The 8th Baltic Summer School for Digital Humanities will take place in Riga at the National Library of Latvia on August 3–7. This year’s Summer School, titled “Cultural Data Analytics and Meaning,” will focus on structured cultural data, data modelling, and achieving results that are meaningful for humanities research. Particular attention will be given to museum and library metadata, which represent an important form of structured data in cultural heritage research.
The lectures will address the creation of meaning and the interpretation of cultural and humanities data, while the workshops will focus on the technical aspects of data preparation, cleaning, modelling, and analysis. Two workshops from last year’s programme — network analysis and working with large language models via API — are returning in updated form, as these skills remain an important part of the digital humanities toolset.
Registration is now closed.
Events marked as Open lectures will be available online and do not require registration.
For inquiries, please contact us at: dh@lnb.lv
ORGANIZERS
BSSDH 2026 is organized by a joint effort of the National Library of Latvia (1), Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia (2), and the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art (University of Latvia) (3).
Organizers: Anda Baklāne (1), Sanita Reinsone (2), Ieva Vīvere (3), Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (3), Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska (3), Viktorija Piščikova (1)