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

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

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

Training Series Learning objectives 

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

Overview of sessions and learning objectives per session

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

FAIR-by-design learning materials

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

Target audience

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

More about the SSH Open Marketplace

The SSH Open Marketplace is:

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

The SSH Open Marketplace is not:

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

Susan Schreibman, DARIAH Director and Professor of Digital Art and Culture in Maastricht University, was awarded the Ángel David Nieves Book Award (Edited Collection) by the American Studies Association. The prize is awarded yearly for the best digital or public humanities project on city and regional planning history. Susan received the prize for her book Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, co-edited with Lisa Marie Rhody.

About the Book

Feminist digital humanities offers opportunities for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge and enacting new processes for creating meaning. Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman present essays that explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for feminist creativity and critique.

The editors divide the works into three categories. In the first section, contributors offer readings that demonstrate how feminist thought can be put into operation through digital practice or via analytical approaches, methodologies, and interpretations. A second section structured around infrastructure considers how technologies of knowledge creation, publication, access, and sharing can be formed or reformed through feminist values. The final section focuses on pedagogies and proposes feminist strategies for preparing students to become critical and confident readers with and against technologies. 

Aimed at readers in and out of the classroom, Feminist Digital Humanities reveals the many ways scholars have pushed beyond critique to practice digital humanities in new ways. The book is available open access (generously supported by the UM Open Access Book Fund) from this link:  https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088506

This post highlights activities and results of the project Enabling city dwellers to better understand and valorise intangible and built heritage together: Digital tools and practices ran by the ARCHETIPO Working Group (WG) between 2023 to 2025. The project leaders were Elena Gigliarelli and Georgios Artopoulos, chairs of the ARCHETIPO WG. This project was funded by the Working Groups Funding Scheme 2023-2025.

Description of the project

The project sought to establish an interdisciplinary community in architecture and Digital Humanities through the organisation of a 5-day international workshop. By uniting diverse disciplines, stakeholders, and authorities, the project aimed to integrate local expertise on traditional building methods into a digital platform. Recognising the need to document and preserve traditional techniques, the project employed digital technologies for research. These tools not only process images and geometrically represent construction but also acquire architectural information historically transmitted through computational methods.

The 5-day international workshop on Digital integrated strategies to safeguard heritage construction technologies was held from 30 September to 5 October 2024 in Poggioreale (Trapani), at the Town Hall council chamber. Organised by CNR-ISPC in collaboration with The Cyprus Institute and the University of Catania, and supported by the Municipality of Poggioreale, it brought together lecturers, students, PhD candidates and professionals from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Cyprus.

The goal of this workshop was to explore how integrated digital tools can support threatened historic settlements,
construction provenance knowledge, safeguarding and a potential rehabilitation as well as the study of safe access to a historic settlement at risk, with a focus on the digital curation of knowledge about traditional construction technologies.

Blending theory and practical sessions, the workshop focused on the scientific and operational aspects of heritage digitization, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue among academics, professionals, and local communities while utilizing advanced digital technologies. The methods and processes explored in this workshop were classes on BIM/HBIM and data management alternated with fieldwork: 2D/3D surveys using drone photogrammetry and mobile SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), typological–construction analysis, and data-processing pipelines. The choice of Old Poggioreale—abandoned after the 1968 Belice earthquake—offered an open-air laboratory to trial workflows that can be replicated in other European contexts.

Project outcomes

The workshop had a significant impact not only on the scientific level but also on raising awareness within the local community. Poggioreale has become an international case study for the application of digital technologies to heritage conservation, demonstrating how the dialogue between past and future can lead to innovative and sustainable solutions. The team produced a georeferenced 3D baseline (point clouds and orthophotos), pilot HBIM models with libraries of techniques (vaults, masonry, floors), and initial safety recommendations to enable controlled public access.

Teaching materials (slides, workflows, checklists) will make the experience reusable in other courses. Content will be soon published open access on DARIAH-Campus, with persistent identifiers issued via an open repository, and will feed HERIGITAL, ARCHETIPO’s forthcoming semantic database. The event, supported by E-RIHS.it (for non-invasive investigations and FAIR data practices) and co-funded by BHiLab (ISPC) with an additional €5,000, strengthened new collaborations among partners and with the local community.

Find out more about the ARCHETIPO WG and how to get involved here.

What is the ECCCH?

The ECCCH is a new EU-funded digital platform connecting Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) across Europe, including museums, archives, libraries, researchers, and conservators. It offers shared infrastructure, advanced tools (AI, 3D, annotation), and a collaborative space to digitise, preserve, and showcase cultural heritage.

Why join?

