Events

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections [Feb 17 @ 16:00 GMT online]

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections

17 February (4:00 pm to 5:30 pm)

Join the Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) for a fascinating discussion about ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections’.

Registration: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/gaps-silences-cultural-heritage-collections

The Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) cordially invites you to the next session of their flagship seminar series on ‘The Fragile Record’.

We live in an age of abundant data — and yet, it remains strikingly fragile and incomplete. This seminar explores the topic of ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections.’ We will discuss issues of inclusivity and bias from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives. How do these factors influence which stories are told and how they are represented in cultural heritage collections and related research?

Please find below a short biography of the participants

Mandana Seyfeddinipur is Director of Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, formerly based at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and part of the CLARIN-UK Consortium. The programme moved to Berlin in 2021, and remains part of the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (CKLD).

Andrea Kocsis is Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics, at the University of Edinburgh. She comes from an interdisciplinary and international background, and in her research, she combines heritage studies with data and network science. 

Giulia Taurino, Ph.D. is a researcher, artist, and curator specialized in AI for the management and preservation of cultural heritage collections. Her research focuses on forms of content organization in online repositories and digital archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and applications of AI in the arts, heritage and museum sectors. Past and present affiliations include the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, the Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Interest Group, Getty Research Institute, metaLAB (at) Harvard, MIT Data + Feminism Lab, Brown University’s Virtual Humanities Lab. 

Lucy Havens is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024, where she investigated how machine learning could help archivists identify gender biases in descriptive metadata.  Her research interests include human-centered AI, gender bias and empowerment, and AI evaluation, with a focus on GLAM use cases.

The FLOW Project: A Modular Workflow for Automatic Text Recognition and Beyond [Feb 18, online @ 15:00 GMT]

The FLOW Project: A Modular Workflow for Automatic Text Recognition and Beyond

Bodleian Bytes

18 February 15:00 to 16:00

Online event. Registration required.

Registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/registration-bodleian-bytes-the-flow-project

Historical research often involves working with highly diverse and complex source materials, ranging from handwritten manuscripts to large, heterogeneous document collections. Machine learning methods are increasingly shaping how historians work with digitised sources, particularly through Automatic Text Recognition (ATR). In this talk, Jonas Widmer and Dana Meyer will introduce The FLOW, a modular, microservice-based framework designed to support machine learning–driven data management and processing in the Digital Humanities.

The talk will outline how The FLOW separates complex ATR workflows such as pre-processing, model training, inference, and evaluation into independent, reusable components that can be combined flexibly and accessed without programming experience. Using state-of-the-art transformer-based models, the project aims to make advanced text recognition workflows more transparent, reproducible, and scalable across diverse historical datasets.

Jonas and Dana will outline a typical FLOW workflow, showing how datasets are managed on the Hugging Face platform and then processed step by step. The focus will be on how such workflows can support everyday research practices when working with large and heterogeneous historical corpora.

Speaker Biographies

Jonas Widmer is a Research Software Engineer specialising in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. In this role, he assists in planning and developing projects focused on Natural Language Processing. His primary interest lies in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), where he engages with historical projects and their diverse sources.

Dana Meyer is a Master’s student in Intelligent Interactive Systems at Bielefeld University and works as a research assistant on the project The Flow in the Digital History group at Bielefeld University

Jonas Widmer

Jonas Widmer

Dana Meyer

Dana Meyer

Bodleian Bytes

Bodleian Bytes is a series of online talks hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries. The series engages with innovative national and international research in digital scholarship. It is a virtual space for discussions surrounding different tools and methodologies whilst also providing inspiration for future digital research.

Event Details and Registration

Registration is required for this free online event. Registration closes at 17.00 on Monday 16 February 2026.

Date and time: Wednesday 18 February, 15:00-16:00 (UK time)

Location: Online via Zoom.

For further information, please email the Centre for Digital Scholarship: cds@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Centre for Digital Scholarship

The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries is a space and place for engaging, leading and shaping discussions around digital scholarship practice and research within and beyond the University of Oxford. 

Digital Changelings: 3D Scanning Nature [Feb 17 @ 12:00 GMT in person (Galway) and online]

Digital Changelings: 3D Scanning Nature

Date & Time: 12pm, Tuesday 17th February

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

Registration

In person: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-liing-heaney

Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jbqJZag_T0CrOoJBH1CAFA#/registration

Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway, Masterclass Series

In this session, multidisciplinary artist 1iing heaney will talk about the use of 3D scanning in her practice, and how it has informed her thinking on digital and ecological life. She will discuss the technical and creative application of the medium as she has implemented it across installation, sculpture, and video.

Speaker Bio
1iing heaney is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leixlip, Co. Kildare exploring the complex entanglements of the anthropocene, particularly between technology and ecology. She is currently a Masters by Research candidate in IADT, funded by scholarship from TU Rise Elevate. Working across diverse mediums such as 3D print, Extended Reality, stone, CGI, steel, and screen, her work is presented as immersive, sculptural, and screened experiences.

Upcoming:

Róisín Berg – Tuesday, 24 February

Tara Jaye Burke – Tuesday, 3rd March

Claire Healy  – Tuesday 24th March

Jane Cassidy – Tuesday 31th March

Welsh language Wikipedia [Feb 17, online @ 14:00 GMT]

Welsh language Wikipedia

17 February 14:00 to 15:30, online via Zoom

Digital Scholarship at Oxford

Jason Evans, National Library of Wales, will talk about his work on Welsh language Wikipedia, and the challenges and importance of developing smaller language digital resources. There will be a short talk, followed by discussion and a Q and A

For this session we will hear from Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales.

For over a decade Jason has managed projects to improve content on the Welsh language Wikipedia. He works to advocate for open access within the culture sector and works to support the sharing of knowledge in smaller languages and about under represented groups. He has developed processes for transforming Library metadata in rich linked open data and connecting knowledge across languages, datasets and organisations. He advises Welsh Government on Welsh Language Data, currently sits on the Europeana Members Council and chairs the Europeana Impact Community steering group.

Jason will talk about his work harnessing the crowd and technology to disseminate knowledge in Welsh, the value of Welsh language Open Data, and smaller language digital resources. 

More info: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critical-digital-humanities-0

EADH 2026 Proposals deadline extended to Feb 27

EADH Proposals deadline extended to Feb 27

The deadline for the European Association for Digital Humanities 2026 conference has been extended to 27 February 2026!

The conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre of Digital Humanities, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Wrocław.

Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites the international Digital Humanities community to reflect on technological transformations, including artificial intelligence, multilingual infrastructures, sustainability, and responsible data governance.

Submissions are open for posters, short papers, long papers, and workshops. The thematic areas include: data and methods, AI and ethics, infrastructure and open science, cultural heritage and diversity, communities and futures of DH. All conference venues are fully accessible, and online participation is available for presenters.

The new deadline for all types of submissions is 23:59 AoE on Friday, 27 February 2026.

You can find the full Call for Papers as well as other information here: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp