2026 IEEE CH – DARIAH Workshop on Securing Knowledge: Cyber Humanities and the Future of Critical Research Infrastructures (DARIAH)
Venice, Italy (hybrid event) • September 7–9, 2026
As the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) undergo a profound digital transformation, Research Infrastructures (RIs) have become central to enabling new forms of knowledge production, collaboration, and preservation. Within this evolving landscape, Cyber Humanities offer powerful tools and frameworks to strengthen and expand the role of RIs—paving the way toward infrastructures that not only support research but also meet the standards of Critical Infrastructures in terms of security, resilience, sustainability, and governance.
Currently, the SSH domain does not possess Critical Infrastructures in the strict sense; however, the transition toward this status is both necessary and urgent. The digital assets, tools, and platforms developed within initiatives like DARIAH—the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities—are increasingly essential to societal memory and cultural continuity, and thus must be treated with a new level of strategic importance.
The workshop “Securing Knowledge: Cyber Humanities and the Future of Critical Research Infrastructures”, organized within the IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH), aims to initiate and structure this crucial discussion. By bringing together diverse perspectives from across the DARIAH network and the broader SSH community, the session will explore how Cyber Humanities can drive the conceptual and technological shift from research infrastructures to infrastructures with critical status.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:
› The evolving role of SSH Research Infrastructures and their methodological impact.
› Knowledge infrastructures as engines for interdisciplinary convergence and innovation.
› AI in the humanities: governance, ethics, and accountability
› Blockchain technologies for trustworthy and transparent cultural data management.
› Digital Philology and the future of textual heritage.
› Digital Libraries as intelligent infrastructures for access, preservation, and dissemination.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: April 12, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 2, 2026
Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2026
Early registration deadline: May 20, 2026
Conference dates: Sept 7–9, 2026
Submission Guidelines
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CH conference are applicable to GTAI workshop. Please visit the instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via Easychair, please make sure that the workshop’s track WS-DARIAH is selected.
Workshop Committees
Program Chiars
Alessia Spadi, DARIAH.it
Edward J. Gray, DARIAH EU – IR* Huma-Num (CNRS)
Emiliano Degl’Innocenti, DARIAH.it
Technical Program Committee
Adeline Joffres , IR* Huma-Num (CNRS) – DARIAH EU
Francesco Gelati , University of Hamburg – DARIAH DE
Françoise Gouzi , DARIAH-EU
Francesco Pinna , CNR-DARIAH.it
Federica Spinelli , CNR-DARIAH.it
Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar , Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research – DARIAH HR
Nanette Rißler-Pipka , Max Weber Foundation (DE) – DARIAH DE
Rita Gautschy , Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH
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