The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills.

Click here to see the flyer for the events. | Save the dates and register here!

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

The Marketplace highlights and showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the SSH research data life cycle.

Training Series Learning objectives 

1. Understand Open Science, FAIR and CARE principles in practice
   Participants will be able to explain the Open Science paradigm and the FAIR and CARE principles, and assess their implications for responsible research data management across the full data lifecycle in the arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
2. Navigate and critically use the SSH Open Marketplace
   Participants will be able to confidently navigate the SSH Open Marketplace to discover, evaluate, and select relevant tools, services, datasets, workflows, and training materials for their research needs.
3. Integrate digital resources into research workflows
   Participants will be able to incorporate SSH Open Marketplace resources into discipline-specific research workflows, enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and efficiency in arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
4. Contribute to and curate resources
   Participants will be able to contribute their own communities’ high-quality resources to the SSH Open Marketplace by applying editorial guidelines, metadata standards, and best practices for documentation, interoperability, and reuse, as well as reuse Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
5. Apply domain-specific standards, resources and research practices
   Participants will be able to document, share, and reuse domain-specific research workflows, data, and tools within arts and humanities (DARIAH), social sciences (CESSDA), language sciences (CLARIN), cultural heritage contexts, thereby fostering interoperability, FAIR compliance, and sustainable knowledge exchange within national and European research infrastructures
6. Leverage the SSH Open Marketplace for community-specific applications
   Participants will be able to design and implement customized application scenarios by utilizing the SSH Open Marketplace to create, curate, and disseminate tailored resource lists or complex catalogs that meet the specific needs and standards of their respective research communities.

Overview of sessions and learning objectives per session

Training session	Learning objectives
20 February: FAIR, CARE & Open Science Principles	1. Explain the core principles of Open Research and their relevance for SSH research practices. 2. Distinguish between FAIR and CARE principles and understand their complementary roles in data governance. 3. Identify key FAIR-compliant research infrastructures relevant to SSH research. 4. Assess the implications of Open Science requirements for data management planning and project design. 5. Apply FAIR and CARE principles to a concrete research use case or project scenario.
20 March: Introduction to SSH Open Marketplace	1. Describe the purpose, scope, and added value of the SSH Open Marketplace for SSH research. 2. Navigate the SSH Open Marketplace interface to locate resources (tools, services, datasets, training materials, and workflows). 3. Use search and filtering functions to identify relevant resources for a specific research question. 4. Understand how the Marketplace connects community use-cases to European SSH research infrastructures. 5. Select appropriate resources from the Marketplace for early-stage or exploratory research tasks.
17 April: Making the most of the SSH Open Marketplace	1. Explore and differentiate advanced resource types such as workflows. 2. Integrate Marketplace resources into existing research workflows. 3. Evaluate the quality, relevance, and reuse potential of Marketplace entries using metadata and relations. 4. Enrich existing Marketplace records by adding metadata, links, and contextual information. 5. (Re)use Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
15 May: Contributing to the SSH Open Marketplace	1. Understand the role of community contributions in sustaining the SSH Open Marketplace. 2. Add new tools, datasets, workflows, or training materials to the Marketplace. 3. Apply editorial guidelines and quality standards for resource curation. 4. Use metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies to improve interoperability and discoverability. 5. Critically review and improve existing Marketplace entries to enhance reuse and FAIRness. 6. Understand programmatic access and re-use of marketplace material via API and WordPress plug-ins.
19 June: Thematic Art and Humanities	1. Identify DARIAH services and workflows relevant to arts and humanities research. 2. Understand how arts and humanities research workflows are represented in the SSH Open Marketplace. 3. Apply DARIAH tools and workflows (e.g. ATRIUM) to concrete research scenarios. 4. Integrate heterogeneous data types typical of arts and humanities research into FAIR-aligned workflows. 5. Share and document arts and humanities workflows for reuse within the SSH community.
18 September: Thematic GLAM institutions	1. Understand the specific characteristics and challenges of cultural heritage and GLAM data. 2. Identify relevant tools, standards, and services for GLAM data in the SSH Open Marketplace. 3. Apply FAIR principles to digitised and born-digital cultural heritage data. 4. Integrate GLAM datasets into interdisciplinary SSH research workflows. 5. Promote reuse and sustainability of cultural heritage data through documentation and sharing practices.
16 October: Thematic language data	1. Identify CLARIN services and standards for managing and analysing language data. 2. Understand FAIR and legal/ethical challenges specific to language data (e.g. sensitive or personal data). 3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to discover language resources, tools, and workflows. 4. Integrate CLARIN tools into linguistic research workflows. 5. Prepare and document language datasets for reuse within national and European infrastructures.
20 November: Thematic Social sciences	1. Identify CESSDA services, standards, and tools relevant to social science research. 2. Understand best practices for managing, documenting, and sharing social science data. 3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to locate CESSDA-related datasets and services. 4. Apply FAIR and ethical principles to quantitative and qualitative social science data. 5. Connect social science research workflows to European data services and infrastructures.

