Humanities Data Science and Methodology (HDSM) and DisLab at TU Darmstadt invite Master’s, advanced Bachelor’s students and early-career researchers to a one-day workshop on practising Open Research in History, Cultural Heritage, and the Humanities. The workshop is an in-person event only, which will be organised at TU Darmstadt on 18 September 2026. The workshop focuses on concepts of openness, including open access, open data, and open science as a methodological workflow and offers practice in how research is designed, documented, versioned, and made reproducible.
The workshop is a part of the project Open Research in History, Cultural Heritage and the Humanities: A Didactic Framework for Data Literacy and Open Research Practices supported by HERMES (Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods).
For participants, the workshop offers hands-on training in the tools and practices that underpin transparent and collaborative scholarship. For the project team, it serves as a field to test an open learnware package currently under development, allowing us to evaluate clarity, usability, and transferability before wider release.
Workshop activities are organised around work with open cultural heritage and GLAM datasets and an end-to-end research workflow. Following the research workflow introduced during the workshop, the participants will access data, clean and enrich metadata, produce a small-scale analysis, and prepare outputs for responsible sharing and reuse. Participants will document decisions and steps as they work, use GitHub for version control and collaboration, practice FAIR and CARE principles, shape their own research workflows and implement them using Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
Requirements
- basic digital literacy (file handling, browser-based tools, experience of working with spreadsheets and structured data). Basic Python knowledge is desirable but not required;
- students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are welcome;
- motivation to explore open GLAM-data and open research practices;
- to apply, please complete this form before 20 June and upload a CV (max. 2 pages). The results will be announced before 10 July.
Participant benefits
- a transferable open research workflow applicable to thesis and project work;
- a small, citable portfolio-style output (e.g., cleaned dataset + notebook + documentation);
- increased methodological confidence in open data, open tools, reproducibility, and responsible reuse;
- certificate of attendance.
Practical information
- Language: English
- Requirement: participants must bring a laptop (tablets/phones are not sufficient)
- Date / format: the workshop will be held in person at the TU Darmstadt on 18 September 2026 from 9:00 to 17:00 (detailed programme will be available soon)
- Place: Darmstadt, Germany
- Light refreshments will be provided during the workshop. All other expenses, including meals, travel, and accommodation, are the responsibility of participants and will not be reimbursed.
Registration: please fill out this form
For questions, please email Dariia Shamgunova at dariia.shamgunova@tu-darmstadt.de
- Dieses Projekt wurde durch das BMFTR-Verbundprojekt HERMES gefördert


