We’re delighted to announce details of the first webinar of the Autumn/Winter 2026 series of Friday Frontiers. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Emma Clarke and Paula Kelly to present on two case studies from the #DiscussAI project. 

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 talk, along with the registration details is below:

Friday 2nd October, 10.30 WEST / 11.30 CEST / 12.30 EEST

Title: Case Studies from #DiscussAI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence in Ireland
Speakers: Dr Emma Clarke (Dublin City University) & Paula Kelly (Technical University of Dublin)
Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSQOL_dAQWCujoTv3jqy7A 

Description

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in everyday life, decisions about its development and deployment are often made without meaningful input from the people it affects. Ireland’s national AI strategy, AI – Here for Good, places strong emphasis on citizen involvement. However, public understanding of AI and its societal impact lags behind the pace of technological advances. Many communities, particularly those traditionally underserved by science and technology engagement, remain excluded from the conversation, therefore, AI literacy is essential to enhance inclusion. 

The Research Ireland ADAPT Centre launched #DiscussAI in September 2021, establishing a national conversation on AI that equips people across Ireland with the knowledge and skills to critically engage with AI-driven systems and make informed choices. Co-creating dialogue is at the heart of #DiscussAI. This session introduces that approach through two case studies, and explores why participatory, co-created dialogue matters for research and practice on the societal impact of AI. 

Case Study 1: Age-Friendly AI 

Age-Friendly AI places older adults at the centre of the conversation on AI. The AI training programme builds on dialogue with older people, ensuring that content reflects their real-life experiences and needs. 

Case Study 2: The Bigger Picture 

An art-science initiative designed to explore public perceptions and misconceptions of AI. Combining public workshops, critical analysis and artist submissions, The Bigger Picture uses creative practice as a route into critical dialogue about AI. 

Speaker Biographies 

Dr Emma Clarke – Age-Friendly AI Co-Lead 

Dr Emma Clarke is the Engaged Research Lead at the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre, based at Dublin City University where she works on ADAPT’s #DiscussAI initiative – a National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence that has engaged over 85,000 citizens in conversations about the societal impact of AI in Ireland since 2021. Emma’s work centres on citizen science, participatory dialogue and multi-stakeholder engagement. She is co-lead of Age-Friendly AI – Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative for Older Adults. Emma has presented her research at international forums including PCST and ECSA. She holds a PhD from the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer. 

Paula Kelly – Age-Friendly AI Lead 

Paula is a lecturer and a member of the tPOT research group in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at TU Dublin. She is the team lead on the Research Ireland funded Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative. Over two years this initiative is fostering a national dialogue on AI with older adults across Ireland, and co-creating and delivering a comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive national AI literacy programme tailored specifically with and for this demographic. Paula is also involved as a volunteer tutor and facilitator in a number of public engagement STEM activities hosted by tPOT and WITU.

How do digital methods shape the ways we understand, preserve and interpret the past? The second issue of Transformations. A DARIAH Journal, dedicated to “The Past”, brings together five articles exploring this question. Following the inaugural issue on workflows, the new issue examines both the possibilities and the challenges of working with historical sources and cultural heritage in a digital world.

As guest editors Agiatis Bernardou and Georgios Artopoulos explain in their introduction, “these contributions suggest that the past is never simply waiting to be retrieved. It must be identified, organised, connected, preserved and interpreted.”

The published articles address topical issues: information extraction from bibliographic data, data migration as a memory preservation process, data feminism in the work with historical newspapers, critical perspectives on historical statistics, the interaction between wikibase and memory institutions collections. Together, they provide novel methodological insights in the spirit of Open Science, making their datasets available for reuse.

This second issue expands the scope of the journal by introducing new submission types. Authors now have the possibility to submit data papers and workflow papers – and so they did in Issue 2. Specific evaluation criteria have been developed for these two genres. The journal’s editorial board has provided guidance to authors in order to facilitate their adoption, and continues to explore avenues that make it possible to foster academic recognition for all actors involved in knowledge production.

