Leeds Open Research study at DARIAH2023

Dorka Tamás, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the library’s Open Research team, presented at the 2023 conference of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure in the Arts and Humanities in Europe) on Cultural Heritage Data and Humanities Data. Dorka’s poster (which can be viewed here) explored humanities and cultural heritage data in the open research case studies at the University of Leeds.  

The three-day long conference hosted in the Humanities campus of ELTE in Budapest included more than a hundred participants from across Europe, and presentations from professional services staff, librarians, archivists and academics, on themes ranging from the challenges of digitisation to the use of video games in cultural heritage research.  Dorka tells us that “collaboration was a key term emphasised in the talks of several speakers, and it is clear that there is no one definition for cultural heritage data and collections of data.” She highlighted the diversity of projects, including one that uses digital tools to digitise handwritten documents to create a corpus of the old Hungarian language, an initiative to create an archive of the present for the future, and a pilot project that moral values in ancient Greek drama.