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Introducing DARIAH
Sally Chambers, DARIAH-BE Coordinator
DARIAH-BE Kick-off, Antwerp, 27 November 2015
What is DARIAH?
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH Mission: DARIAH aims to enhance and
support digitally-enabled research and teaching
across the humanities and arts…
…DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio of
services that directly benefit researchers in their
everyday work…
A quick history of DARIAH
• 2006: DARIAH included in the ESFRI
Roadmap
• 2008 – 2011: Preparatory Phase
project, Preparing DARIAH
• 2011 – 2013: ‘Transition Phase’,
establishing the DARIAH-ERIC,
integrating national activities
• 2014+: DARIAH-ERIC
Cash
In-kind
DARIAH-EU High-level launch
In-kind
Cash
Paris, 17 November 2014
15 Founding Members + …
Founding Members
Founding Members
Candidate countries
Austria
Ireland
Belgium
Italy
In-kind
Poland
Croatia
Luxembourg
Portugal
Cyprus
Malta
Spain
Denmark
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Serbia
Germany
Slovenia
Greece
Cash
Lithuania
15 Founding Members + …
Founding Members
Founding Members
Candidate countries
Austria
Ireland
Belgium
Italy
In-kind
Poland
Croatia
Luxembourg
Portugal
Cyprus
Malta
Spain
Denmark
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Serbia
Germany
Slovenia
Greece
Cash
Lithuania
Who is DARIAH for?
Who is DARIAH for?
A wide variety of research communities across the
arts and humanities
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For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary
Studies
Digital Medieval Studies
Network of research communities
Archaeologists
Digital Textual
Scholarship
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Digital Methods
Holocaust Researchers
Services for researchers
Towards sustainable
digital services
• Research projects within the
humanities with a ‘digital focus’
• Fixed-term funded projects, e.g.
national or European funding
• Project outcomes as building
blocks for sustainable digital
services
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www.freeimageslive.com/galleries/workplace/education/pics/stack_of_blocks.jpg
Network of Contributions
Towards sustainable
digital services
DARIAH Members
+
Project Results
Network of Services
Open access repository
Academic blogging
Scholarly events
Network of Services
Scholarly Methods Ontology
Summer Schools
Multilingual
training materials
Network of Services
AAI Infrastructure
Collaboration Tools
Persistent Identification
Towards DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH in Belgium
• Belgium is a DARIAH-ERIC Founding Member:
BELSPO: National Representative: Chris De Loof
• 3 Consortia
-DARIAH–Vlaanderen (DARIAH-VL)
-DARIAH–Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (DARIAH-FWB)
-DARIAH– Federal Scientific Institutions (DARIAH-FED)
• National Coordinating Institution 2015: Ghent University,
Ghent, Centre for Digital Humanities led by Christophe
Verbruggen
• Day-to-day coordination: Sally Chambers
DARIAH in Belgium
https://dariah.eu/about/our-partners/belgium/country-profile
Network of Contributions
Belgian contributions
to DARIAH-EU
DARIAH-BE website
http://be.dariah.eu
DARIAH-BE on Twitter
https://twitter.com/DARIAHbe
Internal workspace:
Basecamp
https://basecamp.com/2943612/
DARIAH-BE Kick-off
Belgium to host the
DARIAH-EU meeting 2016
Participating in DARIAH-EU
GeoHumanities and
Medievalist sources led by
Welcome!
sally.chambers@ugent.be
be.dariah.eu | @DARIAHbe | #dariahbe
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