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.
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.
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.
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.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.
The Marketplace highlights and showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the SSH research data life cycle.
Training Series Learning objectives
Understand Open Science, FAIR and CARE principles in practice Participants will be able to explain the Open Science paradigm and the FAIR and CARE principles, and assess their implications for responsible research data management across the full data lifecycle in the arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
Navigate and critically use the SSH Open Marketplace Participants will be able to confidently navigate the SSH Open Marketplace to discover, evaluate, and select relevant tools, services, datasets, workflows, and training materials for their research needs.
Integrate digital resources into research workflows Participants will be able to incorporate SSH Open Marketplace resources into discipline-specific research workflows, enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and efficiency in arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
Contribute to and curate resources Participants will be able to contribute their own communities’ high-quality resources to the SSH Open Marketplace by applying editorial guidelines, metadata standards, and best practices for documentation, interoperability, and reuse, as well as reuse Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
Apply domain-specific standards, resources and research practices Participants will be able to document, share, and reuse domain-specific research workflows, data, and tools within arts and humanities (DARIAH), social sciences (CESSDA), language sciences (CLARIN), cultural heritage contexts, thereby fostering interoperability, FAIR compliance, and sustainable knowledge exchange within national and European research infrastructures
Leverage the SSH Open Marketplace for community-specific applications Participants will be able to design and implement customized application scenarios by utilizing the SSH Open Marketplace to create, curate, and disseminate tailored resource lists or complex catalogs that meet the specific needs and standards of their respective research communities.
Overview of sessions and learning objectives per session
Training session
Learning objectives
20 February: FAIR, CARE & Open Science Principles
1. Explain the core principles of Open Research and their relevance for SSH research practices. 2. Distinguish between FAIR and CARE principles and understand their complementary roles in data governance. 3. Identify key FAIR-compliant research infrastructures relevant to SSH research. 4. Assess the implications of Open Science requirements for data management planning and project design. 5. Apply FAIR and CARE principles to a concrete research use case or project scenario.
20 March: Introduction to SSH Open Marketplace
1. Describe the purpose, scope, and added value of the SSH Open Marketplace for SSH research. 2. Navigate the SSH Open Marketplace interface to locate resources (tools, services, datasets, training materials, and workflows). 3. Use search and filtering functions to identify relevant resources for a specific research question. 4. Understand how the Marketplace connects community use-cases to European SSH research infrastructures. 5. Select appropriate resources from the Marketplace for early-stage or exploratory research tasks.
17 April: Making the most of the SSH Open Marketplace
1. Explore and differentiate advanced resource types such as workflows. 2. Integrate Marketplace resources into existing research workflows. 3. Evaluate the quality, relevance, and reuse potential of Marketplace entries using metadata and relations. 4. Enrich existing Marketplace records by adding metadata, links, and contextual information. 5. (Re)use Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
15 May: Contributing to the SSH Open Marketplace
1. Understand the role of community contributions in sustaining the SSH Open Marketplace. 2. Add new tools, datasets, workflows, or training materials to the Marketplace. 3. Apply editorial guidelines and quality standards for resource curation. 4. Use metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies to improve interoperability and discoverability. 5. Critically review and improve existing Marketplace entries to enhance reuse and FAIRness. 6. Understand programmatic access and re-use of marketplace material via API and WordPress plug-ins.
19 June: Thematic Art and Humanities
1. Identify DARIAH services and workflows relevant to arts and humanities research. 2. Understand how arts and humanities research workflows are represented in the SSH Open Marketplace. 3. Apply DARIAH tools and workflows (e.g. ATRIUM) to concrete research scenarios. 4. Integrate heterogeneous data types typical of arts and humanities research into FAIR-aligned workflows. 5. Share and document arts and humanities workflows for reuse within the SSH community.
18 September: Thematic GLAM institutions
1. Understand the specific characteristics and challenges of cultural heritage and GLAM data. 2. Identify relevant tools, standards, and services for GLAM data in the SSH Open Marketplace. 3. Apply FAIR principles to digitised and born-digital cultural heritage data. 4. Integrate GLAM datasets into interdisciplinary SSH research workflows. 5. Promote reuse and sustainability of cultural heritage data through documentation and sharing practices.
16 October: Thematic language data
1. Identify CLARIN services and standards for managing and analysing language data. 2. Understand FAIR and legal/ethical challenges specific to language data (e.g. sensitive or personal data). 3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to discover language resources, tools, and workflows. 4. Integrate CLARIN tools into linguistic research workflows. 5. Prepare and document language datasets for reuse within national and European infrastructures.
