Towards DARIAH in Belgium, a presentation at the Digital Humanities (DH) Spring Event at KU Leuven on 28-29 April 2015: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/digitalhumanities/DH-spring

1. Towards DARIAH in Belgium
Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
DH Spring Event, KU Leuven, 28-29 April 2015

2. What is DARIAH?

3. 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…

4. 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

5. 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

6. Who is DARIAH for?

7. 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

8. For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary
Studies
Digital Medieval Studies

9. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods

10. Services for researchers

11. 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…

12. Network of Contributions

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

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

15. Network of Services
Persistent Identification
AAI Infrastructure
Collaboration Tools

16. 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.

17. 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

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

19. 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

20. 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/

21. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step:
Involving research
communities in Belgium

22. DARIAH in Belgium

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

24. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

30. Network of Contributions

31. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step:
Involving research
communities in Belgium

32. Belgian contributions to DARIAHBelgian contributions to DARIAH

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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!

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

37. 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
• NaBuCCo
VIAA (Flemish Institute for Archiving): VRE World War I

38. Get involved! DARIAH Working Groups

39. Get involved!
Towards DARIAH Benelux @ DH Benelux

40. For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary
Studies
Digital Medieval Studies