The pre-conference workshops and tutorials are taking place March 9-10 and provide focused, hands-on engagement with various methodologies and topics in Digital Humanities. Participation requires separate registration, and attendees must register for each session they intend to join. Please note that workshops and tutorials have limited capacity. In addition, some sessions issue their own calls for proposals, each with specific submission deadlines. Further details are provided in the summary descriptions below. Remember to read the full descriptions.
If you wish to submit a paper for a workshop, you must upload it through https://www.conftool.org/dhnb2026/ – if you have questions, please write to dhnb2026@cas.au.dk.
Detailed programme and venues for the individual events will be announced later.
This page will be continuously updated as we receive the final workshop and tutorial presentations. Please stay tuned…
Events:
Frictions of the Digital: Rethinking Innovation and Engagement in the GLAM Sector
Summary: This 2-hour workshop examines digital innovation in the GLAM sector as a negotiated, socially embedded process rather than a seamless technological progression. Drawing on the concept of friction from anthropology and infrastructure studies, it explores how digital heritage work emerges through tensions between technologies, institutions, and people. Focusing on the Nordic-Baltic context (where uneven resources, limited funding, and rapid AI developments heighten these dynamics) the workshop considers frictions as productive sites for understanding values, authorship, and expertise. Participants will reflect on ethical and legal dimensions of co-creation and discuss how collaborations among diverse actors reshape digital heritage practices, data visibility, and knowledge production.
Organisers: Agnes Aljas (Estonian National Museum), Pille Runnel (Estonian National Museum),
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Malmö University), and Kai Pata (Tallinn University).
Please note that this workshop has a Call for Proposals with submission deadline 25 January 2026.
Lost in Noise? Data Quality and Representativeness in Cultural Heritage Collections
Summary: Much of today’s Digital Humanities research depends on large-scale digitized collections, yet the quality of such data often falls short of enabling meaningful analysis. Researchers are driven into ad-hoc “guerrilla digitization” practices – re-processing, cleaning, and re-curating data to make it usable. Lost in Noise? Data Quality and Representativeness in Cultural Heritage Collections addresses this widespread challenge by bringing together scholars and GLAM professionals to discuss data quality and representativeness as both a technical and an interpretive concern. This half-day workshop invites participants to share concrete experiences and exemplary datasets, highlighting the gaps, errors, and biases that shape digital sources. Through keynotes and short presentations, we will exchange strategies for improving data reliability and workflows, and strengthening research-GLAM collaborations. The ultimate goal is to articulate shared best practices for data quality that enable robust, transparent, and reproducible research across the Digital Humanities communities.
Organisers: Yuri Bizzoni, Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Pascale Feldkamp, Marta Kipke, Alie Lassche, Kristoffer L. Nielbo and Katrine L. Baunvig
(Aarhus University).
Please note that this workshop has a Call for Proposals with submission deadline 25 January 2026.
Infrastructures to reassemble data scattered across domains, borders and media: an encounter between researchers and memory organisations
Summary: This half-day workshop aims to create a space where research stories intertwine with the narratives of cultural heritage organisations (CHOs) that hold cultural heritage data. Participants will have the opportunity to share experiences, solutions and identify needs related to infrastructural support to DH research. The workshop seeks to identify ways to improve the findability, interoperability and use of data scattered across borders, domains and media; or data separated from the materials needed to interpret them.
Organisers: Johanna Lilja (National Library of Finland), Liisa Näpärä (National Library of Finland), Inés Matres (University of Helsinki), Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson (Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts), and Mari Väina (Estonian Folklore Archives)
Please note that this workshop has a Call for Proposals with submission deadline 11 January 2026.
Markdown for Academic Writing
Summary: This hands-on full-day tutorial introduces participants to using Markdown for academic writing, from theses and articles to full-length books. It is suitable for both beginners and those with prior experience. The session covers essential and extended Markdown features, including citations with Zotero and CSL, as well as optional LaTeX-based tools for indexes and glossaries. By the end, participants will be able to produce publication-ready documents in multiple formats. The tutorial also highlights Markdown’s advantages over traditional word processors and LaTeX, offering a flexible, structured, and accessible workflow for scholarly writing.
Organiser: Elisabeth Maria Magin (University of Oslo).
AI-Assisted Archival Research in the Age of Vast Data and the Non-Canonical
Summary: This half-day workshop explores how large language models (LLMs) can support archival research amid the growing abundance and complexity of digital collections. It examines emerging practices such as RAG systems and tools like NotebookLM while highlighting the need for deeper methodological and ethical reflection, especially regarding model reliability, documentation, and transparency when investigating non-canonical or dispersed materials.
Organisers: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Marc Barcelos (Aarhus University)
Please note that this workshop has a Call for Proposals with submission deadline 11 January 2026.