20 November: Thematic Social sciences
1. Identify CESSDA services, standards, and tools relevant to social science research. 2. Understand best practices for managing, documenting, and sharing social science data. 3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to locate CESSDA-related datasets and services. 4. Apply FAIR and ethical principles to quantitative and qualitative social science data. 5. Connect social science research workflows to European data services and infrastructures.
The training series are conceptualised following the FAIR-by-design methodology developed in skills4EOSC (Filiposka et al. 2024), which consists in taking a systematic approach for conceptualizing each training session, e.g. defining the target audience, the learning objectives and the means to achieve them in each training session, publishing the materials and guides about how to use them, among others. FAIR learning materials enable the reuse of the materials both by learners and by trainers.
Target audience
The workshop series is aimed at a broad audience with links to the social sciences and humanities – from beginners to experienced researchers and practitioners who want to contribute their perspectives or benefit from the experiences of others.
a discovery portal, to foster serendipity in digital methods
an aggregator of useful and well curated resources
a catalogue, contextualising resources
an entry point in the EOSC for the Social Sciences and Humanities researchers
The SSH Open Marketplace is not:
a repository. Nothing is hosted in the SSH Open Marketplace. Workflow content type can be hosted, but this is an exception.
a data catalogue. The goal is not to collect all the SSH datasets, but selected datasets are indexed to support the contextualisation (dataset mentioned in a publication or used in a training material for example).
a commercial Marketplace. There is nothing to sell in the SSH Open Marketplace. Commercial software/services can be referenced
The DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will take place on May 26th to May 29th in Rome, Italy. Our host for this year’s event is CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. May 26th will be a day for DARIAH internal meetings, followed by the main conference on May 27th to May 29th.
This year’s event will explore the topic of Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.
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!
A day of talks and discussion to explore the future of digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities.
Date and time
Friday, November 7 · 9am – 5pm GMT
Location
Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh
Room 2.55 1 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9EF United Kingdom
About this event
On 7 November 2025, UK DARIAH Day 2025 will gather researchers and practitioners in the Digital Humanities to explore experiences, insights, and challenges related to working with the UK’s digital research infrastructure (DRI). We will consider how closer alignment with the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) can strengthen these initiatives in the UK, and explore what a future UK DRI might look like.
Throughout the day, posters, panels and presentations will showcase projects and other practical engagements with UK DRI.
We invite contributions to our our Lunchtime Showcase from projects,networks and infrastructures in Digital Humanities. Please indicate whether you are interested in contributing when you register.
The event will conclude with a networking reception open to all attendees.
The event is organised by the UK cooperating partners of DARIAH: the Universities of Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter and Leeds; Kings College London; and the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
9.45 – 10.45: Infrastructure as Service or asMeitheal? Observations on a Decade (or Two) of DARIAH-IE.Prof Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin)
10.45 – 11.15: Coffee
11.15 – 12.00: Panel 1
Imagining DARIAH-UK: an exploration of potential infrastructural models. Sally Chambers (British Library / DARIAH)
CCP-AHC: A collaborative vision for access to large-scale compute for arts, humanities, and culture research in the UK. Eamonn Bell (University of Durham)
Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research. Andre Piza (The Alan Turing Institute)
12:15 – 13.00: Panel 2
DISKAH: Building skills for DRI-driven approaches to arts and humanities research. Karina Rodriguez Echavarria (University of Brighton)
Embedding arts and humanities research on responsible AI within industry and policy settings: lessons from the Bridging Responsible AI Divides programme. Gavin Leuzzi (Fellowships Lead, BRAID)
Title TBC, William Nixon (RLUK)
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch and Showcase
14:00 – 14:30: DRI operating models and opportunities: an AHRC perspective
14:30 – 17:00:Imagining Digital Infrastructure Futures Workshop. Jen Ross & Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh)
How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes about infrastructure, by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities? The workshop hosts from the University of Edinburgh have developed a set of research-informed, speculative scenarios to explore imagined futures for digital cultural heritage. This workshop will build on insights from responses to the scenarios to date, engage imaginatively with them, and facilitate strategic discussions about digital infrastructure futures.
We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Autumn 2025 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.
The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required. Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus.