The call for papers for the third issue of the journal, on the topic of engagement, is open until December 31, 2026, and a call for papers for a special issue will be launched soon. Stay tuned!

Agiatis Benardou, President of the Board of Directors of DARIAH, delivered a keynote address at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH 2026), held in Venice, Italy, from 7 to 9 September 2026. The conference brought together researchers, practitioners and representatives of Research Infrastructures working across the intersection of digital technologies, the Social Sciences and Humanities, and cultural heritage.

On 8 September, Benardou delivered her keynote, “From User Needs to Knowledge Ecosystems: Designing Human-Centred Infrastructures for Digital Cultural Heritage”. Drawing on her experience across European digital cultural heritage initiatives and Research Infrastructures, she explored how the field is moving from individual digital tools and platforms towards interconnected knowledge ecosystems. Her central argument was that the challenge is no longer simply to build technically sophisticated systems, but to create infrastructures that become meaningfully embedded in the ways researchers and cultural heritage professionals work, collaborate and produce knowledge.

DARIAH and ECHOES, the European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science, provided two important points of reference. Benardou highlighted DARIAH as an example of how Research Infrastructures create durable structures for cooperation, bringing together people, expertise, standards, training, governance and services beyond the lifespan of individual projects. She also drew on current work within ECHOES, which is establishing the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, to show how infrastructure design can move beyond providing access to data and tools towards enabling collaboration between diverse cultural heritage communities.

A key theme was the need to design infrastructure around real practices rather than imagined or generic “users”. Drawing on the ECHOES Collaborative Research Scenarios, on which she works with colleagues from The Cyprus Institute, Benardou discussed the institutional, technical, legal and practical barriers that can make collaboration difficult, particularly for smaller and less well-resourced organisations. She argued for low-friction participation, sustained investment in training and capacity building, and infrastructures that preserve human judgement and accountability as AI becomes increasingly integrated into research and cultural heritage workflows.

Ultimately, the keynote called for a human-centred understanding of digital infrastructure: one in which technological development is evaluated not only by the amount of data, tools or services provided, but by the new forms of research, collaboration and knowledge production that it makes possible. The keynote was very well received and sparked extensive discussion among conference participants, particularly around the relationship between technological innovation, Research Infrastructures, institutional capacity and the human dimensions of digital cultural heritage.

IEEE TCCH Education and Training Award

The conference also marked an important recognition of Benardou’s contribution to the field. During IEEE CH 2026, she received the IEEE TCCH Education and Training Award, an international distinction recognising her contribution to education, training and skills development within European Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

The award was formally presented to Benardou on 8 September in Venice, during IEEE Cyber Humanities 2026, on the same day as her keynote. The distinction recognises work closely connected to themes that have characterised her engagement with DARIAH and the wider European Research Infrastructure landscape: strengthening interdisciplinary skills and capacity, supporting research communities, and placing people and sustainable knowledge exchange at the centre of digital transformation.

Together, the keynote and the award highlighted the importance of human-centred approaches to the future of digital Research Infrastructures, ensuring that technological innovation is accompanied by the skills, communities and sustainable structures needed to enable meaningful research and collaboration.

What is the SSH Open Marketplace?

The SSH Open Marketplace (SSHOMP) is a discovery portal for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research communities, pooling tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications, and workflows into a single searchable environment. 

But SSHOMP is not just a place to find resources: it is infrastructure you can build on. For national research initiatives, consortia, and projects, it opens up two complementary pathways that can dramatically reduce the effort required to achieve European-scale visibility — or to launch a full catalogue of digital humanities resources without building one from scratch.

Integration Pathway A: Curate Your Resources in SSHOMP and Make Them Discoverable

The most direct way to engage with SSHOMP is to contribute your own resources. Once your tools, datasets, or services are described in the Marketplace, they become discoverable by researchers across Europe and beyond — not as isolated entries, but as nodes in a rich, interconnected network.

