Digital Archives

Copyright and Licensing with Digital Repository of Ireland [9 Sept, 11am, online]

Copyright and Licensing with Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

The DRI is pleased to present a series of online talks entitled ‘Meet the Experts’ designed to de-mystify the day-to-day work of a digital repository. For the first talk in the series on Wednesday, 9 September at 11:00am, DRI Digital Archivist Kevin Long will discuss current issues in copyright and licensing for digital data.

The DRI ‘Meet the Experts’ series features short talks, with opportunity for discussion with staff and invited experts, on various topics related to DRI’s work.

In this session, DRI Digital Archivist Kevin Long will discuss current issues in copyright and licensing for digital data. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how licences available in the Repository affect the reusability of collections and objects.


Register via Zoom

DARIAH-IE August Digest

A micro-newsletter for August 2026

We don’t issue a newsletter in July or August but here’s a digest of upcoming CfPs, Events and Workshops of interest to keep you going !

Calls for Papers 

Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 — “Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space” 

Date: Online seminar series, 2026–2027 |   Location: Online 

A new cycle of the Entangled Histories seminar series seeks abstracts on medieval and pre-modern history through a digital lens, covering digital philology, manuscript studies, human-animal relations, folklore, and Indigenous perspectives, all viewed through the theme of borders and environmental sustainability. Proposals (250–300 word abstract, bio, affiliation) are for roughly 30-minute online presentations, with a possible publication opportunity in a special issue or edited volume with a major academic publisher. 

More info: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home 

Deadline: 31 August 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest: Special Issues of Digital Comparative Literature (ICLA-DCL) 

Date: Publication-based; first pieces expected from Autumn 2027 

The ICLA’s Digital Comparative Literature research committee invites short (max. 4,000 words) or long (max. 8,000 words) articles at the intersection of comparative literary studies and digital humanities: distant reading, digital archives, data visualisation for literature, electronic literature, and AI or machine translation for literary analysis. Accepted pieces will be placed with one of several partner comparative-literature journals. Submit a 500-word abstract plus a short biographical note. 

More info: https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/ICLA-DCL-journals-cfp.html 

Deadline: 7 September 2026 

Call for Abstracts: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) 

Date: Conference: 14–15 January 2027   |   Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus, London 

The second edition of QDLCA brings together researchers using quantitative and computational methods to study how language changes over time and how those shifts relate to broader cultural dynamics. Keynote speakers are Prof Dirk Geeraerts (KU Leuven) and Dr Stefania De Gaetano-Ortlieb (Saarland University). The conference invites 20-minute presentation proposals, submitted as an anonymised 400-word abstract in .docx format, on computational or cross-linguistic approaches to diachronic change. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultural-analytics-2027-qdlca27 

Deadline: 13 September 2026, 23:59 BST 

Call for Papers: Oral Archives Journal, Volume 4 (2028) 

Date: Publication: Volume 4, 2028   |   Location: N/A — online submission 

The open-access, peer-reviewed Oral Archives Journal, published by Firenze University Press and USiena Press in collaboration with CLARIN-IT, is now accepting submissions for its fourth volume. The journal covers all aspects of oral archives, from creation to preservation, transcription, ethics, and reuse. Manuscripts of 30,000–50,000 characters are accepted in English, Italian, or French, alongside a 150-word English abstract, prepared for blind peer review. 

More info: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index 

Deadline: 15 January 2027 

Conferences & Events 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “Knowledge-Guided Prompt Engineering for Explainable Bias Detection and Mitigation in Museum Exhibition Texts” 

Date: 2 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Mahnoush Pourhosseini Akbarie (Sapienza University of Rome / King’s College London) presents a human-in-the-loop framework combining expert annotation with knowledge-guided LLM prompting to detect and mitigate interpretive bias, gender, cultural, and algorithmic, in museum exhibition texts, and to generate bias-mitigated rewrites while preserving historical meaning. Part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities’ Computational Humanities seminar series; register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group 

Deadline: Register by 28 August 2026 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “The Laudisi Observatory: a computational pipeline for framing and agenda dynamics in French continuous news” 

Date: 9 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Yann De Boisvilliers (Paris-Dauphine / EHESS, PSL University) presents the Laudisi Observatory, a computational pipeline for tracking framing and agenda-setting dynamics in French rolling news coverage. Part of the same King’s College London Digital Humanities seminar series as the 2 September session, this talk explores how computational methods can surface patterns in how continuous news frames issues over time. Register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-laudisi-observatory-a-computational-pipeline-for-framing-and-agenda-dynamics-in-french-continuous-news 

Deadline: Register by 1 September 2026 

ONB Labs Symposium: “Collections as Data – Biases as Data” 

Date: 9–10 November 2026   |   Location: Oratorium of the Austrian National Library, Josefsplatz 1, Vienna 

The fourth ONB Labs Symposium brings together GLAM and Labs practitioners to address bias in cultural heritage data, spanning gender, cultural, and algorithmic bias in collection, digitisation, and AI use, through presentation sessions, research reports, project presentations, and a panel discussion on mitigation practices. Free to attend but places are limited; a detailed programme and registration will follow on the ONB Labs website. Attendees can also catch the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow beforehand. 

