UK-Ireland DH Association

Rumour is that on 9 November @ukiedh.bsky.social is going to make a pretty exciting announcement… keep you eye out for it! (I am the rumour. She is me 🤫) #digitalhumanities

🗓️ 2–3 December, Cardiff University 📝 Register free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-day-sc... 📚 Read more: blog.humanities.org.uk/2026/10/23/t... By Data/Culture (Oxford), the Mapping the Arts and Humanities Project @sas-news.bsky.social and partners, with AHRC support (@ukri.org ).

Every category we add makes some things easier to find and others harder. 🗂️ ScholarTHON 2: Organising Knowledge comes to Cardiff, 2–3 December. Two free days on ontologies, metadata and Linked Open Data for researchers, GLAM professionals and RSEs. No coding experience needed.

We've tweaked the front page of the Museum Data Service site! Instantly see how many millions of object records have been shared by hundreds of museums museumdata.uk Our 'Request a Search API key' form is live - let us know if tweaks could improve it! museumdata.uk/using-data/r... #MuseTech

Research technology professionals: what gets in the way of successful collaborations with research projects? Join our focus group to discuss communication, expectations, timelines and ways of working, and help shape practical guidance for better partnerships. King's College London 24 Nov

This Friday, 16 Oct. 2026, DARIAH-CH Training Series continues with an introduction to AI concepts, methods and applications in humanities research. The online session is open to everybody who wishes to develop practical digital research skills. Find more info and registration details in our blog!

Want to translate or adapt a lesson for your community? Join our free #OAweek webinar to explore the freedoms of CC BY licensing, get practical tips for translating and adapting our lessons, and discover how we can support your efforts. 🕒 22 Oct – 15:00 BST 🔗 tinyurl.com/ph-remix-reuse-2026

📢 Call for Papers | ICA 2027 Pre-conference: Centring Creators across Intersecting Ecosystems: Labour, Agency, and Collaboration Organised by our colleague Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social + an international network of scholars 🔗 Full CFP: kingsdh.net/2026/10/13/c... ⏰ Abstracts by: 1 Feb 2027

We're so excited to see people sharing and downloading the first two books in our new #OpenAccess series, Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies, published with @ilcs.bsky.social. Check out both books: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... @sas-news.bsky.social #Literature #AI #Indigeneity #Art

📢 Call for Reviewers The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) invites you to serve as a reviewer for its annual conference, @adho-conferences.bsky.social ⏰️ We would be delighted and grateful to have your nomination by November 20, 2026. 🔗 More details: adho.org/2026/10/13/c...

The Library Publishing Coalition is accepting proposals for the 2027 Virtual Library Publishing Forum (May 10-13). Proposal deadline: Nov 6. Proposal submissions are welcome from LPC members and nonmembers including first-time presenters and representatives of small and emerging publishing programs.

It's great to see the UKRI's new #ResearchData policy out! We were pleased to be included in the UKRI's consultation process & represent the interests of those working the #digitalhumanities. Find out more & how it might effect future grants (incl. @artsandhums.bsky.social), see below!

A new volume of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities is out! With a wonderful special issue on "Digital Futures: Archives, AI and Access in Indian Digital Humanities". Check it out! From Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/20/2

Irfan (South Asian scripts): tinyurl.com/3ukks4a9 van Lit (RTL Arabic): tinyurl.com/mxbm6cp4 Mohamed Ilyes Mechentel from The Digital Orientalist

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-...

Call for Proposals: DH2027 welcomes research and practice at the intersection of the humanities, art and digital media, both digital art creation and work studying its forms, histories, communities and technologies. 📄 https://dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ #DigitalHumanities #DigitalArts #DH2027

#Book: Digital Humanities for Arabic and Islamic Studies. A proposition for the field / Romanov, Maxim (Brill, 2026)

Our friends @britishlibrary.bsky.social have released registration for 'Open and Engaged 2026' on 20 October. The conference is free & online, with a fab programme! Link: openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng... @bldigischol.bsky.social #OpenAccess #OAWeek #OpenResearch #OpenKnowledge

Catching up with lots of our authors and editors at the SAS Festival today, including @mjdonnay.bsky.social who we captured with his book Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship 📸 Available to read online for free: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... #OpenAccess @sas-news.bsky.social

For #OAWeek on 22/10 our Executive Director @theblochian.bsky.social joins Thomas Shaw (@ojcollective.bsky.social) and Joe Deville (@openbookcollective.bsky.social) for a webinar hosted by the National Library of Sweden on the costs and funding of #DiamondOA More info: www.kb.se/for-bibliote...