FAIR-by-design learning materials

The training series are conceptualised following the FAIR-by-design methodology developed in skills4EOSC (Filiposka et al. 2024), which consists in taking a systematic approach for conceptualizing each training session, e.g. defining the target audience, the learning objectives and the means to achieve them in each training session, publishing the materials and guides about how to use them, among others. FAIR learning materials enable the reuse of the materials both by learners and by trainers.

Target audience

The workshop series is aimed at a broad audience with links to the social sciences and humanities – from beginners to experienced researchers and practitioners who want to contribute their perspectives or benefit from the experiences of others.

More about the SSH Open Marketplace

The SSH Open Marketplace is:

• a discovery portal, to foster serendipity in digital methods
• an aggregator of useful and well curated resources
• a catalogue, contextualising resources
• an entry point in the EOSC for the Social Sciences and Humanities researchers

The SSH Open Marketplace is not:

• a repository. Nothing is hosted in the SSH Open Marketplace. Workflow content type can be hosted, but this is an exception.
• a data catalogue. The goal is not to collect all the SSH datasets, but selected datasets are indexed to support the contextualisation (dataset mentioned in a publication or used in a training material for example).
• a commercial Marketplace. There is nothing to sell in the SSH Open Marketplace. Commercial software/services can be referenced

The DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will take place on May 26th to May 29th in Rome, Italy. Our host for this year’s event is CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. May 26th will be a day for DARIAH internal meetings, followed by the main conference on May 27th to May 29th.

This year’s event will explore the topic of Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.

Venue

Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146 Roma RM
More information on how to reach the venue and a list of suggested hotels will be published on the annual event website soon.

Call for Papers

The theme of DARIAH’s 2026 Annual Event is to explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens, focusing on who our research is for, what are its social and public benefits, and how research can serve to create new dialogues within the public sphere. We seek to foster exchanges on how digital infrastructures, networks and collaborative methods can enable and sustain forms of scholarship that are open, flexible and socially responsive. A way to frame this is through the concept of hybridity: an intermingling of ‘disciplines, technological and cultural practices’ which embed within them the goal of connectivity. This may be connectivity of the university or memory institutions with society through collaborative and joint engagements, or it might be providing alternative spaces for/where people can connect and interact through a hybrid network of physical and technology-mediated encounters to co-construct knowledge.’

Whether through scholarly reflections, concrete case studies, theoretical contributions, or policy considerations, this year we seek to explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, and nurture 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
• Preservation, stewardship, and resilience in digital knowledge infrastructures
• Co-creation, citizen science, public and participatory humanities, and community-driven, engaged scholarship
• Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures
• Creative and artistic practices as forms of public engagement and dialogue
• The role of digital archives and participatory practices in shaping 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
• Research infrastructure as critical Infrastructure – strategies to build resilient infrastructure for engagement and public good
• Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures

Keynote speaker

We are happy to announce that Andreas Fickers, director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3rd Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab, will give a keynote speech on “Multimodality as a means for multivocality? Transmedia storytelling and the challenges of shared authority in digital public humanities” at the DARIAH Annual Event 2026.

Important dates

(Extended) Deadline for Call for Papers: December 22, 2025 January 8, 2026
Registration opens: February 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: Late February, 2026

Visit the Annual Event website for more information on the event.

DARIAH-EU is proud to announce a new initiative titled “DARIAH Beyond Europe”, a curated series of online presentations aimed at highlighting the work of our valued extra-European Cooperating Partners and fostering new synergies within the DARIAH community. The series will take place throughout the academic year 2025-2026, with each session dedicated to a current extra-European Cooperating Partner. 

