CAREing for Data in Dialogue: registration is open
The seventh «… in dialogue» workshop asks what the CARE principles mean in practice — 9 December 2026, University of Bern
Research data in the humanities and social sciences is rarely simply “open” or “closed”. Much of it describes people — their words, their images, their suffering — and caring for such data is a question of ethics as much as of infrastructure. The CARE principles (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) put those questions beside the FAIR ones, and the seventh edition of “… in dialogue” asks what that looks like in practice.
Researchers bring concrete datasets to the table and discuss the ethical questions each one raises, in short pitches, hands-on sessions and with perspectives from law.
9 December 2026 · Kuppelraum (501), Hochschulstrasse 4, University of Bern · in English · hybrid
On the programme
- Keynote — Beyond FAIR: CARE, Community Responsibility, and the Challenges of (Historical) Sociolinguistic Data, Anita Auer (University of Lausanne), on pauper letters and Swiss Heritage Tamil
- Dataset pitches on psychiatric patient letters, witch-trial records, ethnographic fieldwork, a discrimination-sensitive scholarly edition, archaeological site data, emergency-medicine records and research on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
- Hands-on sessions on discrimination-sensitive metadata, and a “bring your own data” slot
- A closing contribution from CCdigitallaw on how open research data can be, and at what cost
The full programme, all abstracts and short biographies are on the event page.
Registration
Registration is free and runs through the University Library Bern — see the event page, or share the short link https://bit.ly/imdialog2026. The flyer is available as a PDF for printing and circulating.
The workshop is organised by the Digital Humanities Center at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg and Open Science at the University Library Bern. Questions go to imdialog@ub.unibe.ch.
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