Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
| Formation | 2014-08-15 |
|---|---|
| Type | ERIC, IGO |
| Purpose | Digital Humanities |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
Region served | Europe and beyond |
Membership | Member countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia; Observer: Switzerland |
Official language | English |
Main organ | General Assembly, Board of Directors, National Coordinators Committee |
| Website | www.dariah.eu |
DARIAH is a European research infrastructure working towards enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research and teaching across the Arts and Humanities.
DARIAH is an acronym for Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of information technology-based research practices and supports researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources.
By working with research communities across countries and disciplines, DARIAH brings together individual digital arts and humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that results from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.[1]
On the European level, DARIAH is an independent body operating under European law as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).[2] DARIAH ERIC functions since 2014 in distributed offices in Europe (Berlin, Paris, Dublin, The Hague).[3] DARIAH and CLARIN are the only two ERIC currently active in the Humanities.
Objective[edit]
DARIAH's objective is to ensure the increased visibility of national and individual research in the area of (Digital) Arts and Humanities at the European level. DARIAH supports international collaboration by providing exchange of knowledge, skills, expertise and training opportunities.[4] DARIAH sustains outcomes of digital research projects, methods, tools and services ensuring long-term accessibility by the community. DARIAH represents the Arts and Humanities' voice in policy and funding debates at the European and international level.[5]
DARIAH Vision
The Arts and Humanities are anchored at the centre of a technologically evolving knowledge society.
DARIAH Mission
DARIAH empowers research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society.
Areas of activities[edit]
DARIAH's main areas of activities can be summarised in the following four pillars:
- Facilitating fluid exchange of tools, services, data[6] and knowledge through a Marketplace[7]
Access to tools, data, knowledge and services that are tuned for use and reuse by arts and humanities researchers is a major challenge. DARIAH has been working on building an arts and humanities-friendly component for the European Open Science Cloud, optimised to their needs.[8][9]
- Building access to education and training[10]
Research in a fast-changing environment requires constant access to training, new perspectives and methods. DARIAH works on producing and disseminating new knowledge forms through organising large conferences and dedicated hands-on workshops, developing web-based training programs and collaborating with research institutions.[11]
- Supporting Working Groups, Hubs and other forms of organisation across disciplines and countries[12]
DARIAH encourages and enables communities to self-organise around emerging research themes by providing them a structure to develop, communication platform and funding schemes.
- Building bridges between research policy and research communities
DARIAH is an advocate for researchers who create or use digital tools, methods and services in the arts and humanities, representing their concerns and interests at a European level where research policies are being discussed. On the other hand, it also functions as a translator of the various policies to the communities, supporting them in understanding and adopting them in their research practices.[13]
Membership[edit]
The majority of all these activities and operations of the DARIAH infrastructure is provided and funded by the DARIAH ERIC members. DARIAH Members are countries (EU Member States and Associated Countries) or intergovernmental organisations. Alternatively, institutions from countries who are not yet DARIAH Members can participate as Cooperating Partners. The members set up a national consortium, typically consisting of universities, research institutions, libraries and archives. The contribution expected from the members is then to create a national network to support and advance digitally-enabled research and teaching in the Arts and Humanities.
Currently, DARIAH has 19 Members and several Cooperating Partners in eight non-member countries. Below is the full list:
| Members | National Consortium (NC) |
|---|---|
| Austria | CLARIAH-AT |
| Belgium | DARIAH-BE |
| Bulgaria | CLaDA-BG |
| Croatia | DARIAH-HR |
| Cyprus | DARIAH-CY |
| Czech Republic | CLARIAH-CZ |
| Denmark | DIGHUMLAB |
| France | HUMA-NUM |
| Germany | DARIAH-DE/CLARIAH-DE |
| Greece | DYAS |
| Ireland | DARIAH-IE |
| Italy | DARIAH-IT |
| Luxembourg | in progress |
| Malta | in progress |
| Netherlands | CLARIAH-NL |
| Poland | DARIAH-PL |
| Portugal | ROSSIO |
| Serbia | DARIAH-RS |
| Slovenia | DARIAH-SI |
| Observer | |
| Switzerland | |
| Cooperating Partners in | |
| Finland | |
| Hungary | |
| Norway | |
| Romania | |
| Slovakia | |
| Sweden | |
| United Kingdom | |
Type of organisation[edit]
The DARIAH consortium is organised as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) under European law, which is a special type of organisation created for research infrastructures.[14] It is hence part of the activities in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) context.[15] ESFRI is a strategic instrument supported by the European Commission to develop the scientific integration of Europe and to strengthen its international outreach. In 2016 DARIAH was included as a landmark in the ESFRI Roadmap which identifies infrastructures established as major elements of competitiveness of the European Research Area.[16]
Government[edit]
On the European level, DARIAH is governed by the following bodies:
- DARIAH General Assembly: The General Assembly is the governing and primary executive body of DARIAH, made up of the ministerial representatives of its member countries. Each member country is represented in the DARIAH General Assembly.