DARIAH Beyond Europe: Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Thursday, October 30 at 14:00-15:30 CET

Our first session, highlighting our longstanding partnership with the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University, will be held on October 30th from 14:00 Central European Time (9:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time). It will be presented by the Center’s Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Ermolaev and Dr. Bryan Winston, Digital Scholarship expert at the Princeton University Library. The CDH has been a DARIAH Cooperating Partner since January 2021, and since 2023 has been co-organising a series of summer workshops with DARIAH-EU and Athens University of Economics and Business.

Sessions will last 90 minutes, with time for an introduction from DARIAH, a presentation from our Cooperating Partner, followed by discussion and questions. The Cooperating Partner will have the opportunity to introduce their institution and research activities, particularly its work in the field of digital arts and humanities, and lay out how they are already collaborating, or hope to collaborate more deeply, with DARIAH members and stakeholders. Future sessions are in the process of being scheduled and will be announced in the coming weeks. 

The goal of the “DARIAH Beyond Europe” series is to provide a platform for mutual exchange and to enhance the visibility and integration of our non-European collaborators within the broader DARIAH family.

Please register to join our meeting and learn more about our extra-European Partners, and how DARIAH can help build meaningful scientific collaboration across borders!

We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Autumn 2025 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required.  Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus. 

The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:

Friday 3rd October 2025, 10.30am WEST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST

Title: Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal for Spatial and Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data 

Speakers: Sébastien Plutniak, (CNRS, CITERES Lab., Tours, France), Élisa Caron-Laviolette (UMR 8068 TEMPS, Nanterre, France)

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/9USkeTqXRweUn45I_IG1SQ

Abstract

 Incentives and advocacy of open science principles have spread for more than two decades in the social sciences and humanities. Although there have been obvious improvements during this period, the current situation is far from satisfying. In archaeology, for example, despite the long-standing interest in this field for database-systems, recent literature highlights several barriers to the availability of field data: 1) the absence of user-friendly tools, 2) a lack of data management training, 3) limited time to prepare data for publication, and 4) insufficient recognition of data publishing efforts. To address these issues, the “archeoViz” application offers a solution as an open-source stand-alone application for visualising and statistically exploring spatialised archaeological data. It is complemented by the “archeoViz Portal”, an interactive catalogue of “archeoViz” use-cases (https://analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/home). Ultimately, the “archeoViz” ecosystem facilitates data sharing and the visual restitution of archaeological findings, benefiting scientists and the general public alike. 

In this presentation, taking archaeology as a case study, the underlying principles of the “archeoViz” ecosystem will be presented and illustrated, to fuel a more general discussion about the advocacy of open science principles in the social sciences and humanities. 

About the speakers

 Sébastien Plutniak (PhD in sociology, Master in archaeology) is a full-time research scientist at the CITERES lab (Tours, France) and a former member of the French School in Rome. His research revolves around computational methods in the humanities and the social sciences, which he investigates: 1) in a sociohistorical perspective, 2) in a practical way, developing methods and software tools for archaeological research. 

Élisa Caron-Laviolette is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology at the TEMPS lab (Nanterre, France), specialising in the spatial analysis of prehistoric domestic spaces. Her work combines field recording, GIS, and other digital and computational tools to investigate the organisation and use of space in hunter-gatherer campsites, with particular attention to material culture such as stone tools. She also engages with comparative perspectives, including occasional studies of sedentary groups. 

Friday 7th November 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET 

Title: AI-Human Synergy: Enhancing Cultural Knowledge Through Ethical and Inclusive use of Large Language Models (LLMs) 

Speaker: Dr. Jenny Kwok, University of Hong Kong 

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/BvhAgdWHTh2eA0xODMpVnQ 

Abstract

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), offer exciting possibilities for digital humanities research, specifically within computational literary studies. However, integrating these technologies responsibly and inclusively remains a critical challenge. This seminar introduces projects on Irish literature where the implementation of technical methods and discussions, in particular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI workflow, can expand the scope of literary historiography and enhance close reading by introducing a machine-human synergy. 

The talk will detail how RAG can contribute to existing trauma literature theories, reshape literary historiography, and engage in the discussion of digital hermeneutics by interacting with archival information. By examining poetry from Northern Ireland’s Troubles, this session also explores how LLMs enhance rather than replace traditional close reading methods, informed by Josephine Miles’ early quantitative literary critical approaches. 

