Digital Humanities

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint [Dec 15, online, 13:30-15:00 GMT]

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint

The Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities Network (DISKAH) is organising a webinar on “Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint” in collaboration with the Programming Historian to support interested colleagues in developing a publication targeted to this journal, and more widely in communicating your technical workflows within Digital Humanities research to relevant audiences.

Webinar date and time: Monday 15 December, 13:30-15:00 (GMT)

Please register here for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diskah-webinar-technical-writing-in-the-humanities-tickets-1976718137160

Further information about the webinar: https://culturedigitalskills.org/webinar-diskah-programming-historian/

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition [Dec 16, online, @16:45 CET]

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

The FSP Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna is very pleased to announce the third of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2025/26. All lectures will be streamed via the following link: 

https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/4b4961fd-6b8d-4be7-a222-62912c0dada0

16 December, 16:45 CET –  Dr. Jan Odstrčilík, Austrian Academy of Sciences

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily [Dec 10, online, @17:00 CET]

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily

The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH, Dept. of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) is pleased to announce the final seminar in its Winter 2025 series.

On 10 December 2025 at 5 p.m. CET, Simona Stoyanova (University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily. The seminar is co-organised by Valentina Mignosa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) as part of the project TES: Tracing Eastern Sicily’s networks (11th-5th centuries BCE).

The event will take place at the VeDPH Lab and online via Zoom. Online participation is possible upon registration. More information and the registration link are available here:
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/106868. 

Recordings of the seminars in the 2025 series will be made available on the VeDPH YouTube channel.

Submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 extended to Dec 15, 2025

The DH2026 organisers announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 proposals has been extended to December 15, 2025.

Next year’s conference (July 27–31, 2026) will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, South Korea. 
The theme for this conference is “Engagement.” Submissions are welcome in multiple formats, including long and short papers, posters, workshops, and mini-conferences.

Please visit the Call for Proposals on the conference website for more details: https://dh2026.adho.org.

The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities [Nov 17, online, @17:00 CET]

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Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities

The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the ‘Code & Culture’ talk series.

Our first guest is Manuel Burghardt (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled “Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities“ (full abstract here). The lecture will take place on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. 

Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-lecture-series/registration.

This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our “Environments in and as Networks” Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digital-humanities-hackathon). 

Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration [Nov 4, hybrid]

Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration

This informal meeting is meant mainly to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of data extraction, artificial intelligence, and the digital humanities. In the workshop, we continue to address the challenge of extracting heterogeneous references from texts, particularly from historical documents and humanities or legal scholarship. This second workshop focuses on three key themes emerging from the 2023 discussions:

  1. Validation: How can we evaluate and benchmark the performance of different reference extraction tools and approaches, particularly with large language models?
  2. Interoperability: How can we ensure that different tools, datasets, and workflows can work together effectively through shared data models and formats?
  3. Collaboration: How can researchers, developers, and institutions work together to advance the field of reference extraction?

The program is available online at: https://mpilhlt.github.io/reference-extraction/workshop-2025/programme/

The event will take place in-person and online. Register at https://plan.events.mpg.de/e/refextract25 

A link for online attendance will be sent to registered participants before the event. Also, even if you cannot attend, but want to be informed about updates, materials being made available, etc. you can notify us about this at the registration link.

Programme

Tuesday 04 November 2025

Onboarding

09:00-09:15 Arrival/Registration

09:15-09:45 Christian Boulanger/Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Welcome and Upshot from RefExtract2023, State of the Discussion

09:45-10:00 Coffee Break

Research presentations

10:00-12:30

  1. Hiba Arnaout (TU Darmstadt): In-depth Research Impact Summarization through Fine-Grained Temporal Citation Analysis
  2. Yurui Zhu/Matteo Romanello (Odoma): Benchmarking Large Language Models on Reference Extraction and Parsing in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  3. Sofía Aguilar Valdez (Saarland University): How Scientific Ideas Evolve
  4. Open Discussion and Ad-Hoc Presentation of Research

