DARIAH is delighted to announce the first call for a Signature Project with the goal of developing an innovative and sustainable core service that strengthens and expands DARIAH’s infrastructure. The successful project should deliver clear value to the arts and humanities and address a current need for the research community across Europe. A no less important goal is to stimulate substantial collaboration across DARIAH member states.
Purpose and Scope
Projects may develop new services from scratch, or extend and/or consolidate existing community services, provided the outputs become part of DARIAH’s core offering. Signature Project funding cannot, however, be used merely for rebranding an existing service without delivering new capabilities.
To ensure long-term sustainability, applicants must define their proposed technology stack, which must align with DARIAH’s recommended technologies (see Technical Requirements below). The DARIAH CTO team will advise and support the project during development, with a focus on interoperability and production-grade deployment.
Types of outputs we seek
New or consolidated research tools that have a demonstrated need in a DARIAH community or communities
Data services or platforms supporting curated or computational workflows that have visibility within a specific discipline or across multiple disciplines and/or across national nodes
Interoperability and integration services that connect tools, datasets, and/or communities
A tool, service, or platform that is relevant to a broad European and potentially global community
Technical Requirements
Signature Projects are expected to demonstrate:
Use of well-established technologies such as Python, TypeScript, React, relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), and triplestores (e.g. QLever), or comparable mature alternatives with strong community support.
Support for established data formats, vocabularies, and conceptual models for both input and output, with particular attention to Linked Open Data (LOD) principles and the use of RDF, where appropriate.
Well-defined programmatic access through stable, documented APIs, using REST and/or GraphQL, to enable reuse by other services, workflows, and research infrastructures.
Federated identity and access management through integration with Authentication and Authorisation (AAI) in line with DARIAH and EOSC practices.
Replicable and portable deployment workflows based on containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker) that allow the service to be reliably installed, operated, and scaled across different cloud or institutional environments.
Who Can Apply
The call is open to national consortium partners in DARIAH Member Countries. Applications should be collaborative and include at least three DARIAH national consortium partners from three DARIAH member countries. The consortium should include a range of institutions which each contribute to the development of the service.
We explicitly encourage applicants to consider a gender balanced constitution of their team.
Selection Criteria
Relevance and strategic alignment with DARIAH’s mission
Innovation and potential impact on research practices in the arts and humanities
Technical and conceptual soundness of the proposed service
Openness, interoperability and sustainability of outputs
Team composition and feasibility of work plan and budget
Funding and Duration
Funding amount: 125,000€ (lump sum) contribution from DARIAH
Full project costs should amount to between 150,000€ – 200,000€ including an in-kind contribution
Project duration: 24 months
Disbursement: 50% at startupon signature of a grant agreement between DARIAH and the Lead Institution, 30% upon successful mid-term report and review, 20% upon successful completion
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their application by 15 July 2026.
Following years of participation in DARIAH with Cooperating Partnerships, Slovakia joined DARIAH ERIC as a full member in February 2026.
“The Board of Directors warmly welcomes Slovakia as a full member of DARIAH ERIC” said Dr. Agiatis Benardou, President of the DARIAH Board of Directors. “This milestone reflects years of dedication from the Slovak consortium and strong national support. DARIAH-SK brings valuable expertise in digital research collections, linguistic resources, and Open Science, strengthening both Central European cooperation and the wider DARIAH network. We look forward to close collaboration and to Slovakia’s active contribution to the European Research Area.”
The DARIAH-SK infrastructure
The DARIAH-SK consortium is led by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences and is supported by the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic. It is a distributed research infrastructure composed of a network of geographically dispersed and coordinated domestic institutions. These institutions offer a wide range of digital and analog services to the scientific community and the general public.
The consortium consists of the following partners:
“It’s been a long journey to get Slovakia into DARIAH ERIC, and we’re thrilled to finally be here,” said Andrej Gogora, National Coordinator of DARIAH-SK. “A huge thanks goes to the Slovak Ministry of Education and the entire DARIAH-EU team for backing this vision. Now that the door is open, my focus shifts to ensuring our community takes full advantage of it. We are ready to turn this membership into real-world collaborations and make a meaningful contribution to the European research landscape.”
National priorities
The strengths of DARIAH-SK are defined by the specific expertise of its partners, with a focus on areas such as thematic research collections, open-source repository systems for presenting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and corpus databases and other linguistic resources. Other significant strengths include the popularization of Open Science Policy and the ethical evaluation of modern technologies. The consortium’s activities also leverage significant human capital, with dozens of researchers, technical staff, and students engaged in research, digitization, and documentation.
“Slovakia’s membership in DARIAH ERIC represents a significant milestone for our research and innovation ecosystem”, said Simona Foltinová, National representative of DARIAH ERIC on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth. “Our ministry views this step as a strategic investment in strengthening international cooperation, expanding access to advanced digital research infrastructures and supporting the active participation of Slovak institutions within the European Research Area.”
As a nascent platform, DARIAH-SK is currently in a preparatory phase, focusing on community coordination, strategic development, and securing financial resources to fulfill its mid-term priorities. DARIAH-SK is an open platform, willing to accept new thematically and professionally relevant domestic partners.
By joining DARIAH ERIC, DARIAH-SK aims to strengthen its collaboration, particularly with partners from Central Europe and the surrounding regions and to revitalize the activities of the DARIAH Central European Hub, with the participation of Czech (LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ), Austrian (CLARIAH-AT), Polish (DARIAH-PL), and Hungarian (Eötvös Loránd University) DH initiatives.
