Study Day 2025
Introduction
Gradually and consistently, the DARIAH-CH Study Day has become the annual meeting of the Swiss digital arts and humanities community. In 2025, the DARIAH-CH consortium organizes its 2025 edition at the University of Lausanne and the EPFL on September 18.
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The theme of this years' edition is:​
Archiving in Motion: Navigating the Future of Cultural Heritage
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Organised in the framework of DARIAH-CH, the Swiss node of the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities DARIAH, the event “Archiving in Motion” is a timely gathering that unites academics, archivists, museum professionals, and the broader public to address pressing issues surrounding recent and historic mnemonic records. As the volume and significance of audiovisual, photographic, and textual materials rapidly expand, so too do the practical, ethical and ecological responsibilities tied to their preservation, access, and interpretation. This DARIAH-CH Study Day aims to explore best practices, technologies, computing infrastructure, and innovative theoretical frameworks that can build bridges between different archival approaches and digital methodologies, ensuring that these invaluable historical repositories remain viable and accessible for researchers, practitioners, and the wider community.
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Objective of the Study Day
To provide a space for reflection and exchange on the evolving role of archives in humanities, media and cultural heritage research and the implications of digital tools and infrastructures for archival practices.
Target audience
PhD students and researchers in digital humanities, media and digital history, cultural heritage studies, and cultural heritage professionals - archivists, museum professionals - and the broader public in Switzerland. ​​
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Registration
Participation to the event is free. We offer coffee breaks and lunch, and kindly ask participants and their institutions to cover for the travel costs. Please register to take part in the event by September 10 at the latest.
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​​09:30-10:00 Welcome Coffee ​
10:10-10:10 Official Welcome and Introduction
10:10-11:40 Keynote talk 1:
Environmental impact of data infrastructures, digitization, and archiving. Anne Baillot, DARIAH EU [Abstract]
10:40-12:10 Pitches and discussion (session 1) [Abstracts]
1. The digitisation of drawing collections for the preliminary study of underdrawings. The case of the Casa Piola drawings. Giulia Pilosu
2. A dynamic, inclusive and transformative act of remembering: Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap. Iolanda Pensa
3. Semantic structuring of OCR data to enrich archive knowledge graphs: a feasibility study. Silvan Auf der Maur
4. Nodegoat: a digital tool for the project Building a Renaissance. Networks of Artists and Patrons from Ticino and Lombardy in Rome (1417-1527). Giulia Russo
5. FAIR Archival data: Exploring data transformation and access with the LESSH Project. Stephen Hart
6. Leveraging Large Language Models for Historical Data Extraction and Analysis: A Case Study from Zurich's 18th-Century “Nachtzedel”. Elias Kreyenbühl, Sarah Kiener
7. Our Smaky is broken! Preserving Microcomputers through Researcher-Hobbyist Collaboration. Sophie Bémelmans
8. Audiovisual Archives as Architectures of Participation: Computational Sculpting and Immersive Engagement. Giacomo Alliata
9. The tension between preservation and access in the digitalization of stereoscopic photographs. Dhruva Gowda-Storz
10. FRAG: A Framework for Trustworthy Retrieval in Digital Archives. Joseph Chataignon, Ahmad Alhineidi
​12:10-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Keynote talk 2:
Responsible navigation through the Swiss audiovisual landscape. Cécile Vilas & Felix Rauh, Memoriav [Abstract]
​13:45-15:15 Pitches and discussion (session 2) [Abstracts]
1. Collaboration: The Contribution of Swiss Exhibitions, GLAMs and Researchers in Decolonising Knowledge, also on Wikipedia. Iolanda Pensa, Jonas Lendenmann, Chiara Somajni
2. From Disconnection To Reconnection: Exploring Affective Communication In Museology Through AI Digital Storytelling. Suwen Wang
3. Learning good (situated) practices. The GameLab Lausanne collections for studying, mediating and teaching videogame culture. Guillaume Guenat, Yannick Rochat
4. ZentralGut – Regional Cooperation for the Preservation and Presentation of Digital Cultural Heritage
Dominik Matter, Christian Erlinger, Mirjam Zürcher
5. What We Learned from Linking the Past: Reflections on Linked Open Data as an Information System. Tsz-Kin Chau
6. The Digital Monte Iato Project. Preserving and Sharing Archaeological Heritage. Corinna Reinhardt, Martin Mohr, Josip Batinić, Thomas Hänsli, Muriel Heisch, Florian Kräutli, George Bruseker, Denitsa Nenova
7. Scenting Heritage: Real Time Olfactory Augmentation. Tonia Ramogida, Sarah Kenderdine
8. From Shelf to Search: Enhancing Archival Data Exploration via Semantic Linking and AI Technologies. Matteo Romanello, Thomas Hänsli, Sophie Hammer, Josip Batinić, Florian Kräutli
9. Bringing the Past to the Future: Static Sites as a sustainable, long-term solution for interactive web projects. Levyn Bürki, Sebastian Flick
10. The Melodramatic Panorama: Melodrama, Militarism, and Transportive Affect in Lausanne's Bourbaki Panorama. Tonia Ramogida
15:15-15:45 Round table
Addressing best practices, technologies, computing infrastructure, and innovative theoretical frameworks that can build bridges between different archival approaches and digital methodologies.
15:45-16:30 Coffee break and transfer to Laboratory for Experimental Museology
16:30-17:15 Visit of Laboratory for Experimental Museology
The Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL is a transdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of immersive visualization technologies, visual analytics, aesthetics and cultural and scientific (big) data.
17:15-18:00 Concluding remarks and Apéro
18:00 Goodbye
Location
Université de Lausanne & EPFL
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Organising committee:
Sarah Kenderdine (EPFL)​
Tsz Kin Chau (EPFL)
Anita Auer (UNIL)
Anne-Katrin Weber (UNIL)
Cristina Grisot (DARIAH-CH)
Rita Gautschy (DaSCH, DARIAH-CH)
Tobias Hodel (UNIBE)​​