Last but not least, central to this exploration is the ethical dimension of AI, notably in relation to indigenous languages and cultures. Using examples from Indigenous Gaelic languages, the presentation highlights critical considerations including epistemological diversity in AI training, preserving endangered languages, and respecting data sovereignty. 

About the speaker

Dr. Jenny Kwok is Research Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, where she also serves as the Lab Coordinator of the Arts Technology Lab. Dr. Kwok’s research advances AI workflows for literary analysis, focusing on Irish conflict literature. She develops retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to contextualise the ambiguity of Troubles-era poetry within historical archives, and fine-tunes LLMs for semantic analysis of Irish literary corpuses. Her methods prioritise sociopolitical sensitivity and literary nuances, countering AI’s tendency to flatten contested narratives. 

Her forthcoming work proposes frameworks for democratising AI in the humanities, emphasising explainable AI (XAI) tools. This aligns with her reinterpretation of pre-digital methodologies (e.g., Josephine Miles’ concordance work) as blueprints for hybrid human-machine interpretation. 

Dr. Kwok holds fellowship at the Cambridge Digital Humanities (2025) and is Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford (2026). 

Friday 5th December 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET 

Title: Building corpora of digital early music editions: challenges and opportunities. 

Speakers: Esperanza Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Frans Wiering (Utrecht University), David Lewis (University of Oxford), Anna Plaksin (Paderborn University). 

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/oCEylbMgSPW4yMEF5qezCw 

Abstract 

This presentation shows results from the project CORSICA (Creation of Early Music Corpora). This initiative, growing from the COST action EarlyMuse, is directed by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht), with the participation of researchers from Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. The project sprang from the need to create a large corpus of early music data, coherently encoded and curated data that could be used for computer analysis, facilitating big-data studies. Hence, the research aims to improve the number of available corpora of Renaissance music by devising protocols to create collections of digital editions and, equally important, to facilitate the reuse of a sizable number of editions produced by a myriad of “citizen scientists” without much systematisation. 

About the speakers 

Esperanza Rodríguez is a “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the Music Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received a PhD at The University of Manchester (2010). Since then, she has worked at research institutions in the UK, Portugal, and France. Primarily a cultural musicologist specialising in Renaissance music, she has added an interest in digital musicology, especially in the field of musical analysis (CRIM-Project) and the recreation and dissemination of musical heritage (project ‘Experiencing Historical Soundscapes: the Royal Entries of Emperor Charles V in Iberian Cities’). 

Frans Wiering is an Associate Professor at the Music Information Computing group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands). He received a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1995 for his dissertation “The Language of the Modes” on the richness and variety of modality in 16th- and 17th-century music. The three main areas of his current research are music information retrieval, computational musicology, and interactive technologies, which he combines in his ongoing work on the use and acceptance of new technologies in musicological research. He is the founder of the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, a corpus of online music treatises by Gioseffo Zarlino and his contemporaries (https://tmiweb.science.uu.nl/). He co-chairs the International Musicological Society’s Study Group on Digital Musicology. 

David Lewis is a researcher at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre in Oxford and Lecturer in Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches Digital Humanities. He studied historical musicology at King’s College London and has since worked on a wide range of digital musicology and digital humanities projects, including lute tablatures, medieval and early modern music treatises, arrangements of concert works for domestic settings, and composer work catalogues. 

Anna Plaksin is currently a professor of Digital Methods in Music and Media Editing at KreativInstitut.OWL (Paderborn University). After studying musicology, media education, and philosophy in Mainz (Germany), was awarded her PhD in 2020 by the Technical University of Darmstadt for her dissertation “Models for the computational analysis of mensural music traditions. Empirical text studies in the context of phylogenetic methods”. She worked previously on the research projects “Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music” (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University), “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae” (Max Weber Foundation, Bonn), and “Virtual Research Infrastructure for the Humanities” (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Her research focuses on music encoding, corpus building, the development of software tools for interactive music scores, and the development of analytical methods for musical corpora. 

Call for Papers: 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference
Digital Humanities & Heritage
Theme: Rethinking Heritage across STEM, Humanities, and Arts
Date: 22–24 October 2025
Location: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage, which will take place from 22 to 24 October 2025 in Osijek, Croatia.