The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:
Friday 3rd October 2025, 10.30am WEST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST
Title: Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal for Spatial and Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data
Incentives and advocacy of open science principles have spread for more than two decades in the social sciences and humanities. Although there have been obvious improvements during this period, the current situation is far from satisfying. In archaeology, for example, despite the long-standing interest in this field for database-systems, recent literature highlights several barriers to the availability of field data: 1) the absence of user-friendly tools, 2) a lack of data management training, 3) limited time to prepare data for publication, and 4) insufficient recognition of data publishing efforts. To address these issues, the “archeoViz” application offers a solution as an open-source stand-alone application for visualising and statistically exploring spatialised archaeological data. It is complemented by the “archeoViz Portal”, an interactive catalogue of “archeoViz” use-cases (https://analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/home). Ultimately, the “archeoViz” ecosystem facilitates data sharing and the visual restitution of archaeological findings, benefiting scientists and the general public alike.
In this presentation, taking archaeology as a case study, the underlying principles of the “archeoViz” ecosystem will be presented and illustrated, to fuel a more general discussion about the advocacy of open science principles in the social sciences and humanities.
About the speakers
Sébastien Plutniak (PhD in sociology, Master in archaeology) is a full-time research scientist at the CITERES lab (Tours, France) and a former member of the French School in Rome. His research revolves around computational methods in the humanities and the social sciences, which he investigates: 1) in a sociohistorical perspective, 2) in a practical way, developing methods and software tools for archaeological research.
Élisa Caron-Laviolette is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology at the TEMPS lab (Nanterre, France), specialising in the spatial analysis of prehistoric domestic spaces. Her work combines field recording, GIS, and other digital and computational tools to investigate the organisation and use of space in hunter-gatherer campsites, with particular attention to material culture such as stone tools. She also engages with comparative perspectives, including occasional studies of sedentary groups.
Friday 7th November 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET
Title: AI-Human Synergy: Enhancing Cultural Knowledge Through Ethical and Inclusive use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), offer exciting possibilities for digital humanities research, specifically within computational literary studies. However, integrating these technologies responsibly and inclusively remains a critical challenge. This seminar introduces projects on Irish literature where the implementation of technical methods and discussions, in particular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI workflow, can expand the scope of literary historiography and enhance close reading by introducing a machine-human synergy.
The talk will detail how RAG can contribute to existing trauma literature theories, reshape literary historiography, and engage in the discussion of digital hermeneutics by interacting with archival information. By examining poetry from Northern Ireland’s Troubles, this session also explores how LLMs enhance rather than replace traditional close reading methods, informed by Josephine Miles’ early quantitative literary critical approaches.
Last but not least, central to this exploration is the ethical dimension of AI, notably in relation to indigenous languages and cultures. Using examples from Indigenous Gaelic languages, the presentation highlights critical considerations including epistemological diversity in AI training, preserving endangered languages, and respecting data sovereignty.
About the speaker
Dr. Jenny Kwokis Research Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, where she also serves as the Lab Coordinator of the Arts Technology Lab. Dr. Kwok’s research advances AI workflows for literary analysis, focusing on Irish conflict literature. She develops retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to contextualise the ambiguity of Troubles-era poetry within historical archives, and fine-tunes LLMs for semantic analysis of Irish literary corpuses. Her methods prioritise sociopolitical sensitivity and literary nuances, countering AI’s tendency to flatten contested narratives.
Her forthcoming work proposes frameworks for democratising AI in the humanities, emphasising explainable AI (XAI) tools. This aligns with her reinterpretation of pre-digital methodologies (e.g., Josephine Miles’ concordance work) as blueprints for hybrid human-machine interpretation.
Dr. Kwok holds fellowship at the Cambridge Digital Humanities (2025) and is Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford (2026).
Friday 5th December 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET
Title: Building corpora of digital early music editions: challenges and opportunities.
Speakers: Esperanza Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Frans Wiering (Utrecht University), David Lewis (University of Oxford), Anna Plaksin (Paderborn University).
This presentation shows results from the project CORSICA (Creation of Early Music Corpora). This initiative, growing from the COST action EarlyMuse, is directed by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht), with the participation of researchers from Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. The project sprang from the need to create a large corpus of early music data, coherently encoded and curated data that could be used for computer analysis, facilitating big-data studies. Hence, the research aims to improve the number of available corpora of Renaissance music by devising protocols to create collections of digital editions and, equally important, to facilitate the reuse of a sizable number of editions produced by a myriad of “citizen scientists” without much systematisation.