- DARIAH Board of Directors: DARIAH has three directors. The Board of Directors informs the work of the General Assembly, assisting primarily with its agenda, after consulting with the Senior Management Team. It is supported by the DARIAH Coordination Office (DCO) regarding day-to-day operations.
- DARIAH Scientific Board: The Scientific Board advises DARIAH on specific issues, such as the future research landscape and technological innovation. Its members are arts and humanities researchers with international reputation in the field and therefore significant experience in digitally enabled research methods.
- DARIAH National Coordinators Committee: Each DARIAH member country has its own National Coordinator, who oversees DARIAH activities in his or her country on behalf of its national membership consortium. The committee meets regularly to integrate national DARIAH activities at the European level.
- DARIAH Senior Management Team: The Senior Management Team is composed of the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the National Coordinators Committee, as well as the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Joint Research Committee. In addition, the Chair of the Scientific Board and the relevant officers of the DARIAH Coordination Office are invited to attend Senior Management Team meetings. The Board of Directors consults this body on all general matters.
- DARIAH Joint Research Committee: The Joint Research Committee organises the integration of DARIAH’s technical developments and innovation activities. It is chaired by DARIAH’s Chief Integration Officer (CIO) and consists of the heads of the four DARIAH’s Virtual Competency Centres (expert hubs).
The legal seat of DARIAH ERIC is in Paris while its staff (coordination office) is distributed in Berlin (Centre Marc Bloch), Paris (Huma-Num), Dublin (Trinity College Dublin) and the Hague (DANS).
References[edit]
- ↑ Kálmán, Tibor; Ďurčo, Matej; Fischer, Frank; Larrousse, Nicolas; Leone, Claudio; Mörth, Karlheinz; Thiel, Carsten (2019). "A landscape of data – working with digital resources within and beyond DARIAH". International Journal of Digital Humanities. 1: 113–131. doi:10.1007/s42803-019-00008-6. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "European Research Infrastructures with global impact: Some examples from the ESFRI Roadmap" (PDF). Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Implementing decision 2014/526 - 2014/526/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 6 August 2014 setting up the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (DARIAH ERIC) - EU monitor". www.eumonitor.eu. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ↑ A digital infrastructure for humanities research. European Commission - Horizon 2020 Success Stories. 2019-04-29. Search this book on
- ↑ Romary, Laurent; Edmond, Jennifer (2019). A Tangential View on Impact for the Arts and Humanities through the Lens of the DARIAH-ERIC. Leo S. Olschki Editore. ISBN 978-88-222-6643-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Riding the wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Discovering tools and services: the SSH Open Marketplace". 2019-10-23.
- ↑ Buddenbohm, Stefan; Barbot, Laure; Petitfils, Clara; Ďurčo, Matej; Parkoła, Tomasz (2020-05-07). "Three Pillars of the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace". doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3813703.
- ↑ Laure Barbot; Yoan Moranville; Frank Fischer; Clara Petitfils; Matej Ďurčo; Klaus Illmayer; Tomasz Parkoła; Philipp Wieder; Sotiris Karampatakis (2019-11-19). "SSHOC D7.1 System Specification - SSH Open Marketplace".
- ↑ Edmond, Jennifer; Fischer, Frank; Mertens, Michael; Romary, Laurent (2017-09-25). "The DARIAH ERIC: Redefining Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age" (PDF). ERCIM News; Special Theme: Digital Humanities.
- ↑ Tasovac, Toma; Garnett, Vicky; Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet; Raciti, Marco (2020-06-08). "Positioning DARIAH-Campus in the DH Pedagogy Landscape". doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3885354.
- ↑ Joffres, Adeline; Priddy, Mike; Morselli, Francesca; Lebarbé, Thomas; Granier, Xavier; Bertrand, Paul; Rodier, Xavier; Melka, Fabrice; Camlot, Jason; Sinclair, Stéfan; Fatiha, Idmhand (2019). ""Building community" at the national and/or international level in the context of the Digital Humanities".
- ↑ Romary, Laurent; Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet (2019-03-20). "Open Access guidelines for the arts and humanities".
- ↑ 2014/526/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 6 August 2014 setting up the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (DARIAH ERIC) (32014D0526), 2014-08-12, retrieved 2020-01-09
- ↑ "Press corner". European Commission - European Commission. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- ↑ "List of ESFRI projects and landmarks". Retrieved 2020-11-12. Unknown parameter
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