Organisers:

Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research / DARIAH-HR,
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek

The aim of the conference is to foster collaboration across science, technology, the humanities, and the arts, and to create space for critical reflection on digital technologies in the context of cultural heritage, research, and artistic practice.

Main thematic areas include:

· STEM + Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Solutions
· Creative Synergies: Art and Technology
· Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
· Cultural and Creative Industries as a Bridge between Science and Art

For more information about the conference and the submission process, please refer to the full Call for Papers.

How to participate?

We invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster (up to 500 words), accompanied by a short biography (up to 200 words) and a photo, no later than 15 June 2025 via the online form: https://forms.gle/Eyt3N3iy5o9ikiXv6

Authors of selected contributions will be invited to publish in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings volume.

Presentations and posters will be delivered on-site only.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2025
Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2025

Submit your abstract and join us in Osijek!

This post is republished from the DARIAH-HR website.

Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025—an exciting chance to collaborate, innovate and push your own boundaries. Apply and be part of this milestone event!

As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year we are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details). Participation in #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants.

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to 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 both, 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 answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH24, #DHH23, #DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.

Themes

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

• Parliaments and legislation
• Holocaust oral history
• Social media
• Early modern newspapers

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H25

13.3.–12.4.2025 Application period
16.4.2025 Applicants informed of acceptance
16.–23.4.2025 Registration to #DHH25 for accepted participants
29.4. & 6.5.2025 Two #DHH25 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
14.–23.5.2025 #DHH25 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 map)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 14.–23.5.2025. 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 Tuesdays 29.4. and 6.5., 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. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, spon­sor­ship of travel and ac­com­mod­a­tion for international participants).

23.5.2025 13:00–16:00, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226
Public presentations of the projects.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l5

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

• Mikko Tolonen, professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki
• Eetu Mäkelä, professor in human sciences – computing interaction at the University of Helsinki
• Jukka Suomela, associate professor in distributed algorithms, logic and complexity at Aalto University
• Jouni Tuominen, university researcher at HSSH, University of Helsinki
   

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

* This post is republished from the #DHH25 web page.

We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Spring/Summer 2025 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required.  Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus. 

The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:

Friday 7th March 2025, 10.30am GMT / 11.30am CET / 12.30pm EET

Title: Performing Arts Studies and Digital Humanities

Speaker: Clarisse Bardiot (Renne 2 University)

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/_eZp3P-zQ3mu64193vyPTQ

Abstract

What connects analysing the creative process of a performance using 20,000 collected digital documents, reconstructing an artist’s career from programme data, and preserving a touring show? The answer lies in digital traces – one of the most significant challenges for the memory of performing arts. This talk will explore the intersection of performing arts studies and digital. Following a state-of-the-art review of research in performing arts and digital humanities (literature, history, and representation analysis), the talk will address current challenges, including data modelling, multimodal analysis, and artificial intelligence. From preserving performances to studying creative processes and building new historiographical methods, the digital transformation reshapes how we understand and document performing arts.

About the speaker

Clarisse Bardiot is a Professor of History of Contemporary Theatre and Digital Humanities at Rennes 2 University. Her research focuses on performing arts digital traces, creative processes analysis, the history and aesthetics of digital performance, the preservation of digital works, and experimental publishing. With a team of developers, she designed digital environments for performing arts preservation and documentation: a software prototype, Rekall, and a web app, MemoRekall. She is the author of Performing Arts and Digital Humanities. From Traces to Data (Wiley / Iste, 2021). In 2023, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a project called “From Stage to Data, the Digital Turn of Contemporary Performing Arts Historiography (STAGE)”.

Friday 11th April, 10.30am IST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST 

Title: Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration

Speakers:  Aliz Horvath (Central European University, Vienna), Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin University Library), David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi). 

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/d5S7eXaBT5y9azoRUJe-Qg 

Abstract

Although research and teaching in most (digital) humanities disciplines are largely multilingual, our institutional infrastructures still often fall short in accommodating our scholarly linguistic and geo-cultural diversity. Having studied the resource gap of knowledge infrastructures and its implications for advancing multilingual digital research, in this talk we argue that there is a specific role to be played by the digital humanist, first in drawing attention to the realities of our larger DH community, and second in lobbying for the design of workflows which assume multilinguality (and multiscriptual and multidirectional characteristics).  A wider conversation is urgently needed amongst global DH practitioners and knowledge infrastructure designers/managers about these issues. Drawing on methods in the UX community, we have developed six data-driven user personas from the DH community (a graduate student, a professor, a librarian, an academic technology specialist, etc.) The talk will address needs and challenges of multilingual DH practitioners, through highlighting their broader relevance to the field, and staging a performative component using fictional (but revelatory) interviews with the personas. This double mode of the talk demonstrates how the theoretical implications can be translated to individual knowledge actors and ultimately lobbies for more linguistic and geocultural diversity.