SSHOMP’s data model goes well beyond a simple list of resources. Each entry can be linked to related tools, relevant datasets, supporting training materials, and documented workflows. This means that a researcher arriving at one of your resources immediately finds pathways to the broader ecosystem of methods and materials that surround it — a level of contextualisation that is very difficult to achieve in a standalone national catalogue.

Example: DARIAH.lab Poland

DARIAH.lab Poland — Poland’s national DARIAH infrastructure, based at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre (PSNC) — has contributed a substantial collection of resources to SSHOMP. These are browsable directly at marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/search?f.source=Dariah.lab+Poland, and include tools from the full spectrum of DARIAH.lab’s laboratory infrastructure: from source transcription and annotation services, to data analysis and visualisation tools, to linked open data utilities.

The image below illustrates what this integration looks like in practice: a visualisation of the relations network for a selection of DARIAH.lab Poland entries in SSHOMP. What is visible is not just a list, but a constellation of resources that are explicitly connected to one another — tools that depend on or complement each other, datasets that feed into workflows, services that share underlying components.

Figure 1. The relations network for selected DARIAH.lab Poland resources in SSHOMP, showing how tools, datasets, and services are interconnected within the platform.

What This Means for Other National Nodes

The Polish experience demonstrates that contributing to SSHOMP is not merely an act of visibility — it is an act of integration. Your resources become part of a living, cross-national graph of SSH methods and materials that researchers throughout Europe can explore and build upon. The process is supported by clear documentation and an editorial board that can guide national nodes through the curation process.

Integration Pathway B: Use SSHOMP as the Catalogue for Your Project or Initiative

Not every project has the resources — or the need — to build and maintain a dedicated catalogue infrastructure. SSHOMP offers a second, equally powerful model: use the Marketplace itself as the catalogue that underpins your project’s tools and services offer, without investing in a separate platform.

Rather than setting up a database, building a search interface, maintaining metadata standards, and keeping listings up to date in a silo, a project can instead describe its resources within SSHOMP, apply a consistent keyword tag, and surface that curated collection both on SSHOMP and on its own website — pointing users directly to the Marketplace entries. The result is a project catalogue that benefits from SSHOMP’s infrastructure, editorial support, persistent identifiers, and European discoverability from day one.

Example: ATRIUM

ATRIUM is a four-year Horizon Europe project bringing together four leading European research infrastructures — DARIAH, ARIADNE, CLARIN, and OPERAS — to support digitally-enabled arts and humanities research. Rather than building a standalone tool registry, the project hosts its entire Service and Software Catalogue on the SSH Open Marketplace. All 53 entries — spanning OCR and transcription tools, 3D heritage visualisation, linguistic analysis services, knowledge graph utilities, data repositories, and more — are described as SSHOMP records and tagged with the keyword “ATRIUM catalogue”.

The full collection is searchable at marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/search?f.keyword=ATRIUM+catalogue, and ATRIUM’s own website at atrium-research.eu/services directs users straight to this view. The project’s tools and services are accessible, discoverable, and cross-referenced within the broader European SSH resource network — with no separate catalogue infrastructure to build or sustain.

ATRIUM also used SSHOMP as the venue for developing its research workflows. In collaboration with the SSHOMP Editorial Team, the project co-organised a workshop at the 2024 DARIAH Annual Event where participants worked directly in the Marketplace to create and enhance entries, and began developing the first ATRIUM workflows — structured, reusable descriptions of research processes that link tools, datasets, and methods together.

Going Further: Double Visibility Through the SSHOMP API

For projects or institutions that want to go a step further — displaying SSHOMP resources directly inside their own portal, or keeping a local catalogue automatically in sync with the Marketplace — SSHOMP exposes a fully documented, open REST API at marketplace-api.sshopencloud.eu/api. Responses are in standard JSON format, the API is openly documented with full Swagger specifications, and a dedicated Python library with accompanying Jupyter notebooks makes it straightforward to explore, curate, and re-use SSHOMP data programmatically.

