Written by Cécile Chantraine Braillon, La Rochelle Université (France) and Anamarija Žugić Borić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (Croatia), this article presents the work conducted within the Theatralia Working Group to address the growing digital transformation of the performing arts. Bringing together around 30 scholars, GLAM professionals, and artists, the group fosters interdisciplinary research on digitization, digital performance, digital methodologies, and archiving in the performing arts.
After an initial phase dedicated to identifying the new challenges and emerging needs raised by the performing arts’ adaptation to the digital turn, the group underscored a key epistemological issue: the need for a shared computational language to describe and represent the field, enabling meaningful data exchange and generating real scholarly value. In its second phase, Theatralia therefore refocused its efforts on refining such digital description models and supporting their integration into broader archival infrastructures. This Spotlight delves into the issues identified and the task of building and further developing a thesaurus for performing arts.
This article is part of DARIAH’s latest outreach campaign, DARIAH Spotlight, which makes research within the DARIAH network more visible. This monthly series will showcase digital scholarship in the humanities, from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network. Follow this campaign for more Spotlight articles.
As of January 2026, Utrecht University’s ArtLab will formally become part of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). ArtLab is an academic heritage laboratory that combines advanced imaging and 3D technologies with expertise in material art history.
Its integration into the CDH will support Artlab’s continued growth and enable a broadening towards new digital humanities themes and applications. Bringing together humanities researchers who work with innovative digital methods, creates opportunities for cross-fertilisation and intellectual exchange.
About the ArtLab
At ArtLab, researchers and students work on location using mobile equipment. They develop accessible research applications, provide training for professionals, and collaborate closely with national and international external partners. ArtLab aspires to be the first laboratory in the Netherlands – and beyond – where material objects and digital methodologies are brought together for the study of art and culture.
Data School zoekt voor 16 tot 28 uur een enthousiaste medewerker kennisvalorisatie/teamleider die zich bezighoudt met projectmanagement, business development en het begeleiden van collega’s.
Als tijdelijke medewerker, in verband met vervanging zwangerschapsverlof, zul je in eerste instantie deze positie vervangen en coördineer je lopende projecten van Data School. Er is ruimte voor eigen inbreng en creatieve ideeën in de vorm van business development en acquisitie.
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In accordance with the statutes of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) association, elections to the DHNB Board will be conducted by remote electronic vote in the period 16 February – 1 March 2026.
The Nomination Committee hereby invites nominations for board membership. Any member of the association may be nominated for election to the Board. In this election cycle, three of the nine board seats are up for election, each for a three-year term. All the three board members whose terms are ending are eligible to be re-elected and have conveyed that they intend to reapply. However, the election is open, and any member of the association may be nominated for election to the board. Thus, the Nomination Committee hereby invites any and all nominations for board membership.
Each nomination must be accompanied by:
a short statement from the nominee confirming their willingness to serve, and
the support of two DHNB members other than the nominee.
Nominations must reach the Nomination Committee no later than 15 February 2026.
The DHNB Board works to advance digital humanities across the Nordic and Baltic regions through monthly meetings and the allocation of specific responsibilities among board members. While the workload is manageable, board service presupposes an active engagement in supporting the association’s activities, networks, and strategic development.
DHNB is committed to openness and inclusivity and welcomes nominations reflecting the geographical, disciplinary, and institutional diversity of the Nordic and Baltic digital humanities community.
Questions regarding the nomination or election process may be directed to board@dhnb.eu.
Nominations, including a short bio and motivation from the nominee, should likewise be sent to this address.
With best regards,
On behalf of the Nomination Committee
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
Our brand-new Spring 2026 Training Programme offers a range of exciting new workshops and lectures, including Qualtrics, Small Language Models, and AI & investigative journalism.
Whether you are taking your first steps in the digital humanities or looking to deepen your expertise, our free workshops and lectures provide fresh perspectives and hands-on learning opportunities.
Some sessions are open to all, while others are reserved for staff and students from the Faculty of Humanities and other UU faculties. We look forward to welcoming you in one – or several – of these workshops and lectures.
