Introducing DARIAH

Introducing DARIAHSally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

Who am I?

• (Digital) Librarian (Humanist)• 2005 – 2011: Worked for The European Library, at

the National Library of the Netherlands• 2011 – 2015: Worked for DARIAH-EU at the

Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Germany• February 2015 - : DARIAH-BE at the Ghent Centre

for Digital Humanities, Belgium

What is digital scholarship?

3 Spheres of Digital Humanities

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• Digital Humanities: Individual subject, transcending traditional disciplines, focus on theory and methods

• Digital <Subject>: Disciplines which were fundamentally changed through digital media and methods (e.g. Computer Linguistics, Archaeoinformatics, …)

• <Subject> with DH: Disciplines which incorporate digital methods and tools and consider them a part of their traditional canon

Thanks to: Patrick Sahle and Walter Scholger

Digital Lexicography

http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/-/k/14017

Toma Tasovac presenting: Interfacing Diachrony: Visualizing Linguistic Change on the Basis of Digital Editions of Serbian 18th-Century Texts at DH 2012.

Digital Archaeology

www.dainst.org/

Viewing platform of the Domus Severiana on the Palatine in Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80 CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the Domus Severiana over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute

Internet Research

http://www.netlab.dk

Digital Textual Scholarship

www.textgrid.de/en

A virtual research environment for researchers in the text-based humanities to create, analyse, edit, store and publish their research data

Multimedia Research

… a digital infrastructure to facilitate researchers’ access to the Danish radiophonic cultural heritage including appropriate tools and a bibliography

LARM Audio Research Archive

http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/about-larm/

What is DARIAH?

Sally Chambers

DARIAH-EU Coordination Office

What is DARIAH?

DARIAH aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the humanities and arts…

…a connected network of tools, information, people and methodologies for investigating, exploring and supporting research across the digital arts and humanities…

…for researchers, by researchers…

Who is DARIAH for?

Image source: http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/diversity2.jpg

A wide variety of research communities across the arts and humanities

A quick history of DARIAH

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• 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

15 Founding Members

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Founding Members

Austria

Belgium

Croatia

Cyprus

Denmark

France

Germany

Greece

Founding Members

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Serbia

Slovenia

Candidate countries

Lithuania

Poland

Portugal

Spain

Switzerland

Network of Contributions

Network of Services

Scholarly events

Open access repository

Academic blogging

Network of Services

Multilingual training materials

Scholarly Methods Ontology

Summer Schools

Network of Services

Persistent Identification

AAI Infrastructure

Collaboration Tools

DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium

https://dariah.eu/about/our-partners/belgium/country-profile

DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium

http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-be

DARIAH in FranceDARIAH in France

http://www.dariah.fr/

DARIAH in GermanyDARIAH in Germany

https://de.dariah.eu/

DARIAH in ItalyDARIAH in Italy

http://it.dariah.eu/

DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium

http://be.dariah.eu

Coming soon!!!

Belgian contributions to DARIAHBelgian contributions to DARIAH

DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium

http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-vl_vre.si

DARIAH in GhentDARIAH in Ghent

http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/category/affiliated-projects

And many more…

DARIAH @THATCamp Ghent 2015DARIAH @THATCamp Ghent 2015

http://ghent2015.thatcamp.org/2015/03/19/what-is-dariah-anyway/

DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio of services that directly benefit

researchers in their everyday work…

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What would you like DARIAH to be?

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Help setting up a database?

To TEI or not to TEI?

Tools?Data-mining? Social network analysis?

Training? Workshops?

How to manage my data?

Long-term preservation?

None of the above?

For researchers, by researchers…

Digital Literary Studies Digital Medieval Studies

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