The Göttingen State and University Library, founded in 1734, is one of Germany's largest academic libraries, with over 8 million media units and a focus on digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities. It operates within the DARIAH-DE initiative, which supports digital transformation in research practices, enhancing methods and tools for scholars. The library also serves as a central resource for research data, community collaboration, and offers various services to support enhanced research initiatives.

1. Göttingen State and University Library:
DARIAH-DE’s digital research infrastructure for the arts
and humanities and the services for enhanced research of
the eResearch Alliance at Göttingen University Campus
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Claudio Leone, Göttingen State and University Library (leone@sub.uni-goettingen.de)

2. Göttingen State and University Library – Brief Overview
 founded in 1734 (Historical Building)
 one of the largest academic libraries in Germany
 over 8 million media units
 5.9 million volumes, 1.6 million microforms, 50,000 licensed
electronic journals as well as 126,000 further digital media,
327,000 maps and more than 14,000 manuscripts, 3,100
incunabula and 400 literary remains, Gutenberg Bible (1450’s)
 about 5.500 visitors a day in the central library (build 1993)

3. Göttingen State and University Library – Brief Overview
 Center for Retrospective Digitization (GDZ) since 1997
 operates Göttingen University Press since 2003 (open access)
 offers a broad range of services for study and research
• supplies literature and information services
• secures the national provision for certain tasks and disciplines
• preservation of scientific outcomes and cultural heritage
• research and development partner for future information
infrastructures nationally and internationally

4. Digital Research Infrastructure
for the Arts and Humanities
Claudio Leone, Göttingen State and
University Library
leone@sub.uni-goettingen.de
DARIAH-DE

5. DARIAH-DE – Brief Overview
 one of 17 members of DARIAH-EU
 funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF)
 preliminary phase: 2008 – 2011
 development phase: 2011 – 2016
 operating phase: 2016-2019
 used by 80 projects and more than 4.000 scholars

6. Partners

7. By the community
For the community
Architecture of
participation

8. Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities
=
Applied digital enabled research in
the Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanites
& Social Science Computer Science
Libraries & Archives – Information Science

9. Digital transformation changes research in the Arts and
Humanities fundamentally.This concerns:
DARIAH-DE – Objectives
 research methods  getting more and more digital
 research data  are increasingly digital
 scholars need new abilities
 changes of curricula and staffing at universities
 change of theoretical approaches
 must be adapted and modified
 change in research practices
 more interdisciplinary and collaborative

10.  DH methods and practices
 Use Cases: Annotation, Big Data
 Tools and services
 Bibliography Doing Digital Humanities
TEACHING RESEARCH
RESEARCH DATA
TECHNICAL
INFRASTRUCTRUE
 Workshops on methods,
expert colloquia, Summer Schools
 Coordination of national and
international curricular developments
 Best practices for metadata,
standardised exchange of data,
ontologies
 Development of generic search,
collection and schema registry,
repository
 collaborative research environments
 virtual machines
 Monitoring
 authentication and authorization
infrastructure etc.
DARIAH-DE – Four Main Tasks

11. Teaching and Community

12. Research – Scholary Tools

13. Research Data Collection – epidat
Example of epigraphic data (http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?lang=en):
 data: 30.000 inscriptions of more than 130 Jewish cemeteries in
Germany and the Netherlands (1050-2000)
 contains: digitized data,
transcripts, maps, photographs,
and archival sources
 methods: visual analytics,
named-entity-recognition,
temporal-spatial visualisation

14. Research Data Collection – epidat

15. Building a Data Federation Architecture
Tool-oriented approach…

16. DARIAH-DE Repository

17. DARIAH-DE Collection Registry

18. DARIAH-DE Generic Search

19. Data Modeling Environment

20. Göttingen
eResearch Alliance
status quo: mission, governance, people, offers

21. Starting Point
 start-up funding of 5 FTE’s for 4 years (2014-2018) by the
Presidential Board to establish the Göttingen eResearch Alliance
 eResearch = enhanced research
 co-chaired by Library and Computing Centre (IT)
• GWDG: ~120 people, 30 in eResearch related fields
• SUB: ~450 people, 40 in eResearch related fields
 central contact point, broker, and service provider for enhanced
Research related topics
 aiming for sustainability

22. eRA Offers

23. Supporting the
Research
Life Cycle

24. THANKYOU FORYOUR ATTENTION!
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