The 3rd Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World will take place in Varna, immediately following RANLP2019. Local organizers are the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT-BAS). Over two days, the conference will bring together international researchers of diverse backgrounds and experiences to facilitate knowledge exchange and innovation.…

This is the 2019 edition of the annual TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting, hosted at the University of Graz in Austria, from September 16-20. Topic of this year's event is "What is Text, really? TEI and beyond". The program of the TEI 2019 conference and members’ meeting is available at: https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/sessions.php To register visit https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/…

The COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History is organizing a Training School in Budapest, co-located with the DH_Budapest 2019 conference. There are 3 parallel tracks each focusing on a different topic, but there are also several joint sessions. All participants need to decide on one track they want to follow and are expected to attend all 3 days of the Training School. TRACK 1: Corpus design and text contribution for ELTeC TRACK 2: Natural Language Processing for Distant Reading TRACK 3: Canonization in Distant…

The DARIAH Code Sprint is organised by the DESIR project in Berlin from 24 to 26 September 2019. It is an opportunity to bring together interested developers, DH-affiliated people, from the wide DARIAH community and beyond. Although this is the second code sprint, it is not exclusively addressed to participants of the first code sprint. Everyone is welcome! An affiliation to coding in the DH or in general technological discussions would be helpful. The Code Sprint is structured around three tracks approaching…

The Centre for Digital Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE.DH) organises its second annual conference which will take place in Budapest, 25–27 September 2019 – in collaboration with the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History project and the DARIAH Central European Hub. While last year the conference sought to investigate the current state of research in digital humanities in general, this year DH_Budapest_2019 will keep a narrower focus on theories and practices of distant reading.…

Environmental devastation harms regional livelihoods and cultural diversity. The scope of linguistic diversity brought to bear on habitat loss, biodiversity and climate change necessarily narrows as networked cultures coalesce. New perspectives on biocultural heritage in relation to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are asked for, in order to protect local linguistic and ecological knowledge, cultural heritage and alternative practices in their interrelation with biodiversity. Following the framework of the universal declaration of cultural diversity promoted by UNESCO, different knowledge contributions, scientific…

The workshop will bring together 20 trainees together with experts to share experiences, methods and techniques for the creation, management and use of linguistic data. The event is organized by Simona Olivieri, Humboldt Research Fellow - Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin, with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Aim of the workshop is to present a sketch of different methodologies for the digital treatment of languages and linguistic information.…

Building on the dynamic initiated during the 2018 DARIAH workshop, a new event will be held in December 2019 at the University of Neuchâtel. Young scholars (PhD+7 maximum) are invited to present their research in depth and to discuss together methodological, data management and research workflow issues. The workshop will bring together young scholars from Switzerland and surroundings. It aims to create a self-educational dynamic by focusing on technical aspects of DH projects and sharing concrete experiences. The workshop is…