The DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2023 took place in Budapest, Hungary, from June 6th – 9th 2023. The topic of this year’s event was Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data? This was a busy annual event, as we welcomed more than 200 participants from over 30 countries around the world. The event was held in-person with additional streaming of the main plenary room across all three days.
Theme of Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?
Collections in libraries, archives and museums have been at the heart of humanities research for centuries. However, with the current focus on data-driven research, data management plans and the research data lifecycle, in what ways do we need to think differently about cultural heritage collections as data? Inspired by the proclamation “cultural heritage data is humanities research data”, this year’s DARIAH Annual Event explored what this means in practice. What does it mean for cultural heritage institutions to provide access to their ‘collections as data’? Do we need to think of different workflows for digitised and born-digital datasets? Can we think of a humanities research data continuum? These are only some of the questions that we discussed, debated, and answered at the 2023 DARIAH Annual Event.
Three themes were proposed for the 2023 Annual Event to inspire submissions:
1. Sustainable workflows for data management and curation
2. Imagining experimental data spaces for cultural heritage
3. Advancing digital methods for the analysis of cultural heritage
Programme
The 2023 event kicked off with meetings of DARIAH bodies, followed by three conference days with panels, papers, keynote speeches, performances and poster sessions. Specifically, the programme of the event consisted of:
- A keynote lecture and keynote panel on the event’s theme: an opening lecture by Thomas Padilla (Deputy Director at Archiving and Data Services of the Internet Archive) entitled ‘A Mutualistic View of AI in the Library or a Continuation of Craft’ and a closing keynote panel entitled ‘DARIAH Data Spaces Dialogue: Imagining Experimental Data Spaces for Analysis of Cultural Heritage Using Digital Methods’, chaired by DARIAH Director Sally Chambers.
- Paper sessions on topics including ‘Exploring Cultural Heritage in Research: Case Studies in Genealogy, Gaming, Language, and Historical Data’, ‘Imagining Data Spaces’, and ‘Data quality and data management for CH in the context of open science’
- Panel session on the topic ‘The digital research axis at C2DH: sustainable workflows, data usability, and multi-layered publishing’.
- Poster sessions each afternoon
- Two country-specific showcases: ‘DARIAH Hungary Showcase: Road to DARIAH’ and ‘Dariah.lab Poland – Together for Cultural Heritage’
- Plenary sessions
- Internal meetings of several DARIAH organisational bodies including the Scientific Board.
Over the three days, the participants listened and contributed to many exciting topics such as data quality and management for Cultural Heritage, new ways of accessing DH data for GLAM or Exploring Digital Heritage: Innovations in Digitization and Data Services.
A key take home message from this year’s event was the importance of collaboration across cultural institutions in order to best facilitate the integration of cultural heritage data and the management of humanities data.
Find out more
Get a glimpse of the 2023 Annual Event in this recap film:
All three days were streamed in full and are available via the ELTE Youtube channel (Day One, Day Two, and Day Three)
The Book of Abstracts is available in the Zenodo community for the Annual Event 2023.