About the speakers
Esperanza Rodríguez is a “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the Music Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received a PhD at The University of Manchester (2010). Since then, she has worked at research institutions in the UK, Portugal, and France. Primarily a cultural musicologist specialising in Renaissance music, she has added an interest in digital musicology, especially in the field of musical analysis (CRIM-Project) and the recreation and dissemination of musical heritage (project ‘Experiencing Historical Soundscapes: the Royal Entries of Emperor Charles V in Iberian Cities’).
Frans Wiering is an Associate Professor at the Music Information Computing group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands). He received a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1995 for his dissertation “The Language of the Modes” on the richness and variety of modality in 16th- and 17th-century music. The three main areas of his current research are music information retrieval, computational musicology, and interactive technologies, which he combines in his ongoing work on the use and acceptance of new technologies in musicological research. He is the founder of the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, a corpus of online music treatises by Gioseffo Zarlino and his contemporaries (https://tmiweb.science.uu.nl/). He co-chairs the International Musicological Society’s Study Group on Digital Musicology.
David Lewis is a researcher at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre in Oxford and Lecturer in Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches Digital Humanities. He studied historical musicology at King’s College London and has since worked on a wide range of digital musicology and digital humanities projects, including lute tablatures, medieval and early modern music treatises, arrangements of concert works for domestic settings, and composer work catalogues.
Anna Plaksin is currently a professor of Digital Methods in Music and Media Editing at KreativInstitut.OWL (Paderborn University). After studying musicology, media education, and philosophy in Mainz (Germany), was awarded her PhD in 2020 by the Technical University of Darmstadt for her dissertation “Models for the computational analysis of mensural music traditions. Empirical text studies in the context of phylogenetic methods”. She worked previously on the research projects “Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music” (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University), “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae” (Max Weber Foundation, Bonn), and “Virtual Research Infrastructure for the Humanities” (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Her research focuses on music encoding, corpus building, the development of software tools for interactive music scores, and the development of analytical methods for musical corpora.
Call for Papers: 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage Theme:Rethinking Heritage across STEM, Humanities, and Arts Date: 22–24 October 2025 Location: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage, which will take place from 22 to 24 October 2025 in Osijek, Croatia.
Organisers:
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research / DARIAH-HR, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek
The aim of the conference is to foster collaboration across science, technology, the humanities, and the arts, and to create space for critical reflection on digital technologies in the context of cultural heritage, research, and artistic practice.
Main thematic areas include:
· STEM + Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Solutions · Creative Synergies: Art and Technology · Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age · Cultural and Creative Industries as a Bridge between Science and Art
For more information about the conference and the submission process, please refer to the full Call for Papers.
How to participate?
We invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster (up to 500 words), accompanied by a short biography (up to 200 words) and a photo, no later than 15 June 2025 via the online form: https://forms.gle/Eyt3N3iy5o9ikiXv6
Authors of selected contributions will be invited to publish in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings volume.
Presentations and posters will be delivered on-site only.
Participation in the conference is free of charge.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2025 Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2025
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025—an exciting chance to collaborate, innovate and push your own boundaries. Apply and be part of this milestone event!
As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year we are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details). Participation in #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants.
The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH24, #DHH23, #DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.
Themes
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:
Parliaments and legislation
Holocaust oral history
Social media
Early modern newspapers
Application schedule for #DHH25
13.3.–12.4.2025 Application period 16.4.2025 Applicants informed of acceptance 16.–23.4.2025 Registration to #DHH25 for accepted participants 29.4. & 6.5.2025 Two #DHH25 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions 14.–23.5.2025 #DHH25 hackathon in Helsinki
Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.
Venue
Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A (see on map) University of Helsinki Finland
Practicalities and Timetable
The hackathon will take place between 14.–23.5.2025. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Tuesdays 29.4. and 6.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, sponsorship of travel and accommodation for international participants).
We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Spring/Summer 2025 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.
The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required. Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus.
The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:
Friday 7th March 2025, 10.30am GMT / 11.30am CET / 12.30pm EET
Title: Performing Arts Studies and Digital Humanities
What connects analysing the creative process of a performance using 20,000 collected digital documents, reconstructing an artist’s career from programme data, and preserving a touring show? The answer lies in digital traces – one of the most significant challenges for the memory of performing arts. This talk will explore the intersection of performing arts studies and digital. Following a state-of-the-art review of research in performing arts and digital humanities (literature, history, and representation analysis), the talk will address current challenges, including data modelling, multimodal analysis, and artificial intelligence. From preserving performances to studying creative processes and building new historiographical methods, the digital transformation reshapes how we understand and document performing arts.
