The European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology"

2026-06-23 19:32:18 | Contributor(s): Elisabeth Burr | https://doi.org/10.25547/B2W2-RJ25

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My reflections on transitions and successions focussing on the 14 years I directed and run the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T), founded at Leipzig University in 2009, as well as the four...

How to create organizations that don’t depend on you, and how to leave them

2026-05-26 22:41:31 | Contributor(s): John Unsworth | https://doi.org/10.25547/1BWA-MR37

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This bit of free advice is on the topic of interim leadership in academic settings. I’ll talk about why one cares who comes after, then we’ll explore some norms and assumptions around interim leadership in academia and talk about the implications...

Staying Open to Interpretation: Reading Practices in AI-Mediated Scholarship

2026-05-20 19:19:14 | Contributor(s): Gabrielle Benabdallah | https://doi.org/10.25547/0AR9-S848

Narrating Data: Digital Archives in India in a Time of AI

2026-05-20 18:26:31 | Contributor(s): Maya Dodd | https://doi.org/10.25547/KTFS-XF77

AI Integration – Humanities Researcher Workbenches

2026-05-12 23:03:01 | Contributor(s): Ian McCrabb | https://doi.org/10.25547/RV74-G472

What does success(ion) look like? DH in institutional context

2026-04-27 22:12:55 | Contributor(s): Claire Warwick | https://doi.org/10.25547/RD09-VT51

Since 1996 I have also been involved in DH at four different UK universities, as a researcher, teacher, academic leader and senior manager. I have also acted as an external reviewer of activity at other universities, both in the UK and internationally. Based on this experience I will reflect...

Individual Care and Institutional Support: Sustaining Large Digital Projects over Transitions

2026-04-20 22:47:55 | Contributor(s): Heidi Craig, Laura Estill | https://doi.org/10.25547/Z71C-PF88

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Effective digital projects need documentation, institutional support, and strong teams to lead them. When it comes to handing off major digital projects, however, these needs become even more critical. Drawing on our experiences as editors of the World...

The Oak Tree Grows: Feminist Succession and Sustainability in the Orlando Project

2026-04-20 19:33:20 | Contributor(s): Kathyrn Holland, Susan Brown, Isobel Grundy | https://doi.org/10.25547/XR9A-C173

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The Orlando Project is one of the longest-running initiatives in feminist DH, founded in 1995 and with its literary-historical textbase published from 2006 onward. In this presentation three co-directors will discuss highlights from its history and ongoing...

Passing the baton with the Time Layered Cultural Map platform

2026-04-20 19:05:41 | Contributor(s): Hugh Craig | https://doi.org/10.25547/JGE2-AJ15

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The Time Layered Cultural Map of Australia is a mapping platform, launched in 2019. I have been involved as academic lead from the beginning but now as retired faculty I need to pass the main direction on to others. I can report some progress, with...

Moving the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Positive Transition and Succession in a Core, Community Pedagogical Infrastructure

2026-04-20 17:55:38 | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens, Michael Sinatra, Parham Aledavood | https://doi.org/10.25547/1RAY-YR63

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The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual training and community-building event that offers intensive workshops, lectures, and collaborations focused on digital tools and methods in humanities research and teaching – at one time the...

Building a Consortium for a Sustainable Voyant

2026-04-20 17:02:52 | Contributor(s): Geoffrey Martin Rockwell, Michael Sinatra | https://doi.org/10.25547/7S78-VP91

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Stéfan Sinclair, the lead of Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), passed away in 2020 leaving the project without a succession plan. As Sinclair’s collaborator I inherited development and maintenance of the tool. In this presentation I will talk...

The Right Place at the Right Time...Plus the Right People

2026-04-14 19:50:18 | Contributor(s): Brian Owen | https://doi.org/10.25547/5C1H-GF93

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A succession strategy is pointless unless a project has attained three critical prerequisites: success, stability, and sustainability. For the Public Knowledge Project the components that collectively addressed these prerequisites can be categorized as...

Now AI is everywhere what does that mean for the open ecosystem?

2025-11-28 19:15:55 | Contributor(s): Janet Catterall | https://doi.org/10.25547/1T38-PP10

This presentation discusses some of the implications for open access and open scholarship in light of AI tools becoming ubiquitous in the research ecosystem.

Taking Bearings: Open Social Scholarship meets AI

2025-11-17 23:26:06 | Contributor(s): Faraz Forghan Parast, Brittany Amell, Alan Colin-Arce, Graham Jensen, Tim Sobie, Thomas Sherriff, Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/7KJB-FQ98

This video discusses the state of the ETCL's environmental research scan on generative AI and its relationship with knowledge platforms and open social scholarship. 

Engaging with Platforms and Open Scholarship

2025-11-07 19:47:35 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/WWBG-XN58

This video introduces "platforms" as the focus for a research scan recently wrapped up by the ETCL. It provides an overview of what the scan includes and where viewers can find it. The video gestures at some initial insights of interest and shares some parting thoughts.

Finding Common Ground: Cultivating Serendipity in the HSS Commons

2022-07-18 21:34:16 | Contributor(s): Kim Martin | https://doi.org/10.25547/SH5H-1J24

digital research commons, open social scholarship, UX, user experience, critical design studies

The Social Life of Scholarly Documents: Establishing Value in the Commons

2022-07-08 00:04:10 | Contributor(s): John Maxwell, Beatrice Glickman | https://doi.org/10.25547/KFPY-KC36

digital research commons, scholarly communication, peer review, publishing, open social scholarship

Digital Knowledge Commons: A Brief Introduction

2022-06-13 19:58:33 | Contributor(s): Graham Jensen | https://doi.org/10.25547/AVHX-DJ22

digital knowledge commons, digital research commons, commons, critical infrastructure studies, critical data studies, open scholarship, digital humanities, digital scholarship