As many of you know, recent organizational changes at Texas A&M, shifts in national funding priorities, and developments within the field of digital humanities have prompted a review of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) and its future direction.
Pending final approval, CoDHR will transition from the College of Arts & Sciences to Texas A&M University Libraries at the end of the Spring 2026 semester. In preparation for this move, CoDHR is collaborating with principal investigators and the Libraries to ensure the smooth transfer and archiving of existing projects. Please note that the Digital Humanities Certificate, administered by the Department of English, will remain unchanged.
Since its founding in 2018, CoDHR has played an important role in advancing Texas A&M’s research profile. We believe the Libraries are well positioned to sustain and strengthen CoDHR’s university-wide mission to support digital humanities research during this period of change in higher education. I want to express my sincere appreciation to Director Maura Ives and Associate Director Amy Earhart for their leadership and service.
The College remains deeply committed to fostering research in digital humanities and the humanities more broadly. To that end, we are investing an additional $50,000 annually for the next three years in the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research to expand existing programs and launch new initiatives that will seed and support digital humanities projects. In addition, the College will fund a new three-year humanities research initiative at up to $50,000 per year to amplify emerging, multidisciplinary areas of scholarship. Additional information and an open call for proposals will be available next semester.
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Written by Maria Ilvanidou, Scientific Associate at ATHENA RC and Athens University of Economics and Business, this article presents the findings of the ATRIUM Skillset Assessment Survey, conducted within the ATRIUM project, to understand the skills researchers already have, the ones they’re missing, and the training support they need to work confidently with digital tools and services in the ATRIUM Catalogue. The findings were analyzed and presented in the ATRIUM Skillset Assessment and Gap Analysis Report published in August 2025.
Strengthening digital skills ensures more equitable access to research infrastructures and better data and research practices across languages, media and disciplines. For ATRIUM, training is not just an optional extra but a central strategy to enable researchers to use the services available to them. The Skillset Assessment and Gap Analysis report offers a detailed, evidence-based picture of the skills researchers already have and the areas they need more support. Its insights are relevant beyond ATRIUM, contributing to ongoing discussions and efforts in digital capacity building across the wider AHSS community.
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.
Do you have a question related to digital humanities? Drop by our weekly walk-in hours every Thursday from 14:00 to 15:00. All humanities staff and students are welcome, whether you are a beginner or working at an advanced level.
Sessions take place in person in room 0.32 in the University Library City Centre, with one exception: on 19 March 2026, the walk-in hour will be online only.
We are pleased to announce that SSHOC’s activities in 2026 will be led by newly elected Sally Chambers (from DARIAH ERIC – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) as Chair, and Vania Virgili (from E-RIHS ERIC – European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science) as Vice-Chair. This decision was taken by the SSHOC Governing Board during their meeting on 27 November 2025.
As the newly elected coordinators of the SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, Sally Chambers and Vania Virgili will serve voluntarily in 2026, coordinating the SSHOC Cluster. The Cluster brings together 20 members from research organisations, data archives, funding agencies, and the national nodes of the cluster’s infrastructures. They will also represent SSHOC in communications with external bodies such as the European Commission (EC), ERIC Forum, and the EOSC Association, as well as act as liaisons with the EU-wide science clusters initiative OSCARS.
SSHOC’s governance bridges the full breadth of the research infrastructure landscape in the humanities and social sciences, including the complementary contributions of heritage science. The involvement of E-RIHS at the leadership level is especially significant, as E-RIHS recently became an ERIC (on 28 March 2025), and the cluster is proactively giving space for newly established ERICs to take leadership roles. This signals a stronger commitment to fully integrating cultural heritage expertise into the overall SSH data ecosystem.
Sally Chambers will be taking on the Chair role after a year of acting as Vice-Chair of SSHOC: “I am grateful to follow on from Darja Fišer (from CLARIN-ERIC) as the next Chair of the SSHOC Governing Board in 2026, in what will be a crucial year for Research Infrastructures. In the coming months, SSHOC will need to navigate the emerging landscape of Research and Technology Infrastructures, advocate for the strategic importance of the SSH RIs in the next Framework Programme, as well as understand our role in the recently launched EOSC Federation. I am delighted to join forces with Vania Virgili in her new role as Vice-Chair, to address these challenges through our shared commitment to strengthening collaboration across social sciences, humanities and now heritage science infrastructures.”
