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Browse the Digital Humanities Course Registry to find programs, courses and summer schools within and outside Europe.

Acquaint yourself with the DH field and topics by checking out the open learning resources available on the DARIAH campus or CLARIN Learning Hub

Remember that the job market is very dynamic due to rapid technological advancements. Companies seek versatile candidates with an open mindset, analytical skills, critical thinking, and knowledge of AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning to develop digital products.

Carefully check the profiles of the DH programmes (e.g., some universities may offer generalistic DH programmes at the BA level, and more specialised DH programs at the MA level). In some countries, DH programmes are more specialised in computational competences than others

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Focus on your own strengths/expertise and build digital skills on top of that (e.g. learn programming languages, the fundamentals of AI & how to use basic NLP tools and methods keeping in mind the limitations of technology)

Try not to become a computer engineer but a mediator between humanists and computer scientists

Attend all classes, even those that may not seem immediately useful, as those skills may be valuable later in your career (e.g. legal and ethical issues in DH).

Participate in research-based projects and hackathons in order to apply what you learned

Ask for feedback from teachers and colleagues to be able to improve

Find a mentor from the former DH alumni

Gain practical work experience through work placements or volunteering opportunities keeping in mind that there are also opportunities in the technical and business sectors

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Hire interns from DH programmes

Engage in joint research projects to solve societal challenges

Organise joint hackathons to teach students how to solve real-life problems

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Besides NLP engineers and data scientists, you may also need a DH graduate

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Besides NLP engineers and data scientists, you may also need a DH graduate

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When seeking to integrate AI into your products, keep in mind that in addition to NLP engineers and data scientists, you may also need a profile with digital humanities skills:

DH graduates have a multidisciplinary background and know how to use powerful tools and methods to interpret data and creatively solve societal challenges.

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Put more emphasis on practical experience and hands-on learning as companies value versatile graduate profiles (e.g. knowledge of web design, fundamentals of AI, programming languages, project management, and data management)

Companies are not looking for engineers per se but for someone with a knowledge and understanding of AI

Find computer science teachers who know how to teach programming to students with a humanities background

To motivate the students to learn programming skills, show them the types of problems in DH research which they can solve using those skills

Teach the students the limitations of technology

Support women who want to learn and teach programming

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Career Counselling, Mentorship & Internships

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Career Counselling, Mentorship & Internships

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Include career counselling & mentorship sessions to raise awareness about the rapidly changing job market and potential career paths suitable for DH graduates.

For emerging job profiles, please see this padlet in collaboration with DH programme coordinators at DARIAH AE 2023.

Also, make the students aware of job profiles threatened by AI, e.g. digital marketing and content marketing.

Set up internship programs in collaboration with companies and public organisations

Teach students how to promote their skills and show the added value of their studies, e.g. highlight the multidisciplinary angle, create a portfolio with their best projects, use social media to look for a job

Keep tracking the alumni's professional trajectories to upskill the DH curricula and advise new students on potential career paths.

Invite DH alumni as guest lecturers in your programme to share their job search experience, teach a new skills, or mentor a student aiming for a similar career path.

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Implement problem-based learning (PBL)

Teach project management skills

Organise joint DH research projects and/or hackathons with representatives from the non-academic sectors (tech companies, research infrastructures, GLAM) to teach the students how to apply their skills to solve real-life problems

Invite former alumni who have become entrepreneurs to give a guest lecture and share their experience of setting up a company

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Register your programme in the DH Course Registry

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Register your programme in the DH Course Registry

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Contribute to the Digital Humanities Course Registry by registering your programs, courses or summer schools. The registry is maintained by the DARIAH and CLARIN research infrastructures with the help of the co-chairs, administrators, and national moderators. When describing the course in the registry, indicate whether your program is part of an Erasmus exchange programme. This would foster more collaboration between programmes within Europe. If you have questions about the registry, please email dhcr-helpdesk /at/ clarin-dariah.eu.

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Design flexible and versatile DH programs so that the student can choose and build a particular profile.

Keep in mind the role of the university to provide holistic education

Make space for the Humanities in DH through elective courses in traditional humanities, critical and ethical issues, prioritise an adaptive course structure

Help students improve their soft skills, e.g. creating thinking and problem-solving, teamwork, communication, presentation and writing skills

Teach students the importance of copyright in DH, even though they may not perceive the topic immediately as useful

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Act as a bridge between academia and the non-academic sectors

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Act as a bridge between academia and the non-academic sectors

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DARIAH and CLARIN research infrastructures could act as a bridge between academia and the industry, monitoring the technical developments in the field, their impact on research and education and providing support with the use and implementation of the new technologies, methods and approaches in DH research, training and education.

