Diverse educational offers serve and foster a diverse community. In Austria, the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH), an institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, uses and maintains its function as a national DARIAH node by engaging and supporting the local community with a global perspective through a number of training formats tailored to its specific needs: Our educational offer is public-facing and open to everybody interested in topics that concern our local DH community in and around Vienna. Therefore, this poster showcases two modes of engagement orchestrated by the ACDH’s ERIC’s and Education (E&E), a subunit of the DH Research & Infrastructure research unit. While the in-person events take place locally at our headquarters in Vienna, we aim to reach out globally by offering a sustainable, inclusive and open digital training offer by streaming events via YouTube live, and training resources on DARIAH-Campus.

The on-site mode, ACDH Lectures and ACDH Tool Galleries, focus on the suggestions from and the needs of our local community. Topics are discussed in-house and with our communities of practice such as CLARIAH-AT, and are realised as tailored yearly education cycles. For example, the ACDH lecture series is not only a public lecture but serves DH students at the University of Vienna at least once a year.

The digital mode, training materials on DARIAH-Campus and lecture streams on YouTube, showcases the ACDH’s engagement in distributing local developments on a global scale. DARIAH-Campus is a discovery framework and hosting platform for learning resources: “It was developed as a pilot in the context of the H2020-funded project DESIR (DARIAH-ERIC Sustainability Refined). Today, it is one of the core services of DARIAH. Its goal is to widen access to open, inclusive, high-quality learning materials that aim to enhance creativity, skills, technology and knowledge in the digitally-enabled arts and humanities”. The platform has been technically developed, curated, maintained at the ACDH since its inception in 2019 and E&E members have joined the editorial team in 2023, focussing on learning material developed within their respective communities and projects that the ACDH and DARIAH are involved in. This way, we can expand the portfolio while actively engaging our community as training resource authors and offering unique supporting structures.

The poster showcases how adding training resources derived from formats like the on-site ACDH lectures to digital DARIAH-Campus demonstrate the iterative processes that enable the systematic enhancement of existing learning materials—not only in terms of content to ensure that they are not merely didactically functional but capable of conveying knowledge in diverse and engaging ways. At the same time, the platform itself requires regular revision and curation to meet evolving technical requirements that underpin digital reusability. To this end, adaptable and interoperable formats such as MDX are employed for learning content, and the use of GitHub for content management further contributes to transparency and traceability in reuse.

This reusability is part of the FAIR principles that underpin not only DARIAH-Campus but other educational activities at the ACDH, too.