“As a newly established ERIC, taking on the Vice-Chair role in SSHOC is, for me, a meaningful recognition that heritage science has a place at the European core of research infrastructures. I am grateful that SSHOC has, over the years, served as a vital forum for exchanging experiences and tackling shared challenges. As Vice‑Chair, I am committed to ensuring balanced representation across disciplines, supporting the Chair, and encouraging other SSH research infrastructures to step forward as leaders in future cycles. With E‑RIHS now a full ERIC, I look forward to contributing heritage science expertise to SSHOC’s mature cluster, building on past achievements and strengthening collaboration to support and represent the broader SSHOC community across the social sciences and humanities,” said Vania Virgili in her speech.
The new Chair and Vice-Chair take on their roles as of 1st January 2026, where one of their first tasks will be to present the SSHOC Annual Plan for 2026.
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
The developers of the CDH Research Software Lab (RSLab) are currently working on a new upload feature for the text search and exploration Textcavator (formerly I-Analyzer). For the final development phase, they are looking for researchers who would like to test this new functionality.
Do you have a dataset you would like to use in Textcavator? Sign up for the pilot and help the RSLab further improve the tool!
What does the new upload feature do?
The upload feature allows researchers to add their own dataset directly to Textcavator. This makes the tool even more accessible and easier to use. The developers are now in the final development stage and would like to test the feature in practice with users.
Who can see my dataset?
You decide. In Textcavator, you can specify for each dataset whether it is:
publicly accessible,
available only within the university,
restricted to a specific group, or
visible only to yourself.
Who can participate in the pilot?
All researchers within the Faculty of Humanities and other faculties at Utrecht University are welcome to participate.
What kind of data can you upload?
Textcavator is designed for collections of texts. You can upload your own research data or an open access dataset you want to use in Textcavator. Both small and large datasets are welcome.
Data must be provided in a CSV or Excel file. The developers can advise you on structuring or cleaning your data if needed.
Aim of the pilot
The RSLab has been developing Textcavator since 2017 for the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University. The tool is designed to make text search and exploration as accessible and easy as possible. With the new upload feature, Textcavator will become even more efficient.
The pilot is intended to test this new functionality. The developers are ready to help if anything is unclear or not working properly. Your feedback will be used to further improve the upload feature.
The developers would also love to hear your ideas: which features are missing? What kind of support would be useful? What could be improved?
What’s in it for you?
You can explore your own dataset using all Textcavator’s features.
You make a contribution to a more powerful and user-friendly text search and exploration tool for all researchers at Utrecht University (with a focus on the humanities) and beyond. Unlike many other tools, Textcavator is open source and non-commercial. By joining this pilot, you contribute to an accessible, high-quality research tool developed for and with researchers. Both large and small research projects will benefit from your input.
Sign up
Register for the pilot before 15 February 2026 by emailing cdh@uu.nl. After registering, you will receive further instructions.
I-Analyzer is now called Textcavator, a name that better reflects the flagship tool of the CDH Research Software Lab (RSLab). In addition to the new name, the RSLab is introducing an upload feature for adding your own dataset, as well as several new corpora. The Centre for Digital Humanities spoke with scientific developer Luka van der Plas about the updates.
Why the name change from I-Analyzer to Textcavator?
‘Textcavator better reflects what the tool actually does than the name I-Analyzer,’ says Van der Plas. ‘It is primarily designed for exploring texts, rather than for conducting in-depth analysis. Excavator literally means a digging machine, but it is also used figuratively to mean digging into something. And that is exactly what the tool does: it retrieves information from texts.’
What can you do with Textcavator?
