A monthly round-up of DH-related events, webinars, conferences, opportunities & jobs from the DARIAH-IE inbox…
AI and Large Language Models: new impulses for university teaching in Romance studies
Event: April 4, 2025, 13:00-15:30 (CET) (online)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming higher education – including Romance studies. But what concrete applications do large language models (LLMs) and AI-supported tools offer for teaching in linguistics and literature? What opportunities and challenges do they present for students and teachers in dealing with language, literature, and digital research practices?
In this workshop, experts from various fields of Romance studies will explore current AI developments and present possibilities for their integration into higher education teaching. The workshop is organized by the Digital Romance Studies Group (Verena Weiland and Ursula Winter) in cooperation with Text+ .
The workshop is aimed at teachers, researchers and students of Romance Studies as well as anyone interested in exploring the potential of AI in humanities teaching.
Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1064/
Persons in Context: Describing person observations in heritage and humanities
Event: April 4, 2025, 14:00-15:30 (CET) (online)
Persons are observed throughout history in books, archival records, images, paintings and so forth. Linked Data now allows us to describe these person observations in a universal way. In the Netherlands a group of ontologists and a community of archivists and researchers has created a vocabulary to describe such person observations in an abundance of different types of sources. The vocabulary, Persons in Context, uses mainly existing terms, predominantly from Schema.org. Via this vocabulary, archival institutions and researchers now talk one and the same ‘language’ when it comes to describing person observations, allowing for provenance trails from archival record to research result.
We would very much like to test the ‘universality’ of Persons in Context, against archival records, paintings, statues in other European countries. We therefore would like to draw on your help to see whether you could provide examples of person observations in records, paintings, statutes and other sources. Surely, Persons in Context, will not cover all use cases, but we hope this will serve to bring about a discussion to make Persons in Context even more widely applicable. You don’t need to speak “linked data” or be aware of the vocabulary. Any examples are helpful to us.
To explain our purposes, illustrate Persons in Context and answer questions, we organize an online session, Friday 2025-04-04, 14:00-15:30 CEST and we would very much like to invite you to it.
For questions and the link to the session, please email: data AT iisg.nl
Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School
Deadline: 22 April 2025
Event: 30 June – 3 July 2025 (in person)
Applications are now open for Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School, King’s College London.
Co-organised by King’s Digital Lab, Cambridge Digital Humanities, and Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society, in collaboration with the DISKAH project. Funded by STEP-UP, DISKAH project and Society of RSE.
Free to participants and bursaries available.
Combines talks and practical activities for those studying or working in Digital Humanities and allied disciplines/sectors, who wish to engage with research software practices more deeply, or who would benefit from networking and support in moving into roles where such practices are more central.
This year’s topics:
* Working collaboratively through the software development life cycle
* Command line skills for digital projects
* High performance computing for large datasets and AI analysis
* Responsible digital research practices – sustainability, ethics and greening
* Case studies, careers and networking opportunities
Details and how to apply: https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk/
Deadline: 22 April 2025
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon
Deadline: 12 April 2025
Event: 14-23 May, 2025 (in person)
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon this year. The application period has started (until 12.4.2025) – apply now and be part of this milestone event!
The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from the humanities and social sciences, it offers an opportunity to pose new questions to historical, cultural or social phenomena with data at scale. For people from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish.
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:
- Parliaments beyond borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
- Digital Presence in Physical Absence: Survivors’ Testimonies and Holocaust Oral History
- Rare Earth & Web Discourses: Parallel Mining Approaches
- Economic bubbles, consumerism, and the colonies: Early modern newspapers as indicators of economic change in 18th century society
See further information on the #DHH25 themes
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities. For the application you will need to supply a motivation for applying and if you are applying for travel funding a cost-estimation is also required.
Link: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-h…
Registration Closes: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Event: 17-18 June 2025 (hybrid)
Registration is now open for the 2025 Annual Event, Collaboration beyond Boundaries / Co-obrachadh thar Chrìochthe. The event will be held at University of Glasgow from 17-18 June 2025 with selected sessions streamed online.
The keynote session for the event will be a roundtable on the topic of Failing Together: The Pitfalls of Collaboration (and How to Overcome Them). Panellists will draw on their own experience of the many ways in which collaborations within DH can go in unexpected directions, as well as what we can learn from these diversions and digressions.