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Facilitate knowledge exchange through joint events, hackathons, training and forums.

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DH study topics have different names -> harmonisation of terminology is needed across universities to allow easier comparison between the programs in terms of trends and taught topics.

The harmonisation of taught DH topics can be done, for example, by adopting TaDiRAH: Taxonomy of Research Activities in the Humanities https://vocabs.dariah.eu/tadirah/en/

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TaDiRAH: Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

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Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities was designed to help community-driven sites and projects structure their digital humanities (DH) content and gain better visibility.TaDiRAH provides terminology for DH research activities as well as scope notes that also explain the methods associated with them.

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Amelia Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; DARIAH Women Writers Working Group)

María Goicoechea de Jorge (Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; co-chair of the Digital Humanities Course Registry Working Group)

Iulianna van der Lek (Training and Education Officer at CLARIN ERIC, co-chair of the Digital Humanities Course Registry Working Group)

Tom Gheldoff (KU Leuven, Belgium; CLARIAH-BE)

Vicky Garnett (Training Officer at DARIAH-EU)

Adeline Joffres (member of the JRC-DARIAH.EU, Huma-Num, France)

Michael Kurzmeier (University College Cork, Ireland; DARIAH Community Engagement Working Group)

Špela Antloga (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia; DARIAH Community Engagement Working Group)

Joëlle Weis (University of Trier, Germany; DARIAH Community Engagement Working Group)

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Aitana Garcia de La Higuera, Spain, MA in Digital Letters, Complutense University of Madrid, DARIAH Project Assistant

Christa Shusko, Sweden, MA in DH @ Linnaeus University, Assistant at University Work in Archives

Evangelos Palaskas, Belgium, MSc in DH @ Leuven University, Bearing Point, EU Senior Consultant

Francisco Lopes da Cunha, Portugal, MA in DH, University of Minho, Digital Publishing Company

Jan Salazar, Spain, MA in DH @ Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Self-employed in 3D Modelling

Maxi Gorynski, UK, MA of Arts and DH, King’s College, London, CEO Surf, Product Owner at DT Consulting

Jorge Franganillo, Coordinator MA in Digital Content Management, Barcelona

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Support Digital Literacy and Digital Humanities

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Support Digital Literacy and Digital Humanities

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Support interdisciplinarity and internationalisation of DH studies and encourage more collaboration between the universities

Monitor the technological advancements and the rapidly changing job market in your country to identify new digital skills required

This recent EU study provides insights into the evolving landscape of digital skills requirements based on analysis of job advertisements. Cedefop, Going digital means skilling for digital – Using big data to track emerging digital skill needs, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2801/772175

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Collaborate with DARIAH and CLARIN Research Infrastructures

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Collaborate with DARIAH and CLARIN Research Infrastructures

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Flyer - Finding Open Educational Resources and Courses

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Create a portfolio with your best DH projects and promote it via social media profile or personal website to raise the interest of potential employers

Be proactive and get in contact with potential employers via job search platforms, e.g. LinkedIn

During interviews, emphasize your multidisciplinary background and the wide range of skills acquired during your study. Highlight what you can bring new to the job compared to an NLP engineer or data scientist

When entering the job market, keep in mind that:

There is a wide range of job profiles which could use your DH skills and expertise; see the above examples.

There are also interesting job positions in the world of digital research infrastructures, e.g. DARIAH, CLARIN, EHRI, and networks, e.g. EUROPEANA

Besides being an employee, you also have the option to work as a freelancer or an entrepreneur, especially in those cities with great cultural interests and which have an attractive tourism model.

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Adopt an open mindset and continuously seek to improve your skills and learn new ones

Stay in close contact with your university to raise awareness about emerging skills and job profiles, participate in joint research-based projects, mentor a DH student, give a guest lecture on new emerging skills

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Please see the Emerging Job Profiles for DH Graduates padlet created during the first workshop on this topic at the DARIAH AE 2023 in Budapest.

Examples include:

Art and digital marketing consultant

Archiving consultant

Bot designer

Business analyst

Content curator for digital heritage systems

Computational linguist

Conversation designer

Data analyst / data consultant / data scientist

Digital transformation consultant

Documentary officer at NATO

Digital technician of cultural dissemination tasks

Heritage digitizer

Game designer

Engineering linguist

Information Technology technician

Intelligence analyst

Project manager

PR specialist

Research designer

Search engine optimisation manager

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DARIAH Funding Scheme for Working Group Activities 2023-2025

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CLARIN ERIC