Cultural Heritage

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 

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) training [13-16 Oct, UCL, London]

CLDH training opportunity in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), taking place from 13 to 16 October 2026 in the UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite

We’re pleased to share an upcoming UCLDH training opportunity in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), taking place from 13 to 16 October 2026 in the UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite. 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/consulting/advanced-imaging-consultants/training

Led by Dr Kathryn Piquette, this four-day practical course introduces RTI as a computational photographic method for capturing and examining surface shape, colour and fine detail. The course combines lectures, demonstrations and hands-on work, and is particularly relevant to colleagues working with cultural heritage, museum and archival collections, archaeology, conservation and digital imaging.

Participants will learn how to:

  • set up and capture RTI datasets
  • process, assess and view RTI images
  • work with portable objects and larger surfaces
  • use RTI for detailed examination and documentation
  • prepare and disseminate RTI images for research and publication

Dates: 13-16 October 2026

Location: UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite, Malet Place

Fee: £1,400

Concession rate: £1,200 for full-time students, UCL students and staff, and organisations enrolling two or more participants

Places can be booked through the UCL Online Store:

https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/information-studies-f15/f15-4-day-reflectance-transformation-imaging-training-course-oct-2026

(re)Imagining the future for Digital Arts and Humanities in Ireland [4th March, 2027, Save the Date]

📌 Save the date for a DARIAH-IE Networking Day hosting the UK-IE Digital Humanities Association’s Regional Meeting

📆 March 4th, 2027 | 📍 Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin  | 🕰️ 10:30 – 16:00

Save the date for a national event bringing together practitioners, researchers and academics working in digital arts and digital humanities across Ireland.

Hosted by DARIAH-IE, Ireland’s national node of DARIAH the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, the day will also see the first meeting of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association (UK-IE DHA) Regional Event Series.

This jointly organised event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders, reflecting the strength of collaboration between the DARIAH-IE infrastructure and the UK-IE DH Association.

The day is designed to:

  • Introduce the affordances of engagement with DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA
  • Provide the opportunity to talk to – and hear from – colleagues across the island
  • Share knowledge across HEIs
  • Encourage participation in and engagement across DARIAH Working Groups and UK-IE DHA Community Interest Groups
  • Invite discussions on training needs, collaborations and events

Whether you are new to digital arts and humanities or already active in the field, this is a chance to connect with colleagues from across the island and help shape the future of both DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA.

Full programme and registration details to follow, provisional timelines below:

  • October 20th, 2026 – Call for Papers and Provocations opens
  • November 27th, 2026 – CfP closes
  • December – Programme announced
  • January 11th, 2026 – Registration opens
  • February 11th, 2026 – Registration closes

A bursary call will also be announced in the coming months.

Keep an eye on our Event page for more info

For queries contact joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie or uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk 

Europeana Foundation – citation survey [Closes 18th Sept]

Europeana Foundation – citation survey

At the Europeana Foundation, we are keen to facilitate the access and reuse of the data we make available via Europeana.eu and via our APIs.

We have recently focused on data citation.

We would greatly appreciate your response to a quick survey to better understand how data is cited and reused in academia and research: https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/m6D6VU

Your input will be crucial in helping us support research workflows through the development of tools and services in the common European data space for cultural heritage.

n addition to informing technical improvements, your response may help us define recommendations and good practices for the cultural heritage sector.

The survey contains a maximum of 16 questions and should take around 10 minutes to complete.

Please share your input by Friday, 18 September!

Link to the survey:

https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/m6D6VU