About the speaker
Clarisse Bardiot is a Professor of History of Contemporary Theatre and Digital Humanities at Rennes 2 University. Her research focuses on performing arts digital traces, creative processes analysis, the history and aesthetics of digital performance, the preservation of digital works, and experimental publishing. With a team of developers, she designed digital environments for performing arts preservation and documentation: a software prototype, Rekall, and a web app, MemoRekall. She is the author of Performing Arts and Digital Humanities. From Traces to Data (Wiley / Iste, 2021). In 2023, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a project called “From Stage to Data, the Digital Turn of Contemporary Performing Arts Historiography (STAGE)”.
Friday 11th April, 10.30am IST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST
Title: Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration
Speakers: Aliz Horvath (Central European University, Vienna), Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin University Library), David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi).
Although research and teaching in most (digital) humanities disciplines are largely multilingual, our institutional infrastructures still often fall short in accommodating our scholarly linguistic and geo-cultural diversity. Having studied the resource gap of knowledge infrastructures and its implications for advancing multilingual digital research, in this talk we argue that there is a specific role to be played by the digital humanist, first in drawing attention to the realities of our larger DH community, and second in lobbying for the design of workflows which assume multilinguality (and multiscriptual and multidirectional characteristics). A wider conversation is urgently needed amongst global DH practitioners and knowledge infrastructure designers/managers about these issues. Drawing on methods in the UX community, we have developed six data-driven user personas from the DH community (a graduate student, a professor, a librarian, an academic technology specialist, etc.) The talk will address needs and challenges of multilingual DH practitioners, through highlighting their broader relevance to the field, and staging a performative component using fictional (but revelatory) interviews with the personas. This double mode of the talk demonstrates how the theoretical implications can be translated to individual knowledge actors and ultimately lobbies for more linguistic and geocultural diversity.
About the speakers
Alíz Horváth has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago (2019) and currently works as assistant professor of East Asian history and Digital Humanities at Central European University (Vienna, Austria). She is interested in the mechanisms of transnational flows within and beyond East Asia (with a focus on Japan, China, and Korea). She is also an avid advocate of linguistic diversity in digital humanities and has published multiple articles on language inclusivity in DH and on challenges and potential points for collaboration in digital East Asian studies. She recently co-guest edited a special issue on East Asian studies and DH for the International Journal of Digital Humanities with Hilde De Weerdt. Beside regularly presenting her work at major international conferences and serving as peer reviewer for multiple journals in East Asian studies and digital humanities, she is also co-founder and chair of the DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group, member of the Core Editorial Team for the DARIAH sustained project, OpenMethods, member of the editorial board for Asia Pacific Perspectives, a topic editor of the Asian and Asian Diaspora studies section of Reviews in DH, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS, member of the Scientific Committee of the overlay journal Transformations, and former contributor to the pioneering NEH-funded project, New Languages for NLP, organized by Princeton.
Cosima Wagner is a research librarian at Freie Universität Berlin University Library (Germany), with a background in Japanese Studies, History and Library & Information Science. After ten years as faculty member (research fellow, assistant professor) at the institute for Japanese Studies of Goethe-University / Frankfurt she is since 2013 serving as liaison to the East Asian Studies faculty at Freie Universität Berlin with a special focus on Digital Humanities, Research Data Management and Open Science. Her research interests include a Science & Technology Studies approach to knowledge infrastructure management, multilingualism and non-Latin scripts in the digital space, Area Studies librarianship as well as critical algorithm studies. She is co-convenor of the Multilingual DH working group within the DH association of the German-speaking areas (DHd).
David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). His research interests include comparative approaches to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic, digital spatial approaches to corpora, neural methods for handwritten text recognition across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle East where he has lived and researched since 2002. He co-organized two RTL (right to left) conferences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and also co-founded two digital humanities training events in the Middle East, in Beirut in 2015 and in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
Friday 2nd May, 4pm IST / 5pm CEST / 6pm EEST
Title: Thinking With Machines:How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically
The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools presents both opportunities and challenges for academia. While these technologies offer powerful capabilities to support scholarship, their thoughtless adoption could undermine the very foundations of academic work. This talk introduces a framework for incorporating generative AI into academic practice in ways that enhance rather than replace human thought. Drawing on extensive practical experience, it demonstrates how conversational agents can serve as intellectual interlocutors rather than mere productivity tools, while examining the broader implications of these developments for the future of universities.
