Content cleanup + DH Center opening + RIDE call for reviews

content/events/20211028-digital-collections/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Digital collections: museum – research – mediation"
 subtitle: "Interdisciplinary exchange on digital art collections (online event)"
-event-date: "2021-10-28"
-date: "2021-10-28"
+event-date: "2021.10.28"
+date: "2021.10.28"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Online (Zoom); follow-up meeting at the University of Bern (24 Aug 2022)"

content/events/20221028-information-and-map-design/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Information and map design for humanities scholars"
 subtitle: "Basics of information design and GIS/cartographic design with hands-on exercises"
-event-date: "2022-10-28"
-date: "2022-10-28"
+event-date: "2022.10.28"
+date: "2022.10.28"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Uni Mittelstrasse (University of Bern), Seminar room 320"

content/events/20221031-biased-data/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Biased Data, Models, and Algorithms"
 subtitle: "Perspectives from data science on bias, representation, and responsible ML"
-event-date: "2022-10-31"
-date: "2022-10-31"
+event-date: "2022.10.31"
+date: "2022.10.31"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Mittelstrasse 43, Room 320, University of Bern"

content/events/20231003-rism-dh/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "RISM & Digital Humanities – Scientific Exchange"
 subtitle: "Exchange on infrastructures, projects, and shared objectives"
-event-date: "2023-10-03"
-date: "2023-10-03"
+event-date: "2023.10.03"
+date: "2023.10.03"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Unitobler, room D222 (University of Bern)"

content/events/20231006-digital-archeology/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Digital Archaeology Bern – Ancient West Asia"
 subtitle: "Conference on digital approaches to archaeology and philology"
-event-date: "2023-10-06"
-date: "2023-10-06"
+event-date: "2023.10.06"
+date: "2023.10.06"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "University of Bern, Switzerland"

content/events/20231129-transcription-whisper/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Transcription & Data Archiving Workshop"
 subtitle: "Whisper AI on UBELIX and archiving with SWISSUbase"
-event-date: "2023-11-29"
-date: "2023-11-29"
+event-date: "2023.11.29"
+date: "2023.11.29"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Unitobler, F-107 (University of Bern)"

content/events/20250430-open-access-workshop/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Workshop on Open Access, Open & Community Peer Review
 subtitle: Rethinking Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Humanities
-event-date: "2025-04-30"
-date: "2025-04-30"
+event-date: "2025.04.30"
+date: "2025.04.30"
 categories:
 - Event
 location: University of Zurich

content/events/20251128-ki-im-bildungsalltag/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "AI in everyday education at secondary schools and universities"
 subtitle: "Opportunities, limits, and implications of AI tools in teaching and learning"
-event-date: "2025-11-28"
-date: "2025-11-28"
+event-date: "2025.11.28"
+date: "2025.11.28"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "UniS (University of Bern), Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern"

content/events/20260129-resed-api-workshop/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Re-use of Editions and Text Collections. The Role of APIs
 subtitle: Workshop organized by the swissuniversities ORD project "ReSED API - Re-Use Standards for Editions Data with Application Programming Interfaces"
-event-date: "2026-01-29"
-date: "2026-01-29"
+event-date: "2026.01.29"
+date: "2026.01.29"
 categories:
 - Event
 location: University of Zurich

content/events/20260508-digital-forensics-workshop/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Digital Forensics in the Humanities
 subtitle: Workshop organized by the Bit Philology project team
-event-date: "2026-05-08"
-date: "2026-03-18"
+event-date: "2026.05.08"
+date: "2026.03.18"
 categories:
 - Event
 - Bit Philology

content/events/20260611-flow-final-conference/index.qmd

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "Flow Final Conference"
-event-date: "2026-06-11"
-date: "2026-06-11"
+event-date: "2026.06.11"
+date: "2026.06.11"
 categories:
   []
 location: "University of Bern, Mittelstrasse"

content/events/20260915-dh-center-opening/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "DH Center Opening"
 subtitle: "Opening of the Digital Humanities Center at the University of Bern"
-event-date: "2026-09-15"
-date: "2026-07-15"
+event-date: "2026.09.15"
+date: "2026.07.15"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Unitobler, University of Bern"
@@ -22,4 +22,15 @@ We are pleased to announce the opening of the Digital Humanities Center at the U
 - **Start:** 15:15
 - **Location:** Unitobler, University of Bern
 
