Both the use and non-use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) are the subjects of ongoing debate, within academia and beyond. When and how should we use GenAI in research and education? And how can we use it responsibly and effectively? The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has formulated a vision on the use of GenAI in the humanities.

Ani Encheva en Karin van Es, with the input and feedback from the CDH management team, programme team, and ambassadors, have formulated the document Centre for Digital Humanities: on Generative AI in the Humanities. This is a living document: the CDH and Faculty of Humanities will continue to reflect on and revise its vision.

The CDH believes that the use of GenAI should always be guided by the purpose of the activity. Choosing not to use GenAI can be a legitimate scholarly, pedagogical or professional decision. When using GenAI, we should take responsibility for how we use it, develop a realistic understanding of its capabilities and limitations, and make well-founded judgements about it.

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TASK, a new educational planning tool developed for the Faculty of Humanities, is now live. Since 1 September, the tool has been in use across the entire faculty and was officially introduced at the opening of the 2026-2027 academic year on 7 September.

Every year, the Faculty of Humanities faces the complex challenge of matching around 5,000 teaching assignments with suitable teachers and put together teaching portfolios for 600 staff members. Until recently, this process relied on a combination of Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, and an endless stream of emails.

Over the past few years, a team of CDH developers (Xander Vertegaal, Evania Fasya, Tyler Mees, Tijmen Baarda and Edo Storm) has contributed to the development of TASK, helping to bring the faculty’s educational planning together in one central tool.

Simplifying educational planning

TASK gives teaching staff and operational coordinators real-time insight into teaching duties, including which courses and theses are scheduled and who is teaching or supervising them. The tool is intuitive and easy to navigate and offers reporting features that provide clear insights for management.

‘Organising hundreds of lecturers and thousands of course tasks across dozens of sections, along with all the related arrangements, is no easy task! In the past, each department in our faculty used its own complicated workflow, sharing huge spreadsheets via email and merging them by hand.’

‘With TASK, we unify and simplify this workflow. Using just a few main pages, coordinators and managers can organise the faculty’s teaching activities in one single place. Lecturers can see their scheduled teaching activities in real time.’

Xander Vertegaal and Evania Fasya on TASK

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

The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

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

The details of the upcoming talk, along with the registration details is below:

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

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

Description

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

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

Case Study 1: Age-Friendly AI 

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

Case Study 2: The Bigger Picture 

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

Speaker Biographies 

Dr Emma Clarke – Age-Friendly AI Co-Lead 

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

Paula Kelly – Age-Friendly AI Lead 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IEEE TCCH Education and Training Award

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

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

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

ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS! DHNB CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

In March 2016 the first DHN conference met in Oslo. Ten years on, the association has gained a Baltic dimension, opened its activities to the arts, and seen digital methods move from the margins of humanities research into its core.

We are marking the anniversary with a seminar that looks forward rather than back. Three short provocations ask where humanities research is heading — here in the Nordic-Baltic region, and in relation to work being done well beyond it. The tools, the funding landscape and the public standing of the humanities all look different from 2016. Where does that leave a regional network like DHNB? Following three short provocations by prominent digital humanities practitioners we will discuss the future of the humanities.

The seminar opens with a brief retrospective on ten years of DHNB conferences and closes with an invitation to DHNB 2027 in Umeå.

Invited speakers and themes: Alexander Refsum Jensenius: AI as a catalyst for more humanities research |Anda Baklāne: The Future of the Book: Between the Fluid and the Bounded | Chen Jing: Other centres: digital humanities beyond the Euro-American map

Open to all. Agenda below

Place: Online at Zoom
Registration: For participation, please register using this form.  A Zoom link to the event will be sent to all registered the day before the event.
Time: Thursday 24 September 2026 at 13.30 to 15.00 CEST (11.30 in Reykjavík, 13.30 in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, 14.30 in Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius).
Chair: Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson, Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, University of Iceland

Agenda (times CEST):
13.30: Opening
13.35: Hongyi Liu and Matti La Mela: Ten years of DHNB conferences
13.50: Alexander Refsum Jensenius: AI as a catalyst for more humanities research
14.00: Anda Baklāne: The Future of the Book: Between the Fluid and the Bounded
14.10: Chen Jing: Other centres: digital humanities beyond the Euro-American map (TBC)
14.20: Discussion with all speakers.
14.45: Evelina Liliequist: DHNB 2027 in Umeå
15.00: End of seminar

More information:
https://dhnb.eu/about-dhnb/onwards-and-outwards-dhnb-celebrates-10-years/

The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) regularly receives requests for NVivo workshops and one-on-one advice. To expand our support in this area, we are looking for a colleague with research experience using NVivo who would be interested in providing workshops and individual support.

This role would involve one or two three-hour workshops per year, supplemented by consultations on request from colleagues and the occasional student.

A workshop could build on our previous NVivo workshop, while leaving plenty of room for your own approach and input. We also have an existing NVivo tutorial series that can be used as a resource.

You will be compensated for your time and expertise; the exact arrangements can be discussed and agreed upon.

Do you have research experience with NVivo, enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues, and are you a staff member at Utrecht University? We would love to hear from you! Please get in touch via cdh@uu.nl.

