Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability

The workshop Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability 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. Organized by the project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data, it builds on ongoing work examining the creation, presentation, and long-term viability of digital humanities projects.

Workshop Themes:

• NLP for Non-Latin Scripts – Contributions on natural language processing for non-Latin script languages, especially where resulting data, models, or outputs challenge conventional scholarly presentation.
• Digital Scholarly Communication – How digital research can be presented beyond traditional academic papers: interactive publications, computational notebooks, dynamic visualizations, narrative interfaces, and more.
• Sustainability of Digital Scholarship – Practical strategies for sustaining digital research outputs, including low-cost hosting, static web architectures, dependency management, data preservation, and institutional maintenance models.

We welcome submissions from researchers, developers, and practitioners in digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Contributions engaging multiple stages of the research–presentation–sustainability pipeline are especially encouraged, as are reflections on fragile, incomplete, or failed approaches.

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

Please note: This workshop is on-site only and will not be held in a hybrid format.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2026

Further information and participation:

• Workshop website
• Submit an abstract or register to attend