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In this paper, we study data reuse in scholarly editing, providing insights into the current panorama and imagining future developments. We will focus on the reuse of data, leaving aside the reuse of code and models, which would require a separate enquiry; and would concentrate on machine-actionable reuse, as opposed to human consumption.

In our workshop, we invite Digital Humanists to explore the OpenMethods metablog as an innovative publication forum and to strengthen the representation of traditionally underrepresented languages and actors in Digital Humanities - particularly non-Anglophone, under-resourced languages (such as languages with non-Latin scripts) or female tool-makers - on the platform in particular and in the Digital Humanities discourse in general.

The project develops an open-source machine learning platform for East Asian Studies, the first one in the United States.Our platform will be so versatile that humanists will not have to devote time to learning various digital tools. With our sample codes and tutorials, researchers can conduct computer-aided research.

Encouraging the use of the digitized materials is a complex goal that involves each - cultural heritage institutions, research funding frameworks, and researchers to some degree. These developments have led a few institutions to initiate GLAM Labs (glamlabs.io) that focus on developing the digital opportunities afforded by galleries, libraries, archives, museums. Following the role models in the international community, the National Library of Estonia has been developing a virtual lab - a portal and an interface for users to gain access and find uses to digital data. This entails keeping in mind the interests of many stakeholders - balancing the needs and opportunities for the library with the requirements for the collection user. We present the virtual lab, its tools and datasets, as launched in January 2023. We will show the journey there and the conclusions made on the basis of this. During the development, we have piloted several interface options to access text sources in bulk and share our data in multiple accessible formats. We've conducted a service design as well as a legal analysis to understand the interests of the representative members of the potential user community and how the library can respond to them. Our virtual lab has aimed to learn from the GLAM Labs in other institutions (see e.g. Mahey et al. 2019). We aim to build our user community so that the researchers get the credit due for their work, and will be offered a place to showcase their work. So that the work done in transforming and enhancing the data by the users would find its way back to the library. And that library itself would get feedback on its collections and find value in its novel potential uses. We will discuss the lessons learned during the development process. We offer access to the open textual resources among the newspapers, periodicals, and book publications 1800-2022, the data from the national bibliography, as well as a number of thematic collections built around it. Our tools include a few visualization tools and interfaces to manipulate and query the data online. And we feature a number of blog posts based on the case studies performed on our collections by students and researchers. These digital collections offer new opportunities for cultural heritage institutions as well as their visitors and users, but the process towards it requires learning from various perspectives. Through encouraged use cases, the users learn better to anticipate and benefit from what the library collections can offer, and the library can incrementally improve the resources that it can offer the users while learning about the value found in these resources. We argue that for a successful project, collaboration is key between these different actors based on their interests, and aspire to offer a good example in how this can be organized in a small community. References Mahey, M., Al-Abdulla, A., Ames, S., Bray, P., Candela, G., Chambers, S., Derven, C., Dobreva-McPherson, M., Gasser, K., Karner, S., Kokegei, K., Laursen, D., Potter, A., Straube, A., Wagner, S-C. and Wilms, L. with forewords by: Al-Emadi, T. A., Broady-Preston, J., Landry, P. and Papaioannou, G. (2019) Open a GLAM Lab. Digital Cultural Heritage Innovation Labs, Book Sprint, Doha, Qatar, 23-27 September 2019.

VedaWeb is an established research website for the ancient Vedic text Rigveda. It now evolves into an open collaborative platform for researching and sharing Vedic Sanskrit language data in a broader perspective. How will the new platform stimulate collaborative processes among researchers of Vedic Sanskrit and beyond?

