Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA) 2026 is a bi-annual one-day conference bringing together scholars curating and utilising digital parliamentary data in Digital Humanities research, resources, and applications.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We accept both full papers and extended abstracts. The extended abstract will be published in the book of abstracts and the full papers in the conference proceedings. We leave it up to the authors whether to submit their contributions anonymized or not.

• Long papers:
  • Present mature research with a clear research question, theoretical framing, methodology, results, and discussion.
  • 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A
  • Submitted as either abstracts of 1000-1500 words excluding references or as full text papers of 8-16 pages excluding references
• Short papers:
  • Present preliminary results or innovative methods, but still outline the research question, materials, and methodology in sufficient detail.
  • 10 minutes for presentation, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A
  • Submitted as either abstracts of 500-1000 words excluding references or as full text papers of 4-8 pages excluding references

Please use the Word template, the LaTeX template [.zip] or the Overleaf LaTeX template (Note that the .zip file and Overleaf template contain LaTeX templates for both Slovene and English).

List of Topics

This year, the conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges of historical parliamentary data. We welcome papers that:

• Explore the cultural, linguistic, or political insights that can be gained from historical parliamentary records.
• Present methods for handling technical and methodological issues such as OCR quality, metadata gaps, or historical language variation.
• Showcase tools, interfaces, or analytical frameworks for making historical parliamentary data more accessible and usable for scholars, educators, or citizens.
• Reflect on standards, infrastructures, and practices that enable historical parliamentary datasets to be linked, compared, and analyzed across languages, countries, and time periods.
• Other papers describing work on digitized parliamentary data.

The accessibility and study of historical parliamentary data is not only a scholarly issue but also a democratic one: making past debates legible and open supports transparency, accountability, and public engagement with political history.

Organizing committee

• Ajda Pretnar Žagar, ajda.pretnar@inz.si

Publication

The extended abstract will be published in the book of abstracts and the full papers in the conference proceedings, both of which will be published on the conference website under the Creative Commons license at the beginning of the conference.

Venue

The conference will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Exact venue is yet to be determined.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ajda.pretnar@inz.si.