Furthermore, DARIAH-SK is interested in establishing closer collaborations with selected university departments in Slovakia to accelerate the creation and implementation of DH subjects in domestic higher education programs. The expertise of DARIAH-EU, notably on the Training and Education strategic pillar, will provide significant support for this endeavor.
We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Spring 2026 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 6th March 2026, 11.30am CET
Title: “Can this be done?” New research tools for studying human interaction
Speakers: Stefan Lindgren & Carolina Larsson, Lund University
This presentation aims to demonstrate a new workflow for using motion capture to study human movement and interaction. The workflow arose from a collaboration with Riksteatern Crea, a theatre group in Sweden that creates stage productions in sign language designed for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing audiences alike. They asked whether it is possible to transfer the complex movements of a sign-language performer to a digital avatar that could be projected onto a stage and interact in real time with both the audience and live actors. The answer was yes. Here we outline the development of a simplified, more efficient workflow for researchers studying human interaction through body movement and gesture using motion capture devices of different kinds and a free game developing software called Unreal Engine.
About the speakers:
Stefan Lindgren
Stefan Lindgren is a research engineer at Lund University Humanities lab, a multiuser research infrastructure that provides tools and knowledge to conduct research about human behavior, communication, cognition and culture. He is acting technical manager for the lab and has a background in computer technology with a special interest in 3d-data and 3d-visualisations. He has been involved in a large number of research projects helping out with 3d-documenation all over the world. His expertise includes 3d-scanning, photogrammetry, motion capture and 3d-visualisations.
Carolina Larsson
Carolina Larsson is a systems developer at Lund University Humanities lab, a multiuser research infrastructure that provides tools and knowledge to conduct research about human behavior, communication, cognition and culture. Carolina is an expert in 3d-modelling and is proficient in Blender, a 3d-software that covers most aspects of 3d-modelling. She has a solid experience in working with and manipulating 3d-data from any kind of 3d-acquisition. She has been working with 3d-documentation, motion capture and animations in research projects in areas such as medicine, archaeology, linguistics, historical reconstructions and museology.
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is understood not as an object or a kind of story, but as a way of expressing meaning, a way in which we produce a model for understanding the world and things in it. This talk lays out this approach and how it can help you analyse and conceptualise gameworlds. The framework helps to see games and their worlds in the whole. Stories, gameplay, systems, rules, spatial configurations and art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning of the game.
About the speaker:
image credit: Eivind Senneset, UiB
Dom Ford is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, as part of the LEAD AI programme. His current project looks at nonplayer characters in games with AI-generated dialogue, how players respond to the use of this technology and how this use may challenge ideas in the philosophy of fiction like intentionality. He is also an editor for Eludamos. Previously he was a postdoc at the University of Bremen, part of the Media and Religion lab in the ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, where he was also the managing editor for gamevironments.
His first book, Mytholudics: Games and Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves. It’s out now and published by De Gruyter.
He wrote his PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play between 2019 and 2022, supervised by Hans-Joachim Backe.
Friday 8th May 2026, 11.30am CEST
Title:Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice
Speakers: Monika Barget (University of Maastricht), Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), & Susan Schreibman (University of Maastricht)
In April 2025 Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice was published by The University of Illinois Press. It is an edited collection (which is available open access and can be downloaded here) divided into three main sections: Readings, Infrastructures and Pedagogies. The thread that runs through this collection is a theorisation of feminist DH practice as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production through new modes and processes of meaning making. Each chapter also reflects on what it means to be a feminist and a technologist through definitions of feminisms that are brought into conversation with DH scholarship. Feminist DH practices are presented as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production by enacting new modes and processes of meaning making. An overriding focus of the collection is to demonstrate how feminist lenses attuned to issues of intersectionality and gender can uncover structural inequities and present opportunities for social and intellectual change.
This talk will have a three-part focus. The first part will reflect on the collection as a whole, and how it intersects with current feminist thought and DH practice. The second part will explore the Readings section through the chapter Feminist DH: A Historical Perspective Excavating the Lives of Women of the Past by Monika Barget and Susan Schreibman which explores how the Irish digital humanities project Letters 1916–1923 adopted a feminist approach to surface marginalized women’s voices in a heterogeneous historical collection of letters dominated by male voices. The third part will focus on Jenny Bergenmar’s co-authored chapter Infrastructures for Diversity: Feminist and Queer Interventions in Nordic Digital Humanities from the Infrastructures Section, which explores how DH infrastructures in institutional frameworks can make space for feminist, queer, and activist perspectives, methods, and collaborations.
About the speakers:
Monika Barget is an early modern historian and digital humanist specializing in the political history of the eighteenth century, visual cultures, and spatial history. From 2017 to 2018, she contributed to the Letters 1916–1923 and Ignite projects at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Following postdoctoral work in Mainz, she joined the History Department of Maastricht University as an assistant professor in August 2021.
Jenny Bergenmar is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a literary history scholar who has previously worked with digital scholarly editing and archival materials through digitization and crowdsourcing. She is currently principal investigator of the research infrastructure project QUEERLIT database: Metadata Development and Searchability for LGBTQI Literary Heritage (2021–2023).
