As digital humanities continue to grow, the creation, maintenance, and accessibility of databases are becoming critical to scholarly practice. However, databases in the humanities face a unique set of challenges:

How can we represent the complexity and ambiguity of humanities data in digital forms?
What strategies help build sustainable communities of practice to maintain and develop databases in new directions?
How can we ensure long-term sustainability for humanities databases?
Should there be specialized funding programs for databases in the humanities?
How do we document and re-use data and software components effectively?
How do we balance the needs of diverse user communities?
Who should be able access these databases and in what ways?
Inspired by initiatives like the Data/Culture project, this conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse humanities disciplines to critically explore the opportunities and obstacles of database creation and use in the humanities.

We invite papers on topics including but not limited to:

Designing databases that reflect the epistemic and methodological diversity of the humanities.
Case studies of databases in areas such as literature, history, philosophy, arts, archaeology, or cultural studies.
Practical challenges in maintaining, scaling, or archiving humanities databases.
Ethical issues in data collection and representation (e.g., indigenous data sovereignty, privacy).
Interdisciplinary collaborations and tensions in database projects.
Methods for populating databases with data from scholarly publications.
Methods for documenting and re-using data and software components.
Building sustainable communities of practice around databases and digital tools.
The potential role of research software engineer networks in advancing the arts and humanities.
Strategies for teaching database literacy in the humanities.
Reflections on how databases transform traditional humanities scholarship.
Relationships between databases and other approaches employed in the humanities (e.g., case studies).