• Collaborate across disciplines and borders
• Manage, and share collections cost-effectively in a collaborative environment
• Establishing a cost-effective policy for the storage, management, and sharing of collections
• Boost visibility and international reach
• Access cutting-edge digital tools that would otherwise be unaffordable
• Develop innovative services (virtual exhibitions, 3D reconstructions, educational apps)

What will be funded?

The call will support 20 projects, with up to €29,800 available per project. Projects should:

• Involve CHIs working with tangible and/or intangible heritage
• Raise awareness of the ECCCH and expand its community
• Support skills development and capacity building, especially for small and medium-sized CHIs

Projects are expected to have a wide geographical reach and engage a significant number of CHIs. Alongside communication activities, they may also include:

• Digital or in-person workshops, webinars, and online courses
• Training materials (guidelines, toolkits, manuals)
• Informational events on ECCCH benefits
• Surveys to identify sector challenges and opportunities
• Helpdesks providing tailored support and feedback
• Creative engagement formats such as hackathons, co-design, or co-creation sessions

Who can apply?

Consortia of CHIs, led by umbrella organisations, networks, or professional associations with European, national, or regional reach.

How to apply?

Proposals must be submitted by the deadline (30 January 2026, 23:59 CET) through the Submission Portal. For further details on the submission procedure, you can consult the instruction manual or watch the demo video that has been prepared.

Reference documents and support

Please download the guide for applicants for further information.
For specific enquiries, feel free to contact us at grants@echoes-eccch.eu.

Info Day

To support prospective applicants, the ECHOES Team hosted an Info Day on Thursday, November 6 as a Zoom webinar. This session shared details about the application process and answered many questions on the call and submission. The slides presented are now available for download and you can see the recording of the webinar on our Youtube channel.

Key Dates

• Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2026, 11:59 pm CET

*This post is republished from the ECHOES website.

DARIAH ERIC has released its CoARA Progress Report and Action Plan for 2025–2027, reaffirming its commitment to advancing responsible and inclusive research assessment in the arts and humanities.

Since becoming a founding member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in November 2022, DARIAH has been an active voice in Europe’s research assessment reform movement. The Coalition champions a shift from narrow, journal-based metrics towards qualitative, contextual, and transparent evaluation.

Over the past three years, and building on its 2023 position paper on The Role of Research Infrastructures in the Research Assessment Reform, DARIAH has translated the CoARA principles into tangible outcomes: from pioneering open peer review practices in Transformations, our own diamond, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, to developing assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs in the context of the ATRIUM project. 

“Research infrastructures play a unique role in shaping a culture of responsible assessment,” says Toma Tasovac, DARIAH’s Director Emeritus and Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors. “We support evaluation models that value openness, interdisciplinarity, and the real, diverse ways in which arts and humanities researchers create knowledge and contribute to research infrastructures.”

The newly published Progress Report and Action Plan brings together DARIAH’s achievements from 2022–2024 and sets out a strategic roadmap for 2025–2027. It outlines clear priorities for implementing DARIAH’s CoARA commitments and for sustaining momentum towards a more equitable and transparent research assessment ecosystem.

“Sharing DARIAH’s CoARA Action Plan means a lot to us,” said DARIAH Open Science Officer Françoise Gouzi.  “It shows how we’re putting research assessment principles into action, embedding openness, transparency and reusability in our day-to-day editorial and institutional practices.”

Through these efforts, DARIAH continues to connect policy, infrastructure, and community,  helping to ensure that research assessment reform in Europe reflects the diversity, creativity, and collaborative ethos of the arts and humanities.

What is OpenMethods?

OpenMethods is a metablog highlighting curated content about Digital Humanities Methods and Tools, an important area currently underrepresented in the DH peer-reviewed literature especially, but not exclusively, from a European perspective.

With over 250 posts contributed by committed Volunteer Editors, OpenMethods metablog gives accessibility and visibility of scholarly conversations on digital methods. OpenMethods was originally launched through the Humanities at Scale project and was then sustained as a DARIAH Core Service. 

Transition to a DARIAH-IT Community Service

In 2024, OpenMethods transitioned to a Community Service operated by DARIAH-IT. Recognising its value in showcasing digital methods and tools, DARIAH supported DARIAH-IT in taking over its daily operations, ensuring the platform’s continued growth and relevance in the evolving DH landscape. 

“With over 250 posts contributed by committed Volunteer Editors since 2018, OpenMethods is an original publishing hub and crossroads easing conversation on digital methods” said Françoise Gouzi, DARIAH’s Open Science Officer. “From 2024, we’ve moved step by step towards a transition of the metablog to a Community Service operated by DARIAH-IT. I think this transition demonstrates the capacity of DARIAH as a resilient network able to provide stable services to the community. We are confident and delighted to support DARIAH-IT in taking over its daily operations, ensuring the platform’s continued growth and relevance in the evolving DH landscape.”

