Programme

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Pre-conference programme (9–10 March)

Monday, 9 March

Morning
09:00–13:00
Workshop on Digital Humanities and Social Sciences / Cultural Heritage in Higher Education (room 1427-246)

▶ Workshop Programme
8:40–9:50Welcome and introductions
8:50–9:10Simanta Nandi – NexusWeave: Interweaving Disciplines in DHCH Education
9:10–9:30Róbert Péter – AVOBMAT in the Classroom: Scalable Infrastructure for Multilingual Text and Metadata Analysis Without Programming
9:30–9:50Young Min Kim – Scaling Collaborative DH for Cultural Heritage: Datafication, Micro-credentials, and Eco-memory with Ethical AI
9:50–10:10Inés Matres – Participatory pedagogies through “difficult heritage”
10:10–10:30Vicky Garnett – DARIAH-Campus and the classroom: how to publish and reuse open learning resources from the DARIAH community
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–12:00Roundtable check-in with regional DH in HE members
12:00–13:00Joint discussion on emerging themes, preliminary regional survey results, and upcoming Working Group initiatives

10:00–18:00
Frictions of the Digital: Rethinking Innovation and Engagement in the GLAM Sector (room 1420-228)

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Read full workshop description here. The workshop draws on the concept of digital frictions to rethink innovation as a process of negotiation rather than smooth progress. Combining talks (20 min), case-based discussions, and a collaborative mapping exercise, the workshop invites participants to identify key challenges and strategies for meaningful engagement with digital heritage.
10.00Introduction: What is the landscape of frictions?
10.30-11.00Rita Tamošaitienė . Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Between Policy and Practice: Implementation of Cultural Heritage Digitisation Policy in Lithuanian Museums
11:00 – 11.10Collaborative mapping
11.10-11.40Elīna Vikmane. Latvian Academy of Culture / Latvian Museum Association, Latvia Diffusion of Digital Innovations in Museums: Operationalisation via the Digital Divide and Core Functions
11.40-11.50Collaborative mapping
11:50-12.20Merete Sanderhoff. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark Productive Frictions: Wikipedians and GLAM professionals collaborating to enrich open knowledge of Danish cultural Heritage
12.20-12.30Collaborative mapping
13.00-14.00Lunch
14:00-14.30Agnes Aljas, Pille Runnel. Estonian National Museum, Estonia Productive Frictions: Negotiating Digital Innovation in the GLAM Sector
14.30-14.40Collaborative mapping
14.40-15.10Anne Rørbæk Olesen. National Museum of Denmark, Denmark Digital innovation as everyday practice: Learnings from ten museums
15.10-15.20Collaborative mapping
15:20-15.50Martin Brandt Djupdræt, Thomas Linde Dideriksen. Den Gamle By, Denmark Compiling Economic Transactions, Audience Experiences, and Historical Knowledge
15.50-16.00Collaborative mapping Short break
16.00-18.00Reflection and systematisation exercise with all workshop participants
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Afternoon
13:30–17:30
AI-Assisted Archival Research in the Age of Vast Data and the Non-Canonical (20 seats) (room 1427-246)

▶ Workshop programme
Read full workshop description here.

13:30–13:45— Welcome & Framing (15 min)
Session I — Humanities AI Infrastructure & Access
13:45–14:45(60 min)
13:45–14:15Abundance without Access Adela Sobotkova (1), Brian Ballsun-Stanton (2) Organization(s): 1 Aarhus University, Denmark; 2 Macquarie University, Australia
14:15–14:45Influenza, Crowdsourcing and Humans In The Loop Søren Poder (1) Organization(s): 1 Aarhus University, Denmark
14:45–15:00— Break (15 min)
Session II — LLM as Research Assistant & Discovery Scaffold
15:00–16:00(60 min)
15:00–15:30Exploring the Archived Web through AI Assisted Document Discovery Victor Harbo Johnston (1), Christian Kaalund Kjeldsen (1) Organization(s): 1 Aarhus University, Denmark
15:30–16:00ChatHA – From an Information Retrieval Agent to a System of Expert Agents Thomas Asselborn (1,2), Magnus Bender (3,4), Florian Andreas Marwitz (1,2), Sylvia Melzer (1,2), Ralf Möller (1) Organization(s): 1 University of Hamburg, Germany; 2 University of Hamburg, Germany; 3 Aarhus University, Denmark; 4 Aarhus University, Denmark
16:00–16:15— Break (15 min)
Session III — Fine-Grained Interpretation & Analytical Framing
16:15–17:15(60 min)
16:15–16:45Luminons: Fragment-Based Interpretation with LLMs for Archival Research Lars G. Bagøien Johnsen (1) Organization(s): 1 National Library of Norway, Norway
16:45–17:15On the Classification of Interdisciplinary Research Florian Marwitz (1), Sylvia Melzer (1), Shahrzad Ashourzadeh (2), Ralf Möller (2) Organization(s): 1 University of Hamburg, Germany; 2 University of Hamburg, Germany
Wrap Up — Collective Synthesis & Outcome
17:15–17:30(15 min)

