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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 of Spain's "Madgazine," used in the interactive editions of Don Quixote and Leonardo da Vinci’s Madrid Codex. The discussion will revolve around the specific workflow we tested for creating a digitally enhanced edition of a collection of stories entitled "Plage of Dragons," published in 1923 and based on the Spanish adaptations of Edith Nesbit’s tales. The slides and transcript available in this record were delivered in November 2023 as part of the DARIAH Friday Frontiers webinar series. The full synthesis, along with a video of the webinar, can be found at https://campus.dariah.eu/resource/posts/new-readers-for-old-texts-sharing-the-workflow-of-a-digitally-enriched-children-literature-edition

OPERAS Innovation Lab provides targeted guidance for scholars seeking to disseminate their outputs in an innovative way. This poster presents three case studies of workflows for innovative scholarly communication: 1) toolkit/anthology; 2) interdisciplinary online journal; 3) software services. The workflows will serve as blueprints for SSH scholars.

The TEITOK REST API lets you interact with your corpus remotely - to upload documents in various formats - automatically converted to TEI/XML; to render search results; to run an NLP pipeline on the server; or download the content of corpus document, treat that content locally with local NLP tools or manual annotation tools, and then upload the results back to the server, where the new or corrected annotations will be incorporated into the original TEI/XML document without destroying any of the potentially complex annotations already in the document.

Artificial Intelligence has profoundly changed the way research is conducted, and research. Whether they be at the local, regional, national, or even international level, research infrastructures cannot ignore its impact on research practices and methodologies. The primary role of research infrastructures is to support and enable researchers, which usually regulates us to a second plan. However, it is necessary for research infrastructures to be leaders, especially on important fundamental issues that affect the field as a whole, such as artificial intelligence. Indeed, the ethical challenges posed by SSH research, and artificial intelligence in particular, should help guide the various actions of research infrastructure in our support to researchers. This talk will show how the IR* HumaNum, the French national infrastructure for digital humanities, and DARIAH-EU, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) approach the question of artificial intelligence and how one must engage with this new field - as any research method of that matter - with ethics in mind. 

This presentation follows a workshop session that was held at the beginning of the DARIAH Annual Event 2023 in Budapest, HU. An informational booklet, designed by Tom Gheldof, details each of the DH Masters which we were able to investigate. It helped nourish our discussions during the workshop and thus is included as well. Postgraduate education in Digital Humanities (DH) has often led to careers for students in either the research or cultural heritage sector. Traditionally, the relationship between industry and Cultural Heritage institutions has typically been conceived as a collaboration to leverage funding mechanisms and develop projects to pursue a common interest, such as a technical innovation, or a knowledge sharing endeavour. The skills acquired within Digital Humanities (DH) taught postgraduate degrees are interdisciplinary and therefore transferable by their very nature, something that has been recognised among larger multinational companies. Indeed, a strong humanities education and familiarity with our methods can be an asset for business. Best practices for data stewardship and data management are similar whether one focuses on cultural heritage data, or business data, even if there are particularities. Yet among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) the proposition of employing a graduate from a field that is still in its relative infancy compared with more traditional disciplines can be seen as a risk. It therefore becomes necessary to identify the gaps, and indeed niches that rest between the current provision of training among DH scholars at a postgraduate (Masters) level, and the needs of the companies and future employers of DH graduates. Indeed, greater collaboration and fluidity between the cultural heritage and academic sphere, and that of business, via the DH alumni, can lead to greater outcomes for both, as these students can bring the best practices of both sectors in their future careers, thereby enriching both sectors and establishing interpersonal links (and the collaboration that grows from these links) via their networks. In light of this, it becomes necessary to foster internships that encourage and nurture experimental data spaces between cultural heritage, industry and academia. This paper will therefore share the conversation around the relationship between taught postgraduate DH programmes and industry by presenting the outcomes of a joint working-group workshop to be held on the periphery of the DARIAH Annual Event 2023. Furthermore, it will also include the results of preparatory surveys and interviews with directors and coordinators of various DH postgraduate programmes across Europe, specifically identifying the challenges and professional issues experienced by both DH Masters directors, and their alumni. This paper addresses the following key objectives: Identify the professional challenges and (new) employment opportunities of DH postgraduate taught programmes and their alumni at the European scale. Identify the benefits such a collaboration and exchange between the two sectors can bring. Identify opportunities and good practices of internships with industry and cultural heritage institutions, and their associated challenges. Strengthen the networking opportunities between master degrees, in such a way that expertise can be mapped at a pan-Infrastructural level to share and exchange trainers and trainees in the frame of Erasmus mobilities or Erasmus Mundus programmes. Our presentation will give visibility to these outputs, as a first step in a long-term effort to improve collaboration between industry, cultural heritage institutions and academia (specifically taught postgraduate DH degrees) in the frame of research infrastructures.

Averell is a tool designed to ease working with annotated poetry repositories. It allows users to download and reconcile different annotated corpora, providing a unified JSON output at the desired granularity. This can be useful for researchers who need to work with substantial amounts of poetry data and need to be able to specify the level of detail they want in their final dataset.

Scholars see innovative means of disseminating their work and data as a chance to improve the process of sharing ideas with different audiences, thanks to technological affordances. They understand innovation either in terms of form (novel means of communicating ideas through different media), or access (opening up outputs and making them easily accessible) (cf. Maryl and Błaszczyńska 2021, p. 34). What we consider a “scholarly text” has thus become understood as an expression that can employ different media and engage creatively with underlying data. However, engaging with novel forms of communication poses new challenges to scholars, who may lack competencies, know-how, or adequate resources to take full advantage of innovative outputs (Tasovac et al. 2018). This presentation will outline the means of support provided by OPERAS Innovation Lab in establishing interdisciplinary, collaborative workflows for supporting innovative outputs in social sciences and humanities (SSH) throughout their lifecycle. The Lab provides guidelines on how to create and sustain FAIR innovative outputs in the SSH. The poster will highlight the ideas behind creating the OPERAS Innovation Lab and the activities that the Lab engages in.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu - is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. The SSH Open Marketplace might be regarded as an innovative service. It is, of course, a directory in a classic way, indexing information and allowing researchers to navigate their way to new tools and methods. But it is something new, as well: through the creation and marking of relations between indexed items in a semantically much more meaningful way than the limited textual relatedness of keyword or category classes, it creates contextualization which increases the serendipity in the search of resources. This poster, created by the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board members provides an overview of what the service is, what is indexes, how it is managed and how it can be used.