DARIAH-EU getting involved - dariah-be

DARIAH-EU
GETTING INVOLVED
with opportunities for questions
Henk Harmsen, DARIAH-EU Chief Integration Officer
Antwerp, 27 November 2015
Mission/ vision (1)
• DARIAH is a large-scale, long-term, panEuropean endeavor aiming to enhance and
support digitally-enabled research across the
arts and humanities.
Mission/vision (2)
• DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an
infrastructure in support of ICT-based research
practices. It will explore and apply ICT-based
methods and tools to enable new research,
improve research opportunities through
linking distributed digital source materials and
tools, and exchange expertise, methodologies,
and practices across domains and disciplines.
Heaven, I‘m in heaven ...
Achievable: Network of Contributions
Achievable: Network of Services
Open access archive
Academic blogging
Scholarly events
A short history
• 2006 Preparatory Phase (EU funded)
• 2011 Transition phase
• 2014 Construction phase DARIAH ERIC
• 2016 DARIAH DCO operational
The organisation
In-kinds
• 90% of the DARIAH budget is in-kind
• 13 types of in-kind (data service, training,
expertise, working groups …)
• experimental phase
• From 2016 on: more focus on content and
strategy
Assessment of the in-kinds
• Continues agile process evaluation and
recommendation
• 2 (1/2) year transition period
• Low threshold
The Joint Research Committee
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Heads of VCC’s
Coordinates Working Groups
Reviews and assesses the in-kind contribution
Develop policies for the VCC’s and Working
Groups
The Virtual Competency Centers
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1. e-Infrastructure
2. Research and education liaison
3. Scholarly content management
4. Advocacy, Impact en Outreach
15 Working Groups (1)
• Text and Data Analytics
• An Integrated Registry Service for the Arts and
Humanities
• Visual Media and Interactivity
• Training and Education
• Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO)
• Analyzing and linking biographical data
• Lexical Resources
15 Working Groups (2)
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Digital Annotation
Image Science and Media Art Research
Thesaurus Maintenance
MESO : Mediaevalist’s Sources
Guidelines and Standards (GiST)
Certification and Trustworthiness of Repositories
Impact factors and success criteria
Community Engagement
DARIAH Virtual Compentence Centers
• DARIAH joint research committee, a dynamic project
• Virtual Competence Centers: dynamic work packages
• Working groups:
dynamic tasks
Projects (2015)
• DARIAH project: Humanities at Scale
• Cluster project: PARTHENOS
• (Affiliated) projects: Europeana DSI, EHRI,
IPERION-CH
Humanities at Scale
A project to strengthen the DARIAH
central organization
Background
• Funded through the Horizon 2020 call
INFRADEV-3-2015: Individual implementation
and operation of ESFRI projects
• ~€2m award to DARIAH-ERIC
• Project Leads: Marco Raciti and Tobias Blanke
• 1/9/2015 - 31/8/2017
Objectives
• Objective 1: Expand the existing community
to all scholars in the humanities and arts
• Objective 2: Integrate all scholarly
communities more effectively
• Objective 3: Offer services around DARIAH
communities
• Objective 4: Foster research infrastructure
developments and interdisciplinary
collaboration
Projects (2015)
• DARIAH project: Humanities at Scale
• Cluster project: PARTHENOS
• (Affiliated) projects: Europeana DSI, EHRI,
IPERION-CH
PARTHENOS
Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage
E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies
Project Coordinator: Franco Niccolucci PIN
What is PARTHENOS
• H2020 cluster project to develop joint strategies,
policies and common solutions for the humanities data
lifecycle
– common AAA (authentication, authorization, access) and
data curation policies, including long-term preservation;
standardization and interoperability; common tools for
data-oriented services
• Based on DARIAH, CLARIN and the RI projects in the
digital humanities and cultural heritage domains
(ARIADNE, CENDARI, EHRI, IPERION, DCH-RP)
• Start date 1st May 2015 – 4 years
• 15 partners from 10 countries
PARTHENOS AND DARIAH
• PARTHENOS
– contributes to core services of
DARIAH
– is a concrete collaboration
with CLARIN
• DARIAH
– will sustain services developed
by PARTHENOS
– DARIAH will link these services
with the communities
standards
policies
solutions
Sustainable DARIAH
Services
Projects (2015)
• DARIAH project: Humanities at Scale
• Cluster project: PARTHENOS
• (Affiliated) projects: Europeana DSI, EHRI,
IPERION-CH
Europeana-DSI
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Funded by the Connecting Europe facility (CEF) TransEuropean Telecommunications Networks Work Programme
2014.
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Coordinated by EUROPEANA
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27 partners
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Duration: 14 months (01.04.2015 – 31.05.2016).
EHRI
Conny Kristel
General Assembly DARIAH
Berlin, 6 November 2015
CONNECTING COLLECTIONS
EHRI Aims
The main objective of EHRI is to
support the Holocaust research
community by
1. integrating information on key
archival collections and
institutions into an online portal
2. encouraging collaborative
Holocaust research and
investigating new methodologies
www.ehri-project.eu
IPERION CH, H2020-INFRAIA-2014
• integrating activity project started on May 1st, 2015
• Fourth in a line of successful EU I3 projects (FP5-H2020)
• joins more than 35 research groups from 24 partners (12 EU
Member States - Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands,
United Kingdom and the USA)
• coordinated by CNR
How does DARIAH benefit from affiliated projects?
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• Close links with research communities, their
research questions and methods
• Researchers with clear needs in terms of digital
data management and tools
• Funded grassroots developments that can be
extended to the European scholarly community
How does DARIAH benefit from affiliated projects?
(2)
• Demonstration of impact
Public History of the
Holocaust Conference
Berlin, July 2013
• Expansion of DARIAH network (partners in affiliated
projects)
Join us!
• We have a dream, a vision
• We start with what is achievable
• Help building us with concrete building blocks
for the DARIAH EU community
• You are very welcome!
Thank you!
• More info at:
Henk Harmsen
cio@dariah.eu