Events

Meet the Neighbours: ORI, Sonraí and the Irish Reproducibility Network [28 Sept, 11am, online]

ORI, Sonraí and the Irish Reproducibility Network

Repository work does not happen in isolation. The same researchers whose outputs we deposit are also being asked to manage their data properly, document their methods transparently, and make their work reproducible. Different national networks are supporting different parts of that picture, often without knowing much about each other.

This ORI event brings three of those networks into the same room.

Agenda

  • Welcome and introduction, Hardy Schwamm (UCC), ORI
  • Sonraí, the Irish Data Stewardship Network, Zenobie Garrett (RCSI)
  • The Irish Reproducibility Network (IRN), Dermot Lynott (Maynooth University), IRN Chair,
  • Open discussion: where our work overlaps, and where we could work together

About the three networks

ORI is a national peer network where repository practitioners support each other, share knowledge, and work together to strengthen repository practice across Ireland.

Sonraí is Ireland’s data stewardship network. It works to raise the profile of data stewards, professionalise the role, and build the skills needed for a FAIR and open research data landscape. If you have ever been “the data person” in your team, Sonraí is talking about your work.

The Irish Reproducibility Network is a national, peer-led consortium working to improve research quality, transparency and culture across all disciplines. It focuses on training, connecting local leads across institutions, and practical support for open and reproducible practice.

All are grassroots practitioner networks, initially supported by the National Open Research Forum, and all three are working towards the same national goals under the National Action Plan for Open Research.

Register your interest here

28 Sept, 11am, online

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.

Digital History Autumn School 2026, Germany [Bursaries Call closes Aug 2]

From Data Acquisition to Data Publication: Quality Control, Tool Assessment, and Methodological Challenges in Digital History

Digital History Autumn School 2026

From Data Acquisition to Data Publication: Quality Control, Tool Assessment, and Methodological Challenges in Digital History

28 September – 2 October 2026

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg & HERMES (Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods) Data Competence Center

Digital tools and AI-assisted methods are increasingly shaping historical research. From OCR and annotation to corpus analysis and the application of generative AI systems in analysis or dissemination, these technologies open up new possibilities for generating and augmenting historical knowledge. Even after a few decades of experience, the combination of hermeneutic and computational approaches is far from straightforward, and researchers are often confront-ed with new methodological and practical challenges such as (but not limited to):

·              Data acquisition: How can processes of datafication and data-collection lead to relia-ble and accurate data?

·              Data modeling: Which data model is best suited to a particular research question and dataset, and how can expressiveness and interoperability be optimally balanced?

·              Data analysis: Are the available tools sufficiently powerful for the chosen model, and do they perform as effectively on one’s own data as reported in the literature?

·              Evaluation: How can results obtained from a specific tool be critically assessed? What roles do data quality, uncertainty, and methodological transparency play in a given re-search context?

·              Data exchange and reproducibility: How can research results be published and shared in ways that foster reuse and conserve transparency? To what extent are digitally supported methods transferable and reproducible across different datasets, and un-der which conditions?

The Digital History Autumn School 2026, organized in the framework of the Joint Lab Cul-tural Data in a Digital World (Herder Institute, Marburg –https://www.herder-institut.de/de/start, in close collaboration with the data competence center  – Humanities Edu-cation in Research, Data, and Methods – HERMES – https://hermes-hub.de/ ), addresses these questions from both methodological and practical perspectives. Together with experts in Digi-tal Humanities and Digital History, participants will explore criteria for the selection, applica-tion, and evaluation of digital tools and methods and will have the opportunity to discuss them in the context of their own research projects.

Topics

·              Selection and critical assessment of digital tools

·              Data preparation and data quality practices

·              Evaluation methods in the Digital Humanities

·              Transparency and reproducibility of digital methods

·              Dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity, and incompleteness in historical data

·              Source criticism, provenance, and the documentation of data transformation processes

In addition to thematic workshops, the Autumn School will provide opportunities for ex-change both with the experts and among the participants. Planned activities include interactive formats such as peer-support sessions, including opportunities for participants to present and discuss their own research data, methods, and research questions as well as networking events.

Who Can Apply?

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The Autumn School is aimed at:

·              Advanced Master’s students

·              Doctoral researchers (PhD candidates)

·              Postdoctoral and other early-career researchers

from the fields of Digital Humanities, Computer Science, Cultural Heritage, Digital History and Information Science who work with historical and cultural data and wish to integrate dig-ital methods into their research and critically reflect on their use.

Practical Information

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Dates: 28 September (from 2p.m) – 2 October 2026 (until 2p.m..)

Location: Herder Institute, Marburg, and Philipps University Marburg

Working Language: English

The organizers will provide for single room accommodation at a regular hotel. Travel expenses can be reimbursed up to a maximum of EUR 250.

Application

Applicants are invited to submit:

·              A short letter of motivation (maximum one page)

·              A brief curriculum vitae (CV)

·              Optionally, a short description of a project or dataset they would like to discuss during the Autumn School

Application deadline: 2 August 2026

Notification of acceptance: by 21 August 2026

We welcome applications from individuals with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and particu-larly encourage those who have so far only made limited use of digital methods to apply.

Please submit your application as a single PDF file to: herbstakademie@herder-institut.de

For further Information please contact Dr. Cristina Vertan  at : herbstakademie@herder-institut.de

Emerging Digital Methodologies CfP [18 Nov, Oxford, Call closes Aug 28th]

Call for Papers now open | Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026

We are inviting graduate students and early career researchers who are applying new digital methodologies to the humanities, and related fields, to share that research at the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026 in Oxford on Wednesday 18 November 2026. 

Since the turn of the millennium, digital and computational methodologies have become increasingly prolific at the cutting edge of language and humanities research. This conference invites graduate students and early career researchers applying new digital methodologies to the humanities and related fields to share that research. We are particularly interested in hearing about research involving digital methods being used to rethink established fields, new applications for conventional digital methods, and how digital methodologies are being translated in the cross-disciplinary space.

This in-person conference sponsored by the Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub and Voltaire Foundation invites presenters from any discipline to submit papers on:

· New applications of digital methods

· The use case and problems of any digital method

· How digital methodologies are changing their field

We invite submissions in the following formats:

· 7-minute lightning talks (especially suitable for early findings or work-in-progress)

· 15-minute papers

· 30-minute roundtable conversations (minimum 3 participants)

The conference will capture a wide range of subject areas across the many communities of scholars taking-up digital methods – both from novices and expert practitioners. Papers could include, for example, ‘Problems of LLM’s in the Humanities’, ‘ChatGPT and visual culture’, ‘A Network Analysis of 16c Europe’, ‘Crafting music in the age of AI’, ‘The problems of control-f in the modern age’, ‘Book culture and language models’, ‘NLP processing of 20c films’, etc.

Tickets for the conference will be £38 pounds per-person, including tea breaks, lunch and a wine reception. More information to follow.

To apply, please complete the form below with a proposal for a paper (200 words maximum) and a short biography (50 words maximum) by 5pm (UK British Summer Time) on Tuesday 28 August 2026.

To apply to speak, you can submit a 200-word abstract and a short biography using the form available here.