Susan Schreibman is a professor of digital arts and culture at Maastricht University and a Co-Director of DARIAH. Her current research projects include: PURE3D2.0 and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
Written by Cécile Chantraine Braillon, La Rochelle Université (France) and Anamarija Žugić Borić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (Croatia), this article presents the work conducted within the Theatralia Working Group to address the growing digital transformation of the performing arts. Bringing together around 30 scholars, GLAM professionals, and artists, the group fosters interdisciplinary research on digitization, digital performance, digital methodologies, and archiving in the performing arts.
After an initial phase dedicated to identifying the new challenges and emerging needs raised by the performing arts’ adaptation to the digital turn, the group underscored a key epistemological issue: the need for a shared computational language to describe and represent the field, enabling meaningful data exchange and generating real scholarly value. In its second phase, Theatralia therefore refocused its efforts on refining such digital description models and supporting their integration into broader archival infrastructures. This Spotlight delves into the issues identified and the task of building and further developing a thesaurus for performing arts.
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 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.
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, 2025January 8, 2026 Registration opens: February 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance: Late February, 2026
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!
DARIAH ERIC is delighted to introduce its fifth call for projects open exclusively to DARIAH Working Groups (WG). The call acknowledges the strategic role of Working Groups in the DARIAH ecosystem, which represent – according to the Strategic Plan 2019-2026 – one of the four pillars of the DARIAH activities.
Funding allocated under this scheme is intended to support the activities of established DARIAH Working Groups that are currently active. It intends to offer practical support for their programmes, encouraging Working Groups to put forward innovative ideas; to seek synergies by collaborating with each other and, in general, to build capacity to suggest new services, tools or training activities or to help develop and sustain existing ones.
In light of the above goals, projects should build on and/or contribute to one or more of DARIAH strategic pillars:
Marketplace to facilitate fluid exchange of tools, services, data and knowledge
Access to Education and Training
Working Groups, Hubs and other forms of Transnational and Transdisciplinary organisation (Community Formation)
Bridges between research policy and communities of practice (Advocacy and Impact)
The overall budget available in this call is €40.000. Grants will be issued up to a maximum of €5 000 per WG, or up to €10 000 for joint proposals by two or more WGs.
Timeline and important dates
Submission deadline via the Sciencescall portal: November 7, 2025
Announcement of funding results: December 12, 2025
Start of project activities and spending: From signature of the WG Grant Agreement between budget-holding institution and DARIAH ERIC
Final date of project activities: March 31, 2027
Presentation of project results: DARIAH Annual Event 2027
Submission of final project update and financial reports to DARIAH: Two months following the DARIAH Annual Event 2027
The second call for contributions to Transformations invites scholars, practitioners, and cultural heritage professionals to reflect on the theme of the DARIAH Annual Event 2025: “The Past”.
Guest editors of this volume are Agiatis Benardou and George Artopoulos, co-chairs of the DARIAH Annual Event 2025 Programme Committee.
What is the past after the digital turn in humanities and archaeology? This question opens profound challenges for the many ways we conceptualize, access, and engage with history through computational means. We invite contributions that interrogate the fundamental nature of “the past” as it becomes increasingly mediated, represented and reconstructed through digital infrastructures, algorithms, and interfaces.
Critical Perspectives and Reflections
Since we understand the present by assigning meanings to it based on inferences drawn from past remains and our representations of those meanings, the present can be considered a repository of the past. Digital Humanists take historical materials of the Past and recontextualize them through computational methods, semantic mapping and so much more. The digital turn has not merely provided new tools for historical research—it has fundamentally transformed what the past can be depending on the affordances of the digital solutions we employ to revisit it, reconstruct it, hypothesize, discover new meanings within it through digital approaches to represent or preserve it. Every database schema, every metadata standard or vocabulary, every visualisation algorithm makes implicit claims about the nature of temporality, causality and reasoning, inference, viewpoint and historical knowledge itself.
We seek contributions that examine these epistemic transformations: How do digital knowledge structures and solutions shape not just what we can know about the past, but what we can even imagine it to have been, while comprehending our biases and limited viewpoint of its totality?
We consider the politics of digitisation: Which voices, experiences, and material traces receive the privilege of digital preservation? What remains in the shadows—too fragmented, too mundane, too difficult, or too resourceful/laborious to encode? The absences and hidden discoveries in our digital archives are not neutral.
This second issue of Transformations moves beyond the critique on digital ‘cemeteries’ to invite reflections on how contemporary power structures are projected backward, creating what we might call “algorithmic silences” in the historical record. We welcome critical examinations of these gaps and their implications in digital humanities.
Emerging Challenges
The challenges of scale present paradoxes: We can now process millions of documents computationally, yet each act of digitization involves reduction, selection, and interpretation. How do we navigate between the promise of “distant reading” of the past and the irreducible complexity of historical narratives?
Interoperability poses both technical and philosophical questions. When we convert disparate historical sources into standardized formats and represent their knowledge through standardized vocabularies, do we enable new connections or allow for ex ante, biased interpretations to be embodied in these digital representations of the past?
Sustainability concerns extend beyond technical infrastructure. What does it mean to preserve “the past” when our digital formats become obsolete faster than the physical form of documentation they replace? How do we account for the environmental costs of maintaining ever-growing digital archives? What are our ethical obligations to future researchers who will inherit our digital choices and what can we learn from our mistakes?
Toward Digital Futures
How might critical reflection on digital mediations of the past inform our approach to the present’s transformation into future history? As we generate unprecedented volumes of digital traces, how can our present foresight guide the design of systems that will become tomorrow’s archives? How should we document present narratives that will become/influence our future pasts?
