I have not missed a DARIAH Annual Event since 2016. It is one of the “must-do” events in my schedule each year, because I wouldn’t want to miss this opportunity for exchange with like-minded colleagues – many of whom have become dear friends through many years of working together in DARIAH-EU – and the development of new ideas and collaborations. The Annual Event is a great showcase of one of the most important aspects and strengths of DARIAH-EU: It is, among and perhaps above all else, an infrastructure of –people- who are burning for Digital Humanities.

In the past, numismatists have often worked in an isolated silo, and enjoyed too little contact with other disciplines. This has changed with digitisation, and Digital Numismatics is now a leader in Linked Open Data and Semantic Web applications. DARIAH-EU, and in particular the annual events, serve as an ideal forum for us to link up with colleagues outside our discipline and forge new connections, enabling us to learn about applications and competencies that we would otherwise not have learned about.