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Datasets, Infrastructure and Interoperability

13:30-15:30

  1. Angelo Di Iorio/Matteo Guenci/Marta Soricetti*/Silvio Peroni/Lorenzo Paolini*/Ivan Heibi (University of Bologna): Citation Extractor and Classifier: Pipeline and Datasets (*presenting)
  2. Tamara Heck/Christoph Schindler/Verena Weimer/Philipp Mayr/Ahsan Shahid (DIPF/GESIS): Open Citation Data for Educational Research
  3. Christian Boulanger, Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Datasets in the Legal Theory Knowledge Graph Project
  4. Interoperability Roundtable: Open Discussion on Data Models and Data Formats

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Tools, Workflows and Pipelines

16:00-17:30

  1. Raphael Schlattmann/Malte Vogl (mpigea)/Aleksandra Kaye (TU Berlin/mpigea): LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Extraction Pipeline
  2. Luca Foppiano (ScienciaLAB): Training the Grobid Reference Extraction Models
  3. Christian Boulanger/Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Annotation Tools for Machine Learning: PDF-TEI Editor (for LLamore & Grobid), Prodigy, TEI-Publisher

17:30-18:30 Takeaways, Way Forward, Closing

ARTEMIS – Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for Historical Maps of the Scheldt Valley [Oct 15th @12 – online]

15 October 2025, 12-1pm (online)

ARTEMIS – Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for Historical Maps of the Scheldt Valley

Dr Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) and Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

Register via Eventbrite here. 

This presentation introduces Artemis, a Flemish research project that unlocks and interlinks historical Belgian maps for environmental and landscape research. The focus is on the Scheldt River Valley between Ghent and Antwerp, a region shaped by a long history of human interaction with the river. Artemis processes a selection of pre-1880 maps, including the Ferraris, Vandermaelen and cadastral series, using a combination of computer vision techniques and manual validation. The extracted data, such as toponyms and land use, will be made available as Linked Open Data through a IIIF-enabled online platform. This creates a reusable infrastructure for researchers and institutions. 

The second part of the talk highlights one of Artemis’s research scenarios: historical flooding and water management in the Scheldt basin. Using extracted map data together with sources such as newspapers and official reports, the study reconstructs changes in hydrography and identifies flood-prone areas between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on key landscape features including dikes, wetlands and floodplains, and explores how their transformation may have increased vulnerability to flooding. Special attention is given to the 1906 flood and the ways in which local communities perceived and responded to the event.

About EDHS

The Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar (EDHS) brings together scholars from across the humanities who use digital methods to understand environments past, present, and future. EDHS is inclusive of urban, rural, suburban spaces and places and while we explore environments globally, we also showcase local work from and about the North of England.

Organisers: Giulia Grisot (Manchester), Katherine McDonough (Lancaster), Luca Scholz (Manchester), Joanna Taylor (Manchester).

EDHS is supported by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media at the University of Manchester, the Digital Humanities Centre at Lancaster, the N8, the Lancaster Data Science Institute, CIDRAL, and the MCGIS research group at Manchester.

Best,

Katie, on behalf of the organizers

Reframing the Past: Transforming Research and Teaching in Chinese History with Digital Tools [17th Oct @2pm – in person]

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Reframing the Past: Transforming Research and Teaching in Chinese History with Digital Tools

17 October 2025, 14:00 – 16:00 [In person event, registration required] Neill Theatre, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

This workshop led by Prof. Lik Hang Tsui offers a forum for sharing insights and collaboratively exploring how digital tools are reshaping historical research and teaching in Chinese studies. We will begin with a concise introduction to foundational concepts in digital humanities, using Chinese historical research as core examples to demonstrate applicable methods. The session will include practical demonstrations of using digital tools to locate and analyze historical figures and place names in classical Chinese texts and records from imperial China, followed by a discussion of how text markup and collaborative annotation can deepen engagement with these sources. We draw on open resources such as the China Biographical Database (CBDB), the China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS), and the Chinese Text Project (CTEXT). We will also examine the transformative potential of LLMs, considering how AI can support text generation, question design, and the creation of engaging educational content for Chinese history. Throughout, we emphasize integrating digital humanities tools into the research and learning of Chinese history, addressing both the challenges and opportunities presented by digitization and artificial intelligence.

