A presentation about DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) given as a digital humanities (DH) showcase at the LibraryLab of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Library, Ghent University on 2 April 2015

1. Introducing DARIAH
Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

2. 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

3. What is digital scholarship?

4. 3 Spheres of Digital Humanities
In-kind
Cash
• 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Internet Research
http://www.netlab.dk

8. 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

9. 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/

10. What is DARIAH?

11. 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…

12. 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

13. A quick history of DARIAH
In-kind
Cash
• 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

14. 15 Founding Members
In-kind
Cash
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

15. Network of Contributions

16. Network of Services
Scholarly events
Open access repository
Academic blogging

17. Network of Services
Multilingual
training materials
Scholarly Methods Ontology
Summer Schools

18. Network of Services
Persistent Identification
AAI Infrastructure
Collaboration Tools

19. DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium
https://dariah.eu/about/our-partners/belgium/country-profile

20. DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium
http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-be

21. DARIAH in FranceDARIAH in France
http://www.dariah.fr/

22. DARIAH in GermanyDARIAH in Germany
https://de.dariah.eu/

23. DARIAH in ItalyDARIAH in Italy
http://it.dariah.eu/

24. DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium
http://be.dariah.eu
Coming soon!!!

25. Belgian contributions to DARIAHBelgian contributions to DARIAH

26. DARIAH in BelgiumDARIAH in Belgium
http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-vl_vre.si

27. DARIAH in GhentDARIAH in Ghent
http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/category/affiliated-projects
And many more…

28. DARIAH @THATCamp Ghent 2015DARIAH @THATCamp Ghent 2015
http://ghent2015.thatcamp.org/2015/03/19/what-is-dariah-anyway/

29. DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio
of services that directly benefit
researchers in their everyday work…
THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?

30. What is DARIAH?
THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?
What would you like
DARIAH to be?

31. THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?
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32. THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?
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33. THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?
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?

34. For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary
Studies Digital Medieval Studies
THATCamp Ghent 2015
What is DARIAH anyway?