Online information event When: 21 April 2026, 2:00-3:00pm CEST Where: online The DARIAH-CH GLAM WG and DaSCH invite you to an information event about ongoing initiatives on the European level. The presentation introduces 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 herita

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, 202 6 (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,

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

Webforum für den Austausch zu digitalen Sammlungs- und Museumsthemen

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,

Help us better understand your practices and needs, and in turn, improve RDM-related services to support researchers in managing research data and code!

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

Linking Data and Digitizations for Medieval Manuscripts

Author: Francesca Altorfer On 11 June 2025, ETH Library hosted a public workshop that marked the end of the swissuniversities-funded project Exploring ORD Practices in the Context of Collections as Data (Collada)  as well as the kick-off for the new DARIAH-CH GLAM working group .             As an introduction to the workshop, Christiane Sibille (ETH Library) presented the results of the Collada project, while Rita Gautschy (DARIAH-CH) provided information about the activitie

On 18 September 2025 , the annual DARIAH-CH Study Day  took place at the University of Lausanne and EPFL under the theme “Archiving in Motion: Navigating the Future of Cultural Heritage.”  Over the years, this event has become a key platform for Switzerland’s arts and digital humanities community, bringing together researchers, archivists, cultural heritage professionals, and institutions to discuss how repositories, archives and other infrastructure components are being resh

We are happy to announce the Zürcher GLAM-Community Meeting. Description (German): Am 21. Oktober 2025 von 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr (mit...

We are happy to invite you to the online talk at the International Open Access Week given by our DaSCH colleagues Nora Olivia Ammann and...

FORS and DaSCH are happy to announce the launch of a new series of online data management webinars. The webinars are free of charge and...

WikiCite 2025 is a three-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an ecosystem for bibliographic data ...

05. September 2025, KOL-F-104 (Hauptgebäude UZH), Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich Eine Veranstaltung des ZDE in Kooperation mit dem digitalen...

We are happy to announce the kick-off event of the DARIAH-CH GLAM WG , which will take place on: June 11, 2025, 10:00-18:00 ETH main...