When Worlds Collide: A Literary Linked Open Data Model Critiqueathon offers a unique opportunity for computational literary scholars to engage in a rigorous and imaginative examination of their modeling practices. By fostering critique, empathy, and collaboration, this workshop will contribute to the advancement of ontologies for Literary Studies.

This workshop is for researchers and libraries, archives, and museums professionals who seek to increase access and discovery with audiovisual archives. This workshop introduces AVAnnotate (https://av-annotate.org/), an open source application and a workflow that helps increase discoverability by facilitating building digital exhibits and editions that include annotated audiovisual artifacts.

The workshop will trigger the free design of citizen science workflows across digital and physical environments. An utopian design approach will allow exploring how better facilitating the framing of research questions in participatory citizen science projects, and how supporting new science communication and publication formats within the open science ecosystem.

In digital humanities, openness has become a default, bringing with it both possibilities for empowerment through knowledge distribution and challenges of replicating power imbalances and social oppression and repression. Two case studies demonstrate how critical refusal and slow scholarship, alongside indigenous data sovereignty, offer a shift in open approaches.

Novel openings’ similarities and differences raise literary-historical questions. With our contribution, we aim to advance that research by means of digital text annotation and spatiality analysis of the openings of a selection of 19th and 20th century novels in German and Spanish.

The poster presents the open TextGrid Repository for TEI documents with its basic features and some new developments. In particular, we describe the new and more user-friendly import workflow, which has already been used to publish new corpora, and invite other projects to join us.

Linked Pasts Japan (LPJ) promotes Linked Open Data (LOD) in the humanities by fostering collaboration among researchers and practitioners actively working in Japan. Building on global initiatives like Pelagios Network and Linked Pasts Symposium, LPJ connects projects, buidling a interdisciplinary community, and eventually enhances Japan’s international presence.

In this poster, we present Arvest, a free and open source web app for the analysis of multimodal digital heritage entirely based on the IIIF standard. The tool's main features allow for media hosting, creation of multimodal projects, various types of annotation (including video), and an open RESTful API.

The European Commission's 2021 guidance urged accelerated digitisation of cultural heritage but noted a digital skills gap among professionals. This study examines the digital divide in cultural heritage institutions on small Mediterranean islands, proposing Open Educational Resources (OERs) to address professionals’ needs. Quantitative and qualitative analyses inform actionable, tailored solutions.

Showcasing scalable solutions for under-resourced disciplines and addressing questions of accessibility and sustainability, we present the first Old Norse HTR model with ground truths in Open Access. By fine-tuning CATMuS-medieval on sparse data, we achieved notable accuracy improvements, demonstrating that today only a few pages are indeed enough.

Leveraging comprehensive bibliometric analysis of OpenAlex (2000-2024) and Korea Citation Index (2002-2024) datasets, this pioneering digital humanities study maps the intellectual history of modern Korean literary studies. Through computational methods, we reveal the dynamic interplay between Korean literature and global literary discourse, illuminating patterns of cultural exchange and scholarly evolution.

This short paper presentation covers current work-in-progress for development of the first-ever CLI and API that leverages language models to assist in philological research tasks for pre-modern texts. Specifically, this presentation focuses on how this software makes language models more accessible to classics scholars for real-world research tasks.

This submission will focus on a recent locative narrative in the context of contemporary Greek literary production (2021-2022)- Ismini Gatos' america² -and will reveal that space, time and body, in physical or digital terms can recontextualize the relationship of any user with the local environment and also with themselves.

This study examines ethical challenges in open science within Digital Humanities, focusing on balancing transparency, privacy, and compliance with data protection laws. By analyzing two COVID-19-related projects in Brazil and Portugal, it highlights informed consent practices, proposing adaptive governance models and strategies to harmonize openness with individual rights.

This paper presents a case study of web scraping for interdisciplinary research, highlighting both the practical implementation of these methods and strategies for overcoming similar challenges. We position web scraping as a crucial tool for ensuring data is accessible, not as a commodity, but in line with FAIR principles.

Presents the pedagogical tool keylog.js, a minimal javascript-based tool that provides privacy-focused, client-side keylogging software served through a static website to address questions about the ethics, privacy, and accessibility of technologies and algorithms.

The SSH Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. This poster presents how this service can provide insights into the use of tools, methods and standards in the DH research communities.

The DALIA project aims to make open educational resources (OER) on data literacy accessible and interoperable. A knowledge graph is developed to link the materials, using the DALIA Interchange Format (DIF) to ensure transparency and interoperability. This poster focuses on picklists for DIF and invites feedback from the professional community.

This study analyzes OpenEdition’s server logs to uncover user navigation patterns across its platforms. Using methods like transition analysis, clustering, and topological modeling, it reveals platform fidelity, distinct user profiles, and shared interests. Future work aims to expand the scope with action-based analysis for deeper insights.

This poster highlights how Stadt.Geschichte.Basel created an Open Research Data Platform using CollectionBuilder. By applying minimal computing principles, the platform addresses challenges of accessibility, sustainability, and inclusivity in digital history. It provides adaptable, FAIR solutions that enhance interdisciplinary research, support marginalized perspectives, and foster long-term usability of historical data.

Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that welcomes contributions that feature rare or marginal texts and small-scale editions for the discoverability of underrepresented stories and artifacts. This poster will introduce the journal’s purpose and present the journal’s strategies to ensure the longevity of its digital content.

NINDA (NINJAL Digital Archive) adapts Omeka S to manage linguistic resources, particularly for Japonic languages. It implements IIIF for multimedia content and OntoLex Lemon for lexical data structuring, supporting FAIR principles. The system handles annotated recordings, interlinear texts, and lexical databases, making linguistic resources more accessible to researchers and communities.

The SCIROS project aims to enhance Open Science in the humanities and social sciences by tackling theoretical, practical, and infrastructural challenges with 6 international partners. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and sharing insights via the blog, the project supports the widespread adoption of OS practices.

This poster highlights three open source software packages I created in the programming language Rust. The packages include lemmatizing, readability, and stylometry algorithms, and were intentionally designed to create new resources to facilitate analysis of and engagement with multilingual and non-English languages in the Rust ecosystem.

This poster presents a user interface developed within the OntoVE project. The poster focuses on the search interface, built with the Sampo Model (Ikkala et al. 2022), and its search perspectives, which allow users to explore data through the faceted search paradigm (Tunkelang 2009).

The paper presents a two-pronged approach for fostering access to and use of digital archival holdings. This approach combines public use of HTR technologies and public involvement in producing interpretative digital scholarship. The framework presented seeks to encourage civic engagement and dialogue around the holdings.

This paper presents a project undertaking the digitisation, enrichment, modeling and publication of modern and historical wine labels from the German Mosel region as witnesses of local cultural history using manual annotations and multimodal Large Language Models for enrichment and Linked Open Data for data modeling.

In this study, we leverage two open datasets, respectively representing a dictionary of art symbols and scholars’ interpretations of ca. 400 artworks, to analyse how symbols and meanings vary in the art history hermeneutic discourse. Results show that the majority of scholar’s interpretations that could be aligned use conventional symbolism.

As the triad of publishing a paper, data and code poses challenges for the comprehensibility, reproducibility, and accessibility of the research, we present our approach towards a "modularised open infrastructure for research publications” in which a publication is accompanied by modules facilitating e.g.reproduction or result investigation.

Since 2015, the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has implanted itself as a standard for the storage, sharing and manipulation of digital documents in the GLAM sector. In this panel, we shall hear from IIIF specialists and researchers from the DH community about how IIIF is used for research.

Advanced computational methods in digital humanities have increased demand for text-mining files, including third-party licensed datasets, which present data sharing challenges. This presentation explores navigating these challenges through a case study of a librarian assisting a PhD candidate in sharing licensed research data from various vendors.

This study introduces the process of creating a corpus of Ottoman Turkish poems written between 15th and 19th century and gives a use case for the corpus on the adaptation of the aruz meter in Ottoman Turkish poetry via using the corpus.

Open Science requires the development of specific skills, that can be named as Open Science Literacy (OSL), already described in a previous research. This new study intends to identify a set of elements that could fit the presented OSL scheme and propose a Digital Humanities OSL chart of competencies.

The increasing use of data-driven research in the field of digital humanities has emphasized the fundamental importance of research data management (RDM) and data stewardship skills. This contribution highlights the importance of education in these areas to advance open research data, uphold the FAIR principles, and promote sound scientific practices.

This poster describes how the COMMONS project, involving three French research infrastructures, aims to address the needs related to the creation and use of links between data and publications: from technical requirements to creation of complex publications (ie. data papers, data displayed in an article etc.)

This paper addresses issues of sustainability of digital resources, their use and reuse, particularly from the perspective of research infrastructures. We argue that research infrastructures – through the combined efforts of conceptual rethinking, technological solutions and strategic advocacy – have the potential to transform how we sustain and engage with DH scholarship.

This presentation explores the challenges and opportunities of implementing open data in Catalan archaeology. It examines the current infrastructure, researchers' practices, and barriers to data openness. The study provides recommendations to promote a new research culture, with the goal to lead a smooth transition to open archaeological research.

This panel examines the ethics and emergent challenges of what "open" now means in the current age of AI. The four papers each engage with this question from different though related perspectives: data sovreignty, project design and privacy, pedagogy, and artistic labor.

This panel showcases the need for stronger collaboration between research infrastructures enabling data FAIR-ness, training programmes ensuring competent reuse of language data and data journals establishing rigorous review processes. This is essential to ensure data quality, relevance, and impact, maximising its potential for reuse in research, education and societal contexts.

The Journal of Open Humanities Data supports FAIR data sharing and reuse through peer-reviewed articles. In 2024, a special collection of papers titled Amplifying GLAM Collections: Scalable and Inclusive Data Practices was created to increase representation of cultural heritage datasets and practices. This paper will describe the results and implications.

This panel explores diverse dimensions of openness within the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector globally, shaping discussions about accessibility, inclusivity, participation, and knowledge democratisation. Cultural heritage institutions are responsible “to all citizens”. Yet there are gaps relating to collections, knowledge, policy, technology, engagement, IP, ethics, infrastructure and AI.