Double visibility, one source of truth. The most immediate benefit of API-based integration is that every resource you maintain becomes visible in two places at once: on SSHOMP, where it is discoverable by the whole European SSH research community and is part of the broader network of connected tools, datasets, and workflows; and on your own website, where you can present it in your own design, language, and editorial framing. You describe each resource once and it appears in both contexts, always in sync, with no duplicated effort and no risk of drift between a local and a European version. The German GKFI catalogue uses this approach, and so do other initiatives. 

Curated data, not raw content. What you harvest through the API is not unvetted material: it is data that has already passed through the SSHOMP editorial process, structured according to consistent metadata standards, enriched with relationships to other resources, and reviewed by the community. This means a local portal powered by the API automatically inherits the quality assurance work of the SSHOMP editorial board — a significant benefit for smaller projects or institutions that do not have dedicated curation capacity of their own.

Interoperable by design. Because SSHOMP is part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and is co-governed by DARIAH, CLARIN, and CESSDA, data surfaced via the API is aligned with shared standards across the SSH cluster and beyond. Resources retrieved this way carry persistent identifiers, standardised vocabularies, and well-defined data types — which means they are not only displayable on your own site, but also reusable in downstream pipelines, citable in publications, and interoperable with other EOSC services and tools. Your local catalogue becomes, in effect, a trusted node in a much larger European research data graph.

The API also supports writing, not just reading — meaning that integration can be fully bidirectional. Updates or additions made in a local system can flow back to SSHOMP, ensuring that the European-level record stays current without any double data entry. For projects that already maintain structured information about their tools and services, this makes the step into SSHOMP considerably lighter.

Get in Touch

Whether you are a national DARIAH node looking to give your community’s resources European visibility, or a project that wants to launch a curated catalogue without building one from scratch, there is a tested, well-documented pathway available. The experiences of DARIAH.lab Poland and ATRIUM offer concrete models you can learn from and adapt.

DARIAH is actively supporting institutions and projects in exploring both integration models, and we are happy to advise based on existing solutions that are already working in practice.

Please reach out to Michael Kurzmeier at DARIAH. We can walk you through the options, connect you with the SSHOMP editorial team, and help you identify the pathway that best fits your context.

Further Resources

• SSH Open Marketplace: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu
• DARIAH.lab Poland in SSHOMP: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/search?f.source=Dariah.lab+Poland
• ATRIUM catalogue in SSHOMP: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/search?f.keyword=ATRIUM+catalogue
• ATRIUM project: atrium-research.eu
• GKFI Angebotskatalog: https://forschungsinfrastrukturen.de/angebotskatalog
• SSHOMP API documentation: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/about/api-documentation
• Guidelines for adding DARIAH National Resources to SSHOMP: zenodo.org/records/15720022
• Description of Workshop describing Curation of Resources in SSHOMP (German):
  https://textplus.hypotheses.org/19647

A two-day international workshop funded by DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) bringing together UK and European-based scholars to explore how linguistically diverse and cross-lingual data can be better supported, shared and reused in the digital humanities.

In brief

Dates: 3 and 4 September 2026

Venue: Room 3.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Organisers: DARIAH-EU, Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) and the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

About the event

We are delighted to invite you to international workshop on Research Data Management Tools and Strategies for Language Diversity funded by DARIAH-EU.

This workshop will bring together researchers, research managers, librarians, archivists and data management officers working in the UK and across several DARIAH member countries in Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Ireland). The aim is to think collectively about how linguistically diverse and cross-lingual data can be better supported, shared and reused in the digital humanities, while also addressing questions of knowledge equity, linguistic inclusiveness and minority representation.

For more information about participants, workshop themes and the programme please visit the event website.

View the full programme and workshop info on the SRUK website

How to attend

This event is open to all and free to attend. Places are limited, so if you are interested in attending the event, please register via the workshop website. If you have any questions, you can email the SRUK/CERU Language Policy Committee.

Find all information on the event website.