-The full program will be announced soon. Please check back for details.
+## Program
+
+| Time  | Session |
+| --- | --- |
+| 15:15 | Welcome to the "grand opening" |
+| 15:25 | Official opening by Nicolas Detering (President of the WB Kolleg) & Claus Beisbart (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities) |
+| 15:40 | "How everything started" |
+| 16:00 | A look at our projects — fruit and water; project pitches in the foyer (2 min. per project) |
+| 16:50 | "DH Bern from the outside" |
+| 17:10 | "Many Futures" by Elena Spadini |
+| 17:30 | "and so it starts" by Tobias Hodel |
+| 17:45 | Apéro riche and the opportunity to talk to DH & DSL people |

content/events/im_dialog/2020-das-digitale-bild-im-dialog/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Digital Images in Dialogue (2020)
 subtitle: "Workshop and networking event on digital and digitized images in the Humanities: infrastructures, methods, opportunities, and risks"
-event-date: "2020-10-27"
-date: "2020-10-27"
+event-date: "2020.10.27"
+date: "2020.10.27"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "University of Bern (online event; originally planned at Mittelstrasse 43)"

content/events/im_dialog/2021-digitale-texte-im-dialog/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Digital Texts in Dialogue (2021)
 subtitle: "Workshop on digital text processing in the Humanities, with a special focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP)"
-event-date: "2021-10-20"
-date: "2021-10-20"
+event-date: "2021.10.20"
+date: "2021.10.20"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "Main Building, University of Bern (Hochschulstrasse 4), Room 028"

content/events/im_dialog/2022-digital-publishing-in-dialogue/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Digital Publishing in Dialogue (2022)"
 subtitle: "Event by Digital Humanities and Open Science (University Library), University of Bern"
-event-date: "2022-11-11"
-date: "2022-11-11"
+event-date: "2022.11.11"
+date: "2022.11.11"
 categories:
   - Event
 location: "PROGR, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern (accessible; entrance at PROGR East)"

content/events/im_dialog/2023-linked-open-data-in-dialogue/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "Linked Open Data in Dialogue (2023)"
 subtitle: "…in Dialogue — Digital Humanities, University of Bern"
-date: "2023-11-15"
-event-date: "2023-11-15"
+date: "2023.11.15"
+event-date: "2023.11.15"
 categories: [Event]
 lang: "en"
 ---

content/events/im_dialog/2024-digitale-edition-im-dialog/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Digital Editions in Dialogue (2024)
 subtitle: "Challenges, infrastructures, and teaching practices for digital scholarly editions"
-event-date: "2024-12-04"
-date: "2024-11-01"
+event-date: "2024.12.04"
+date: "2024.11.01"
 categories:
 - Event
 location: "Hallerstrasse 6, Room 205, University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)"

content/events/im_dialog/2025-plattformen-im-dialog/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Platforms in Dialogue (2025)
 subtitle: "A hands-on event by Digital Humanities and Open Science (University Library Bern) on digital platforms as core components of the digital ecosystem"
-event-date: "2025-12-10"
-date: "2025-12-10"
+event-date: "2025.12.10"
+date: "2025.12.10"
 categories:
 - Event
 location: "Dome Room (Kuppelraum), Main Building (H4), University of Bern"