About the Speaker
Dr Mark Carrigan FRSA FHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester where he is programme director for the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education (DTCE) and co-lead of the DTCE Research and Scholarship group. Trained as a philosopher and sociologist, his research aims to bridge fundamental questions of social ontology with practical and policy interventions to support the effective use of emerging technologies within education. He has written or edited eight books, including Social Media for Academics, published by Sage and now in its second edition. His latest book ‘Generative AI for Academics’ was released by Sage in December 2024. He jointly coordinates the Critical Realism Network while being active in the Centre for Social Ontology and a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is a board member for a range of publications, including Civic Sociology, the Journal of Digital Social Research and Globalisation, Societies and Education.
Venue: Zagreb, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE) / Online Dates: October 16–17, 2025
Conference organised by
Institute of Art History, Zagreb University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb DARIAH-HR
Keynote speakers
Paul Jaskot, Co-Director, Duke Digital Art History & Visual Culture Lab; Professor of Art History, Duke University
Chiara Bonacchi, Chancellor’s Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage; HCA and Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh
Conference and topic
Since 2018, the Digital Art History (DAH) conference series in Zagreb has served as an inclusive international platform for exchange in the field of Digital Art History/Digital Humanities, addressing specific challenges of conducting digitally-informed research. So far, the four conferences organized by the Institute of Art History, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), DARIAH-HR, and their partners gathered around 150 researchers in Zagreb and online, and have published a number of conference presentations in peer-reviewed thematic issues of the scholarly journal Život umjetnosti, as well as an edited volume, within several research projects.
Building on the critical insights and experiences of previous years, the fifth edition of the conference firmly maintains its initial concern and the agenda of inclusivity and diversity within the conferences’ programs. This guiding principle came as a response to the structural limitations of the field, faced by researchers in under-funded humanities sectors and GLAM institutions in the European (semi-)periphery, and continues to be relevant amidst growing global inequalities, cuts in humanities and social sciences, and growing threats of appropriation and misuse of the open access and fair science policies by the corporate developers of Large Language Models. Operating within a context marked by disciplinary and geographic disparities, as well as limited access to commercial academic publications, the conference also emphasizes collaboration across varying levels of digital expertise.
This year’s conference aims to unite a diverse community of researchers, both analogue and digital, across the broader field of culture to engage in discussing the question of sources that underpin historical scholarship. The choice of sources at the heart of historical work is deeply intertwined with key disciplinary issues, such as the agency of historical actors, the researcher’s positionality, and the ethical considerations that emerge from particular lines of inquiry. Therefore, we invite scholars to engage in a discussion on the politics of sources and data, which requires not only transparency, but also reflexivity.
Topics of particular interest for discussion include, but are not limited to:
The construction of historical narratives in relation to incomplete, inaccessible, or non-existent sources
Unequal power dynamics in relation to data preservation, and their influence on the production of historical narratives
Challenges and possibilities of producing evidence at scale to represent marginalized subjects
The influence of contemporary socio-political and cultural issues in shaping research priorities and source selection, i.e. the extent to which the potential societal impact of scholarly work is factored into these decisions
Legal, material, and ethical aspects surrounding data availability and data classification processes
Differences between institutional approaches and community-driven databases
Citizen science initiatives
The selection and prior organization of sources (including their production and preservation contexts), and their intersection with the researcher’s positionality
The history of the researcher’s interaction with data and sources, and the relationship between types of source material and methods of analysis
Call for Papers
To apply for a 20-minute presentation please submit an abstract (500 words max.) and a brief biographical note (200 words max.) to ssekelj@ipu.hr no later than March 31, 2025. In the biographical note please clearly indicate your institutional affiliation (if any). We also encourage proposals for panels consisting of 3–4 presentations addressing a common theme. For panel submissions, please provide a summary (500 words max.) of the panel’s overarching theme, along with individual abstracts and biographical notes for all participants. The conference accepts submissions on completed, original, and unpublished results, as well as contributions that present work in progress. They welcome abstracts from researchers of all career levels and pathways.
Notifications of acceptance will be announced by April 22, 2025.
Participation in the conference is free and open to all, with no registration fees. While the organisers are unable to cover accommodation or travel expenses for participants, lunches will be provided during the event.