EMBL brings together international partners to professionalise research data management across domains and sectors

By Isabela Paredes Cisneros and Lisa Vollmar 

Research data is only as valuable as the expertise and culture that support it. Yet across Europe, the professionals most responsible for enabling high-quality, reusable research data – data stewards – often work without standardised career paths, consistent training, or formal recognition. A new Horizon Europe project is designed to change that.

STARDAST – STewardship And Recognition for DAta Science Talent – is a four-year, €8 million Coordination and Support Action coordinated by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and set to begin in September 2026. 

Bringing together 19 partner institutions across nine countries, including research infrastructures, universities, and companies, STARDAST combines expertise from life sciences, particle physics, linguistics, translational medicine, biodiversity, digital humanities, and industry R&D within a single, coordinated framework. 

EMBL will coordinate the project and lead its management and cascading grants operations, drawing on the expertise of its Data Science Centre, a dedicated hub for managing, analysing, and sharing research data at scale. The centre supports researchers at EMBL through providing data management infrastructure, consulting, training, and community-building in data science.

“Through STARDAST, we aim to bring visibility, structure, and career perspectives to the data stewardship profession, while fostering a broader conversation about how scientific support roles are recognised and valued across disciplines and sectors,” said Lisanna Paladin, Community and Internal Support Lead at EMBL’s Data Science Centre.

“In biology, discovery increasingly depends on connecting data across experiments, technologies, institutions, and biological fields,” said Jan Korbel, EMBL’s Head of Data Science and interim Head of EMBL Heidelberg. “This can only work if we invest in the people who ensure that research data are managed responsibly, described consistently and openly, and made AI-ready. STARDAST recognises data stewardship as an essential foundation for the future of data-driven biology.” 

With its innovative approach, STARDAST places data stewards at the centre of the project: as co-creators of curricula, infrastructure tools, and policy frameworks. A central objective of STARDAST is to strengthen career development by establishing clear, structured pathways from entry-level roles to advanced positions for data stewards across sectors. At the same time, it equips researchers at all career stages with the open science competencies required in modern research.

“A strong data culture and upskilling are key elements of our company’s Data & AI strategy,” said Boris Adryan, Director of Data & AI Academy for Merck, one of the industry partners of the project. “We’re hoping to bring the experience of the past five years to STARDAST, focusing on essential skills for data stewards in academia and industry.”

The project will develop a coordinated cross-disciplinary curriculum for data steward training, support competence centres across Europe, and embed open science and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles throughout the research workforce. Beyond the consortium itself, STARDAST’s reach extends through the membership networks of EMBL, CERN, Euro-BioImaging, CLARIN, and DARIAH to more than 25 European countries and over 70 countries globally.

The project pursues three long-term impacts: to establish sustainable pan-European infrastructure for FAIR and open science data practices, to improve research quality through standardised data stewardship, and to drive a cultural shift in which data curation and open science are formally recognised and rewarded within research careers.

STARDAST is funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101268773. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency.

This post is republished from the EMBL website.

Caption for the banner image: Some of the many European partners that are taking data stewardship to the next level (from right to left): representatives from EMBL (Nina Habermann and Isabela Paredes Cisneros), Merck (Boris Adryan), University of Freiburg (Anika Erxleben), and University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives(Kim Clugston). Credit: Joseph Franciosa/EMBL

DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article WG DHwiki: Collaborative approaches to sustainable, community‑driven Open Knowledge Infrastructures. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.

Written by members of the DHwiki WG, this article presents the aims and first activities of this WG since its launch in November 2024.

In a short time, DHwiki has grown from a shared interest into a collaborative group with a clear purpose. What started as a process of getting to know one another’s work and experience is gradually becoming a more stable effort to support a wider community of practice. By building connections between research, GLAM, and Wikimedia communities, the Working Group aims to strengthen the role of open and collaborative LOD infrastructures in Digital Humanities.

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.

