The DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2024 took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 18th-21st 2024. The topic of this year’s event was Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities. This was the largest annual event that DARIAH has ever organised, as we welcomed more than 250 participants from 39 different countries around the world. The event was held in-person at NOVA-FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and hosted by ROSSIO Infrastructure, the Portuguese node of DARIAH.
Theme of Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities
Building on last year’s theme of Cultural Heritage Data, this year’s event focused on Workflows, moving beyond the mere sharing of resources and tools and towards the sequence of steps required to best facilitate and optimise, share, and reproduce their use. The call for contributions sought paper, panel and poster submissions that would explore, assess, analyse and embody the challenges of designing, implementing, documenting and sharing digitally-enabled workflows in the context of arts and humanities research from a technical, methodological, infrastructural and conceptual point of view. A record number of diverse and engaging submissions resulted in a packed schedule of papers, panels, poster presentations and more over the Annual Event’s days in Lisbon.
Programme
The 2024 event kicked off with meetings of DARIAH bodies and several pre-conference workshops, followed by three conference days with panels, papers, keynote speeches, poster and demo sessions. Specifically, the programme of the event consisted of:
- A keynote lecture on the event’s theme: an opening lecture by Meredith Martin (Centre for Digital Humanities at Princeton University) entitled “All Worked Up About Data”. Here, Professor Martin explored the history of and controversies around humanities data in order to contextualise why the humanities have not been considered data-driven, even though scholars in these fields have long pioneered studying culture as essentially data, and today are relying increasingly on digital platforms in their research.
- Several different concurrent Working Group meetings such as the Bibliodata Working Group, and the DH Course Registry Working Group.
- A Working Group Community Meeting open to all, in which Working Groups “pitched” their work and engaged with each other.
- A DARIAH Portugal Showcase, highlighting the work that has been done through ROSSIO Infrastructure.
- Papers and panels pertaining to the various ways in which digitally-enabled workflows manifest themselves in a variety of contexts. These contexts included cultural heritage, as well the auditory, ethical and documenting elements of workflows.
- Poster and demo sessions on the Wednesday and Thursday evenings, featuring a diverse showcase of different projects and initiatives across the wider DARIAH Community, including multi-sensory elements.
- A showcase of DARIAH Theme funded projects from 2022-2024, featuring presentations on the activities and results achieved.
- A special panel featuring reflections on 10 years of DARIAH, as we celebrate our tenth year of being an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium).
- Some special announcements at the closing of the event, including the launch of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal, our new diamond open access Overlay Journal.
Find out more
Get a glimpse of the 2024 Annual Event in this recap film:
For more pictures of the event, please visit our Flickr album.
The Book of Abstracts is published in Zenodo, you can find it at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.13654378.