Lik Hang Tsui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Associate Director of the Talent and Education Development Office. Prior to joining CityU, he worked as a Departmental Lecturer in Classical Chinese at the University of Oxford and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with the China Biographical Database (CBDB). He has published on middle period Chinese history, especially on epistolary culture and urban history, as well as on digital humanities methods for studying Chinese history. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also held fellowships at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and University of Western Australia in Perth. Tsui co-edits book reviews for Cultural History and serves as an associate editor for IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities. He is also the co-convenor of the Digital Learning and Literacy cluster in his College in CityU.

Workshop co-organised by Centre for Asian Studies and Centre for Digital Humanities

Register Here

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

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When: 25 September 16:00 to 18:30.

Free hybrid event – registration required.

This event, organised by the Humanities and Data Science Turing Special Interest Group and hosted by the Bodleian Libraries, marks a moment of reflection and renewal. It will look back at how far the special interest group have come in building infrastructure, knowledge, and communities of practice, and look ahead to what’s next. What is the role of the humanities in an increasingly datafied world? What forms of digital scholarship and collaboration will the next decade demand? And how do they, as a network, continue to support and shape those futures?

In person registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/in-person-registration-network-power
Online registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/online-registration-network-power

National Committee Announced

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DARIAH-IE Appoints New Advisory Committee to Support National Coordinator in Revitalising Irish Digital Arts & Humanities Research Infrastructure

Dublin, Ireland – May 27, 2025

DARIAH-IE, the Ireland node of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, proudly announces the appointment of a new national committee to guide the work of the National Coordinator. This strategic relaunch, made possible through continuing support from Research Ireland, aims to reestablish DARIAH-IE as an essential resource for Ireland’s digital arts and humanities community.

The newly formed advisory committee brings together distinguished scholars, technologists, and arts practitioners from across Ireland’s academic and cultural institutions to support National Coordinator Professor Jennifer Edmond (TCD):

  • Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) – chair
  • Professor David Crowley (National College of Art and Design)
  • Anthony Corns (The Discovery Programme)
  • Professor Anna Hickey-Moody (Maynooth University)
  • Dr Beth Knazook (Digital Repository of Ireland)
  • Ciara McCaffrey (University of Limerick)
  • Sian McInerney (The Hunt Museum)
  • Dr Pádraic Moran (University of Galway)
  • Jenny O’Neill (HEAnet)
  • Dr Órla Murphy (University College Cork)
  • Professor Declan O’Sullivan (ADAPT)

“We’re thrilled to have this opportunity to revitalise DARIAH-IE as a nexus for digital-enabled research in the arts and humanities in Ireland,” said Professor Edmond, National Coordinator. “With the guidance of our diverse advisory committee, our mission is to create a collaborative space where technology and humanities scholarship intersect to preserve, explore and reimagine Ireland’s rich cultural heritage and exceptional research base in the humanities and arts.”

The committee will support Professor Edmond in rebuilding DARIAH-IE’s infrastructure while developing new initiatives to address contemporary challenges in the digital arts and humanities.

Research Ireland’s renewed funding commitment underscores the importance of sustaining digital-enabled research in the arts and humanities in Ireland.

“We envision DARIAH-IE serving the entire digital arts and humanities community, from established researchers to emerging scholars and the broader public,” added Dr Marina Milić, Research Ireland. “Digital methods have transformed humanities research, and Ireland must maintain its position at the forefront of this evolution.”

The committee will hold its first in-person meeting in September 2025. 

Contact:
Joan Murphy
National Manager, DARIAH-IE
joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie