DARIAH

DARIAH
Name	DARIAH
Formation	2005
Type	Research Infrastructure
Headquarters	Paris
Region served	Europe

DARIAH DARIAH is a pan-European research infrastructure supporting digital research in the arts and humanities, connecting scholars, cultural institutions, and technology centers across Europe. It acts as a hub linking national consortia, university departments, libraries, archives, and museums to enable interdisciplinary projects in digital scholarship, digital humanities, and cultural heritage. DARIAH facilitates standards, tools, and services that integrate with initiatives such as the European Research Council, the European Commission, and major cultural networks.

Overview

DARIAH operates within a landscape that includes European Research Council, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, CERN, CLARIN, Europeana, EUSTORY, UNESCO, Creative Commons, Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Austrian National Library, National Library of Sweden, Royal Irish Academy, Max Planck Society, CNRS, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Vienna, University of Amsterdam, KU Leuven, Trinity College Dublin, University College London, King's College London, Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Digital Public Library of America, Internet Archive, European University Institute, Council of Europe, European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.

History and Development

DARIAH emerged from discussions among researchers linked to Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, CNRS, British Academy, Austrian Science Fund, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, and national ministries following meetings at venues including Digital Humanities 2005, European Heritage Days, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and workshops with AHRC, CLARIN ERIC, EuroScience. Early milestones reflect interactions with projects like TEI Consortium, Linked Open Data, Europeana Foundation, OpenAIRE, CORDIS, Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, FP7, SSHOC, and collaborations with institutions such as National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress, and Royal Library of Belgium.

Organizational Structure and Membership

DARIAH is constituted as a distributed infrastructure with national nodes representing countries and institutions, engaging partners such as Austrian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Italian National Research Council, Instituto de Historia (CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Bologna, Università di Roma La Sapienza, and networks like European University Association. Membership models align with policies from European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, ERIC regulations, and national funding agencies including Science Foundation Ireland and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique. Governing bodies include assemblies of national representatives, technical boards, and working groups that coordinate with organizations such as CLARIN ERIC, ERIC, E-Artsup, European Cultural Foundation, and Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione.

Research Infrastructures and Services

DARIAH supports services for corpus building, metadata harmonization, annotation, and preservation interoperating with standards from Text Encoding Initiative, W3C, ISO 26324, PREMIS, Dublin Core, CIDOC CRM, and tools developed alongside OpenRefine, GitHub, Bitbucket, Omeka, Transkribus, Tesseract, TEI Boilerplate, Papyri.info, Europeana Collections. Its technical offerings complement platforms such as CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory, Zenodo, Figshare, ArXiv, and infrastructure like GRID computing, EOSC, European Open Science Cloud, and services used by projects at Tate Modern, Museo del Prado, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, Vatican Library.

Projects and Collaborations

DARIAH coordinates and partners in projects spanning textual scholarship, digital editions, and computational analysis, collaborating with consortia behind Women Writers Project, Perseus Digital Library, Digital Public Library of America, Mapping the Republic of Letters, Pelagios, Linked Pasts, SHAPE-ID, SSHOC, REACH, CLARIAH, EHRI, ENCC, CENDARI, Digital Classicist, Victorian Commons, Transcribe Bentham, and institutions such as British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Austrian National Library, State Library of Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

Training, Outreach, and Community Engagement

DARIAH runs training schools, summer institutes, and teacher exchanges interacting with programs like Digital Humanities Summer Institute, TAPoR, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching, European Summer University, Erasmus+, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, British Academy training, and partners including Library of Congress, National Archives (UK), National Archives and Records Administration (USA), European Association for Digital Humanities, Association for History and Computing. Outreach includes conferences such as Digital Humanities Conference, ADHO, DH Benelux, EADH, EADH2018, DH2019, and collaboration with festivals like Vienna Festival, Edinburgh International Festival.

Governance and Funding

Funding and governance involve interactions with the European Commission, national ministries of France, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Ireland, and agencies such as AHRC, NEH, DFG, ANR, NWO, Research Council UK, FWO, and grant frameworks including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, FP7, ERC Consolidator Grants, and regional funds coordinated with bodies like European Science Foundation and Council of Europe.

Category:Digital humanities