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What is the SSH Open Marketplace?

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

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

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

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

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

Example: DARIAH.lab Poland

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

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

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

What This Means for Other National Nodes

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

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

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

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

Example: ATRIUM

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

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

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

Going Further: Double Visibility Through the SSHOMP API

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

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

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

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

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

Get in Touch

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

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

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

Further Resources

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

The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is looking for a Student Assistant (0.2 FTE) to help conducting a survey study on the use of GenAI tools among Utrecht University employees. 

In order to support its employees (e.g.: researchers, lecturers, support staff) in the responsible use of GenAI tools, Utrecht University will investigate their perceptions, experiences, and considerations regarding GenAI usage. 

If you are interested in researching the use of GenAI in an (academic) organization with a focus on practical implications and have experience conducting survey studies, then this student-assistant position might be for you!

What will you do?

• Think along for the set-up of a survey on the use and values regarding GenAI;
• Implement the survey in LimeSurvey;
• Keep track of survey responses of Utrecht University employees;
• Support data analysis of survey responses.

Who are we looking for?

• You are a third-year Bachelor’s student or (R)MA student at a University in the Netherlands;
• You are a proactive person who is interested in the use of GenAI in organizational contexts;
• You have experience with basic quantitative data analysis and survey design;
• You can work independently, reliably meet deadlines, and communicate professionally;
• Proficiency in Dutch is a plus.

Practical information

• Appointment: paid student assistant position (0.2 FTE, equivalent to 8 hours per week; gross salary on full time basis is between €3230,- and €3288,- per month) for a period of five months;
• Start date: 15 October 2026;
• Work location: flexible workspace at the CDH office on the Drift, or from home.

Interested?

Send your CV and a short motivation letter (circa 400 words) to both Dr. Dennis Nguyen (D.Nguyen1@uu.nl) and Dr. Florian Kunneman (f.a.kunneman@uu.nl) by 13 September 2026. We will review applications on a rolling basis and encourage candidates to apply early.

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

In brief

Dates: 3 and 4 September 2026

Venue: Room 3.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute

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

About the event

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

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

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

View the full programme and workshop info on the SRUK website

How to attend

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

Find all information on the event website.

Are you a humanities student (3rd-year BA, MA, or PhD) using digital methods in your research or thesis? And would you like to present your work to fellow students? The Digital Humanities Dialogue for Students is back!

We – Finn Pietrass and Thomas Rozendaal, student ambassadors at the Centre for Digital Humanities at Utrecht University – are organising the second edition of The Digital Humanities Dialogue for Students. After a successful first edition in June, we’re excited to bring it back.

The event is designed to give students insight into how digital methods can be applied across different humanities disciplines, and to inspire students to explore these approaches themselves.

We are looking for 2 to 3 student speakers from the Faculties of Humanities who are interested in sharing their experiences with digital methods in their studies or a research project. Presentations will be short (approximately 15 minutes) and aimed at a broad student audience. No prior presentation experience is required.

Why participate?

• Present your research in a supportive, low-pressure environment
• Gain experience as a speaker in an academic context
• Discuss and exchange ideas with like-minded individuals

Sign up

Interested in participating or want to learn more? Get in touch via cdh@uu.nl. The deadline to sign up as a speaker is 15 September. We’d be happy to hear from you!

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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for one 2026-2027 Communications Fellowship, which comes with a one-time stipend of €500 (Euro). Each year, a Communications Fellow works with ADHO’s Communications Officer and Deputy Communications Officer to manage ADHO’s public communications activities. The fellowship is well-suited for graduate students, emerging scholars, and academic professionals… Read More »Call for Applications: 2026-2027 ADHO Communications Fellowship

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

By Isabela Paredes Cisneros and Lisa Vollmar 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This post is republished from the EMBL website.

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

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

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

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

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

Working with quantitative data in your humanities research? Have a question about your methodology, analysis, or data visualisation? Or simply want to brainstorm an idea?

Meet Kirsten Schutter, the Faculty of Humanities’ statistics advisor. She is happy to talk through your ideas, whether you’re just getting started or have already run a into a methodological challenge. Her door is always open.

Kirsten can help you with:

• Quantitative research methodology 
• Statistical analysis 
• Quantitative data visualization

Kirsten supports researchers throughout the entire research process, from refining research questions and selecting an appropriate study design to analysing, visualising, interpreting, and reporting quantitative data. 

She enjoys making complex methodological and statistical concepts accessible and helping researchers make informed choices that strengthen the quality and impact of their research. 

Kirsten is happy to discuss the advantages and limitations of different approaches. Her aim is to help you make well-informed methodological decisions that best fit your research question.

Get in touch

Have something you’d like to discuss? Just send an email at K.Schutter@uu.nl to set up a time to talk.

Read more about her statistical consultation.

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Czech-Swiss Cooperation of CLARIN and DARIAH Infrastructures

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

The framework

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

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

Goal and planned outputs

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

Over the next three years, the project will develop:

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

Project partners

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

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

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

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

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

This post is republished from the DARIAH-CH website.

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

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

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

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

Each 90-minute online session consists of:

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

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

Register

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

Calendar

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

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