“Since February 2025, when the DICO (DARIAH-IT Coordination Office) took over the service, we’ve been working closely with the Open Methods Editorial team to shape a new strategy for the metablog and to encourage broader community participation” commented Alessia Spadi, DARIAH-IT Deputy National Coordinator & Sustainability HUB Manager. “We presented the transition with a poster at the DARIAH Annual Event 2025, then launched a call for volunteer editors and welcomed 22 new members from across Europe and beyond. Now, we’re preparing a full rebranding of the website, building on the excellent work done so far and giving the platform a fresh look for its next phase of development.”

Open Call for contributions

Currently, the OpenMethods Editorial Team has launched a new call for content contributions and is inviting you to be part of it! If you’ve already published insightful work on Digital Humanities methods or tools, OpenMethods offers the perfect platform to give it greater visibility. By contributing to this metablog, you help amplify open access research and connect with a broader community of practitioners and scholars.

OpenMethods highlights Digital Humanities methods and tools already published on various sites. All selected content has to be:

• already published elsewhere.
• Open Access content/data.

Content can consist of blog posts, reports, presentations, working papers, data papers, articles, book chapters, video or podcasts. It is not a problem if it is already highlighted on another platform. Content with persistent identifiers (uri, handle, doi) are of course more than welcome.

We are currently looking for 15 evaluators to support the peer review of the top 25 applications of the ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme Call 1 on Data.

The ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme provides funding for consortia led by Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) to engage with the Cultural Heritage Cloud. The Cascading Grants programme supports up to 50 projects across three calls to enhance digital engagement, data sharing, and collaboration.

In particular, Call 1 on data seeks to encourage stakeholders in the Cultural Heritage Community to contribute datasets for use in the Cultural Heritage Cloud. Proposals define the dataset’s intended user community, its purpose (e.g., research, education, virtual exhibitions, etc.), expected outcomes, and benefits for the broader cultural heritage community. Additionally, applicants are asked to provide a scenario of how the project would like to make use of the Cultural Heritage Cloud, including possible steps needed to analyse and process the Cultural Heritage datasets provided. Finally, a detailed dataset description is required, covering content, technical specifications, ethical considerations, availability, and licensing.                                 

For the final evaluation of Call 1, we require 3 external and 1 internal reviewers per application and as such we are drawing on our wide network of practitioners in the field to support this work as external reviewers. External reviewers in this context includes anyone who is not employed by a direct financial beneficiary or associated partners of the ECHOES project or connected with any of the projects selected for the final stage of Call 1. 

In particular, we are looking for:

• 15 people as external reviewers to each review approximately 5 +/- applications (approx 5000 words each)
• We expect it to take about 2-3 hours per application, with a total of 10-15 hours of work for 5 applications. 
• The review work will take place during the month of November, giving you 4 weeks to complete the work.  
• We are unable to remunerate this work, and as such, the review work will need to be undertaken on a voluntary basis.

In the lead-up to the proposal review period, we will hold an evaluators’ information meeting at the beginning of November to collectively align on the approach and criteria.

Please let us know by Friday 24 October if you are interested in supporting the evaluations of our top 25 applications from Call 1. You can let us know by sending a brief email to: grants@echoes-eccch.eu with the subject line: ECHOES: Call 1: Stage 2 Evaluation, stating your interest, your home institution, and main area of expertise. 

As we confirm the list of evaluators, we will organise the evaluator’s information meeting for the beginning of November and send you instructions in advance of the review period.

This post is republished from the ECHOES website.

This post highlights activities and results of the project Navigating through Digital Knowledge Models ran by the THEATRALIA Working Group (WG) between 2023 to 2025. The project leaders were Pr. Cécile Chantraine Braillon (WG Chair, La Rochelle Université) and Dr. Anamarija Žugić Borić (WG Chair, DARIAH-HR). This project was funded by the Working Groups Funding Scheme 2023-2025.

Project objectives

Launched within the DARIAH-EU infrastructure, the THEATRALIA WG brings together a network of approximately 50 researchers from across Europe and beyond. The initiative was born out of a growing need to adapt research and archival practices in the performing arts to the digital age.

To address this challenge, THEATRALIA adopted a phased, methodical approach. Phase 1 (2021–2023) focused on conducting a comprehensive landscape study, which revealed a significant gap: the absence of descriptive standards tailored to the specific needs of the performing arts. Phase 2 (2023–2025), which was the focus of the WG’s latest project funded by the DARIAH-EU WG Funding Scheme, aimed to develop practical digital solutions to address this shortfall—both in terms of describing performing arts archives and the field itself.