Czech-Swiss Cooperation of CLARIN and DARIAH Infrastructures

We are pleased to announce the launch of Enhancing Library Collections for Digital Humanities and Language Research (ELC-DHLR), a new Czech–Swiss collaborative project that brings together leading research infrastructures and libraries to improve access to and reuse of cultural and linguistic collections for research.

The framework

Funded in the framework of the Second Swiss Contribution for Bilateral relations Switzerland–Czech Republic, ELC-DHLR aims to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Czech and Swiss research infrastructures while advancing the integration of library collections into the European research ecosystem. The project contributes to the broader objective of reinforcing international collaboration in research infrastructures and increasing the visibility, accessibility, and interoperability of digital collections for the arts, humanities, and language sciences.

ELC-DHLR is jointly coordinated by LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ and Swiss partners from CLARIN-CH and DARIAH-CH, creating a unique bridge between the two complementary European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs). By combining CLARIN’s expertise in language resources and technologies with DARIAH’s extensive experience in digital humanities methods, services, and communities, the project demonstrates how collaboration across research infrastructures can generate new opportunities for researchers working with digital cultural heritage and language data.

Goal and planned outputs

ELC-DHLR’s main objective is to substantially increase the usability of digitised library collections for research and unlock their potential for advanced interdisciplinary work. The project aims to enhance data both technically and conceptually, provide user-friendly access, and strengthen cooperation between research organisations and libraries in Czechia and Switzerland.

Over the next three years, the project will develop:

• open-source software for AI-assisted discovery of library collections;
• enriched and research-ready digital collections and corpora;
• interoperable data processing workflows;
• semantic search and AI-based research services;
• integration with Swiss and Czech corpus platforms;
• scientific publications documenting the methods;
• training and community-building activities that strengthen collaboration between CLARIN, DARIAH, Swiss and Czech research communities.

Project partners

LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ
Charles University, Prague
Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Moravian Library
National Library of the Czech Republic

CLARIN-CH
CLARIN-CH Coordination Office, University of Zürich
Linguistic Research Infrastructure, University of Zürich

DARIAH-CH
DARIAH-CH Coordination Office, University of Basel
Swiss Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH
ETH Library

ELC-DHLR is an excellent example of how international partnerships can strengthen both national and European research ecosystems. By bringing together the expertise of CLARIN and DARIAH, the project will contribute to a more connected infrastructure landscape where cultural heritage collections and language resources become increasingly accessible for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and innovation.

More information about the project is available on the ELC-DHLR website: https://elc-dhlr.lib.cas.cz/

This post is republished from the DARIAH-CH website.

September 2026 – May 2027 | Online | Fridays | 1:30-3:00PM

DARIAH-CH and its national partners are pleased to announce the DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027, a new programme of online training sessions designed to introduce researchers to the methods, tools, and good practices that are shaping digital scholarship in the arts and humanities.

The series is aimed primarily at early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, master’s students, and anyone new to Digital Humanities who wishes to develop practical digital research skills. No prior technical knowledge is required.

Over eleven sessions, participants will explore fundamental topics in arts and digital humanities. The programme combines conceptual foundations with practical demonstrations and hands-on examples, enabling participants to understand both the underlying principles and their application to humanities research.

Each 90-minute online session consists of:

• 40 minutes of theoretical introduction,
• 30 minutes of practical demonstrations or hands-on activities,
• 20 minutes of questions and discussion.

To support continued learning, all sessions will be accompanied by Open Educational Resources (OER) that participants can consult after the training.

Register

To take part in the series, register here and you’ll receive all the Zoom connection details by email.