‘At its core, it is a search engine: you can search a dataset using keywords that are relevant to your research. It is a comprehensive tool for finding what you are looking for. That is why we refer to it as a text search and exploration tool, rather than a text-mining tool. Afterwards, you can carry out more extensive analyses yourself—qualitative or quantitative—using the search results you download from Textcavator.’
‘The analysis tools we offer within Textcavator—simple statistics and basic visualisations—are intended to help you search as effectively as possible, not to conduct your actual research. You can filter by time period or category and bookmark documents. We also provide visualisations and statistics to help refine search queries. These show, for example, how a search term is distributed across categories or time periods, or which words frequently appear in its context. Depending on the dataset, we also offer more advanced features, such as Word Embeddings and Named Entity Recognition.’
New logo Textcavator
Many text exploration tools already exist. Why did you choose to develop your own?
‘The RSLab began developing what was then called I-Analyzer in 2017. This allowed us to tell researchers: we already have a working tool. We only need to load your dataset into it and perhaps add a button or two. That way, we can support even small projects with limited funding, which I find very rewarding.’
‘Working open source is also important to us. And because we develop the tool within the university, we are not driven by profit: we are truly here for the researcher. We work closely with researchers to develop Textcavator, although external users can also use it. We wanted a tool that is not overly technical, can accommodate many different types of datasets, and is suitable for all disciplines within the humanities.’
Are all datasets in Textcavator public?
‘No. We prefer to make data public, but that is not always possible. Cultural data is often protected by copyright. That is why, when uploading, you can decide who gets access: everyone, only the university, a specific (research) group, or just yourself.’
Which new corpora have been added?
‘In collaboration with the University Library, we have added several new corpora from the publisher Gale, including nineteenth-century British and American newspapers and magazines such as Punch and Illustrated London News. These are great additions to the newspaper corpora we already offer, such as The Guardian and The Times.’
How do you decide which corpora to add?
‘Many researchers bring their own data—collected or cleaned for their research. In addition to joint acquisitions with the University Library, we also occasionally add public corpora for which there is wide demand, such as the KB newspaper corpus, DBNL, Gallica and Le Figaro.’
Which research projects have used Textcavator?
‘The largest is People & Parliament, a leading project in political history, conducted with the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). They needed an efficient tool to search a vast collection of parliamentary debates from across Europe.’
‘Another example is Traces of Sound, a much smaller project. For this, we built a proof of concept in Textcavator using a small set of sources and annotations related to references to sound. This helped the researcher in submitting a larger grant proposal.’
How accessible is Textcavator for beginners?
‘We specifically focus on researchers with little experience in text and data mining. The tool is designed to be as user-friendly as possible. For those who want more, additional features are available. But even more advanced features, such as Named Entity Recognition, can be used without extensive technical knowledge.’
You are working on an upload feature. What does it entail?
‘The new upload feature allows researchers to add their own datasets directly to Textcavator. Currently, this is always done by us, which makes researchers dependent on our available time. We are now in the final development phase and are therefore organizing a pilot to test the feature together with the research community.’
What do you hope to learn from this pilot?
‘One goal is to identify any bottlenecks. Textcavator is designed for highly diverse data, which can also complicate things. We want to ensure everything works smoothly and clearly before opening the feature to everyone. During the pilot we will receive feedback and can step in immediately if something is unclear or not yet working properly.’
‘We also think it is important that the feature truly aligns with researchers’ needs. For example: how much should be filled in automatically, and how much should users be able to configure themselves? In which file formats would they like to upload their data? Instead of speculating about this behind closed doors, we want to ask users directly.’
Who can participate in the pilot?
‘We are looking for a broad group of researchers. Anyone with data they would like to add to Textcavator can take part. This may be their own research data, but also an open access dataset. A small Excel file with a hundred documents is just as welcome as a large dataset. The only requirement is that you can clean of format the data yourself, if needed.
Which features could be added if there is demand?
‘In the short term, we aim to make the process user-friendly and accessible, focusing on small adjustments such as additional guidance and feedback. In the long term, we are considering larger expansions, such as more file formats, or even manual data entry.’
‘There are also features already in Textcavator that are not yet offered through the form, such as adding images or word embeddings. These could be valuable additions, but they also make the upload process more complex for researchers.’
