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Visible Vowels is a tool for the visualization of vowel variation, developed by Wilbert Heeringa and Hans Van de Velde at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, and freely available at: visiblevowels.org. Dr. Heeringa will give a demo of the program. Subsequently colleagues can try out the program by using their own data or by an example data set provided at the help page of the program, while Dr. Heeringa will guide and assist them. There are plans to include VIsible Vowels in the CLARIAH Virtual Research Environment (VRE).Gabmap is a dialectometry program developed by Peter Kleiweg at the University of Groningen and a part of the CLARIN infrastructure(see http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1917). Dr. Heeringa will first give an introduction in dialectometry and give an tutorial where the colleagues of the university of Gothenburg use Gabmap for doing dialectometric analyses, using either a Norwegian or Dutch data set.

CLARIAH aims to deliver a digital research infrastructure made explicitly accessible for re- searchers from the social sciences and humanities (SSH). This makes the development of advanced ICT tools a core activity within CLARIAH. To be able to assess the quality of the research infrastructure as a whole, we need to be able to assess the quality of its individual software parts, and their function inside of the research infrastructure including data compo- nents. If we can establish a common set of software guidelines, we may more readily identify weaker components of the software infrastructure and work on their improvement. We may also be able to better direct software production processes towards issues of interoperability and sustainability. A digital research infrastructure operates at the intersection of supporting ICT and research practices. For the SSH those are far from being homogeneous. The practices served by the infrastructure differ concerning the object of analysis, the processes of analysis, and the required usability level. The need for increased attention to software quality and sustainability in an academic context is stressed by Doorn et al. [2016]. They recognize the fundamental role software plays in modern research and observe that good development practice is less followed in academia than in the commercial sector, which leads to problems in maintenance and adoption. They thus set out to promote good software development practice, good models of sustainability and dissemination of the best software across application areas/disciplines. We fully agree with these goals, and the guidelines presented here are intended to respond, on a practical level, to these with specific software quality criteria, explicitly encompassing sustainability as well.

One of the funded project proposals under DARIAH’s Open Humanities call 2015 was “Open History: Sustainable digital publishing of archival catalogues of twentieth-century history archives”. Based on the experiences of the Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI) and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the main goal of the “Open History” project was to enhance the dialogue between (meta-)data providers and research infrastructures. Integrating archival descriptions – when they were already available – held at a wide variety of twentieth-century history archives (from classic archives to memorial sites, libraries and private archives) into research infrastructures has proven to be a major challenge, which could not be done without some degree of limited to extensive pre-processing or other preparatory work. The “Open History” project organized two workshops and developed two tools: an easily accessible and general article on why the practice of standardization and sharing is important and how this can be achieved; and a model which provides checklists for self-analyses of archival institutions. The text that follows is the article we have developed. It intentionally remains at a general level, without much jargon, so that it can be easily read by those who are non-archivists or non-IT. Hence, we hope it will be easy to understand for both those who are describing the sources at various archives (with or without IT or archival sciences degrees), as well as decision-makers (directors and advisory boards) who wish to understand the benefits of investing in standardization and sharing of data. It is important to note is that this text is a first step, not a static, final result. Not all aspects about standardization and publication of (meta-)data are discussed, nor are updates or feedback mechanisms for annotations and comments discussed. The idea is that this text can be used in full or in part and that it will include further chapters and section updates as time goes by and as other communities begin using it. Some archives will read through much of these and see confirmation of what they have already been implementing; others – especially the smaller institutions, such as private memory institutions – will find this a low-key and hands-on introduction to help them in their efforts. International audience

The digital humanities (DH) enrich the traditional fields of the humanities with new practices, approaches and methods. Since the turn of the millennium, the necessary skills to realise these new possibilities have been taught in summer schools, workshops and other alternative formats. In the meantime, a growing number of Bachelor's and Master's programmes in digital humanities have been launched worldwide. The DH Course Registry, which is the focus of this article, was created to provide an overview of the growing range of courses on offer worldwide. Its mission is to gather the rich offerings of different courses and to provide an up-to-date picture of the teaching and training opportunities in the field of DH. The article provides a general introduction to this emerging area of research and introduces the two European infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, which jointly operate the DH Course Registry. A short history of the Registry is accompanied by a description of the data model and the data curation workflow. Current data, available through the API of the Registry, is evaluated to quantitatively map the international landscape of DH teaching.Preprint of a publication for LibraryTribune (China) (accepted)