARIAH-EU, notably on the Training and Education strategic pillar, will provide significant support for this endeavor.

The ARTEMIS Summer School 2026 is a two-and-a-half-day in-person training and networking programme dedicated to Reactive Heritage Digital Twins (RHDT) and their application to cultural heritage conservation, restoration and valorisation.

The Summer School is organised within the framework of the ARTEMIS – Applying Reactive Twins to Enhance Monument Information Systems project, funded by the European Union.

• Location: Hof University, Hof (Germany)
• Dates: 16 (afternoon) – 17-18 June 2026
• Number of participants: maximum 20

What to expect?

The Summer School is conceived as a practice-oriented and collaborative learning environment. It aims to strengthen participants’ capacity to design, implement and critically assess Reactive Heritage Digital Twin approaches within institutional, professional and research contexts.

Participants will engage in:

• Keynotes and expert-led sessions on RHDT concepts and workflows
• Lectures on interoperability, semantic modelling, IoT/IoCT integration and simulation services
• Hands-on workshops working in interdisciplinary teams

What will you gain?

• A clear understanding of the workflow from 3D documentation to simulation and RHDT
• Insight into interoperability and data ecosystems for heritage
• Practical experience in defining scenarios and KPIs for digital heritage applications
• Opportunities to connect with professionals across Europe

Who should apply?

The Summer School welcomes professionals and researchers from:

• Cultural heritage management and conservation
• Digital humanities and heritage research
• 3D documentation and modelling
• Data infrastructures and interoperability
• IoT/IoCT, simulation and AR/VR

Participation is limited to 20 on-site participants to ensure interactive exchange.

Successful applicants will receive accommodation for four nights (15-19 June 2026) and travel reimbursement up to €200 upon submission of valid receipts. Participation in the Summer School is free of charge.

Further details are available in the Call for Applications:

To apply please fill out the Application Form:

Key Dates

• Opening of the Call: 19.02.2026
• Application Deadline: 19.03.2026
• Notification of Results: 10.04.2026
• Confirmation Deadline for Selected Participants: 20.04.2026

*This post is republished from the ARTEMIS website.

On 5 March 2026, the CLARIN & DARIAH Spring Conference will take place at UL Sapere Aude Hall (Kalpaka Boulevard 4), bringing together researchers, language technology experts, and everyone interested in digital humanities. This conference is a strategically important event that connects national consortia of two leading international research infrastructures in the humanities – CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH-EU – to promote collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of digital solutions in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

The conference program includes experience stories about the operation of the DARIAH and CLARIN infrastructures in Latvia and Europe, highlighting their practical significance in research and interdisciplinary cooperation. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about specific projects, examples, and solutions; digital tools, as well as the use of data and digital resources in the humanities and social sciences, will be demonstrated. The conference will conclude with a discussion addressing the importance of digital infrastructures for the development of the humanities, the challenges involved in building them, and the needs of researchers.

This year marks 10 years since Latvia joined CLARIN ERIC, making a sustained contribution to improving access to language resources, developing digital tools, and fostering international integration in the research environment. Inguna Skadiņa, Head of CLARIN-LV, Professor at the University of Latvia, and Leading Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, notes:

“Latvian language and cultural life in the digital environment are important to each and every one of us. Digital infrastructures make it possible to preserve research results in the long term and promote the availability of language and cultural data for research, education, and all interested users.”

Meanwhile, Latvia is still on its way toward joining DARIAH-EU – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. Emphasizing the need for Latvia to obtain full DARIAH-EU membership status, Sanita Reinsone, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia, says:

“Over the past few years, our digital humanities community has drawn closer to DARIAH-EU, and we would like to thank the Ministry of Education and Science for supporting our efforts in strengthening this cooperation. This experience has highlighted how important national consortia and collaboration are for the development of digital humanities. The spring conference, which will become an annual event, provides an excellent platform to meet, learn about the latest developments in digital humanities in Latvia, and discover what our colleagues are working on.”

Registration for the conference is open until March 3: https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/notikumi/clarin-dariah-pavasara-konference2026

The conference is organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia, and the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, with support from the project “University of Latvia and Institutes in the European Research Area – Excellence, Activity, Mobility, Capacity” (No. 1.1.1.5/3/25/I/011).

* This post is republished from the Digital Humanities in Latvia website.

Interoperable, collaborative, digital: about the data space

The common European data space for cultural heritage is a flagship initiative of the European Commission. It enables the open and trustworthy sharing of cultural heritage data across Europe through innovative technical infrastructure, a rich suite of tools, standards and frameworks and a vibrant and collaborative community.

Led by the Europeana Initiative, the data space empowers cultural heritage institutions and European Union Member States to embrace and drive digital transformation. As one of the 14 interoperable common European data spaces funded through the DIGITAL Europe Programme, it is central to Europe’s ambition of building a thriving, data-driven society.

A new home for the data space

If you work in, with or around cultural heritage, the data space’s new website is for you!

Building on its previous online presence, the website offers a gateway to explore the rich data offer, products, frameworks, tools, activities, events and projects, as well as the vibrant community and committed network of partners that bring the data space for cultural heritage to life. It also provides access to a suite of data space products – ranging from the Europeana Academy and training platform to the Statistics Dashboard and Europeana.eu.

The homepage gives you an overview of what the data space is, what it offers and how you can get involved. It also offers you quick access to products like Europeana.eu and the Europeana APIs, so you start using data in the data space immediately, and to the Europeana Network Association, so that you can join its community of professionals today.

The about the data space page offers a deeper dive into the work of the data space, and tells you more about its partners, key facts and figures and impact.

The explore the data space page spotlights the projects, training, tools and events the data space offers, as well as the latest news from across the ecosystem.

The explore the collections page provides direct links to the data in the data space, made available through Europeana.eu or the aggregators who support cultural heritage institutions across Europe to share their data.

A multilingual experience

We are delighted that, using the automated translation service of the European Commission, the website is now available in the 24 official languages of the European Union. We hope that this will mean that even more people across Europe – and the world – can discover and make use of all the data space has to offer.

Follow the developments

As the data space grows, we will continue to develop and enrich the website, so stay tuned for important updates through news posts and the Europeana LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts. We also encourage you to share this news with your networks and colleagues so that they can discover and benefit from the data space.

* This post is republished from the common European data space for cultural heritage website. DARIAH ERIC is a project partner in the Deployment of a common European data space for cultural heritage project (DS4CH).

Applications are currently open until March 9th 2026 for the ATRIUM Summer School 2026: From Maps to Data and Data to Maps: Exploring Spatial Histories, taking place in Athens, Greece, from June 29th-July 2nd.

The summer school is organized by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences as part of the Horizon Europe project ATRIUM, with the cooperation of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton and the Athena Research Centre, and will take place at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece. Instructors will include members of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Athens University of Economics and Business, the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University, the Princeton University Library, and the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU).

This summer school is designed for scholars and professionals interested in exploring digital humanities methods for mapping and spatial visualization. Mapping in the digital humanities provides new perspectives on sources, enables analysis in a spatial context, and offers visual representations of arguments and narratives. Participants will be introduced to key topics, including spatial data collection, geocoding, georeferencing, map annotation, data wrangling, and different types of maps, platforms, and hosting services.

The school is open to scholars from all disciplines, regardless of technical background. Experience with mapping, GIS methods, tools, and concepts is welcome but not required. This summer school will be of particular interest to those in History, Archaeology, Urban Studies, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Public Humanities, and Photography. Knowledge of Greek is not required.

To apply, visit the Athens University of Economics & Business website or click the link below.

Deadline: 9th March 2026

* This post is republished from the ATRIUM website.