Recently, it has become more and more common that individual researchers in the humanities create pieces of software to support their research. Research councils today often require all output to be available in open access, which implies that output in the form of software should be available as open source software. However, for various reasons, publishing source code itself is generally not enough to allow others to replicate the research results or to reuse it for their own purposes. In this poster presentation, we want to show that with the right professional but low-key technical support, researchers who write their own software can be enabled to make it useful for others as much as for themselves. To promote the long-term value of research software, the international FAIR for Research Software working group (FAIR4RS) recently published a set of principles for making software FAIR, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (Barker et al: 2022). Making software FAIR according to these principles entails a number of formal requirements. Some of these, such as assigning a unique identifier and publishing it with a proper open source license, are more or less trivial to implement. Other principles, such as the requirement of providing good documentation and interoperability using commonly-used data formats and programming interfaces, is less obvious to implement for those who do not write software on a daily basis and in collaboration with others. This poster will present a detailed step-by-step plan for collaboration with researchers to make their software FAIR, along with a number of examples from the Digital Humanities Lab at Utrecht University where we assisted researchers to make their smaller and larger pieces of software useful for a larger audience, adhering to the FAIR principles. We show that researchers who are used to writing computer programs but who may not be very well introduced to common software engineering procedures can adapt their software with relatively little additional efforts from both the side of the researcher and the side of the technical support staff. Bleeker et al. (2022) have shown that while the importance of code literacy in the field of digital humanities is clear, many scholars believe their own is lacking. We believe that the proposed collaboration between researchers and technical support can contribute to the overall level of code literacy in the humanities. At the Digital Humanities Lab, we collaborate with researchers by providing advice, technical support and writing software. During the last decade, the Digital Humanities Lab has mainly been developing software at the request of researchers, often in the form of web applications. In the recent years, it has become more and more common for researchers in the humanities to write their own software. We respond to this trend by actively encouraging the researchers, and especially by assisting them not only in writing the software, but also by preserving it for future use. In our poster, we give a detailed step-by-step plan showing how we assist and stimulate researchers in this process. As one of the examples we give in this poster, we show how the Lab collaborated with a researcher who had created a relatively complicated Python script that creates XPath expressions to search for specific linguistic expressions in treebanks. This script answered to the immediate needs of the researcher, but was difficult to use by someone who was not involved in its creation because it expected a very specific type of input and lacked documentation. At the Lab, we transformed the script into a reusable Python package that is easy to install and to use, and providing clear documentation. We were also able to use the script ourselves in one of our linguistic web applications. Thanks to the infrastructure that the Lab provides, the piece of software is preserved in a sustainable way and can be picked up by other researchers even after the original research project is discontinued. We are convinced that FAIR research software is a reachable goal for any researcher who cares about the sustainability of their software, provided that the research institution provides the right technical support infrastructure., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.17613/03ds-9973","https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01710-x"]}

Composed to mark Franz Joseph's state visit to Wilhelm II, Strauss' Kaiser Walzer (Emperor Waltz) provokes the question: which Emperor was it for? We investigate this in a case study of interdisciplinary collaboration in digital musicology, employing a FAIR data multimedia corpus associated with the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts.

In this paper we will present publication workflows developed by the DHd Data Steward for publishing conference papers of the DHd annual conferences and illustrate how the collaboration with the DHd community is an essential part of the improvement of the publication strategy within the DHd association. More precisely, we will introduce the DHd Task Force "DHd Abstracts", which is working on improving the submission and publication processes community-driven.

Bibliographical data are one of the most important types of data for data-driven research and curation in the humanities. The goal of the panel is to introduce various aspects of current bibliographical data ecosystem which is shaped by constant interactions between various public and private stakeholders.

The DiÖ Sprachatlas tool is a dynamic map creation tool which uses the corpus of a large-scale variationist linguistics project as its source. By utlizing an API, it creates maps on negligible cost. Additionally, it offers a method of making the total corpus transparent and accessible.

The proposed paper will discuss collaboration between various stakeholders in the open access publishing ecosystem in Poland and the current challenges in developing new sustainability models for publishing digital research outputs, particularly monographs, in OA.

Inaugurated in 2022, the CANEVAS consortium brings together researchers from various humanities disciplines whose common interest is to handle video corpora in their research. This poster present specific issues raised by these corpora as well as a selection of tools and methods identified by the Canevas research community.

Our poster discusses HI's activities to construct a data structure and its operations in Japanese history for long-term utilisation and future issues related to multidisciplinary links. It focuses on specific repositories and examples of metadata exchange.

This paper reports on an Australian Research Council-funded project focusing on development of digital tools to map biographical narratives and data relating to legacies of British slavery in Australia from the 1830s onward, producing new understandings of the continuing impact of slavery wealth in shaping colonial immigration, investment, and law.

Digital editions, text collections, and lexical resources each have their own tradition in the (digital) humanities and at the same time, the data domains also share common methods and practices of indexing, modeling, and analysis. The Text+ consortium in the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)is dedicated to the handling of research data in the three aforementioned research domains and is exploring methods and practices of cross-domain use of datasets and the resulting collaboration between research fields. The poster shows the connections between the three data domains in Text+ using a concrete example: the edition of letters by the German writer Jean Paul (Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763–1825) of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). The poster was accepted and presented at the DH2023 conference in Graz.

This poster reports on the experiences of launching a publisher-independent OA journal, the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) and reflects the workflow established so far. It also discusses openess as a practice of opening up diversified communication spaces with regard to community involvement, peer reviewing, and the publishing workflow.

This workshop will help participants make audio, video, and its interpretations more discoverable and usable through the use of the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio and video to produce, publish, and sustain W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audiovisual editions, exhibits, and playlists. The workshop format will include introductions to IIIF, AudiAnnotate, Audacity, and GitHub using model, collaborative AudiAnnotate projects called the "SpokenWeb Anthology," made from recordings from the SpokenWeb Consortium and "Radio Venceremos, the Rebel's Radio Station," which features recordings from Radio Venceremos ("Radio We Will Overcome"), a popular, clandestine radio station that the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) created to broadcast news and analysis from the mountains of Morazán, El Salvador during the eleven year Salvadoran Civil War (1981-1992).