International collaboration
CDHA is directly involved in several international projects and programmes.
- DARIAH – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities: CDHA is a cooperating partner of DARIAH.
- DHNB – Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: CDHA members have been actively involved in DHNB, and the centre hosted the association’s annual conference in May 2024.
- Artistic Intelligence: The COST Actions network on research in the arts, digital methods, and Artificial Intelligence builds on the ongoing collaboration between the National Gallery of Iceland, the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and the University of Iceland in developing doctoral programmes in the fine arts and art history.
- DACCHE: Project funded by the INTERREG-NPA programme. The project focuses on the development and use of digital tools to tell stories and address questions about climate change.
- ANTIDOTE – Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts: CDHA, in cooperation with the Medieval Icelandic Studies programme at the University of Iceland, leads a European training network for the digitisation of older texts and medieval manuscripts. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ KA2 programme (university-level collaborative project).
- Aurora Exploratory and Collaborative Research project HONE (“How Narratives Emerge: A Complexity Science Approach to Public Discourse”), in cooperation with Palacký University in Olomouc, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, and Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
- NordHistPop – Nordic Historical Population Data, a collaborative Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub funded by NordForsk. The project is hosted by CDHA at the University of Iceland. Partners are from all the Nordic countries, as well as from Canada and the United States, and from the European research infrastructure DARIAH-ERIC.
National collaboration
Collaboration between CDHA member institutions is one of the most important objectives of the centre.
- Gagnís and CDHA collaborate on the delineation of projects with an emphasis on data storage and the accessibility of generated data.
- Clarin.is and CDHA are working together to advance digital humanities, integrating corpora and language technology as key components of the field.
- IREI (Icelandic Research e-Infrastructure) and CDHA are collaborating on IT services and database storage, with the first edition of the Historical Farm and People Registry hosted by IREI.
- Within CDHA, the National Gallery of Iceland, the University of Iceland, and the Iceland Academy of the Arts are working together to develop a doctoral programme in art history with a focus on the digital collection of the National Gallery of Iceland. This initiative is funded by the University Partnership fund.
- CDHA collaborates on the creation of a new HTR model in Transkribus for 13th-century Icelandic funded by the Icelandic Centre for Research Student Innovation Fund.
University partnerships
CDHA received two grants from the University Partnership fund in 2023 and 2024.
- The 2023 grant was awarded for the following projects:
- The development of a web portal providing access to data and databases.
- The development of educational material for digital humanities.
- Nationwide outreach efforts.
- The 2024 grant was awarded for the following projects:
- GDPR-compliant data analysis to improve accessibility.
- IPR-compliant data analysis to improve accessibility.
- The standardisation of metadata annotation for Icelandic cultural data.
- Iceland’s membership in DARIAH.
Project status:
- Two project managers were hired at CDHA at the end of 2024 to handle these projects, among other things.
- CDHA partnered with Performant Software to analyse data and databases in preparation for developing a web portal.
- In January 2025, GDPR, IPR and metadata working groups were established.
- Work on creating educational and promotional materials is ongoing.
- An application regarding Iceland’s DARIAH membership was sent to the Icelandic Ministry of Infrastructure in January 2025.
CDHA also received funding from the University of Iceland Centennial Fund to:
- assess digital data and databases gathered by humanities and arts researchers.
- develop the CDHA website to improve accessibility for all users.