Authors: Toma Tasovac ^1,2

• 1 Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
• 2 Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Research infrastructures can only thrive if those who contribute to their development receive academic credit for their work. This insight has motivated DARIAH to launch a diamond open-access overlay journal called Transformations as a practical way of reaffirming our commitment to open science, fairer research assessment practices, and the vital but often overlooked infrastructural contributions to scholarly discourse. As an academic journal, Transformations will highlight not only traditional research articles but also less conventional research outputs, such as workflows, datasets, annotations, software tools, training materials-and the complex labour that underpins them. These kinds of commitments are especially important in the age of artificial intelligence, where the speed and scale of digital technologies often challenge the values and methods of humanistic inquiry. If we want to maintain a humanistic voice in scholarship and sift through the deluge of auto-generated noise, we must insist on transparent tooling and a shared consensus on the value of public infrastructures.