We seek contributions that bridge theoretical insight with practical application, combining critical analysis with constructive proposals for how digital humanities might more ethically and imaginatively engage with the many representations of the past, memory, and historical knowledge. The second issue of Transformations explores how the digital past might illuminate pathways toward more inclusive and reflective digital futures.
We welcome the submission of a diversity of research outputs:
research articles (30,000 – 50,000 characters, including bibliography, spaces and footnotes)
data papers (18,000 – 24,000 characters, including bibliography, spaces and footnotes)
workflow papers (18,000 – 24,000 characters, including bibliography, spaces and footnotes)
We invite all contributors to refer to the Author’s Section on our website before submitting their contribution. These guidelines offer additional information about each of the three submission types listed above.
When submitting your contribution, you must choose the right volume (vol. 2 ‘The Past’) and the appropriate section (research articles, data papers, workflows) corresponding to the type of submission.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Virtual and augmented reconstructions of historical environments and events
Digital storytelling and narratives of the past
The archaeology of digital approaches to the past
AI and big data in historical research
Teaching the past through digital methods
Digital archiving and preservation strategies
Timeline
Submission Deadline: All contributions must be submitted to Transformations by 31st December 2025, Midnight CET. (No extension deadline will be given)
Notification of acceptance: expected around March, 2026.
The General Assembly of the DARIAH ERIC recently voted unanimously to accept Iceland’s application for full membership in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
“We are absolutely delighted to formally welcome Iceland to DARIAH” said Dr. Agiatis Benardou, President of the DARIAH Board of Directors. “We value the unique perspectives and expertise that the Icelandic Digital Humanities communities bring, and really look forward to our collaboration. Together we will work on building a stronger, more inclusive and interconnected research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.”
The DH landscape in Iceland
Iceland is rich in data on Icelandic culture, language, history and arts and is among the most digitally advanced nations. This gives unique opportunities for developing new research within the area of Digital Humanities.
New developments in digital humanities and arts open up possibilities for novel forms of collaboration, internationally and nationally, including new possibilities for citizen science.
The DARIAH-IS/CDHA infrastructure
DARIAH-IS/CDHA boasts a strong, comprehensive consortium of 15 institutions, including major national universities, institutes, libraries and museums that are responsible for research within arts and humanities and take care of the collection, curation and mediation of data relevant for research.
Logi Einarsson, Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education in Iceland says that: “Iceland’s accession to DARIAH reflects our strong commitment to the humanities and arts and to open, collaborative research across borders. Developing robust research infrastructure requires international cooperation, and DARIAH provides an essential framework for sharing knowledge, tools, and best practices. Through this partnership, we are proud to support the advancement of digitally enabled humanities and arts, and to strengthen Iceland’s connection to the broader European research community.”
Center for Digital Humanities and Arts (CDHA) will be the National Coordinating Institution for DARIAH in Iceland. CDHA was established in 2020 as part of a national Roadmap for Research Infrastructure, and has been a DARIAH Cooperating Partner since 2022. It started as a consortium of 10 institutions, but has grown to a group of 15.
CDHA operates as a part of the School of Humanities, University of Iceland. The national DARIAH-IS/CDHA consortium will be a mirror of the CDHA and integrated into all its activities. It will share an office with the CDHA at the University of Iceland and be supported by the administrative staff of the centre which has great capacity to manage international projects and networks. “Being entrusted with the national DARIAH node at this time shows how far we have come in developing digital infrastructures for research in the humanities and arts in Iceland” said Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson, chair of the CDHA.
The national consortium, through the CDHA, has received funding to develop the following projects that align with the DARIAH strategy:
Develop and produce teaching and training materials for DH projects.
Develop digital databases and tools to implement DH projects.
Serve as a platform for collaboration between all major cultural heritage institutions in Iceland to make digitized collections widely available and interoperable.
By joining DARIAH-EU, Iceland aims to link and align Icelandic resources to international resources and provide Icelandic and international scholars with mutual access to expertise and opportunities for peer learning and international collaboration.
One year after its debut at the DARIAH Annual Event in Lisbon in June 2024, Transformations: A DARIAH Journal is proud to announce the publication of the first set of peer-reviewed articles in its inaugural issue, dedicated to the theme of Workflows.
This milestone marks not only the successful launch of a publishing venture by DARIAH, but also our shared commitment to cultivating a scholarly culture grounded in methodological transparency, workflow reusability, and open science.
“We are thrilled to share the first articles with our community,” said the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Toma Tasovac. “Bringing this issue to life has been a collaborative effort, and we are deeply grateful to all those who contributed: our authors, reviewers, Scientific Committee, copy editors, and the team at Episciences. The result is a thoughtful and timely collection that recognises those who maintain datasets, build tools, and design platforms as first-class contributors to knowledge creation.”
The published articles highlight how diverse research projects—across disciplines and methodologies—are converging around a shared imperative: to make their workflows not only visible, but reusable, reflective, and open.
“As the inaugural volume of Transformations proves, there is an active community of researchers in the humanities and social sciences that strives to foster a culture of workflow reusability” wrote editors Anne Baillot, Françoise Gouzi and Toma Tasovac in their Introduction. “The published articles don’t just describe methodologies—they reflect on how to present them in a replicable way, and why this matters for scholarship at large.”
