Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability

Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability

This 1.5-day workshop explores how digital research, particularly in the context of non-Latin script languages, can move beyond the constraints of traditional scholarly formats. While books and articles remain central to academic knowledge production, many forms of computational research generate data, models, workflows, and analytical results that cannot be adequately represented through static text, images, or tables alone.

The workshop focuses on a central pipeline: how digital research is produced, how it can be presented, and how it can be sustained over time. We invite contributions that engage with one or more stages of this process, especially through concrete projects, implementations, case studies, and practical experiences.

Organized by the project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data, the workshop builds on ongoing work examining the creation, presentation, and long-term viability of digital humanities projects, with particular attention to the challenges faced by projects working with non-Latin scripts.

Workshop Themes

NLP for Non-Latin Scripts

We invite contributions on natural language processing for non-Latin script languages, especially where the resulting data, models, or analytical outputs challenge conventional modes of scholarly presentation. We are particularly interested in work that benefits from interactive, dynamic, or multi-dimensional forms of representation.

Digital Scholarly Communication

This section focuses on how digital research can be presented beyond the limits of the traditional academic paper. Contributions may address interactive publications, computational notebooks, dynamic visualizations, narrative interfaces, or other forms of digital scholarly output that integrate data, method, and interpretation.

Sustainability of Digital Scholarship

Digital formats enable new forms of research and presentation, but they also introduce challenges related to hosting, maintenance, funding, and institutional support. We welcome contributions on practical strategies for sustaining digital research outputs, including low-cost hosting, static and hybrid web architectures, dependency management, data preservation, and institutional or community-based maintenance models.

How to Participate

We welcome submissions from researchers, developers, and practitioners working in digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Submissions should clearly indicate which workshop theme they address and should foreground concrete work, case studies, implementations, or practical experience.

Contributions that engage multiple stages of the research–presentation–sustainability pipeline are especially encouraged. We also welcome reflections on fragile, incomplete, or failed approaches, where these offer useful insights into the practical challenges of digital scholarship.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2026

To submit an abstract or register to attend, please use the form above.

The event is funded by the Open Science Ambassador-Program of the Berlin University Alliance.