content/posts/20260715-call-for-reviews-ride/index.qmd

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Call for Reviews for Scholarly Editions"
 subtitle: "RIDE — Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources: special issue on Swiss editions"
 author: Tobias Hodel
-date: 2026-07-15
+date: 2026.07.15
 categories:
 - Post
 other-links:

content/projects/ch-ludens/20250911-historicizing-GAMES/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Historicizing G.A.M.E.S. 2025
 subtitle: Gaming, Artifacts, Memory, Experience and Society
-event-date: "2025-09-11"  # 11.09.-12.09.25
-date: "2025-07-01"
+event-date: "2025.09.11"  # 11.09.-12.09.25
+date: "2025.07.01"
 categories:
 - Event
 - Confoederatio Ludens

content/projects/ch-ludens/Beyond_Regional_Histories/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Beyond Regional Histories
 subtitle: Digital Game Design & Ludic Cultures Around the World
-date: "2025-10-23"
-event-date: "2026-09-27" # 27.09.-30.09.26
+date: "2025.10.23"
+event-date: "2026.09.27" # 27.09.-30.09.26
 categories:
 - Event
 - Confoederatio Ludens

content/projects/flow/20260511-flow-conference/index.qmd

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: "The Flow Conference"
 subtitle: "From Deep Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities"
-event-date: "2026-06-11"
-date: "2026-06-11"
+event-date: "2026.06.11"
+date: "2026.06.11"
 categories:
   - Event
   - Flow

content/services/gamelab/index.qmd

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: GameLab
-date: "2025-07-18"
+date: "2025.07.18"
 categories:
 - Services
 - Confoederatio Ludens

scripts/split-events.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Pre-render script: split events into upcoming and past YAML listing files."""
 
-from datetime import date
+from datetime import date, datetime
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import yaml
@@ -22,6 +22,30 @@ def parse_frontmatter(path: Path) -> dict | None:
             return yaml.safe_load("".join(lines[1:i]))
 
     return None
+DATE_FORMAT = "%Y.%m.%d"  # dotted YYYY.MM.DD is the site-wide date format
+
+
+def _parse_date(value) -> date | None:
+    """Parse a date given as a date object or a YYYY.MM.DD / YYYY-MM-DD string."""
+    if isinstance(value, date):
+        return value
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        for parser in (
+            lambda v: datetime.strptime(v, DATE_FORMAT).date(),
+            date.fromisoformat,
+        ):
+            try:
+                return parser(value)
+            except ValueError:
+                continue
+    return None
+
+
+def _format_date(value: date) -> str:
+    """Render a date object in the site-wide dotted format."""
+    return value.strftime(DATE_FORMAT)
+
+
 def _flatten_author(author) -> str:
     """Convert author field (string, dict, or list) to a plain string."""
     if isinstance(author, str):
@@ -47,24 +71,20 @@ def collect_events() -> list[tuple[date, dict]]:
         if "Event" not in categories:
             continue
 
-        event_date = fm.get("event-date") or fm.get("date")
+        event_date = _parse_date(fm.get("event-date") or fm.get("date"))
         if event_date is None:
-            continue
+            continue  # Skip events with missing or invalid date format
 
-        # Normalize to date object
-        if isinstance(event_date, str):
-            try:
-                event_date = date.fromisoformat(event_date)
-            except ValueError:
-                continue  # Skip events with invalid date format
+        # Fall back to the event date when no separate publication date is set
+        pub_date = _parse_date(fm.get("date")) or event_date
 
         # Build path relative to content/ with a POSIX-style .html output path
         rel_path = qmd.relative_to(CONTENT_DIR.parent).with_suffix(".html").as_posix()
 
         item = {
             "title": fm.get("title", ""),
-            "event-date": event_date.isoformat(),
-            "date": str(fm.get("date", event_date.isoformat())),
+            "event-date": _format_date(event_date),
+            "date": _format_date(pub_date),
             "author": _flatten_author(fm.get("author", "")),
             "location": fm.get("location", ""),
             "categories": categories,