More info: http://labs.onb.ac.at/en/ 

Training & Workshops 

WissKI How-to-Tutorial: Linked Open Data & Semantic Modelling 

Date: 29–30 September 2026   |   Location: Online 

A free, three-module tutorial (90 minutes each, over two days) run jointly by the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab and SODa, covering the fundamentals of ontology-based research data modelling using WissKI, an open virtual research environment built on Drupal. Modules cover introductory semantic modelling, ontology modelling with Protégé, and moving from diagram to WissKI implementation. Register for one, two, or all three modules depending on prior familiarity with the topic. 

More info: https://winoda.de/en/event/wisski-bits-how-to-tutorial/ 

Opportunities 

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence — Call for Applications 

Date: Residency dates to be confirmed with award   |   Location: Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway 

The Arts Council and the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway are inviting mid-career and established digital artists to apply for the second year of this Digital Artist in Residence programme, part of the Arts Council’s Digital Arts Policy. The residency offers a stimulating environment and financial support, up to €18,000, to focus on digital arts practice, following a successful 2025 pilot programme. 

More info: https://artscouncil.ie/funding-opportunities/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-university-programme/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-at-university-of-galway/

Deadline: 11 September 2026, 17:30 

History and Art Journal — Call for Editors, Peer Reviewers & Copyeditors 

Date: Ongoing / rolling   |   Note: honorary, remote roles 

Following the launch of its inaugural volume, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal deposited with the British Library and hosted via Zenodo/CERN, History and Art Journal is expanding its editorial structure and inviting scholars and heritage professionals to join as Section Editors, Peer Reviewers, or Copyeditors and Layout Designers. These are honorary roles offering editorial experience and named recognition in the journal’s permanent metadata. 

More info: https://www.historyandartjournal.org 

Other 

New Article: “Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives” 

Drawing on fifteen interviews with GLAM professionals and a computer-vision test on colonial photographs from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-mer, this open-access article by Jaillant, Kidd and Zhao proposes a framework combining automated triage, human review, clear labelling of AI-generated descriptions, and consultation with source communities for handling sensitive colonial archival images responsibly. Part of the British Academy-funded GENIAC project on AI and colonial archival images. 

More info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x 

Scholarly Editing, Volume 43 — New Issue Live 

The latest volume of Scholarly Editing, a small online journal focused on editorial practice and scholarly digital editing, is now live on a newly redesigned website. As always, the issue includes newly published micro-editions: small-scale digital editions of texts that have not been favoured by the established literary canon. The journal is open to hearing from anyone interested in submitting work of their own. 

More info: https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/ 

TaDiRAH Update — Session at EADH 2026 

Date: 16 September 2026, 9:00–10:30am   |   Location: Room 303, al. Mickiewicza 9b, Kraków (EADH 2026) 

As part of EADH 2026, a session on the continued development of TaDiRAH (Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities) will cover its governance, multilingual expansion, interoperability, and integration with the German data-competence centres HERMES and SODa. The presenters, Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka, Canan Hastik, and Marlon-Benedikt George, welcome anyone with an interest in TaDiRAH to join the discussion at the conference. 

More info: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme 

Mastering metadata for digital preservation workshop [28 Aug, Online]

Mastering metadata for digital preservation

Bookings for the next Digital Preservation Southampton workshop are now open.

Mastering Metadata for Digital Preservation

August 28, 2026

11am-3:30pm BST (See in your timezone)

This workshop responds to a need to equip digital preservation professionals, archivists, librarians, data managers, and researchers with essential technical skills to efficiently clean, standardise, and enrich metadata to streamline their workflows and expand the reach of their collections.

We will be delving into:

  • Identifying and resolving issues in messy metadata using OpenRefine
  • Crosswalking between metadata schemas
  • Implementing preservation metadata guidance such as PREMIS

You can view all our currently available workshops and resources on our Linktree.