What have you learned from developing a tool for so many disciplines?
‘The biggest challenge is maintaining clarity for the user. We continue to add new features, but we want to prevent the interface from becoming overwhelming. It is a constant balance between accessibility and technical possibilities.’
‘And what strikes me is how similar the needs of researchers in the humanities and social sciences actually are. You might expect them to require very different tools, but in practice that is not the case.’
It’s December which means it’s time for our 2025 advent calendar!
2025 has been a very busy and productive year for DARIAH. Over the year, we welcomed a new member country, launched new outreach campaigns to showcase the excellent research happening within DARIAH and beyond in DH, enriched our trainings resources by adding many new courses on DARIAH-Campus, published the first volume of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal and issued its second call for articles, organised events, webinars, workshops and conferences for our community, launched a new Working Groups Funding Scheme and contributed to the many European projects DARIAH is currently participating in.
We have gathered the year’s highlights into our latest advent calendar. Join us in reviewing this past year by opening a new door every day for a new DARIAH highlight.
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) invites permanent academic staff of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University to apply for the position of CDH affiliate. Affiliates act as ambassadors and liaisons within their departments, supporting the ambitions of the CDH. Currently, we have three openings in the departments History and Art History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Languages, Literature and Communication.
About the role
As CDH affiliate, you will help strengthen the connection between your department and digital humanities. You will do this by:
identifying training and educational needs within your department;
contributing to the development and integration of computational components in BA and MA programmes;
advising colleagues on funding applications that include a digital humanities component;
fostering collaboration between researchers and IT specialists;
contributing to community-building activities.
In addition to these core tasks, each affiliate will pursue an individual project as part of the position.
Affiliates meet periodically with the CDH programme team to strengthen collaboration and exchange.
Position details
The position is open to all permanent academic staff;
Appointment is for a maximum term of 3 years;
The workload is 0.1 fte, funded by the CDH and deducted from teaching duties;
Affiliates have access to the CDH infrastructure, a proportionate budget, and support staff for organizing activities.
New candidates will be appointed by April 2026 and will start in the 2026-2027 academic year.
Application procedure
You can self-nominate and apply directly to the CDH. You can apply for a period of 1 to 3 years, depending on the scope of your proposed project.
Your application should include:
A short CV
A maximum one-page application outlining your initial ideas for an individual project and explaining how your expertise and time will contribute to the CDH strategy and ambitions through this project.
Projects may focus on, for example, organising events or workshops, consortium building, developing relevant educational modules, large SSH infrastructure grant applications, or building networks and projects with external parties.
Problem statement (urgency/relevance and ability to tackle a current challenge);
Aims (addressing current challenges and contributing to lasting change);
Feasibility within allocated time and budget.
About the CDH
The CDH aims to empower all Faculty of Humanities staff and students by enriching their digital competencies and fostering an ethical and critical approach to digital humanities and AI. The CDH does this, among other ways, by offering a wide range of tailored courses, grants, consultancy sessions, and walk-in hours; by connecting humanities researchers and DH specialists; and by deploying an in-house team of research engineers with humanities backgrounds.
More information
Do you have questions about the position or application procedure? Please contact cdh@uu.nl.
Congratulations to Envisioning Seneca Village on being selected as the 2025 winner of the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History! Envisioning Seneca Village is a project depicting what this significant nineteenth-century village might have looked like in the spring of 1855, about two years before it was destroyed by the City of […]
I first learned of Seneca Village in 2020. That summer, people tired of having to explain why Black Lives Matter and with an online audience freshly enraged at racism turned to history to popularize further examples of how Black people in the United States had been systematically dispossessed and disempowered by the forces of White […]
Overview The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026. Posters will either… Read More »CFP for ADHO Pedagogy SIG workshop at DH 2026
The DH2026 organizers announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 proposals has been extended to December 15, 2025. Next year’s conference (July 27–31, 2026) will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The theme for this conference is “Engagement.” Submissions are… Read More »DH2026: Submissions due to 15 December
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