Due to the high volume of quality submissions, the journal has opted to publish the issue in two batches. Additional articles are currently moving through the editorial process and are expected to appear in the fall.
Looking ahead, Transformations will soon release its second call for articles, on the theme of “The Past”, inspired by the DARIAH Annual Event 2025 recently held in Göttingen. The call will include updated guidelines and recommendations to support authors through the submission process.
So much research goes unnoticed. Research results may not be known outside of the community they were developed, thus limiting reuse and inspiring further research. This is the gap that the DARIAH Spotlight series aims to address.
DARIAH is delighted to announce a new outreach campaign entitled DARIAH Spotlight. This campaign is a monthly series that will provide an opportunity to showcase digital scholarship in the humanities from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network.
More specifically, Spotlight articles may:
Enhance the visibility and showcase scholarship that takes place within the DARIAH ecosystem (DARIAH Working Groups, DARIAH members and Cooperating Partners).
Strengthen the visibility of content contained within DARIAH tools and services (such as DARIAH-Campus and the SSH Open Marketplace).
Provide examples of inspiring digital scholarship and project achievements, encouraging collaborations within the DARIAH community and beyond.
We welcome contributions for Spotlight posts beginning September 2025. Eight posts will be published between September 2025 – May 2026, roughly divided between Working Groups and Digital Projects. In deciding which articles will be selected, the Spotlight Team will work towards a balance between DARIAH member states and cooperating partners, a range of technologies, methods, and disciplines. We will also look for gender balance in the overall authorship of the posts.
The deadline for the first round of consideration is July 9, 2025. If slots remain open after this first deadline, consideration for Spotlight posts will be decided on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Spotlights should announce a significant milestone for the Working Group. For example:
Announcing a workshop, conference, or other public event that the WG will organise.
Announcing a call for papers for a special issue of the new DARIAH journal Transformations (or announce that the special issue has been published), both in coordination with the Transformations Editorial Board.
Announcing a series of submissions to the SSH Open Marketplace and report on them (with links to the Marketplace entries).
Publishing a course on DARIAH-Campus.
Presenting at the DARIAH’s Fridays Frontiers series.
In as far as possible, the article should highlight the theoretical, historical, social, and methodological underpinnings of the initiative.
For DH Projects
Spotlights should not simply be a post about the project, but should also highlight why and how digital tools and methods were used to fulfill project goals, including:
How the specific technologies chosen fulfil the scientific goals
The community(ies) the project serves
What research question or goal the project fulfills
How the project fits into the larger research landscape
Lessons learned
In as far as possible, the article should highlight the theoretical, historical, social, and methodological underpinnings of the research
The Spotlight team will prioritise Projects that can demonstrate a relation to DARIAH, for example:
Financed by DARIAH-EU and/or DARIAH-national consortium.
Led (or have a significant contribution) by a researcher affiliated with a DARIAH partner institution.
Have (or be willing to create prior to publication) an entry in the Marketplace.
Spotlight your research
Have a look at past Spotlight articles for a quick showcase of the excellent research happening in DH, linked to the DARIAH infrastructure.
Interested in featuring your research as part of this campaign?
DARIAH welcomes four newly elected members joining the Scientific Board from January 2025 onwards, Claire Warwick, Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University, Elena Pierazzo, DH Professor at the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, Isto Huvila, Professor of Information Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden and Adjunct Professor in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and Salvatore Capasso, Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.
Claire Warwick is a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University. Her research is concerned with the way that digital resources, including artificial intelligence techniques, are used in the humanities and cultural heritage and in reading behaviour in physical and digital spaces. She has recently completed a monograph: Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade: A World Elsewhere. She has led and co-investigated several digital humanities research projects, including the AEOLIAN network, which considered the potential for the application of AI to archives and cultural heritage. She collaborates widely, especially with researchers in Canada and the USA and gave the closing plenary lecture for the DH2016 conference. She has served on various advisory boards in digital humanities, for example the British Library’s BL Labs and was a member of the Conseil Scientifique du Campus Condorcet in Paris.
Elena Pierazzo is a DH Professor at the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, where she directs the master in Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Italian Philology. Her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital editions of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (2015). She has been the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. She was the co-chair of the Programme Committee of the DH2019 conference, co-chair of the working group on digital editions of the European Network NeDiMAH and one of the scientists-in-chief for the ITN DiXiT.
Isto Huvila is Professor of Information Studies and Director of the doctoral programme in Information Studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is docent (~adjunct professor) in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His major areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices. Huvila received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
Salvatore Capasso is the Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy. With over 100 scientific publications, he has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. His research spans in the fields of Development Economics and Economic Growth, with a particular focus on the interplay between the underground economy, financial development, and the impact of corruption on economic performance. He also has expertise in cultural heritage studies and has overseen and coordinated numerous national and international research projects in the field. In recent years, he has extensively analysed the economic dynamics of Mediterranean countries and their cultural heritage landscapes. Additionally, he is actively involved in the governance of cultural institutions, serving on the board of the Neapolitan National Museum.
We are pleased to welcome them all in DARIAH and the Scientific Board and we look forward to fruitful collaborations!
As of September 1st, DARIAH has a new President of the Board of Directors, Dr. Agiatis Benardou. Benardou has been a Member of the Board of Directors since 2023.
“It is an honour to be appointed President of the Board of Directors of DARIAH at the turn of the Infrastructure’s second decade. I am looking forward to further collaborative achievements in the future” said Benardou.
