The DARIAH-CH Digital Editions Woking Group is please to announce its 2026 Annual Meeting on the topic: Identity, Identifiers, Identifying Date: 11 September 2026 Location: University of Bern, UniS A-119 Assigning identifiers to elements of digital editions is fraught with complications. An apparently simple procedure throws up a host of questions: what should identifiers be given to: edition text, named entities, the transcriptions or the interface, the different versions o

FORS-DaSCH Webinar Series FORS and the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) offer a series of free online data management webinars. The webinars are specifically designed for researchers in the humanities and social sciences who collect and/or process research data in the Swiss context. Webinar 8: Authorship, Copyright & Licenses Date and time: September 29, 2026 | 14:00–15:30 CEST Location: Online Language: English Register here This webinar will

The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) is Switzerland's national research data infrastructure for the humanities and is affiliated with the University of Basel. It supports researchers in the sustainable preparation, preservation, and dissemination of research data. To strengthen our team, we are looking for an engaged and collaborative professional to coordinate the Research Data Unit and support researchers working on data-intensive projects.

The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) is Switzerland's national research data infrastructure for the humanities and is affiliated with the University of Basel. DaSCH supports researchers in the sustainable preparation, preservation, and dissemination of research data. To strengthen the team, DaSCH is looking for an engaged and creative professional who will foster exchange with scholarly communities, enhance the visibility of DaSCH, and strengt

DARIAH-CH is pleased to welcome the Swiss National Library (NL) as a new member of the national consortium. NL is represented in the consortium by Matthias Nepfer, Head of Innovation and Information Management. The Swiss National Library collects “Helvetica” – Swiss texts, images and sounds – and with its collections safeguards the collective memory of Switzerland. In collaboration with other institutions, it facilitates extensive access to the cultural heritage of the countr

Interactive chatbots are opening new ground for engaging visitors with collections and archives, sparking both excitement and unease among cultural professionals. But what are the real benefits, risks and challenges for Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) engaging with these technologies? Join us for a 60 minute online event designed to foster meaningful exchange within the Swiss GLAM community on the opportunities and challenges of generative AI. Format: online event Dat

How can researchers improve transparency, reproducibility, and interoperability in the social sciences and humanities? Join the next free FORS–DaSCH webinar on 21 May 2026 (14:00–15:30) to explore how reproducibility in the social sciences and semantic interoperability in the humanities can be strengthened. Led by Rita Gautschy (DaSCH) and Emilie Morgan de Paula (FORS), this interactive session is part of the FORS–DaSCH webinar series on research data management for social sc

The DARIAH-CH Digital Editions Woking Group is please to announce its 2026 Annual Meeting on the topic: Identity, Identifiers, Identifying Date: 11 September 2026 Location: University of Bern, UniS A-119 Assigning identifiers to elements of digital editions is fraught with complications. An apparently simple procedure throws up a host of questions: what should identifiers be given to: edition text, named entities, the transcriptions or the interface, the different versions o

What is impresso? The Impresso project – Media Monitoring of the Past – is a major European initiative transforming how researchers work with historical newspapers and radio archives. By applying machine learning and natural language processing to large-scale, multilingual collections, Impresso turns digitised media into enriched, searchable, and reusable data. Now in its current phase (2023–2027), the project expands its scope across media types and national contexts while d

On 21 April 2026, DaSCH and the DARIAH-CH GLAM WG hosted an online information session on how the European Union's emerging data spaces are reshaping access to — and reuse of — cultural heritage data. The presentation introduced the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage and the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), initiatives of the European Commission designed to support collaboration, data sharing, and digital research across the cultural h

We are happy to invite you to the DaSCHCon 2026 – AI in Practice: Experiences, Workflows, and Platforms that will take place on Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at the University of Bern in Bern and online. When: October 21, 2026 (09:45-16:45) Where: University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Kuppelraum and online Artificial Intelligence technologies are increasingly shaping how research is conducted across disciplines – from text and image analysis to metadata enrichment, patter

SSHOC-CH General Assembly We are pleased to announce the second SSHOC-CH General Assembly (GA): 📅 April 24, 2026 📍University of Bern, UniTobler 🕒 13:30-14:30, preceded by offered standing lunch from 12:30-13:30 The GA will provide an overview of ongoing activities, recent developments, and strategic priorities within the Swiss SSH community. Meeting CLARIN-CH and DARIAH-CH WGs In addition to the formal programme, we would like to invite members of the CLARIN-CH and DARIA

DaSCH is participating in the Love Data Week 2026 with a talk on the power of open standards and linked open data . Where's the Data? Anywhere Standards Take You! When: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 2:00–2:45 PM Speaker: Rita Gautschy Where: Online via Zoom Abstract Where is the data, really? This question is becoming less about physical storage and more about interoperability, standards, and connections. Rather than asking where data is stored — in which repository, instit

Plattformen sind eine Grundkomponente des digitalen Ökosystems. Text-, Bild- und andere Datentypen werden darüber gebündelt und nachhaltig zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Veranstaltung bringt Plattformbetreibende mit Nutzer:innen in Dialog. Für die sechste Ausgabe von «... im Dialog» stellen die Digital Humanities und Open Science der Universitätsbibliothek Bern Plattformen ins Zentrum. Wie üblich werden hands-on Teile mit Inputs von Expert:innen kombiniert und der Dialog innerha

New at the University of Bern: MA Major in Digital Humanities (from Spring 2026). Combine humanities with data, tools, and critical perspectives; prepare for careers across cultural heritage, research, and industry. We’re pleased to share a new study option at the University of Bern: the MA Major in Digital Humanities , launching in Spring 2026 . This program brings together humanities, culture, and computation. Students will learn to work with real-world datasets and proje

Webinar announcement We are happy to announce the next online webinar of the FORS-DaSCH series about Data Management for the Social Sciences and Humanities: Topic : Informed consent and its implications for data sharing, anonymisation, and ethical research practices in the social sciences and humanities Date : December 11, 2025 Time : 2:00-3:30PM Speakers : Noémi Villars-Amberg (DaSCH) & Alexandra Stam (FORS) Registration : To attend, register here Content The webinar will s

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DaSCH is partnering with SWISSUbase to offer humanities researchers a new complementary option for data archiving . The new service, SWISSUbase for Humanities, is designed for small datasets (up to 10 files / 1 GB) and supports limited preservation for at least 10 years. It enables a streamlined deposit process with a simpler metadata schema for humanities research . For larger or more complex datasets , or for projects requiring advanced metadata and long-term preservation,

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The workshop is organised the swissuniversities ORD ReSED project The workshop provides scholarly editors and other interested participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn how to use APIs on Day 1. On Day 2, participants will discuss real and potential cases of re-use of data from editions and text collections . After the workshop, the organisers will draft guidelines to support editors decide how to expose data in order to maximize its potential for reuse across diffe