RLUK27 Conference, Belfast, 10-12 March 2027 [CfP Open]

Research Libraries UK 2027 Conference call now open

RLUK27 Conference | Belfast | 10-12 March 2027

The Living Library, Shaped by People

💠 The RLUK27 Conference call for papers is now open. The deadline for submissions is 17:00 (GMT) on Monday 26 October 2026

🔗 Read the full CFP at https://rlukconference.com/

RLUK27 is an international conference that is open to all. We welcome submissions from all colleagues who share our commitment to reshape scholarship and the role of the research library. We look forward to hearing from a range of voices that will challenge, disrupt and inspire us.

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Research libraries are dynamic, living infrastructures of knowledge, exchange, and collective progress. A library’s life is expressed through continual evolution – in the way that they sense, respond, and evolve to the complexities of the communities and institutions that they serve.

💠 RLUK27 will explore how this ‘life’ is shaped in the research library and how this helps to sustain the foundations of a healthier, more humane society. 

The main conference themes will include, but are not limited to, the following: 

The stories we tell: How research libraries define themselves, and how they are understood by others, raises important questions about our relevance, value, and visibility. With continual social, economic, and technological shifts, is this now an opportune moment for us to tell stronger narratives around the breadth of the work that we do? Can we update outmoded perceptions, both within and outside the academy, of the purpose and value of the library as a passive support system for scholarship and research? How do we evidence our role as dynamic, strategic partners in the creation, organisation, and circulation of knowledge? And how do we show that we are an active force for economic development, cultural vitality, and social resilience?

The bridges we build: Our collections are profoundly human. In the multiplicity of the histories, voices, and perspectives they document, our collections reflect an infinite complexity of individual lives lived and collective experiences had. The library is perhaps one of the few spaces where it is possible to soberly reflect on difficult and contentious pasts, through exhibitions, oral histories, events and other programming, and through this provide a shared ground for dialogue, understanding, and reconciliation. We wish to explore the unique role research libraries can bring as stewards of knowledge and how this can contribute towards collective healing and social cohesion.

The futures we create: We are operating in a time of increasingly severe financial constraints, which can have a detrimental impact not just on our budgets, but also the morale, performance, and potential of our people too. If traditional funding structures become further constricted, is this now the time for research libraries to look to alternative sources of funds to make an increasing contribution towards financial stability? How can partnerships with external organisations and donors remain mutually beneficial whilst ensuring that libraries stay true to their core mission and values? How can philanthropic activities help libraries further innovative and specialist programmes that may sit outside our core spend? Is there a risk that non-standard funding could reshape our libraries and services in unintended ways? How can we assess and mitigate against such risks?

The technology we shape: In an era defined by rapid technological change, particularly the rise of AI and other emerging technologies, how can libraries help to shape flexible, interoperable, and future-facing knowledge infrastructures, whilst keeping human needs, values, and relationships at the centre of any infrastructural change?

The meaning we bring: Research libraries are increasingly recognised not only as centres of scholarship, but also as civic institutions that create public value and strengthen community connections. We seek to explore their evolving civic role: how they meaningfully engage communities beyond the university, support community building, and expand the reach and relevance of special and heritage collections beyond the campus. How is a growing emphasis on civic priorities reshaping library collections, spaces, and professional practices?

Survey on research (meta)data quality [EOSC-EDEN]

Survey on research (meta)data quality [EOSC-EDEN]

Have you encountered any issues when it comes to sharing, finding, accessing, and working with research data? If you are: 

  • a researcher who works with data on a daily basis, 
  • a professional who manages or curates research data 
  • a professional who works with the technical infrastructure required for managing or curating research data,

then your perspective on the future of FAIR long-term data preservation is invaluable. 

We invite you to fill out a survey that investigates how research communities work with research data, and how data archives and repositories work with the different aspects that contribute to the quality of research (meta)data

The Horizon Europe-funded EOSC EDEN project investigates and develops strategies for curation and long-term preservation of research data. One important aspect of the project is to collect insights from researchers and preservation professionals, with the aim of turning identified challenges into actionable improvements. Your professional insights will support our work on:

  • Improving and standardising curation and preservation practices
  • Developing the services and tools needed to enhance digital preservation strategies
  • Enabling the reusability of research data
  • Bridging knowledge across disciplines
  • Equipping researchers with the knowledge to answer central research questions

Whether you work at a repository or in research, in a large organisation or a small team, and whatever your discipline or career stage, we would like to hear from you. Multiple responses from the same organisation are welcome, and we encourage you to share information about the survey with your professional networks. 

Filling out the survey should take between 20-30 minutes to complete, and we will keep it open until Monday, 31st August, 2026. 

You can find the survey here: https://nettskjema.no/a/eosc-eden-survey-2026.

For any questions about the survey or the work of EOSC EDEN, please contact Helene N. Andreassen (Project Task Lead) at helene.n.andreassen@uit.no.

Thank you for sharing your experience — your contribution is greatly valued!