The roundtable will feature:
- Sarah Ames (National Library of Scotland)
- David Kelly (University of Galway)
- Barbara McGillivrey (King’s College London)
- Bronagh Ann McShane (Trinity College Dublin)
- Lisa Otty (University of Edinburgh)
- Emma Gallon (University of London Press) – moderator
Registration
The fee for attending the Annual Event in-person will be £35. Students and independent scholars can attend at a discounted rate of £20. Registration is now open and can be accessed via the Association’s website. The deadline to register for in-person attendance is Wednesday 28 May.
Online Attendance
We recognise the importance of remote participation to support inclusive access and so we plan to livestream the main elements of the programme for attendees to view online. We will do our best to ensure that both in-person and virtual participants will have a rewarding and valuable experience. We may not be able to livestream breakout sessions, working meetings, or other portions of the event, such as the poster/demos session.
Online tickets are free and available at the registration link above.
Bursaries
Bursaries are available to support postgraduate students, early career researchers, and others whose employers will not pay for their attendance. You do not need to have a paper accepted to apply for a bursary. More details can be found on the bursary page – the deadline for bursary applications is Sunday 23 March at 11:59 PM.
Accommodation
Discounted housing is available for the conference via the University of Glasgow’s accommodation office. Single, ensuite rooms are available for £43 per night. These must be reserved for three nights (16-18 June) for a total of £129 per person. If you would like to reserve a room, please email uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk by Monday 12 May.
Europeana Academy Course – International Image Interoperability Framework
Event: 21st May, 2025 (online)
Register now for the Europeana Academy Course ‘Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana’, taking place on 21 May 2025.
This online, instructor-led course will teach you about applying the IIIF standard, and how it supports you to share your image collections online to the highest-quality, with a user-friendly zoom function.
Find out more and register: https://pro.europeana.eu/event/preparing-image-collections-in-the-iiif-standard-for-europeana
Europeana Academy Course – APIs
Event: 28th May, 2025 (online)
Register now for the Europeana Academy Course ‘Introduction to Europeana APIs’ taking place on 28 May 2025.
This online, instructor-led course will teach you what an API is, why Europeana has several different APIs, what the differences between them are, how to use the Europeana APIs, how to get an API key, how you can use the APIs for your specific use cases – and more!
Find out more and register: https://pro.europeana.eu/event/introduction-to-europeana-apis
7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities
Deadline: 20th March, 2025
Event: 4-8th August, 2025
Applications are now open for the 7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities (BSSDH 2025), taking place from August 4 to 8, 2025, at the University of Latvia in Riga. This year’s theme, “Digital Methods for History Studies,” focuses on computational approaches for history research.
The program includes lectures and hands-on workshops on digitization of handwritten texts using Transkribus, network visualization and historical networks, spatial analysis and mapping with GIS, and AI in humanities research, including large language models and API access.
The participation fee is modest, only 50 EUR, covering all sessions. Participants arrange their own travel and accommodation. Upon completion, attendees can receive ECTS points or micro-credentials.
Applications close on March 20, 2025 Application Form
More details: https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2025
For inquiries, contact dh@lulfmi.lv
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2025 Schedule Announced
Deadline: 25th April, 2025
Event: 5-9th May, 2025
The conference program for CAA 2025 in Athens has been published. Members of the ATRIUM community are invited to join “Session 19: Reusable Digital Research Workflows for Archaeology“, which will take place from 8:30AM-12:45PM on Wednesday 7th May, hosted by Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH), Émilie Pagé-Perron (ARIADNE), Anne Baillot (DARIAH), Julian Richards (ARIADNE). There will also be a social event for the ATRIUM community on the evening of Tuesday 6th May (location TBD).
Surveys
Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) in cultural heritage institutions
Valentina Vavassori, Digital Curator for OCR/HTR at the British Library.
We are currently researching different approaches to Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) in cultural heritage institutions as part of our work on our ATR workflow. As part of this work, we designed a survey and we would be really grateful if you can complete it. One question at the end of the survey asks if other institutions are interested in taking part in a working group on ATR and, if possible, to share their email so we can kick-start having meetings and discussions. The anonymised results of the survey will be published in order to help other institutions working with ATR. The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and all the information is available here:
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/03/help-us-explore-automatic-text-recognition-in-cultural-heritage-.html
Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time or omit any question you prefer not to answer. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at HMD@bl.uk or valentina.vavassori@bl.uk
