Digital humanities early-career välipala

Digital Humanities early career välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digital methods in research. The focus is on digital good practices, stumbling blocks and tricks regarding use of data, tools and analysis methods.

Snacks will be provided in the form of insights on new methods, best practice testimonials… and cake!

Welcome from 2 – 3 pm at Metsätalo (room A121) Please register (here) the latest one day in advance to make sure there is enough snacks for all and pre-share your experiences to prepare for discussion.

Välipalat Fall 2025

Tuesday, October 21, Structuring and annotating historical or digitized text data. A few researchers will open the discussion by describing their approaches to digitized historical data, followed by open discussion about data challenges and solutions. Possibility of using your own data as pilot dataset for in-developement DARIAH data analysis architecture is also on the agenda.

Tuesday, November 18: Qualitative or multimodal approaches to social media data and digital phenomena To get us started, a research group will discuss challenges that occur at early stages of research, including what tools and methods to use for data collection or annotation. The discussion includes insights of DARIAH infrastructures supporting social media data collection and visual data annotation.

Each session starts with a brief introduction into the theme by a researcher working on that topic to facilitate free-form and open conversation. We aim to build a community and space to create and find connections. The DH välipalat are organised by and for PhD and early-career researchers. We are a group of interdisciplinary folk based in Helsinki supported by DARIAH-FI The digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities.

Inquiries can be sent to ines.matres@helsinki.fi