An Ancient Historian by training, Benardou is Senior Research Associate at the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C. and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. Her main areas of interest include history in the digital domain and digital storytelling.
Agiatis Benardou will succeed Toma Tasovac, who will be stepping down in September 2024, after a 6-year term of office. Tasovac will remain in the DARIAH workforce by acting as Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors, providing invaluable insights and experience.
“Directing DARIAH has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career”, said Toma Tasovac. “I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished over the years, and happy to continue working together with the Board of Directors in my new role.”
According to its statutes, DARIAH ERIC has three part-time directors. Together they are responsible for the day-to-day operations of DARIAH. They consult the Senior Management Team and are supported by the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office.
Susan Schreibman, Full Professor of Digital Arts and Culture at Maastricht University, has been appointed by the General Assembly as Director for DARIAH.
In its latest meeting, the consortium’s General Assembly unanimously approved the nomination proposed by the DARIAH ERIC Board of Directors Selection Committee.
“We are excited to welcome Susan Schreibman as a new member of the Board of Directors,” said the Board’s President, Toma Tasovac. “Susan comes to us with a stellar international career and a proven track record of leadership and innovation in the field. Her skills and vision will be invaluable as DARIAH continues to grow its impact across Europe and beyond.”
Schreibman brings with her decades of experience in digital scholarship and a deep commitment to advancing the digital humanities. She has been a pivotal figure in the field, having held leadership positions at several prestigious institutions, including Trinity College Dublin and the University of Maryland, before joining Maastricht University. Her work has consistently pushed the boundaries of how digital tools and methodologies can enrich arts and humanities research.
“I am delighted to be joining the Board of Directors at this key time”, said Susan Schreibman. “Having just celebrated DARIAH’s first decade as an ESFRI infrastructure, we now look to the next decade, building on and adding to its many successes.“
Schreibman is no stranger to DARIAH. She was already involved in the preparatory phase of the infrastructure as a representative from Ireland. From 2011-2016, she co-chaired the DARIAH Virtual Competence Center “Education and Research” (VCC2). Under her co-leadership, two well-known DARIAH services were developed: the Digital Humanities Course Registry and #dariahTeach. In addition, she acted as the National Coordinator of DARIAH in Ireland from 2010-2016. More recently, she has been the co-chair of the #dariahTeach Working Group.
Susan Schreibman will succeed Toma Tasovac, who will be stepping down in September 2024, after a 6-year term of office.
According to its statutes, DARIAH ERIC has three part-time directors. Together they are responsible for the day-to-day operations of DARIAH. They consult the Senior Management Team and are supported by the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office. Susan Schreibman will take on the new role from September 1st, 2024.
August 6th marked the tenth anniversary of the Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) becoming a European Research Infrastructure.
“DARIAH’s journey over the past decade has been one of continuous growth and collaboration – across borders, disciplines and methods,” said Toma Tasovac, President of the Board of Directors. “As we celebrate our first decade as an ERIC, we remain committed to fostering digital innovation and strengthening the community of arts and humanities scholars in Europe and beyond.”
DARIAH started its journey to become an ERIC in January 2006 when representatives from four European institutions involved in digital humanities decided to join forces to provide services to their research communities. This would require setting up a consortium of institutions to ensure long-term sustainability of the infrastructure and a strong voice on a European level.
In 2006, DARIAH was listed on the first publication of the ESFRI Roadmap (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure). DARIAH then became a European project, thanks to funding secured under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), for its preparatory phase called Preparing DARIAH (2008-2011).
Following this, DARIAH moved in February 2011 into a transition phase which would further build on the groundwork for its establishment as an infrastructure.
In August 2014, the European Commission established DARIAH as an ERIC with 15 Founding Members (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Slovenia and Serbia).
Following the move to ERIC status, DARIAH was awarded Landmark Status in the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap as a Research Infrastructure that reached its implementation phase and was considered a pan-European hub of scientific excellence.
Since then, DARIAH continued to develop and expand, counting currently 22 Member Countries and many Cooperating Partners in Europe, the UK, the US and Egypt.
DARIAH has also played an active role in several European Commission funded projects that have relied on the knowledge and influence of established ERICs. The infrastructure has been the voice of arts and humanities researchers across consortiums and funding bodies.
The General Assembly of the DARIAH ERIC recently voted unanimously to accept Sweden’s application for full membership in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
“With each new member, DARIAH grows stronger, more diverse, and becomes better equipped to serve the digital needs of arts and humanities scholars across Europe,” said Dr Toma Tasovac, President of the DARIAH Board of Directors. “We are delighted to welcome Sweden on board and very much look forward to the contributions and collaborations that will come from this partnership.”
The DARIAH-SE infrastructure
Sweden began developing a formal infrastructure for the Digital Humanities in 2022, with the funding of Huminfra by the Swedish Research Council (SRC). Huminfra is a national infrastructure supporting digital, experimental, quantitative, and qualitative research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. It has now been funded by the SCR and the participating organisations through 2028.
Lisbeth Olsson, secretary general for research infrastructure at the Swedish Research Council, said: “The Swedish Research Council is delighted that Sweden is now a full member of DARIAH-EU. Swedish membership in DARIAH-EU will stimulate internationalisation and collaboration with European partners in the humanities through the mutual access to Swedish and European tools, data, and resources.”
