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The DIGITALHUMANITIES.LV Workshop Series creates a shared space for researchers, students, cultural heritage professionals, and interested communities to meet, learn, and exchange experiences around digital humanities practices. Organised in collaboration with the Latvian national nodes of DARIAH and CLARIN, the workshops emphasize collaboration, openness, and practical experimentation, bringing together diverse perspectives on working with digital cultural heritage, data, language technologies, and digital research methods.

The workshop schedule is not fixed and depends on ongoing research projects that use the platform for their educational and training activities; however, the series typically includes around four workshops per year.

8 April 2026

Speakers: Anda Baklāne (National Library of Latvia)
Topic: Datu vizualizācija humanitāro zinātņu pētniekiem (

Data Visualization for Digital Humanities Researchers)

This seminar explored the role of data visualization in humanities research, focusing on different types of visualizations and their applications. It also examined data preparation principles and tools, as well as the significance of visualization in digital humanities.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

5 November 2025

Speaker: Mila Oiva (University of Turku)
Topic: Quantitative Approaches to Historical Visual Culture – an Example of Soviet Newsreels

Workshop presenting quantitative and digital approaches to the analysis of historical visual culture, using Soviet newsreels as a case study for working with audiovisual historical materials in digital humanities research.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

21 May 2025

Speaker: Natālija Lāce (Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents)
Topic: Latvijas Valsts kinofotofonodokumentu arhīva pieredze MI rīku izmantošanā: jauna pieeja vēsturisko dokumentu pieejamības veicināšanā (The Experience of the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents in Using AI Tools: A New Approach to Enhancing the Accessibility of Historical Documents)

Workshop presenting the experience of the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents in applying artificial intelligence tools to improve the accessibility, description, and use of historical audiovisual materials.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

6–7 May 2025

Speaker: Jan Hajič jr. (Charles University, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics)
Topic: Digital Musicology and Gregorian Chant Computing

Lectures and hands-on workshops introducing computational approaches to musicological research, focusing on digital analysis and processing of Gregorian chant and musical heritage materials.

More information about the workshop is available here.

3 April 2025

Speaker: Pēteris Jurčenko (digital usability and accessibility expert)
Topic: Digitālo humanitāro zinātņu resursu un rīku piekļūstamība (Accessibility of Digital Humanities Resources and Tools)

The seminar focused on the importance of accessibility in digital environments, particularly in resources and tools developed within the field of digital humanities.

More information about the workshop is available here.

20 June 2024

Speaker: Joshua Hagedorn (independent researcher, poet, and data scientist)
Topic: Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research

This hands-on workshop, held within the framework of the Congress of the International Society for Research on Folklore Narratives 2024, introduced participants to working with text corpora and taxonomic data in folklore research using digital humanities approaches. It focused on the Trilogy repository and demonstrated how annotated texts and classification systems can support reproducible research and machine learning applications.

More information about the workshop is available here.

22 May 2024

Speaker: Giovanni Pietro Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay)
Topic: Digital Humanities and Historical Research: Reflecting on Sources, Methods, and Data Visualisation

This online seminar explored the relationship between historical research and digital tools, focusing on how digital methods can support or challenge historiography. It presented a five-year research project on violence against civilians in Italy between 1943 and 1945, using archival sources and data visualisation techniques, while also encouraging methodological reflection among participants.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

27 March 2024

Speaker: Jānis Daugavietis (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Topic: Pētniecības dati, datu repozitoriji un datu sagatavošana publicēšanai (Research Data, Data Repositories, and Data Preparation for Publication)

This online seminar introduced the fundamentals of research data policies and practices, with a focus on the role of research data within the broader framework of open science. It explained key concepts such as FAIR principles, metadata, data management plans, and data repositories, while also addressing issues of accessibility, anonymisation, and data preparation for publication, illustrated with examples from the Latvian research context.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

13 December 2023

Speaker: Vicky Garnett (DARIAH-EU)
Topic: DARIAH Campus: What's in it for You!

This online seminar explored the landscape of digital humanities training and online learning opportunities, with a particular focus on the DARIAH Campus platform. It discussed how the platform supports different user groups within the European digital arts and humanities community and contributes to skills development and knowledge sharing.

More information about the workshop is available here.

18 May 2023

Speakers: Ilze Auziņa (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Latvia); Antra Kļavinska (Rezekne Academy of Technologies); Guna Rābante-Buša (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Latvia)
Topic: Runas korpusu izveide un to izmantojums (Creating and Using Speech Corpora)

This seminar examined the role of speech corpora in the development of language technologies and presented approaches to building and using such resources. It included case studies on the development of a modern Latgalian speech corpus and practical demonstrations of speech data processing using ELAN software.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.

12 April 2023

Speakers: Anda Baklāne (National Library of Latvia)
Topic: Dzejas un prozas leksikas digitālā pētniecība: no atslēgvārda līdz semantiskajam laukam (Digital Research of Poetry and Prose Lexis: From Keyword to Semantic Field)

This seminar explored digital methods for analyzing the vocabulary of poetry and prose, demonstrating how keyword-based approaches can be expanded into broader semantic field analysis.

More information about the workshop is available here.
The video can be accessed here.