CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce that the CLARIN Annual Conference will take place in Barcelona from15 October till 17 October and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. Submission deadline: 12 April 2024.  More information on CLARIN Conference website.

The CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 took place in the historic city of Leuven from Monday, 16 October until Thursday, 19 October. The conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences.

The program of the main conference was enriched with  different workshops and committee meetings, including K-Centre workshop, EuReCo Workshop and Using CLARIN in Training and Education. The conference program also included a PhD poster session, where doctoral student of the University of Latvia Kristina Korneliusa participated with the poster "Applying CLARIN Tools for Multidimensional Analysis of Subjectivity in Different Types of News Produced by Native Speakers and Speakers of English as a Foreign Language".  CLARIN-LV together with CLARIN-LT also participated at CLARIN Bazaar with poster presentation about SAFMORIL Knowledge Centre. 

Digital humanities researchers, practitioners and developers in the Baltic countries are invited to participate in the Baltic DH Forum scheduled for April 25–26, 2024 in Riga!  Apply now for participation here by submitting a 200–250-word abstract in one of 3 categories – DH resource or tool, a Research Project, or an Educational initiative.

Dates: April 25–26, 2024

Location: National Library of Latvia, Riga

Participation Fee: None

Deadline for Applications: January 25, 2024

Event Website: http://www.digitalhumanities.lv/baltic-dh-forum-2024 

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/675031757837906

Digital humanities have become a solid part of the research landscapes in the Baltic countries. Over the recent decades, this transformation has been evident through the vibrant and enthusiastic DH communities, the emergence of new research groups and centers, and the increasing presence of digital humanities courses and programs in higher education. This marks the right time for the digital humanities communities of the three Baltic States to come together, to look at how and in what directions DH has developed in our countries, to reflect on what is relevant today and to project what lies ahead in the near future.

The Baltic DH Forum spans two days, with the first day hosting sessions by speakers from Baltic DH communities and European infrastructures. The second day focuses on networking, presenting DH projects, digital tools, and educational initiatives, complemented by workshops on collaborative projects and fundraising strategies.

Apply now for participation in the Baltic DH Forum's "Demonstration and Networking Session" on the second day here by submitting a 200–250-word abstract in one of 3 categories – DH resource or tool, a Research Project, or an Educational initiative. Submissions across diverse areas related to digital humanities are encouraged!

The Baltic DH Forum is a collaborative effort organized in partnership with DARIAH-EU and CLARIN ERIC, led by the program committee comprised of researchers from all three Baltic countries. The event is financially supported by the Language Technology Initiative, funded by the European Union and the National Development Plan and the project "Towards Development of Open and FAIR Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia" (VPP-IZM-DH-2022/1-0002) funded by the Latvian Council of Science.

On September 12, 2023, CLARIN-LV in cooperation with digitalhumanities.lv and the DHELI project, organized the CLARIN-LV annual  conference "Latest language resources and tools for digital humanities". After introduction from the Ministry of Education and Science and overview of  the Higher Education and Science IT Shared Service Centre two keynotes were presented CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH EU representatives.  At first Maciej Ogrodniczuk (CLARIN ERIC) introduced to ParlaMint: Multilingual Comparable Corpora of Parliamentary Debates for Digital Humanities. Next, Edward Gray (DARIAH EU) presented The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities: How DARIAH Helps Enable SSH Researchers. These keynotes were followed by presentations from Institute of Latvian Language, Latvian National Library, Rēzekne Technology Academy, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts, Livonian Institute and  Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. All presentations from the conference is available from CLARIN-LV website here.

 The conference gathered about  40 participants, including representatives from the Ministry of Education and Science, University of Latvia (UL), Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (UL), Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts (UL), Latvian National Library, Institute of Latvian Language (UL), Livonian Institute (UL), Rēzekne Technology Academy, Rīga Stradiņš University and other institutions.