Led by the Lund University Humanities Lab, Huminfra is a distributed infrastructure in the form of a consortium consisting of twelve nodes located at eleven universities and organisations at eight geographical sites. These nodes hold vital and complementary expertise in Digital Humanities and experimental humanities with a focus on e-scientific/digital materials, tools, and critical interpretative perspectives, but also experimental and quantitative approaches, the use of sensor-based data, and real-time analyses for the study of human behaviour. Visualisation and simulation is common to all nodes. There is additional expertise on speech and language technology, on library and archiving of digital collections and scholarly publishing, research data, metadata, and information processes.
The national DARIAH consortium for Sweden will be hosted by the existing Huminfra infrastructure but will be open to any other university, cultural heritage institution or entity once established, in order to promote further growth of collaborative research in the field.
National priorities
Marianne Gullberg, Director of Huminfra, said: “Huminfra is thrilled to host DARIAH-SE. This marks a vital step forward for Swedish scholarship in the humanities.” Koraljka Golub, new national coordinator of DARIAH-SE, also expressed excitement. “Joining DARIAH-EU opens up tremendous opportunities for researchers in our fields. It allows us to participate more fully in the European research community and to leverage cutting-edge digital resources”, she stressed.
Planned areas of collaboration between the DARIAH-SE consortium and DARIAH-EU include providing information from DARIAH to Huminfra’s web-based information platform (huminfra.se) and also to the Huminfra training module and the development of tools and outreach modules. Following the example of other member states, a survey of needs for new knowledge at Huminfra’s nodes will also be undertaken to identify further needs for training and tools developments.
DARIAH-SE will also make the Swedish resources available to DARIAH via the SSH Open Marketplace, the DARIAH Tools & Services Catalogue, and will disseminate information on current DARIAH-SE matters and events via the relevant Working Groups, the DARIAH newsletter and related channels.
Aiming to further strengthen collaborations nationally and regionally, Swe-CLARIN via Sprakbanken will work with DARIAH-SE, as a natural extension to the existing collaboration within Huminfra. Finally, collaborations with Danish and Finnish colleagues will be pursued as part of the Nordic Hub of DARIAH-EU.
By joining DARIAH-EU, Sweden aims to link and align Swedish resources to international resources and provide Swedish and international scholars with mutual access to resources, tools, and training, while increasing the capacity for international collaboration.
We are pleased to announce the first call for contributions of the first issue of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal, hosted by Episciences Diamond publishing platform.
Transformations is an overlay journal with a unique editorial line and publication project, which relies on a Diamond Open Access evaluation and publication platform. Read more on this alternative and transparent publishing model here.
Issue #1
Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities.
Call for contributions
For the first issue of Transformations, we are looking for contributions that explore, assess, and analyse the challenges of designing, implementing, documenting and sharing digitally-enabled workflows in the context of arts and humanities research. We welcome submissions that shed light on these challenges from a technical, methodological, infrastructural and/or conceptual point of view.
Submissions can take the form of classical research articles, project notes, tool descriptions, data papers, or workflow analyses. Conference posters can be submitted as project notes, providing a detailed, coherent and self-standing narrative based on the original poster’s content. We invite contributions that address a variety of questions in terms of best practices: 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?
Facing the challenges of disciplinary complexities, we are interested in what makes a workflow innovative and whether there are 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 new insights and more comprehensive solutions?
We also welcome discussions on ethical aspects, such as what it means for a workflow to be both ethical, reproducible and sustainable. 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?
Contributions that raise awareness about workflows in general are equally relevant. We are looking for input on what kind of documentation is necessary and at what level of granularity; whether there are modelling, standardisation or data management frameworks that make the documentation of workflows easier; and the role of training and education in preserving and communicating workflows. Additionally, we want to understand how we can become better aware — both institutionally and conceptually — of the tacit knowledge and hidden costs which seem to be embedded in our day-to-day professional activities?
Other topics related to digital workflows in arts and humanities research will also be welcome.
Submission and evaluation process
Transformations is an overlay journal, which means that authors will be expected to first deposit their manuscripts in an open repository or preprint server such as HAL or Zenodo; and then submit the link to their preprint by logging on to the journal’s website in Episciences.
In the Authors’ section on the journal’s website, you will find additional information on Submission steps, Evaluation process and Author guidelines to help you through the submission and publication process.
All contributions will undergo an open peer review process. We will use open identities, which means that author and reviewer identities will be disclosed to each other. We won’t publish the review reports themselves.
For this particular issue, we’ll be accepting submissions in English only.
The evaluation criteria focus on the scientific quality of the manuscript, including the solidity of the methodology, the relevance to the current state of the art,and the usefulness of the insights that can be gained from it. The reviewers will also pay attention to the form of presentation, the overall readability and clarity of argumentation, as well as the accessibility of all the data relevant to the submission. For each submission type, these criteria will be applied according to the best practices of the relevant research communities.
Reviews will be conducted by members of the Scientific Committee, external qualified reviewers, or, if necessary, members of the Editorial Board. This collaborative approach ensures that each submission is evaluated by experts with relevant knowledge and experience, maintaining the highest standards of scholarly review.
Reviewers will be asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal. For the peer review process, we will rely on the Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers from COPE.
Timeline
Submission deadline: All proceedings of DARIAH Annual Event 2024 must be submitted to Transformations by 31st October 2024.
Notification of acceptance: expected around December 30th, 2024.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is happy to announce it has signed a new Cooperating Partnership agreement with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
DARIAH is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) whose mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. In addition to having 22 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.