Closing next Friday (16th): 'History and Archives in Practice' 2027. Calls for panels invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy & applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

The gates are open! 🎉 New-user registration and submissions for #DH2027 are now live on ConfTool: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ After an intimate acquaintance with far too many settings and checkboxes, we can finally say: send us your proposals!

Interested in translating or adapting a Programming Historian lesson for your community? Join our free #OAweek webinar to hear our best practices, workflows, and learn how we can support your independent efforts. 🕒 22 October – 15:00 BST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ph-remix-reuse-2026

🔬 Philology | Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology @ Inria Suits an early career scholar wanting to bridge humanities and digital tools, rather than staying on a traditional philology track. https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/470245 #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs

Just a friendly reminder that Curran Fellowship applications are due next week on 15 October! Open to all researchers, Curran awards offer up to $6,000 USD to support #19thC periodical research that makes use of print and archival sources. Application guidance here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

📣 Job opportunity 📣

We're so excited for #DH2027 at Galway! More details and the CFP below...! #DH #DigitalHumanities #LoveIrishResearch

That is awesome; I would indeed keep an eye out for this Princeton cultural AI postdoc call - a reminder that DH postdocs at Princeton (via Meredith's Center for Digital Humanities) are great gigs and have helped a ton of junior DH scholars get excellent tenure track jobs.

#LunchwithDH Lecture Series Rita Gautschy, DaSCH / University of Basel "Exploring the Potential of IIIF 3D for Digital Arts and Humanities" 📅 Tuesday, 13 October 2026, 12:00 GMT 📍 Oddi 206 & live on Youtube

📢 Learn how the EOSC Federation is taking shape across Europe – and what it means for researchers and research organisations. 🗓️ 22 October 2026 🕙 14:30–16:30 CEST 🌐 Online 🖋️ Programme and registration: www.inspiring-era.eu/event/buildi... #EOSC #OpenScience #EUResearchArea #ResearchData

📣 Manchester (& adjacent) folks! The brilliant Prof @laurenfklein.bsky.social will be in conversation with my colleague Dr Jo Taylor about her 🔥 🔥🔥 new book Data By Design: Visualisation and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science this Thurs 4-5 pm in Sam Alex A113.

Join The National Archives and the School of Advanced Study for this year’s Annual Digital Lecture: 'From Collection to Collective: what is an archive now?', delivered by Jennifer Edmond. 26 November, 6:30pm at Senate House, London Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-colle...

Very pertinent to the work going on in our little @ukiedh.bsky.social #PeTRA-CIG at the moment... protecting researchers and practitioners needs to be part of all research projects at all stages. Great work from the team at Leeds here!

Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky

Over the summer the @ukiedh.bsky.social, a cross-national subject-specialist organisation based out of the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social, held its fourth Annual Event hosted by @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Read about the event and the work of the Association: https://bit.ly/4iIwZI9 📸 Sonny Pedcenko

The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups! Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io

I'm very excited to be involved in one of the new CIGs on Digital Infrastructures for Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage (DIAHCH). We'll admit it's not the snappiest of acronyms but we're sure to do great work ! Keep an eye on our page for more info: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/diahch-cig/

🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities

🎥 Recording available: The Persistence of Infrastructure, the plenary panel from the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association 2026 Annual Event Speakers from @dariahie.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk & @softwaresaved.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGck... #DH

Do you enjoy collaborative, applied work at the intersection of research and technology? We’re recruiting a Senior Research Software Engineer. We work closely with researchers, developing thoughtful, impactful digital research projects, mainly in arts & humanities. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/158445-...