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CLARIN, DARIAH & Libraries 2026 Workshop: Enhancing Library Collections for Digital Humanities and Language Research

Writer: Cristina Grisot
Cristina Grisot
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10–11 November 2026 · National Library of the Czech Republic, Klementinum, Prague · Registration deadline: 31 October 2026


Introduction

Are you a researcher working with digitised library collections as research data, or are you responsible for library collections that researchers want to use? Then this lunch-to-lunch workshop in Prague is for you.

The workshop is organised by the DARIAH Library Working Group and the CLARIN & Libraries Initiative together with the ELC-DHLR project: Enhancing Library Collections for Digital Humanities and Language Research, funded through the Swiss–Czech Cooperation Programme to support collaboration between national nodes of European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs).

The event is conceived as a community workshop focused on topics such as enhancing library collections through technical innovation and creating sustainable, user-friendly ecosystems that directly support digital humanities and language research. The workshop aims to foster exchange, knowledge transfer, and synergies between libraries and research infrastructures.


About ELC-DHLR

ELC-DHLR (2026–2028) aims to make digitised library collections research-ready for digital humanities and language research. The project improves OCR, metadata and enrichment, and develops user-friendly access and tools, such as the DL-enricher platform, the Kramerius Research Workspace and an AI query assistant for corpus tools. The project partners are Charles University, the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Moravian Library and the National Library of the Czech Republic in Czechia, and the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the Swiss Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH in Switzerland.


Programme
Day 1 – Tuesday, 10 November (12:00–17:30)

Opening and introductions

  • Welcome by the organisers – Martin Lhoták (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and Martin Wynne (University of Oxford)

  • The CLARIN & Libraries Initiative – Martin Wynne

  • The DARIAH Library Working Group – Martin Lhoták

Access, rights and AI

  • Strategies for unlocking in-copyright holdings for research – Philippe Genet (German National Library)

  • Legal aspects of Derived Text Formats – Pawel Kamocki (Leibniz Institute for the German Language)

  • Using LLMs for metadata extraction from NATO archive documents – Jan Švec (University of West Bohemia)

  • Q&A on the presentations

Project Pitches

  • 5-minute pitches by participants, followed by a group discussion


Day 2 – Wednesday, 11 November (09:00–13:00)

Library data labs and infrastructures

  • The WebData research infrastructure and the NB DH-lab – Magnus Breder Birkenes (National Library of Norway)

  • Mezanno: from serial sources to structured data for digital humanities – Joseph Chazalon (EPITA, France)

The ELC-DHLR project

  • Introduction – Martin Lhoták and Michael Gasser (ETH Library Zurich)

  • Transformation and Enrichment – Martin Lhoták (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Christiane Sibille (ETH Library Zurich) and Filip Bím (Moravian Library)

  • Access and Retrieval – Filip Kersch (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and Michal Křen (Charles University)

  • Data Analysis – Michal Křen

Discussion and wrap-up

  • Moderated group discussion

  • Closing of the event


Registration

Participation requires registration through the online form on the event page by 31 October 2026. When you register, you can also propose a title for a 5-minute Project Pitch. This is a good opportunity to present your own work with digitised collections to the community.

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