Calendar

Date	Title and Content description	Session led by
4 September 2026	Arts and Digital Humanities, DARIAH-CH & Responsible Practice | Discover the foundations of Digital Humanities, DARIAH-CH, essential tools and resources, ethical research practices, and emerging trends shaping Digital Humanities, including AI and open science.	DARIAH-CH and DaSCH
25 September 2026	Research Data Management (RDM) for Arts & Humanities | Learn to organise, document, preserve and share humanities research data using FAIR principles while addressing metadata, copyright, provenance, repositories and ethical considerations.	DaSCH
16 October 2026	Introduction to AI for the Arts and Humanities | Gain a practical introduction to AI concepts, methods and applications in humanities research, while critically evaluating bias, uncertainty, limitations and appropriate research uses.	Digital Humanities Center, University of Bern
6 November 2026	Large Language Models & Image Generation | Explore how generative AI models work, their applications in humanities research, associated risks, and good practices for responsible, critical and ethical academic use.	ETH Library
27 November 2026	Using APIs for Digital Editions | Learn how APIs enable access to digital collections, retrieve structured data in JSON and XML, and integrate external resources into humanities research workflows.	USI
8 January 2027	Digital Methods for Cultural Heritage | Discover computational methods for analysing cultural heritage collections, including text mining, GIS, network analysis and annotation, through practical examples from archives, libraries and museums.	ETH Library
22 January 2027	Open Publishing, Copyright & Collaborative Knowledge Ecosystems | Explore open publishing, copyright and Creative Commons licences while discovering Wikimedia platforms and collaborative knowledge ecosystems that increase research visibility, reuse and public engagement.	SUPSI and DARIAH DHwiki WG
12 February 2027	3D Data Guidelines & Best Practices | Learn best practices for creating, documenting, preserving and sharing 3D research data using recognised standards that support quality, interoperability, sustainability and FAIR principles.	ETH Library
5 March 2027	Scientific photography and photogrammetry | Discover the fundamentals of photogrammetry, digital twins, laser scanning, and gigapixel imaging, while exploring 3D acquisition workflows, research applications, and limitations for cultural heritage documentation.	Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL
16 April 2027	Wikidata and Wikibase: Differences, similarities and usage | Learn the differences between Wikidata and Wikibase, explore linked open data principles, and discover how both platforms support research, knowledge organisation and interoperability.	SUPSI
14 May 2027	Working with born-digital sources in the humanities | Explore born-digital sources, distinguish them from digitised materials, understand preservation challenges, and examine infrastructures, ethics and case studies from Swiss archives and libraries.	Digital Humanities Center, University of Bern

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Thanks to the collaborative effort of DARIAH-CH partners!

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

Post Status	100% Fixed-term contract until 31.12.2027 (incl. a 3 months probation period)
Location	Remote in Germany or France, with the option of office space in Berlin.
Closing date for applications	12.06.2026
Contract start	01.09.2026
Salary level	Will be determined based on the candidate’s geographical location and professional experience. In Germany for example, the level 12/13 of the “Tarifvertrag für den Öffentlichen Dienst der Länder 2025” would be used as reference.

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

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.

We are seeking individuals with a proven track record in training, both developing training materials and delivering workshops/courses for peers, in person and online, within research-focussed environments.

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 also develop and implement protocols and practices for the evaluation of training materials.

The position holder will support DARIAH’s training contributions in current and future European projects in which DARIAH is involved (for example but 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 and implement 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.
• At least three years experience in instructional design to develop and deliver face to face and digital training.
• The ability to work with subject specialists and translate complex material into clear learning activities and resources.
• Proven experience delivering face-to-face training in peer-to-peer learning environments.
• Experience working in international, project-based environments.
• Experience working within EU-funded projects.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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. 

Terms and conditions 

• The appointment runs for two years (maximum until 31 December 2028) with an initial three-month probation period. 
• The position is full-time. 
• We offer a salary starting at €45,000 gross per year. Actual offer amounts are tailored to each candidate and depend on your location, background, and level of experience.
• The closing date for applications is 9 October 2026. 
• The appointment will start as soon as possible. 
• DARIAH ERIC is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the employment policies, procedures and practices which do not discriminate on grounds such as gender, marital status, family status, age, disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of the traveling community. 
• DARIAH ERIC is committed to a gender sensitive work environment and is committed to reducing the barriers caused due to discrimination and gender bias.

Application procedure 

If you are interested in applying for the position, please complete the recruitment form, send your CV and a cover letter (no more than one page) by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 9 October 2026. 

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.