14:00–18:00
Workshop on Digital Humanities in Libraries, Archives and Museums (room 1421-118)
14:00–18:00
Frictions of the Digital: Rethinking Innovation and Engagement in the GLAM Sector (final) (room 1420-228)

Tuesday, 10 March

Morning
09:00–13:00
Lost in Noise? Data Quality and Representativeness in Cultural Heritage Collections (room 1427-246)

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Part I – Research Perspective
Keynote 1Nina Tahmasebi (30 min)
Short break5 min
Session I – Research ClusterThree 10-minute presentations followed by Q&A (60 min)
Coffee break30 min
Part II – GLAM Perspective
Keynote 2Søren Bitsch Christensen (30 min)
Short break5 min
Session II – GLAM ClusterThree 10-minute presentations followed by Q&A (60 min)
Plenary wrap-up and discussion30 min
09:00–13:00
Markdown for Academic Writing (continues after lunch) (room 1421-118)
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Afternoon
14:00–18:00
Infrastructures to Reassemble Data Scattered across Domains, Borders and Media: an Encounter between Researchers and Memory Organisations (room 1427-246)

▶ Workshop programme
Read full workshop description here.

14:00First part “Reassembling scattered research data: researcher stories” (chair: Inés Matres)
14:10Invisible Collections, Visible Infrastructure: Mapping Fragmented Humanities Data in Estonia Kari Vider & Kaisa Langer (University of Tartu)
14:35Building the Finnish Diet of Estates (1863-1906) debates and members dataset: A collaboration across infrastructure and research Matti La Mela et al. (Uppsala University)
15:00Serialised GraphRAG: An Accessible AI Workflow for Reassembling and Interpreting Heterogeneous Social Media Research Data Costis Dallas et al. (University of Vilnius)
15:30— Coffee break
16:00Second part “Scattered cultural heritage collections: challenges, solutions and final discussion” (chair: Liisa Näpärä)
16:10Modern Cataloguing of Premodern Material – Bibliographic Metadata of Rare and Old Library Materials in Digital Ecosystems Juha Tuomola & Nea Pälä (University of Turku)
16:35Connecting Everything to Everything Else in a Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: SampoSampo Data Linking Service and Semantic Portal Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)
17:00Round table discussion with audience
17:30End of workshop

14:00–18:00
Markdown for Academic Writing (final) (room 1421-118)
14:00–18:00
Doctoral Consortium (room 1420-234)
14:00–18:00
Graph-based Text and Knowledge Modelling Using the ATAG Editor and Entity Manager (room 1420-228)

📄 Paper titles link directly to the Book of Abstracts PDF.
Also available on Zenodo.

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

08:30–10:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:30–12:15
Plenary 1: Opening & Keynote — Mike Kestemont & Folgert Karsdorp

Stakladen 1423-111
Chair: Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Aarhus University
12:30–13:30
Lunch — Stakladen 1423-111
13:30–15:30
Session 1A
Richard Mortensen Stuen 1422-122
Chair: Lauritz Holm Petersen, University of Southern Denmark
Session 1B
M1 1427-149
Chair: Camilla Holm Soelseth, OsloMet
13:30–14:00

Levels of Canonicity: A Computational Analysis of Canon Formation in 19th Century Danish Painting

Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Marta Kipke, Louise Brix Pilegaard Hansen, Yuri Bizzoni, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Katrine L. Baunvig
14:30–14:50

Application of Multimodal AI in Classifying and Researching Zenta Dzividzinska’s Photo Archive

Anda Baklāne, Valdis Saulespurēns, Alise Tifentale
Panel 1
Preben Hornung Stuen 1422-132
13:30–15:30

Digitizing Medicine from Below: Researcher-Driven Digitization for the History of Medicine

Ylva Söderfeldt, Matts Lindström, Nils Hansson
15:30–15:45
Break
15:45–16:15
1-minute Lightning Talks — Posters

Stakladen 1423-111
Chair: Kirsten Vad, Aarhus University
16:30–18:00
Poster Session
Bibliotekshaven (The Library Garden)
Welcoming words by Søren Bitsch Christensen (Deputy Director of Cultural Heritage, Royal Danish Library)
Corpus of Danish novels 1855-1869

Lasse Seistrup Holst, Thomas Hansen, Jens Bjerring-Hansen
From Basement to Knowledge Graph: Bringing the Lars Dahle Card Catalogue to Life with AI

Lars G Bagøien Johnsen, Jennifer Thøgersen, Live Rasmussen
Using ‘Controlled Corpora’ to Tame the Archived Web

Christian Kaalund Kjeldsen, Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Visualizing (for) the Humanties

Evelina Liliequist, Linnéa Tjernström, Maria Podkorytova
18:30–20:30
Welcome Reception — Antikmuseet (Museum of Ancient Art)