Darka Bilić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Boris Čučković Berger, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich Sanja Horvatinčić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Harald Klinke, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich Ljiljana Kolešnik, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, DARIAH-HR, Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb Ivan Marić, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb Júlia Perczel, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, University of Málaga Susan Schreibman, Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Science Sanja Sekelj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Organising Committee
Sanja Sekelj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Sanja Horvatinčić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Irena Šimić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Martina Bobinac, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Ana Ćurić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb Amira Zubović, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb Slaven Mihaljević, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb
#DIGitART
Find more information on the conference and the call for papers here.
Join the second webinar in the ‘Europeana data reuse in academia and research’ webinar series, focusing on the new DARIAH-Campus training materials. The series is organised by Europeana Research.
November 12, 2024 | 15:00-16:00 CET | Online
As part of the deployment of a common European data space for cultural heritage, DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is engaged in designing courses on digital cultural heritage, tailored to the needs of those who reuse data for academic research, teaching and learning. Hosted on DARIAH-Campus, they result from a balanced blend of expertise, from cultural heritage data academic teaching to computer science and informatics.
In this webinar, you will get familiar with the first three courses published, which present an innovative approach, guiding the learners to understand the structure of data first for more advanced and conscious information retrieval from Europeana.eu.
The webinar will last approximately one hour and will not be recorded. It is part of the ‘Europeana data reuse in academia and research’ webinar series, organised by Europeana Research. The series is dedicated to the exploration of digital cultural heritage in Higher Education and Research and innovative practices surrounding the reuse of Europeana data.
On Tuesday 3 September 2024, UK DARIAH Day will bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in Digital Humanities to consider opportunities and challenges around research infrastructures in the UK, showcase current tools and projects, and build national and regional networks. It will also explore how closer alignment with the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) can strengthen ongoing UK efforts. The opening provocation will be given by Sally Chambers, Head of Research Infrastructures Services at The British Library and a director of DARIAH. Participation from projects, networks and individuals is welcomed, in particular we would encourage contributions to our Project Showcase and Collaboration Catalyst (see calls, below).
The event, which is organised by the UK cooperating partners of DARIAH (the Universities of Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter and Leeds, Kings College London and the School of Advanced Study, University of London), will be held at the University of Leeds. This is a free event (registration required).
10:30-11:15: Provocation and open discussion – Sally Chambers (British Library/DARIAH): ‘What is infrastructure in Digital Humanities?’
11:15-12:15: DARIAH in the UK context
12:15-2: Lunch (provided) & Project Showcase
2-3:30: Collaboration Catalyst
3:30-4:30: Closing conversation
Call for Project Showcase:
This session is designed to help participants develop their understanding of the UK Digital Humanities research landscape. It will feature stalls or posters that showcase the projects, tools and infrastructure that contribute to and support DH research within the UK and internationally. We warmly encourage submissions focused on diverse research, software, hardware, networks and services that, viewed together, will demonstrate the scope of the UK DH ecosystem.
We envisage posters and stalls, but display formats can be flexible: please get in touch if you would like to discuss requirements for displaying or demonstrating your work. To apply, please complete the relevant section of the registration form.
Call for Collaboration Catalyst:
This interactive session will bring together UK DH researchers and practitioners to workshop live or planned projects, and conceptualise innovative solutions through collaborative thinking and cooperation. We invite five-minute project ‘pitches’ which will form the basis for this collaborative workshop. This is a great opportunity to build connections and knowledge, develop your project plans, and initiate new collaborations with colleagues across the UK.
To pitch your project, please complete the relevant section of the registration form. You will be asked submit a title and brief summary, and outline what complementary expertise the project would benefit from.
How to register:
To attend UK DARIAH Day, please complete the registration form. Registration closes on Monday 19 August 2024 at 5pm.
Split, Croatia / 9-11 October 2024 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split
Conference organisers: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb; University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Literary Circle Split; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences; ICARUS Croatia.
The DARIAH-HR conference “Digital Humanities and Heritage” endeavours to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among scholars, humanities experts, and professionals specialising in library and information science, archival studies, and museum cultural resource management. By highlighting the interdependent relationship between digital humanities and heritage, this conference aims to promote the adoption of digital technologies as both a methodological approach and a powerful tool within the realms of heritage, humanities, social sciences, and arts.
