This two-day conference is organised by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Digital methods, technologies, and formats have increasingly gained traction in the study of life narratives and biographical data, as well as in the presentation of historical lives. Auto/biographical research and practice are aided significantly by biographical research databases and platforms, biographical online dictionaries, digital editions of historical life documents as well as community- and institutionally driven online archives and web-based collaborative…

This event is part of the "Narratives From the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives" Event Series organised by the consortium of the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project, a week-long series of events taking place at EPFL, Switzerland from 25th - 29th of September, that focus on exploring the exciting intersection of machine learning, visual analytics, digital museology, and archival science.  In the context of the transformation, accessibility and curation of datafied content require rethinking to unlock meaningfully…

Description: Evolving technologies have changed how writers write, and readers read. Join curator Stella Wisdom for a talk about the British Library’s current Digital Storytelling exhibition. From thought provoking autobiographical hypertexts to data journalism, uncanny ghost stories to weather poetry, steampunk literary adaptation to Elizabethan medical comedy. Stella will discuss a range of born digital works, including interactive narratives that respond to user input, reading experiences personalised by data feeds, and immersive multimedia story worlds developed through audience participation. About…

The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN2023 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there…

The conference Connect.Collaborate.Create. Bridging Communities for Participatory Research and Citizen Science 2023, will bring together the diverse European communities that create and support participatory research (including its funding) and citizen science. Jointly organized by the European projects COESO and PRO-Ethics, it will focus on the social sciences and humanities as well as on integrating participatory approaches at the research funding stage. On October 19-21, 2023 in Paris, at Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, we will welcome researchers, citizen science practitioners, and supporters from all backgrounds, research funding…

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-yopzwrHdC_5DDNQU–w7j72Fo4hZFa Description: Libraries worldwide are investing a significant portion of their resources in digitising their collections. Digitised formats are immensely valuable for researchers but may seem dry and unappealing to broader audiences, particularly when the original content was intended for children. This talk will present the preliminary research conducted on digitised formats of popular children’s literature found in specialised libraries, focussing on the models provided by two institutions: the British Library’s “Turning the Pages” software and the National Library…