About the speakers

Alíz Horváth has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago (2019) and currently works as assistant professor of East Asian history and Digital Humanities at Central European University (Vienna, Austria). She is interested in the mechanisms of transnational flows within and beyond East Asia (with a focus on Japan, China, and Korea). She is also an avid advocate of linguistic diversity in digital humanities and has published multiple articles on language inclusivity in DH and on challenges and potential points for collaboration in digital East Asian studies. She recently co-guest edited a special issue on East Asian studies and DH for the International Journal of Digital Humanities with Hilde De Weerdt. Beside regularly presenting her work at major international conferences and serving as peer reviewer for multiple journals in East Asian studies and digital humanities, she is also co-founder and chair of the DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group, member of the Core Editorial Team for the DARIAH sustained project, OpenMethods, member of the editorial board for Asia Pacific Perspectives, a topic editor of the Asian and Asian Diaspora studies section of Reviews in DH, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS, member of the Scientific Committee of the overlay journal Transformations, and former contributor to the pioneering NEH-funded project, New Languages for NLP, organized by Princeton.

Cosima Wagner is a research librarian at Freie Universität Berlin University Library (Germany), with a background in Japanese Studies, History and Library & Information Science. After ten years as faculty member (research fellow, assistant professor) at the institute for Japanese Studies of Goethe-University / Frankfurt she is since 2013 serving as liaison to the East Asian Studies faculty at Freie Universität Berlin with a special focus on Digital Humanities, Research Data Management and Open Science. Her research interests include a Science & Technology Studies approach to knowledge infrastructure management, multilingualism and non-Latin scripts in the digital space, Area Studies librarianship as well as critical algorithm studies. She is co-convenor of the Multilingual DH working group within the DH association of the German-speaking areas (DHd).

David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). His research interests include comparative approaches to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic, digital spatial approaches to corpora, neural methods for handwritten text recognition across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle East where he has lived and researched since 2002. He co-organized two RTL (right to left) conferences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and also co-founded two digital humanities training events in the Middle East, in Beirut in 2015 and in Abu Dhabi in 2020.

Friday 2nd May, 4pm IST / 5pm CEST / 6pm EEST

Title: Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

Speaker: Mark Carrigan (University of Manchester)

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/xbJkSexDQuq_0asz4rMdZg 

Abstract

The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools presents both opportunities and challenges for academia. While these technologies offer powerful capabilities to support scholarship, their thoughtless adoption could undermine the very foundations of academic work. This talk introduces a framework for incorporating generative AI into academic practice in ways that enhance rather than replace human thought. Drawing on extensive practical experience, it demonstrates how conversational agents can serve as intellectual interlocutors rather than mere productivity tools, while examining the broader implications of these developments for the future of universities.

About the Speaker

Dr Mark Carrigan FRSA FHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester where he is programme director for the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education (DTCE) and co-lead of the DTCE Research and Scholarship group. Trained as a philosopher and sociologist, his research aims to bridge fundamental questions of social ontology with practical and policy interventions to support the effective use of emerging technologies within education. He has written or edited eight books, including Social Media for Academics, published by Sage and now in its second edition. His latest book ‘Generative AI for Academics’ was released by Sage in December 2024. He jointly coordinates the Critical Realism Network while being active in the Centre for Social Ontology and a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is a board member for a range of publications, including Civic Sociology, the Journal of Digital Social Research and Globalisation, Societies and Education.

This post is republished from Europeana.

Join the second webinar in the ‘Europeana data reuse in academia and research’ webinar series, focusing on the new DARIAH-Campus training materials. The series is organised by Europeana Research.

November 12, 2024 | 15:00-16:00 CET | Online

As part of the deployment of a common European data space for cultural heritage, DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is engaged in designing courses on digital cultural heritage, tailored to the needs of those who reuse data for academic research, teaching and learning. Hosted on DARIAH-Campus, they result from a balanced blend of expertise, from cultural heritage data academic teaching to computer science and informatics. 

