Towards DARIAH in Belgium

Towards DARIAH in BelgiumSally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

DH Spring Event, KU Leuven, 28-29 April 2015

What is DARIAH?

Sally Chambers

DARIAH-EU Coordination Office

What is DARIAH?

DARIAH Mission:

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

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

Who is DARIAH for?

Who is DARIAH for?

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A wide variety of research communities across the arts and humanities

For researchers, by researchers…

Digital Literary Studies

Digital Medieval Studies

Network of research communities

Holocaust Researchers

Medieval and

Modern Historians

Archaeologists Digital Textual

Scholarship

Digital Methods

Services for researchers

Sally Chambers

DARIAH-EU Coordination Office

What is DARIAH?

DARIAH in everyday life

…DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio of services that directly benefit researchers in their everyday work…

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

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/

Network of research communities

Holocaust Researchers

Medieval and

Modern Historians

Archaeologists Digital Textual

Scholarship

Digital Methods

Next step: Involving research communities in Belgium

DARIAH in Belgium

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

DARIAH in Belgium

DARIAH in Belgium

• Belgium has one seat in the General Assembly (BELSPO)

• 3 Consortia (alternating National Coordinator per year)-DARIAH–Vlaanderen (DARIAH-VL)

-DARIAH–Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (DARIAH-FWB)

-DARIAH– Federal (Dariah-FED)

• Actual National Coordination (2014-2015): Ghent University (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities)

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!!!

Network of Contributions

Network of research communities

Holocaust Researchers

Medieval and

Modern Historians

Archaeologists Digital Textual

Scholarship

Digital Methods

Next step: Involving research communities in Belgium

Belgian contributions to DARIAHBelgian contributions to DARIAH

DARIAH in Belgium

DARIAH-FWB

• UCL : Paul Bertrand (spokesperson)• ULiège : Björn-Olav Dozo• USaint-Louis : Eric Bousmar • UMons : Bruno De Lièvre • UNamur : Anne Roekens • ULB : Seth Van Hooland

DARIAH in Belgium

DARIAH-VL

• Ghent University: Christophe Verbruggen (spokesperson)

• Antwerp University: Dirk Van Hulle• KU Leuven: Mark Depauw

• Coming soon: UHasselt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Infrastructural needs

• Enhancing the potential of digitised data• eHumanities and the humanities digital ecosystem• Integrating data providers in humanities digital Ecosystem• Creation of knowledge bases

Solution: setting up a Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure. ... in DARIAH-EU!

DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium

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

VRE-SI ‘Pilot projects’

Ghent University• Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC,)• TIC Collaborative • Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams• Newspapers crowdsourcing and text mining platform

Antwerp University• The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project• Dutch translations of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy

KULeuven• Trismegistos • NaBuCCoVIAA (Flemish Institute for Archiving): VRE World War I

Get involved! DARIAH Working Groups

Get involved!

Towards DARIAH Benelux @ DH Benelux

For researchers, by researchers…

Digital Literary Studies

Digital Medieval Studies