The project’s objectives were twofold: first, to design a digital descriptive model that reflects the unique characteristics of performing arts archives; second, to develop a controlled vocabulary that enhances semantic precision and interoperability across platforms and disciplines. To meet the first objective, the team conducted a thorough review of existing metadata practices and selected Dublin Core as a flexible foundational model. Thirty-eight metadata fields were retained and redefined with domain-specific guidance, ensuring alignment with established standards and ontologies.

In parallel, the team developed a prototype thesaurus. Rather than constructing a comprehensive ontology, THEATRALIA chose a pragmatic approach, building a structured, multilingual thesaurus using OpenTheso—an RDF-compatible platform. Terms were carefully extracted and standardized from authoritative glossaries and dictionaries. To date, around 1,400 terms have been compiled, with nearly 100 already accompanied by definitions and bibliographical informations.

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Project results and outcomes

Several tangible results have been achieved. THEATRALIA successfully followed its roadmap to develop digital description languages for the performing arts, including a Dublin Core-based metadata model and a domain-specific thesaurus, both designed in accordance with FAIR principles and set to be released by mid-2025. These resources aim to support archivists, researchers, and cultural institutions in organizing, describing, and analyzing performing arts materials in a sustainable and interoperable digital environment.

Those resources/deliverables of the project are already available in open access in HAL SHS here:

• Cécile Chantraine-Braillon, Fatiha Idmhand, Emeline Jeanne Jouve, Jorge Dubatti, Marie Lavorel, et al.. Multilingual Thesaurus of Performing Arts (Version 1). 2025. ⟨halshs-05156229⟩
• Cécile Chantraine-Braillon, Anamarija Žugić Borić. Dublin Core for Performing Arts. 2025. ⟨hal-05214127⟩

In addition to the creation of those resources, the project also catalyzed new international collaborations, extending its network to include scholars from Israel, Indonesia, and Latin America, and led to integration within large-scale research infrastructures. Notably, THEATRALIA is involved in OSCARS (Open Science Cluster’s Action for Research and Society) through the OASIS project (2025–2026), which promotes innovation in open audiovisual science. It also secured additional funding from the Institut des Amériques for the PERFORMA project (2025–2026), focused on developing a multilingual thesaurus (French–Spanish–English) dedicated to the performing arts.

From March to November 2024, THEATRALIA organised six training workshops—online, hybrid, and in-person—on digital description standards (such as Dublin Core), thesauri management tools (e.g. OpenTheso, Protégé), and domain-specific vocabularies. Over 75 participants attended. One of these sessions, focused on the e-spect@tor video annotation tool, was held during the international conference The Spectator’s School: Digitizing Research in
Performing Arts (Lille, Fédération CNRS Sciences et Cultures du Visuel, 21–22 November 2024), co-organised by THEATRALIA. The work will result in multiple scholarly outputs, including a peer-reviewed article in the ASPA Journal (open access) and a collective volume to be published by Éditions des Archives Contemporaines (EAC/open access). Together, these outcomes significantly contribute to the development of robust digital infrastructures for the performing arts and the broader humanities
community.

Ultimately, THEATRALIA has provided the performing arts research community with robust, interoperable tools to address both the conceptual and technical challenges of digital archiving and analysis—marking a significant step forward in the digital transformation of the field.

Find out more about the THEATRALIA WG and how to get involved here.

This post is republished from the OSCARS website.

We are thrilled to share with you the successful culmination of our recent internal and international Composability and Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) workshop at CERN focusing on two key areas: reviewing the progress of composability development and deployment in the OSCARS project and exploring potential collaboration with the AARC TREE project with respect to Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure. This workshop was particularly significant as it allowed us to delve into the shared challenges faced by research infrastructures and brainstorm potential solutions. In OSCARS, we believe in the power of collective intelligence and the transformative potential of hands-on learning. 

Workshop Objectives and Outcomes

The workshop was held as a satellite event of the Open Science Fair and in conjunction with the project meetings of OSCARS WP2 (Composable Research Infrastructure Services in EOSC) and the AARC-TREE project. This combination resulted in more than 60 registered participants, half of which could attend in person. The synergy with the AARC-TREE project provided valuable insights for the OSCARS project, particularly in the realm of Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure. Conversely, it also offered the AARC-TREE project a clearer understanding of community needs.

The workshop began with a comprehensive review of our progress in composability development and deployment. Within OSCARS, composability refers to the ability to combine and integrate smaller, modular components or services into more complex systems. In a composable system, each component is designed to function independently but can be easily assembled or reconfigured with others to create new workflows or applications. The workshop focused on evaluating the improvements made to the services and ensuring they align with the Cluster’s vision of composability.

