DARIAH-EU

DARIAH-EU
Name	DARIAH-EU
Formation	2006
Type	Research Infrastructure
Headquarters	Paris
Region served	Europe
Languages	English, French

DARIAH-EU DARIAH-EU is a European research infrastructure that supports digital research in the humanities and arts by coordinating services across national partners. It works with major institutions such as European Commission, Council of Europe, UNESCO, European Research Council, and national agencies like AHRC and DFG to bolster projects involving scholars from University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Università di Bologna. The infrastructure engages with initiatives including CLARIN, E-RIHS, CERN, European Open Science Cloud, and collaborates with cultural institutions such as the British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, German National Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and Vatican Library.

Overview

DARIAH-EU operates as a distributed network linking national consortia like INRIA, Max Planck Society, CNRS, IZIIS, CESSDA, and universities including King's College London, University of Vienna, Leiden University, Charles University, and University of Amsterdam to provide interoperable digital services. Its remit connects with landmark projects such as Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, Gallica, Manuscripta Mediaevalia, Trove, and platforms like GitHub, Zenodo, ORCID, JSTOR, and Project MUSE. Governance draws on models used by ELIXIR, EATRIS, Maastricht University, National Library of Scotland, and Swiss National Library.

History

DARIAH-EU emerged from discussions at forums including CLARIN ERIC Founding Meeting, All European Academies, ESF, ESFRI Roadmap, and workshops hosted by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, King's Digital Lab, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, and H-Net. Early partners included Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Warsaw, University of Ljubljana, University of Zagreb, and Trinity College Dublin. Milestones paralleled developments at Horizon 2020, interactions with Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and alignment with strategies from European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures and directives influenced by Lisbon Treaty debates.

Organisation and Governance

The legal and organisational model reflects ERIC frameworks seen at CLARIN ERIC and ESS ERIC, with member states, national nodes such as DARIAH-DE, DARIAH-CH, DARIAH-FR, DARIAH-AT, and governing bodies resembling boards at Max Planck Society, Royal Society, Academia Europaea, and European Science Foundation. Leadership interfaces with funding bodies including European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, national ministries like Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (France), and regional bodies such as Flanders Research Foundation and Swiss National Science Foundation. Advisory input comes from panels with members affiliated to British Academy, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Athens.

Services and Infrastructure

DARIAH-EU provides services interoperable with infrastructures such as Europeana Collections, CLARIN, CESSDA, ARDC, OCLC, and Digital Humanities Observatory. Technical offerings integrate standards from TEI, IIIF, Linked Data, RDF, JSON-LD, OAuth, and tools used by Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, OpenAIRE, Dataverse, and PANGAEA. Storage, compute, and preservation strategies align with practices at CERN OpenAIRE, LOCKSS, PREMIS, DRIVER, and DANS.

Research and Tools

Research supported spans computational approaches linked to projects at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, European University Institute, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Humanities Center, and Yale MacMillan Center. Tooling includes components interoperable with Voyant Tools, Transkribus, Gephi, QGIS, RStudio, Jupyter Notebook, Tesseract OCR, GATE, SpaCy, and MALLET. Methodological collaborations reference work by scholars at Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on topics such as corpus linguistics, digital editions, and text mining.

Training and Community Engagement

Training programs mirror activities provided by Digital Humanities Summer Institute, HILT Workshop Series, Humanistica, ADHO, and EADH, with summer schools, workshops, and fellowships involving staff from Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, Princeton University Library, National Library of Ireland, and Austrian National Library. Community building works through networks like European Association for Digital Humanities, Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums, R-Ladies, Women in Data Science, and initiatives supported by UNESCO World Heritage Centre and European Capitals of Culture.

Projects and Collaborations

Collaborations include research projects funded by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe that partner with Europeana Research, CENDARI, PANDORA, REACH, CLARIN-PLUS, CORDIS, and national projects at Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Finnish Literature Society, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, and Istituto Storico Germanico. Cross-disciplinary ties extend to laboratories and centers such as Centre for Digital Scholarship at the British Library, Stanford Digital Repository, Harvard Library Lab, Max Planck Digital Library, and École Normale Supérieure.

Category:European research infrastructures