This event serves as a crucial platform for stakeholders engaged in heritage and its ongoing digital transformation. The DHH2024 conference will unite researchers, practitioners, technology experts, and enthusiasts, fostering collaboration among individuals dedicated to advancing the exploration of our collective cultural heritage through digital humanities. Marking the 10th anniversary of the DARIAH-EU consortium, this year’s conference will place particular emphasis on the evolution of research infrastructures over the past decade. Attendees will engage in discussions covering themes such as technological innovation, ethical considerations, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the broader implications for digital humanities and heritage research. Through critical assessment of advancements, challenges, and future directions within these fields, participants will explore the dynamic landscape shaped by infrastructure development.
Keynote speakers: Sally Chambers (The British Library in London and DARIAH director) and Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb)
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 | 15.–24.5.2024
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 will be organised on 15.–24.5.2024 as a CLARIN and DARIAH international summer school. The event will be organised as an in-person hackathon. Participation to #DHH24 is free toall accepted participants. In addition,there will be bursaries for travel and lodging.
The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH23, #DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.
Themes
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:
Eurovision Song Contest
Enlightening Illustrations: Analyzing the Role of Images in Enlightenment-Era Luxury Books
Echoes of the Chambers: Studying Democracy through Parliamentary Speeches
13.3.–12.4.2024 Application period 16.4.2024 Applicants informed of acceptance 16.–23.4.2024 Registration to #DHH24 for accepted participants 29.4. & 6.5.2024 Two #DHH24 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions 15.–24.5.2024 #DHH24 hackathon in Helsinki
Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.
Venue
Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 (see on map) University of Helsinki Finland
Practicalities and Timetable
The hackathon will take place between 15.–24.5.2024. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Wednesdays 29.4. and 6.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, sponsorship of travel and accommodation for international participants).
BAL-ADRIA is a collaboration between countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, and countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea, thus connecting Northern and Southern Europe.
In a supportive academic environment, we are offering good-sized classes ideal for learning, discussing and getting feedbacks on your ideas and thoughts. The programme is taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and social sciences and is delivered in a form of lectures, seminars and practical workshops.
This year, Bal-Adria is organised for:
students registered within Linnaeus University
students of Doctoral program Knowledge society and information transfer, University of Zadar
other participants (other universities, institutions, organisations,…)
The schedule is as follows:
First week, 12-16 June – Online, asynchronously (obligatory online participation)
Second week, 17-21 June – Zadar, Croatia (obligatory in-person participation)
Last week 22 June – 03 July – Online, asynchronously (obligatory online participation)
Application opens: 15 March 2024 Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2024
See more information about the summer school and how to apply here.
DARIAH-EU and CLARIN ERIC are delighted to announce the Call for Participation for the first Baltic Digital Humanities Forum, which will take place in the National Library of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia, from 25-26 April 2024.
Digital humanities have become a solid part of the research landscapes in the Baltic countries. Certainly, over the past decades, this transformation has been evident through the vibrant and enthusiastic DH communities, the emergence of new research groups and centers, and the increasing presence of digital humanities courses and programs in higher education. This marks the right time for the digital humanities communities of the three Baltic States to come together, to look at how and in what directions DH has developed in our countries, to reflect on what is relevant today and to project what lies ahead in the near future.
The Baltic DH Forum will take place for two days. The initial day will comprise three sessions featuring invited speakers from the Baltic DH research communities, Ministries, and prominent European digital humanities infrastructures, including CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH-EU. The second day is designed as a networking platform providing an opportunity to present DH projects, showcase developed digital resources and tools, and introduce educational initiatives. Additionally, the afternoon of the second day will host a series of workshops covering successful practices in collaborative projects, fundraising opportunities, and other relevant topics.
Participation in the forum with presentation is free of charge with coffee breaks, lunches, and a dinner provided.
To apply for participation in the Baltic DH Forum “Demonstration and Networking Session” (2nd Day), you are invited to submit an abstract of your presentation (200–250 words) in one of the following categories:
DH resource or tool
Project
Educational initiative, including training materials
Submissions are encouraged in diverse areas within digital humanities, including, but not limited to:
Computational linguistics and language technologies
Computational literature studies
Digital history and archaeology studies
Digital folklore studies and ethnography
Digital cultural heritage
Digital musicology
DH and endangered cultures and languages
Digital environmental humanities
Game studies and digital humanities
Citizen science and crowdsourcing
Deadline for submitting proposals: 25 January 2024
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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