On October 8th 2017, Dr. Michelle Doran, TCD Centre for Digital Humanities project officer, will present a paper ‘Can we Expose Data without Hiding Knowledge? Understanding the Cultural Complexity of Research Data’ at the CODATA 2017 Conference ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science’, Saint Petersburg. This paper will present the preliminary findings of the Horizon2020-funding KPLEX project which investigates the delimiting effect digital mediation and datafication has on rich, complex cultural data.