We then took a deep dive into the EOSC nodes, focusing on the Federation’s build-up and the distinct roles of the EU and CERN nodes. We reviewed key timelines, including the October 2024 node launch, the governance roadmap until 2027, and the publication of the EOSC federation handbook. A central point of discussion was the challenge of integrating services like AAI and catalogues, highlighting the contrast between the EU node’s strict Service Level Agreements and the more flexible nature of Research Infrastructures. The presentation of the candidate CERN EOSC node highlighted the sharing of experience and lessons learned, including the importance of AAI and the potential for federated data management and storage solutions. The discussion also touched on the role of credits and the need for a more flexible access policy vocabulary.

We continued the workshop with the discussion of “Resource discovery: Challenges and Solutions”. We realized that maturity differs significantly within and across the clusters. While climate research data remains highly fragmented, LifeWatch showcased an advanced federated search with API and LLMs integration. We also examined CLARIN’s infrastructure for promoting interoperability in computational linguistics. The discussion consistently returned to the need for standardized metadata and harmonized policies, with a clear consensus on the potential of semantic web technologies and knowledge graphs.

Further, we discussed the architecture and capabilities of various workflow management systems, including Galaxy, REANA, EWOKS, and DIRAC, focusing on their core design philosophies, user experience, execution environments, data management and integration, reproducibility, and sharing mechanisms. Key points included the use of tools like snakemake for interoperability, the need for data provenance and versioning, and the challenges of integrating different storage systems and tools. The discussion also touched on the importance of reproducibility and FAIR principles, as well as the ongoing development and implementation of open standards like CWL.

The highlight of the workshop were the tours to various experimental sites at CERN, including the Synchro-Cyclotron, the Antimatter Factory, and the ATLAS experiment. We appreciated the insightful and detailed explanations of cutting-edge research. Thank you for the enriching experience!

As a conclusion of the workshop, each cluster defined some upcoming steps and takeaway messages. In general, all clusters aim to improve compatibility across different Research Infrastructures (RIs) by sharing workflows and tools. This collaborative approach helps in addressing data fragmentation and semantic harmonisation, ensuring that data is accessible and meaningful across disciplines. The use of common platforms such as Galaxy, Zenodo, and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) is promoted to streamline data management and analysis.

To achieve these common goals, several steps were outlined:

1. Semantic Harmonisation: Implementing ontologies and FAIR vocabularies is crucial to reduce data fragmentation and enhance interoperability.
2. Workflow Development: Collaborating on the development of reusable and platform-independent workflow components creates bridges between communities and fosters cooperation.
3. Tool Integration: Promoting the integration of tools across different clusters and communities ensuring that methods and services are widely accessible and usable.
4. Competence Centres: Proposing and developing inter-cluster Competence Centres is necessary to address shared challenges and enhance collaborative capabilities.
5. Training and Documentation: Providing extensive documentation and training for VRE workflows and analyses is necessary to ensure that researchers can effectively use these platforms.
6. Platform Integration: Enabling VREs integration with heterogeneous computing resources (e.g. clouds, HPCs), and the development of common VRE Helm Charts, are crucial objectives to optimize and standardize deployments.

By focusing on these commonalities, the clusters can advance their goals and enhance the overall research environment, leading to more efficient and effective data management and analysis across disciplines.

Looking Ahead

The workshop culminated with an in-depth discussion on the upcoming tasks, particularly focusing on the initial concepts for our community engagement activities. This segment was instrumental in fostering creativity and soliciting diverse perspectives on how to effectively engage with the community, promote our work, and ensure practical application of our tools. We unanimously agreed to continue and enhance our community outreach efforts by participating in cluster-specific conferences and workshops, ensuring alignment with the visions of the Competence Centres and Work Packages 1 and 3.

ENVRI – Environmental Sciences
ESCAPE – Astronomy, Nuclear and Particle Physics
LS RI – Life Sciences
PANOSC – Photon and Neutron Science
SSHOC – Social Sciences and Humanities
Cluster-funded project(s)
Other

On 25 September 2025, the SSH Open Cluster held its 5th Assembly, led by Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC), and Vice Chair Sally Chambers (DARIAH ERIC). The meeting reviewed governance updates, strategic initiatives, and adopted a forward-looking work plan.

The meeting began with a review of the year’s developments, with two new ERICs joining the team, namely EHRI and E-RIHS who formally transitioned to ERIC status. Also, a new Cluster member, MEDem, joined the roster of participants. The Cluster’s Rules of Procedure (RoP) underwent a revision with changes that allow greater flexibility, and follow the more mature status of the Cluster after the first three years of work.