In this webinar, you will get familiar with the first three courses published, which present an innovative approach, guiding the learners to understand the structure of data first for more advanced and conscious information retrieval from Europeana.eu.

The webinar will last approximately one hour and will not be recorded. It is part of the ‘Europeana data reuse in academia and research’ webinar series, organised by Europeana Research. The series is dedicated to the exploration of digital cultural heritage in Higher Education and Research and innovative practices surrounding the reuse of Europeana data.

For any enquiries, please reach out to research@europeana.eu.

Host

Alba Irollo – Europeana Research

Speakers

Sally Chambers, DARIAH Director; Head of Research Infrastructures Services at The British Library in London.

Vicky Dritsou, Senior Researcher at Athena Research Center – Digital Curation Unit; affiliated researcher at DARIAH

Split, Croatia / 9-11 October 2024
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split

Conference organisers: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb; University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Literary Circle Split; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences; ICARUS Croatia.

The DARIAH-HR conference “Digital Humanities and Heritage” endeavours to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among scholars, humanities experts, and professionals specialising in library and information science, archival studies, and museum cultural resource management. By highlighting the interdependent relationship between digital humanities and heritage, this conference aims to promote the adoption of digital technologies as both a methodological approach and a powerful tool within the realms of heritage, humanities, social sciences, and arts.

This event serves as a crucial platform for stakeholders engaged in heritage and its ongoing digital transformation. The DHH2024 conference will unite researchers, practitioners, technology experts, and enthusiasts, fostering collaboration among individuals dedicated to advancing the exploration of our collective cultural heritage through digital humanities. Marking the 10th anniversary of the DARIAH-EU consortium, this year’s conference will place particular emphasis on the evolution of research infrastructures over the past decade. Attendees will engage in discussions covering themes such as technological innovation, ethical considerations, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the broader implications for digital humanities and heritage research. Through critical assessment of advancements, challenges, and future directions within these fields, participants will explore the dynamic landscape shaped by infrastructure development.

Keynote speakers: Sally Chambers (The British Library in London and DARIAH director) and Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb)

Check the conference website for more information.

Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H24 | 15.–24.5.2024

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 will be organised on 15.–24.5.2024 as a CLARIN and DARIAH international summer school. The event will be organised as an in-person hackathon. Participation to #DHH24 is free to all accepted participants. In addition, there will be bursaries for travel and lodging.

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to 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 both, 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 answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH23, #DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.

Themes

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

• Eurovision Song Contest
• Enlightening Illustrations: Analyzing the Role of Images in Enlightenment-Era Luxury Books
• Echoes of the Chambers: Studying Democracy through Parliamentary Speeches
• Cultures of online discourse

(See further information on the #DHH24 themes)

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H24

13.3.–12.4.2024 Application period
16.4.2024 Applicants informed of acceptance
16.–23.4.2024 Registration to #DHH24 for accepted participants
29.4. & 6.5.2024 Two #DHH24 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
15.–24.5.2024 #DHH24 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

Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 (see on map)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 15.–24.5.2024. 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 Wednesdays 29.4. and 6.5., 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. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, spon­sor­ship of travel and ac­com­mod­a­tion for international participants).

24.5.2024 12:30–15:30, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, room Studium 1 (F3020), 3rd floor
Public presentations of the projects.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l70

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

• Mikko Tolonen, professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki
• Eetu Mäkelä, associate professor in human sciences – computing interaction at the University of Helsinki
• Jukka Suomela, associate professor in distributed algorithms, logic and complexity at Aalto University
• Jouni Tuominen, university researcher at HSSH, University of Helsinki

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

BAL-ADRIA is a collaboration between countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, and countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea, thus connecting Northern and Southern Europe.

In a supportive academic environment, we are offering good-sized classes ideal for learning, discussing and getting feedbacks on your ideas and thoughts. The programme is taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and social sciences and is delivered in a form of lectures, seminars and practical workshops.

This year, Bal-Adria is organised for:

• students registered within Linnaeus University
• students of Doctoral program Knowledge society and information transfer, University of Zadar
• other participants (other universities, institutions, organisations,…)

The schedule is as follows:

• First week, 12-16 June – Online, asynchronously (obligatory online participation)

• Second week, 17-21 June – Zadar, Croatia (obligatory in-person participation)
• Last week 22 June – 03 July – Online, asynchronously  (obligatory online participation)

Application opens: 15 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2024

See more information about the summer school and how to apply here.

