HUNOR Mini-Conference 2026: research integrity, science communication, and citizen science.

We presented on the operations of our archives and the diverse projects of the RDC at an international workshop organized by the Belgian State Archives.

The 18th Annual European DDI Users Conference is being hosted by the Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive together with the State Archives of Belgium and the Brussels Institute for Social and Political Science in Brussels, Belgium from Monday 30 November to Friday 4 December 2026. The deadline for submission for the conference is September 1, 2026.

What should archives and data repositories do with documents generated entirely by AI? We discussed this question with a number of distinguished colleagues. The various viewpoints and arguments were published this year.

We are proud to announce that our “Balatoni adathalászok” running team has successfully completed the XX. NN Ultrabalaton race!

Our article on the emergence and organization of the data steward profession and community in Hungary has been published. We collaborated with colleagues from ARP, ELTE DH-LAB, and the Research Centre for Linguistics on this study.

This year, the NETWORKSHOP conference celebrated its 35th anniversary. Organized by the HUNGARNET Association between March 31 and April 2, 2026, the event, the most prestigious domestic conference on computer networking and applied information technology in higher education, public education, research, and public collections, was hosted by the University of Debrecen. The multi-day program featured presentations, interactive sessions, tutorials, and mini-workshops, as well as lightning talks. Key focal points of the conference included, among others, “Data Repository Systems and Networks,” “Long-Term Preservation and Web Archiving,” “Major Trends in the Application of AI: Service Developments in Content Delivery,” and “New Network Technology Solutions.” The RDC team gave one presentation and one interactive session. 

The Research Documentation Centre (RDC) at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences (Budapest, Hungary) has participated with two talks at the 20th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Zagreb. Anna Horváth and Enikő Meiszterics presented on “The Conception and Development of Data Steward Training Programs in Hungary: The Roles of Collaboration, Necessity, Flexibility and Community-building”. 

Summer School Archives x Data. Paper meets digital documentation

The Research Documentation Center (RDC) of the ELTE Center for Social Sciences Research participated in the 20th International Digital Curators Conference (IDCC) in Zagreb with two presentations. The presentation by KDK staff members Róza Vajd, Judit Gárdos, and Tímea Venczel, titled “Standardization versus Preservation: Supporting Interoperability through the Development of Thematic Metadata for Social Science Archives,” addressed the challenges of data standardization and interoperability in social science research.