The meeting also reviewed ongoing strategic engagement at European and national levels. At the European level, SSHOC continues to work closely with the ERIC Forum, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), and the OSCARS project.

National updates illustrated the Cluster’s influence on local levels he Swiss nationwide initiative SSHOC-CH, presented by Georg Lutz from FORS, was founded as a legal entity in 2024, and is building broad membership with ambitions to deepen policy engagement, stakeholder outreach, and service coordination. In the Netherlands, SSHOC-NL is consolidating a network of SSH institutions, libraries, and archives, positioning itself for stronger alignment with cluster objectives. The initiative was presented by Richard Zijdeman from the International Institute of Social History. From Italy, Emiliano Degl’Innocenti from The National Research Council (Cnr) presented the H2IOSC project and reported progress in federating resources across infrastructures, building registries of tools, establishing secure analysis environments, and advancing collaboration around language and media datasets.

The meeting also presented the 2026 Work Plan, anchored around three strategic pillars: sharing data, tools & workflows; training & education; and advocacy & outreach. On the first pillar, led by Sally Chambers (DARIAH ERIC) Cluster members pledged to operate, maintain, and further develop the SSH Open Marketplace, exploring further connections to EOSC. 

Under training and education, led by Susan Schreibman (DARIAH ERIC) the Cluster aims to refine its vision for a Competence Centre, work on SSHOC web presence, and consolidate educational resources across infrastructures. 

On advocacy and outreach, led by Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch (CESSDA ERIC) the Cluster affirmed its intent to maintain a strong presence in relevant stakeholder bodies. The Cluster also plans to boost its visibility through participation in major conferences, coordination with national initiatives, and support for emerging efforts, especially for Ukrainian SSH researchers.

As SSHOC moves forward from this 5th Assembly, its focus is set on actionable steps, deeper cross-infrastructure collaboration, and stronger presence in Europe’s research infrastructure ecosystem.

This post is republished from the CESSDA website.

The latest series of DARIAH’s impact case studies are now published on the DARIAH website. The three new impact case studies, which are also featured in the 2024 Annual Report, illustrate examples of the impact achieved by a national consortium (DARIAH-HR), a project (CLS INFRA) and an event (Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon).

1. Building a Human Network for Sustainable Digital Humanities in Croatia

DARIAH-HR, one of the 15 founding countries of DARIAH-EU, built a national DH infrastructure by connecting over 40 institutions across Croatia. Through collaborative events, shared tools, and lasting partnerships, DARIAH-HR transformed fragmented efforts into an inclusive human network that empowers scholars, artists, and cultural professionals to engage with digital methods and reshape humanities scholarship.

2. Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon (DHH) began 10 years ago as an experiment that developed into an annual experience to develop an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. It is organised as a master’s level university course and an international summer school every year.

3. Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA)

Computational Literary Studies (CLS) is a new area of studies, established partly due to the activities of the CLS INFRA project (2021-2025). The participants of CLS INFRA conducted training activities, wrote field studies and literature reviews and offered fellowship opportunities to ECRs, in order to support the recognition of CLS as a field of study at an international level.

Three new impact case studies are published annually to showcase the depth and richness of the impact achieved over the year into research communities, into national consortia, into the practices and knowledge base of individual researchers in the area of (digital) arts and humanities.

This interview with DARIAH Director Sally Chambers was given at the Centre of excellence for artificial intelligence in digital humanities (AI4DH). The post is republished from the Centre’s website.

Sally Chambers is Head of Research Infrastructure Services at the British Library. She has previously worked at KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. She is also a member of the board of DARIAH (The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities).

In this short interview, we talked about her role as Head of Infrastructure Services at the British Library, her PhD thesis, the role of AI in digital humanities research, archiving social media and her book recommendations.

Could you share some insight into your position at the British Library and what it entails?

The British Library is an independent research organisation, which means that it has a research remit, even though it is a cultural heritage institution. We try to ensure that the British Library’s collections can be used by researchers and provide access to research produced by British Library staff. Therefore, we have a research repository and that is where our staff can publish their research, publications, articles and conference proceedings.

We also have a portal EThOS – Electronic Theses Online Service, which was recently attacked, and we are currently working on restoring access. It is a portal where all the PhD theses awarded by UK higher education institutions are available. We also have a portal called DataCite UK where we support the creation and management of persistent identifiers such as DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers).

As part of DARIAH, we are working with our team on services and data policy and on a number of projects such as OSCARS and ECHOES. My favourite project is Collections as data, which is about providing access to digital collections of cultural heritage and making them available as data so that they can be analysed with AI, for example.