The Baladria Summer School has been initiated by the iInstitute, Linnaeus University’s iSchool affiliated with the Digital Transformation Knowledge Environment, and is organized in collaboration with the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar and has been taking place since 2019. For earlier Baladria Summer Schools, please visit the former Baladria website.

DARIAH-EU and CLARIN ERIC are delighted to announce the Call for Participation for the first Baltic Digital Humanities Forum, which will take place in the National Library of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia, from 25-26 April 2024.

Digital humanities have become a solid part of the research landscapes in the Baltic countries. Certainly, over the past decades, this transformation has been evident through the vibrant and enthusiastic DH communities, the emergence of new research groups and centers, and the increasing presence of digital humanities courses and programs in higher education. This marks the right time for the digital humanities communities of the three Baltic States to come together, to look at how and in what directions DH has developed in our countries, to reflect on what is relevant today and to project what lies ahead in the near future.

The Baltic DH Forum will take place for two days. The initial day will comprise three sessions featuring invited speakers from the Baltic DH research communities, Ministries, and prominent European digital humanities infrastructures, including CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH-EU. The second day is designed as a networking platform providing an opportunity to present DH projects, showcase developed digital resources and tools, and introduce educational initiatives. Additionally, the afternoon of the second day will host a series of workshops covering successful practices in collaborative projects, fundraising opportunities, and other relevant topics.

Participation in the forum with presentation is free of charge with coffee breaks, lunches, and a dinner provided.

To apply for participation in the Baltic DH Forum “Demonstration and Networking Session” (2nd Day), you are invited to submit an abstract of your presentation (200–250 words) in one of the following categories:

• DH resource or tool
• Project
• Educational initiative, including training materials

Submissions are encouraged in diverse areas within digital humanities, including, but not limited to:

• Computational linguistics and language technologies
• Computational literature studies
• Digital history and archaeology studies
• Digital folklore studies and ethnography
• Digital cultural heritage
• Digital musicology
• DH and endangered cultures and languages
• Digital environmental humanities
• Game studies and digital humanities
• Citizen science and crowdsourcing

Deadline for submitting proposals: 25 January 2024

For more information on the event and to submit your proposals, click here.

DARIAH is delighted to announce that the Call for Participants is officially open for the Annual Event 2024, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 18-21. The Annual Event will be hosted by NOVA FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, at Colégio Almada Negreiros, in the Campolide Campus of NOVA FCSH.

Building on the topic of last year’s Theme Call, the DARIAH Annual Event 2024 will be dedicated to the topic of Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities. We are looking for contributions that explore, assess, analyse and embody the challenges of designing, implementing, documenting and sharing digitally-enabled workflows in the context of arts and humanities research from a technical, methodological, infrastructural and conceptual point of view. 

Questions that we would like to see addressed include but are not limited to: what is the state of the art in research workflows in the digital arts and humanities? What are we doing well, and what should we do better? How can we evaluate the appropriateness of a workflow or assess its efficiency? What makes a workflow innovative? Are there differences in the way we define and implement workflows in different scholarly domains? What is the role of interdisciplinarity: how can collaborations between experts from different disciplines (arts, humanities, technology etc.) lead to innovative perspectives and more comprehensive solutions to specific challenges? What does it mean for a workflow to be ethical,  reproducible and sustainable? What kind of documentation is necessary and at what level of granularity? Are there modelling, standardisation or data management frameworks that make the documentation of workflows easier? What is the role of training and education in preserving and communicating workflows? How do we — both institutionally and conceptually — become better aware of the tacit knowledge and hidden costs which seem to be embedded in most of our day-to-day professional activities? To what extent is the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) affecting our research workflows? What will be the role of responsible, human-centric AI in the future of research workflows? Finally, what should DARIAH do — in addition to treating workflows as a particular content type on the SSH Open Marketplace — to help researchers develop, deploy and disseminate workflows that contribute to the interoperability of data, tools and services?

Important dates:

• Submissions are now open!
• Extended Deadline for submissions: February 11, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: expected by March 25, 2024

Visit the Annual Event Website to read the full Call for Participants, and submit your proposal via ConfTool!