Author: Joan Murphy

Stage to Data project announces seminar series [online and in person, Paris]

The Arts and Cultural Data

This seminar explores the challenges and applications of this field for the study of the arts and cultural data. It is part of the European ERC project From Stage to Data, led by Clarisse Bardiot, and brings together two rapidly developing fields: digital art history and culture analytics.

The Arts and Digital Humanities seminar has three objectives: to explore the foundations of the digital humanities and their applications to the arts, particularly the performing arts; to analyze the scientific and ethical challenges of using digital data in research; and to introduce participants to the latest work in the field through presentations by recognized researchers. The program brings together specialists in the digital arts and humanities with historians, philosophers and researchers in the humanities whose work directly informs our discussions. Each year, an artist is also invited to present a practice related to digital technology.

The seminar is aimed at Master’s and PhD students, as well as artists and cultural professionals. No previous experience in data analysis is required. The sessions, which last two hours and are sometimes held in English, take place both in person and online (via Zoom). The presentation (lasting approximately one hour) is followed by a discussion and then a social gathering.

The sessions will be recorded and made available on the From Stage to Data website and YouTube channel: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr

The full program is available at the following address: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/en/events/arts&HN/

19/10 – Andreas Aristidou, University of Cyprus, CYENS Center of Excellence

Performing Arts in the Digital Age: Capture, Analysis, Visualization, and Interaction with XR Technologies

02/11 – Peter Broadwell & Michael Rau, Stanford University

Reworking Similarity and Consensus in Pose-Based Analyzes of Theater Recordings

23/11 – Nick Crossley, University of Manchester

Investigating Event Networks

07/12 – Pantelis Michelakis, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

Patterns of Performance: Computational Audiovisual Analysis and the Transformation of Theater Historiography

18/01 – Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University

Pressing Matters: Artificial intelligence, natural history, and co-creation using cultural data

01 / 02 – Ulla Kallenbach, University of Bergen & Anna Lawaetz, Royal Danish Library

The theatrical gaze and digital humanities: text, performance, archives

22/02 – Johanna Drucker, UCLA

Affective, Experiential, and other Non-Standard Metrics for Visualization in the Humanities

15/03 – Nicola Carboni, University of Illinois

From Pixels to Context: knowledge graphs for visual objects

05/04 – Pierre Couprie, University of Évry Paris-Saclay

The musicologist’s digital laboratory: from instrumented listening to multimodal analysis environments

3D Digital Heritage Researcher and Technologist [Maastricht University, job opportunity]

3D Digital Heritage Researcher and Technologist to join PURE3D 2.0 at Maastricht University.

This is a role for someone who enjoys moving between 3D heritage practice, scholarly research, and software development. You’ll work with researchers, cultural heritage professionals and developers to turn real research needs into technical specifications and help shape an open, sustainable infrastructure for publishing annotated, FAIR-compliant 3D scholarly editions.

The work is hands-on and collaborative: supporting 3D heritage workflows, prototyping viewer features, evaluating emerging technologies, and co-designing and testing tools with the communities who will use them. You’ll join an international team working across universities, research infrastructure organisations and cultural heritage institutions.

Apply by 22 October 2026


Questions? Contact  k.papadopoulos[at]maastrichtuniversity.nl

More details of vacancy here 

DARIAH Friday Frontiers Autumn Series [Registration Open]

Friday Frontiers Autumn Series

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

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)

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.

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSQOL_dAQWCujoTv3jqy7A


Friday 6th November, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET

Working Title: “Rethinking the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence as Method and Meaning”

Speaker: Benedikt Perak, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/aL4zJmNgTbGQnlrRRo4FKw

Description
Artificial intelligence is transforming not only how we conduct research in the humanities but
also what it means to ask humanistic questions. This talk explores AI’s evolving role in
humanities scholarship — from computational tools for text analysis and natural language
processing to AI as an epistemic partner that reshapes interpretive frameworks. Drawing on
concrete examples from knowledge graphs, conceptual metaphor analysis, and intelligent
tutoring systems such as the AI Language Tutor developed at Syntagent and the University
of Rijeka, I will argue that AI does not replace humanistic inquiry but reconfigures it, opening
new avenues for understanding language, culture, and cognition. The presentation builds on
themes from my recent book Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and ongoing
research at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, digital humanities, and machine learning.


Friday 4th December 2026, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET

Title: Bibliography as Data: From Scholarly Indexes to Interactive Research Software

Speaker: Cezary Rosiński, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/or7OvGobS2GXoZ7XPMOrOg

Description
Bibliographies, indexes and other documentary resources are usually created to organise
knowledge and support information retrieval. Yet the structures produced through
bibliographic work can also become a basis for new forms of humanities research. This
presentation explores how scholarly indexes can be transformed into relational data and
examined through network analysis without losing sight of their original documentary
function. Using the Monumenta Indica Network Explorer as a case study, I will discuss the
process of extracting, normalising and modelling index data, defining what relationships in
the resulting network actually mean, and designing an interactive research environment that
allows scholars to move between patterns and their underlying sources. The presentation
will also consider how research software can turn existing bibliographic resources into
exploratory spaces for generating and testing new research questions.

Funding challenges for Long-Term Data Retention [Survey Open]

Short survey on funding challenges for research data retention and long-term digital preservation

We invite you to participate in a short survey on funding challenges for research data retention and long-term digital preservation, designed by the EOSC-A Long-Term Data Retention Task Force to gather community feedback.

The survey is aimed at professionals working in repositories, archives, research infrastructures, libraries, research organisations, data centres, and related fields.

Estimated completion time: 5–8 minutes
Open until: 30 November 2026
Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc42PyQNgutk_eri4dSOvz-Au9mvLVtHTzKc3KmX_CRz586Ag/viewform?usp=dialog

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG [Call for Participants; Survey open]

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG issues a call for participants

The working group DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity (VMI working group) aims to create a central point of contact for European researchers interested in the use of visual media, whether as the central theme of their studies or as a means of advancing their research and dissemination activities. This objective involves raising awareness of the tools available and contributing to the development or customisation of new visual and annotation tools; offering training opportunities; and identifying examples of best practice or success stories.

In order to strengthen and connect these communities, the VMI working group invites researchers engaged in work on visual or audiovisual corpora to complete the (short) survey below and to share it widely.

https://groupes.renater.fr/limesurvey/index.php/522643?lang=fr

You are also welcome to get involved in the working group (a one-day seminar is currently being organised for 4 February 2027 and will take place in Tours, France), so please do not hesitate to contact us!

Visual Media and Interactivity