What is your role within the Centre of excellence for artificial intelligence in digital humanities (AI4DH)?

I am a member of the international advisory board. This is about sharing expertise and giving advice on how the CoE could connect to the various international initiatives and research infrastructures such as DARIAH or CLARIN.

Could you give us a glimpse into your PhD research in digital humanities. What are you investigating and why?

My research focuses on the question of what obstacles make it difficult for researchers to access cultural heritage collections. Cultural heritage institutions often invest a lot of time in digitising their collections, but then researchers use other collections and not the ones that are already available. My question is: how can we make the collections more accessible to researchers? Do researchers even know that these collections exist? Do they have the right format? Are they available as data? Often there are also legal obstacles – the data is in the digital libraries, but it’s not easy to get it out. In short, how can we improve collaboration with cultural heritage institutions such as national libraries and digital humanities researchers?

Do you have any case studies?

At the Royal Library of Belgium, we launched a project called DATA-KBR-BE, which focuses on a digitised newspaper collection. The goal was to explore how different types of researchers like historians, literary scholars, and media or journalism scholars use this kind of data.

For instance, historians were interested in strikes and instances of collective action that took place in Ghent during a specific year. They examined how these events were portrayed in the newspapers of the time.

Literary scholars, on the other hand, focused on something entirely different. They analysed how literature was published in serial form within newspapers—where each instalment ended on a cliffhanger, encouraging readers to purchase the next issue to find out what happened next.

Communication and journalism scholars were particularly interested in the history of Belgian journalism. They investigated which newspapers individual journalists contributed to. However, they often encountered a challenge: newspapers frequently listed only the journalists’ initials, not their full names. This led to a key research question: can we identify which journalist wrote which articles, and what topics they covered?

Do you use AI in your own research?

I’m a bit scared of AI. We did some work with machine learning and computer vision. We wanted to segment digitised historical newspapers. One of our PhD students at Ghent University used a combination of computer vision – where the articles appear visually – and other techniques to cut out the articles.

“Just as we archive newspapers to preserve a cultural and historical record, the same applies to social media. It is our mission to collect and preserve these digital materials for future research and cultural memory.”

You also mentioned the importance of social media archives for the digital humanities. Can you tell me more about this?

In Belgium, we worked on two related projects. The first was PROMISE (Preserving Online Multiple Information: Towards a Belgian Strategy), which focused on establishing a national web archive. The second, a complementary project called BESOCIAL, aimed to archive social media content.

As part of BESOCIAL, we crawled websites related to culture and invited the public to suggest social media feeds they believed should be preserved such as posts by politicians, for example.

Just as we archive newspapers to preserve a cultural and historical record, the same applies to social media. It is our mission to collect and preserve these digital materials for future research and cultural memory. However, providing access to social media archives poses significant challenges. Since the authors of these posts are often still alive, privacy concerns and GDPR regulations must be carefully considered before granting access.

How is your area of expertise evolving, and what should we be watching for?

This is a tough one. AI is very sexy, but we must make it usable for everyday work. I am a librarian and I am interested in library collections. Only a small proportion of historical newspapers are digitised and I am interested in how we can use AI to expand the collections. And of course, the future is about improving AI literacy and understanding these black box systems and making them transparent.

Do you have any book recommendations?

There is a new book called Feminist Digital Humanities, edited by Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman. Jennifer Edmond has published a book on social science and humanities research infrastructures called Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research. I would also recommend our forthcoming book Digital Humanities for Librarians, which needs some work but will introduce librarians to the digital humanities.

The DARIAH Board of Directors has approved the DARIAH Goes Green: Internal Environmental Guidelines which can now be consulted on our website. The Green Guidelines were written by Agiatis Benardou, President of the DARIAH-EU Board of Directors, and Anne Baillot, Research Fellow in DARIAH, with contributions from the DARIAH Board of Directors, the DARIAH Coordination Office, the Scientific Board and the Joint Research Committee.

The document is intended as a practical starting point in reducing our environmental impact by targeting areas where the DARIAH Coordination Office has direct influence (e.g. travel, data storage, communication practices). These internal guidelines are subject to evolution based on feedback, capacity, and measurable progress.

The core principles of these guidelines are:

• Transparency over greenwashing: We acknowledge our footprint and aim to mitigate it at the source.
• We understand that not all members across Europe operate with equal resources and flexibility.
• We target areas where the DCO has direct influence.

Gustavo Candela is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Alicante. He is involved in the International GLAM Labs Community and has closely collaborated with institutions and initiatives including the National Library of Scotland, Europeana, LIBER, British Library, Columbia University, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, and DARIAH-EU.

