The aim of this session is to motivate the Humanities faculty and students to tend to remain on the forefront of adopting new technologies; and work closely/cooperatively with scientists in other disciplines who may help by find answers to numerous problems. This session will include topics not limited to:

§ Focus on Semantically enriched and Smart Data in Humanities.

§ Solving the interoperability problem while publishing data on the web.

§ Efficient Usage and Easier Access of LOD datasets by humanities researchers.

§ Big Data Research in Digital Humanities.

§ Digital humanities and data journalism, digital political and social research, digital discourse analysis and media studies. Possible cross-point areas: fake news and the spread of misinformation, semantic technologies, digital activism, digital forensics, ethical challenges in data-driven social media research, big data and media monitoring, news archives, and research data archiving.

§ Digitally born data: web archiving, web research, web history, digital cultural heritage and folklore.

§ Digital approaches to studying, teaching and the revitalization of endangered and small languages and indigenous cultures.

§ Digital research services in libraries, archives and museums.

§ Participatory research methods, citizen humanities/citizen science, crowd sourcing and communication in digital humanities and heritage studies.

§ Digital language resources (e.g. historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data, etc.) and tools for digital humanities and social sciences (e.g. linking data across domains, media and languages).