ScholarTHON: Organising Knowledge
The programme is out for ScholarTHON: Organising Knowledge, a free two-day research event at Cardiff University on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 December 2026.
ScholarTHON adapts the hackathon for arts and humanities research. You bring a research question and work on it in a small group with an embedded Research Software Engineer. This time we look at how humanities knowledge is organised: ontologies, metadata, graph thinking, OpenRefine and Linked Open Data. Whether these are skills you already have or ones you’d like to pick up, the two days will help you turn a research question into a model of the knowledge behind it that others can link and reuse.
Day One covers knowledge representation, ontologies and graph thinking for humanities data, and Day Two has a roundtable on infrastructure for digital arts and humanities.
Practical details:
- Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 December, Cardiff University
- Free, and no coding experience needed
- Open to researchers at every career stage, librarians, archivists, curators, Wikimedians and other GLAM professionals
- Up to five £200 bursaries for travel, accommodation, childcare and other costs
- The winning team receives ten hours of dedicated collaboration with a Research Software Engineer to take its ideas further
📚 Programme: https://blog.humanities.org.uk/2026/11/10/frame-model-connect-whats-on-at-scholarthon-in-cardiff/
📝 Register by Wednesday 18 November: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-day-scholarthon-on-organising-knowledge-tickets-2003759118463
Questions: giovanna.dimartino@anthro.ox.ac.uk