Candela was recently appointed to join the Joint Research Committee of DARIAH and co-chair the Virtual Competency Centre on e-Infrastructure, alongside Tomasz Parkoła. Parkoła, Head of the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and co-chair of the Virtual Competency Center ‘eInfrastructure’, was also elected as Vice-Chair of the Joint Research Committee and member of the Senior Management Team. 

Relationship with DARIAH

Gustavo Candela has been working closely with DARIAH over the years through various European projects. More recently, he has been leading the Collections as Data work on behalf of DARIAH as part of the European data space for Cultural Heritage in collaboration with Europeana. As part of this work, Candela published the Collections as Data workflow in the SSH Open Marketplace and the related training materials in DARIAH-Campus. In relation to the DARIAH Working Groups, Candela is co-chair of the DHwiki Working Group, aiming at exploring the use of Wikidata and Wikibase in the Digital Humanities context.

About Gustavo Candela

Gustavo Candela is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Alicante, where he received his PhD in Computer Science. Until 2023, he was a member of the IT department at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. His main areas of research interest are Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, and Collections as Data. He has worked with and published on the integration and quality of Linked Open Data in libraries, as well as Collections as Data and Jupyter Notebooks using datasets provided by several GLAM institutions.

DARIAH is seeking to recruit a proactive and organised individual to join our dynamic team as Assistant to the Secretary General, which is a central and key position in the organisation. This role will provide support to the Secretary General in managing administrative tasks, helping with financial operations, and coordinating activities across the organisation.

Principal duties:

• Assist the Secretary General in day-to-day financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Process invoices, expenses, payments and travel cost reimbursements in a timely manner.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements and presentations.
• Prepare and distribute correspondence, memos, and reports on behalf of the Secretary General.
• Assist in coordinating meetings, conferences, and events, including scheduling, logistics, and preparation.
• Other duties that might be required, related to the employee’s overall role and responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in an administrative role, preferably supporting executive-level management.
• Understanding of financial principles and practices.
• Fluency in English (spoken & written); good knowledge of French is also required.
• Organizational and time management skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel (or equivalent) and other relevant software.
• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in all tasks.
• Ability to work independently.
• Professionalism and discretion in handling confidential information.

Who we are

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.

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

Application procedure

If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 25.07.2025 at the latest.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to arnaud.roi@dariah.eu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract

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

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

About the speakers

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr. Jenny Kwok, University of Hong Kong 

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

Abstract

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

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

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

About the speaker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract 

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

About the speakers 

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

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

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

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

DARIAH is delighted to publish the third Spotlight article The DARIAH Working Group on Research Data Management is five years old!. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network. Written by Francesco Gelati (University of Hamburg) and Françoise Gouzi (DARIAH-EU), co-chairs of the Research Data Management Working Group, the article presents the needs and aims behind the creation of this Working Group back in 2020 and its development in these past 5 years.

“Five years after its foundation, the WG RDM continues to be, at least in the view of its co-chairs, a lively, albeit mostly virtual, place where early-career and renowned scholars, data stewards, digital humanists, and GLAM professionals meet in what is now the (only?) pan-European platform for sharing and discussing best practices in Research Data Management for the arts and humanities.”

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

The European project ARTEMIS is developing a new generation of Reactive Digital Twins for cultural heritage. These digital models integrate real-time or regularly updated data and enable professionals to simulate interventions, assess risks, and monitor the condition of heritage assets with unprecedented precision, without endangering the original objects or sites.

To help us understand how digital tools are currently used in your field, what challenges you face, and what you expect from future technologies, ARTEMIS has launched a European-wide consultation through a dedicated online survey.

The survey is anonymous, takes only 10 minutes, and is open to all cultural heritage professionals, experts, and researchers – from conservators and scientists to curators, architects, educators, and digital specialists.

The objective of the survey is to build a picture of the type of tools, technologies and digital services being used, identify training needs and collect possible collaboration opportunities with the ARTEMIS project in the development of Heritage Digital Twins.

By participating in the survey, you will help shape the ARTEMIS cloud platform and its associated services. Your input will directly inform the development of the ARTEMIS platform and its training strategy.

* Read more on the project and how DARIAH is involved here.

DARIAH-EU will be ceasing activity on X (formerly Twitter) by mid June 2025 as the platform is no longer a public forum that aligns with our core values as a research infrastructure, as outlined in our Mission and Vision statement.

You can continue to stay up to date with DARIAH news and events by:

• Subscribing to our public newsletter
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We look forward to sharing digital humanities, digital cultural heritage, and open research news, events, and developments with you throughout the year!