OpenMethods metablog: From a DARIAH Core Service to a DARIAH-IT Community Service

Spadi, A., SPINELLI, F., Degl’Innocenti, E., Gouzi, F., Testori, M., Karachristos, I., & Horvath, A. (2025). OpenMethods v2.0: shaping the future of a Community service. DARIAH Annual Event 2025 | The Past (DAE 2025), Göttingen, Germany. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15755629

“With over 250 posts contributed by committed Volunteer Editors since 2018, OpenMethods is an original publishing hub and crossroads easing conversation on digital methods” said Françoise Gouzi, DARIAH’s Open Science Officer. “From 2024, we’ve moved step by step towards a transition of the metablog to a Community Service operated by DARIAH-IT. I think this transition demonstrates the capacity of DARIAH as a resilient network able to provide stable services to the community. We are confident and delighted to support DARIAH-IT in taking over its daily operations, ensuring the platform’s continued growth and relevance in the evolving DH landscape.”

“Since February 2025, when the DICO (DARIAH-IT Coordination Office) took over the service, we’ve been working closely with the Open Methods Editorial team to shape a new strategy for the metablog and to encourage broader community participation” commented Alessia Spadi, DARIAH-IT Deputy National Coordinator & Sustainability HUB Manager. “We presented the transition with a poster at the DARIAH Annual Event 2025, then launched a call for volunteer editors and welcomed 22 new members from across Europe and beyond. Now, we’re preparing a full rebranding of the website, building on the excellent work done so far and giving the platform a fresh look for its next phase of development.”

Spadi, A., SPINELLI, F., Degl’Innocenti, E., Gouzi, F., Testori, M., Karachristos, I., & Horvath, A. (2025). OpenMethods v2.0: shaping the future of a Community service. DARIAH Annual Event 2025 | The Past (DAE 2025), Göttingen, Germany. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15755629

Open Call for contributions

Currently, the OpenMethods Editorial Team has launched a new call for content contributions and is inviting you to be part of it! If you’ve already published insightful work on Digital Humanities methods or tools, OpenMethods offers the perfect platform to give it greater visibility. By contributing to this metablog, you help amplify open access research and connect with a broader community of practitioners and scholars.

OpenMethods highlights Digital Humanities methods and tools already published on various sites. All selected content has to be:

• already published elsewhere.

• Open Access content/data.

Content can consist of blog posts, reports, presentations, working papers, data papers, articles, book chapters, video or podcasts. It is not a problem if it is already highlighted on another platform. Content with persistent identifiers (uri, handle, doi) are of course more than welcome.

Find more information on OpenMethods and the Open Call