On 7 November 2025, the Edinburgh Futures Institute is hosting a day of talks and discussion to explore the future of digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities.

 UK DARIAH Day 2025 will gather researchers and practitioners in the Digital Humanities to explore experiences, insights, and challenges related to working with the UK’s digital research infrastructure (DRI). We will consider how closer alignment with the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) can strengthen these initiatives in the UK, and explore what a future UK DRI might look like.

Throughout the day, posters, panels and presentations will showcase projects and other practical engagements with UK DRI.

We invite contributions to our our Lunchtime Showcase from projects, networks and infrastructures in Digital Humanities. Please indicate whether you are interested in contributing when you register.

The event will conclude with a networking reception open to all attendees.

The event is organised by the UK cooperating partners of DARIAH: the Universities of Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter and Leeds; Kings College London; and the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Please note that this event is preceeded by a Regional Engagement Event for the CCP-AH on the 6th of November, also in the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

9:00 - 9:30 - Arrivals

9:30 - 9:45 - Welcome. Dr Lisa Otty and Prof Enda Delaney (Edinburgh Futures Institute)

9.45 - 10.45: Infrastructure as Service or as Meitheal? Observations on a Decade (or Two) of DARIAH-IE. Prof Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin)

10.45 - 11.15: Coffee

11.15 - 12.00: Panel 1

• Imagining DARIAH-UK: an exploration of potential infrastructural models. Sally Chambers (British Library / DARIAH)
• CCP-AHC: A collaborative vision for access to large-scale compute for arts, humanities, and culture research in the UK. Eamonn Bell (University of Durham)
• Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research. Andre Piza (The Alan Turing Institute)

12:15 - 13.00: Panel 2

• DISKAH: Building skills for DRI-driven approaches to arts and humanities research. Karina Rodriguez Echavarria (University of Brighton)
• Embedding arts and humanities research on responsible AI within industry and policy settings: lessons from the Bridging Responsible AI Divides programme. Gavin Leuzzi (Fellowships Lead, BRAID)
• From Collections to Collaboration: An essential role for Research Libraries in DRI. Wiliam Nixon (Research Libraries UK)

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch and Showcase

14:00 - 14:30: An AHRC perspective on DRI: Potential opportunities for iDAH and DARIAH moving forward. David Selway (AHRC)

14:30 - 17:00: Imagining Digital Infrastructure Futures Workshop. Jen Ross & Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh)

How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes about infrastructure, by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities? The workshop hosts from the University of Edinburgh have developed a set of research-informed, speculative scenarios to explore imagined futures for digital cultural heritage. This workshop will build on insights from responses to the scenarios to date, engage imaginatively with them, and facilitate strategic discussions about digital infrastructure futures.

This session will include a break at around 15:45.

17:00 - 18:00: Networking Reception

This event is supported by DARIAH-EU, DISKAH, and the Centre for Data, Culture & Society.