The University of Edinburgh is a global leader in research and education with a rich tradition of academic excellence and innovation across many disciplines. It boasts significant research strengths in informatics, creative tech, ethical approaches to Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing, digital cultural heritage, digitisation and digital collections, and mapping and geographic information processing. Through Edinburgh Futures Institute, the University is focused on developing new co-creative and data-rich approaches to address the increasingly complex challenges of our time.
“We are very excited to welcome Edinburgh to DARIAH,” said Edward Gray, DARIAH’s Officer for National Coordination. “Edinburgh has a proven track record in digital humanities, and the Centre for Data, Culture & Society supports work at the forefront of issues relevant to society, such as responsible AI and how digital scholars can understand the climatic impact of their research. They are a valuable addition to our community.”
MacEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, Photo Credit: Laurence Winram
Work in the Digital Humanities
The University of Edinburgh is home to the Edinburgh International Data Facility, hosts the UK’s national high performance computing clusters and has recently been announced as the future home of the UK’s first exascale supercomputer. In this context, Edinburgh Futures Institute provides a unique environment for arts and humanities research, supporting collaboration, skills development, cross-disciplinary exchange and access to a world-class data and computing infrastructure.
Current digital humanities aligned research initiatives include: Creative Informatics which stimulates data-led research partnerships between creative industries and the tech sector; XR Network+ Virtual Production in the Digital Economy which supports researchers working with virtual production technologies; the Gaelic Algorithmic Research Group, an international research group devoted to developing modern technologies for Gaelic and utilising them both to strengthen and better understand the language and its associated culture; and the BRAID programme, which works to integrate Arts, Humanities and Social Science research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem.
The Centre for Data, Culture & Society, a specialist hub within the Edinburgh Futures Institute empowers researchers in the arts and humanities to engage with data-rich and digital methods. The Centre offers training on computational research methods, prototyping, seed funding and technical guidance, as well as hosting a wide range of research events. The Centre also plays a role in supporting national and international projects and initiatives such as hosting TEI-by-Example, collaboratively leading the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition, a community interest group aligned with the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association, and providing training for the UK’s Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering community in collaboration with King’s College London, Cambridge University and the Turing Institute.
Edinburgh Futures Institute. University of Edinburgh. Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Credit: Keith Hunter.
The Centre’s Director, Dr Lisa Otty, who will act as scientific coordinator for the partnership comments: “Building capacity for digital humanities research is a core element of our mission, which aligns perfectly with the DARIAH membership. We’re excited about the collaborative opportunities that joining DARIAH will open up, and at the prospect of working more closely with other digital research hubs and centres of expertise across the UK and Europe. With our focus on training and skills development, we also look forward to contributing to DARIAH-Campus and to a range of related working groups and initiatives in the coming years, and we welcome contact from other DARIAH members with shared interests.”
Founding Director of CDCS, and current Director of Creative Informatics, Professor Melissa Terras said “Success in the data-led approaches to the arts and humanities depends on developing communities, best practice approaches, and shared infrastructure. We are delighted to become members of DARIAH, formally connecting with many of our valued colleagues across Europe in the digital research hub space. We hope the large-scale data innovation projects currently underway at Edinburgh will also contribute expertise to this joint endeavour.”
The University of Edinburgh is delighted to join DARIAH and be part of the growing network of UK Cooperating Partners. Building on existing networks and relationships, the Centre for Data, Culture and Society will work in close collaboration with these partners to strengthen the integration of the UK’s digital humanities community within the DARIAH community.
“Beyond welcoming a world-class institution, it is really important for us to obtain a diverse geographic spread amongst institutions in the United Kingdom as we look to build a vibrant DARIAH-UK consortium,” said Gray.
For more information on the Cooperating Partners membership in DARIAH, their role, tasks and benefits, have a look at our detailed post here.
* Banner picture: The MacEwan Hall, with Edinburgh Castle in the Background. Photo credit: Tricia Malley & Ross Gillespie
Earlier this month, DARIAH was delighted to host the kick-off meeting for ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) in Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, from 1st-2nd February. This four year project will exploit and strengthen complementarities between four leading European infrastructures: DARIAH (digital arts and humanities), ARIADNE (archaeology), CLARIN (languages) and OPERAS (social sciences), in order to improve workflows and access to the state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media pertaining to archaeological research.
As ATRIUM brings together 17 partners and 12 affiliated entities across 12 countries, the launch event played host to over 60 guests from across Europe over the two days of planning and discussion. DARIAH Director Toma Tasovac introduced the project, situating it within the European Research landscape, before the various Work Packages were outlined over the following day and a half. ATRIUM will align itself with various initiatives such as the OSCARS Project, by providing a holistic framework for data access and organisation. Its workflows will be created using the SSH Open Marketplace templates, and interoperability with EOSC (the European Open Science Cloud) is a key priority for the services that ATRIUM will facilitate, by making them interoperable and ensuring the workflows are integrated.
On the second day, several breakout sessions were facilitated, where the plans and workflows for various Work Packages were planned and debated, including discussions about how best to support the project’s goals of improving metadata quality, developing training materials and services, and strengthening the ties between the infrastructures and partners involved.
One of ATRIUM’s goals is to facilitate the development and delivery of training for digital humanities researchers. One component of this will be to make a skills requirements assessment through surveys, desk research, interviews and currently available data from previous projects in order to develop a curriculum to support cross-disciplinary research, which will then be available on DARIAH-Campus.
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
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