Thursday, 12 March 2026

08:30–09:45
Plenary 2: Keynote — Katherine Bode

Stakladen 1423-111
Chair: Krista S.G. Rasmussen, Aarhus University
10:00–10:30
Coffee Break — Stakladen 1423-111
10:30–12:30
Session 2A
Richard Mortensen Stuen 1422-122
Chair: Rie Eriksen, Aarhus University
10:50–11:20

Linking Heterogeneous Historical Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach to Danish Census and Population Data (1880-1921)

Tobias Kallehauge, Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen, Olivia Robinson, Anne Løkke, Barbara A. Revuelta-Eugercios
11:40–12:00

From Transcription to Meaning: Digital Methods for Unlocking Early Modern Danish Court Records

Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, Kristian Pindstrup
12:00–12:30

Signals from the Field: A Study of Digital Practices and Needs in Sweden

Julia Kuhlin, Daniel Ihrmark, Koraljka Golub, Ahmad Kamal
Session 2B
Preben Hornung Stuen 1422-132
Chair: Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, Vilnius University
10:30–10:50

Rule-based recognition of repetition

Ingerid Løyning Dale, Ranveig Kvinnsland
11:10–11:40

Leveraging Large Language Models for Lemmatization and Translation of Finnic Runosongs

Lidia Pivovarova, Kati Kallio, Antti Kanner, Jakob Lindström, Eetu Mäkelä, Liina Saarlo, Kaarel Veskis, Mari Väina
11:40–12:10

Computationally Identifying Recurrent Units in Finnic Oral Poetry

Eetu Mäkelä, Kati Kallio, Mari Väina, Liina Saarlo, Jakob Lindström, Venla Sykäri, Antti Kanner, Maciej Janicki, Lidia Pivovarova, Kaarel Veskis
Session 2D
M2 1427-246
Chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University
12:30–13:30
Lunch — Stakladen 1423-111
13:30–15:30
Session 3A
Richard Mortensen Stuen 1422-122
Chair: Alie Lassche, Aarhus University
Session 3C
M1 1427-149
Chair: Petra Hermankova, Aarhus University
Panel 2 & 3
M2 1427-246
13:30–14:30

Finding a needle in a haystack – user experiences with digital heritage reuse

Mart Alaru, Pille Runnel, Agnes Aljas, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kai Pata, Natali Ponetajev
14:30–15:30

Uncovering Hidden Infrastructures for Digital Humanities in GLAMs

Mahendra Mahey, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Hans Dam Christensen, Berndt Clavier, Rikke Lie Halberg, Paula Bray
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break — Stakladen 1423-111
16:00–18:00
Session 4A
Richard Mortensen Stuen 1422-122
Chair: Lauritz Holm Petersen, University of Southern Denmark
16:00–16:30

E-motion: Binary systems versus fluid identities

Onur Kilic, Evelina Liliequist, Coppelie Cocq, Karin Danielsson
17:30–18:00

Modeling Textual Emotions in Literary Fiction

Kirstine Nielsen Degn, Alexander Conroy, Xiaoyuan Jiang, Ali Al-Laith, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Tanya Karoli Christensen, Ingo Zettler, Daniel Hershcovich
Session 4B
Preben Hornung Stuen 1422-132
Chair: Krista S. G. Rasmussen, Aarhus University
18:00–19:00
DHNB Annual General Meeting

Stakladen 1423-111
19:30–23:00
Conference Dinner — ARoS Art Museum

Friday, 13 March 2026

08:30–10:30
Session 5B
Preben Hornung Stuen 1422-132
Chair: Mari Väina, Estonian Literary Museum
09:10–09:40

Close reading, automation and cultural memory. Experiments with literary summarization through LLMs (Abstract)

Alexander Conroy, Kirstine Nielsen Degn, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Ali Al-Laith, Daniel Hershcovich, Matthew Wilkens
09:40–10:10

Annotation Fever! An Interdisciplinary Experiment Exploring the Image to Come in Generative AI

Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Bernard Geoghegan, Mats Fridlund
10:10–10:30

Where the Machine Looks Away

Teodora Crisan-Matcaboja
DT 1
M1 1427-149
Chair: Eetu Mäkelä, University of Helsinki
09:30–10:00

Assessing AI Recognition of Text and Symbols in Early Modern Cartographic Material

Thomas Holgersson, Daniel Ihrmark, Henrik Svensson, Jonas Svensson, Ahmad Kamal
DT 2
M2 1427-246
Chair: Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson, University of Iceland
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break — Stakladen 1423-111
11:15–12:30
Plenary 3: Keynote — Bolette Sandford Pedersen

Stakladen 1423-111
Chair: Katrine Laigaard Baunvig, Aarhus University
12:45–13:30
Lunch — Stakladen 1423-111
13:45–15:00
Plenary: Closing Session

Stakladen 1423-111
15:00–15:30
Coffee & Goodbye — Stakladen 1423-111