Cyberinfrastructures are a layer of shared information, expertise, standards, policies, tools, and services developed for specific scholarly purposes beyond just the network itself. Infrastructures are a mix of hardware and software that are highly connected and built upon existing infrastructures like those for railways, power, telecommunications, science, and more in countries. In France, pillars of cyberinfrastructures include HAL for open archives, and issues around their appropriation, whether development is top-down or bottom-up, and changing policies and laws have impacted infrastructures over time, with examples like Persée and CRNs (digital resource centers). Very large research infrastructures are also being developed in France as part of the ESFRI road

1. What are cyber-infrastructures in the Digital Humanities? France and other countries as case studies Pierre Mounier Centre for open electronic publishing

3. Infrastructures are a mix of hardware and software

4. Infrastructures are highly connected

5. But what are they built upon ? Infrastructures are made to be built upon

9. Pillars of cyber-infrastructures

13. Appropriation A difficult question

16. Top-down or bottom-up ? Top-top or bottom-bottom ?

17. The Cléo-CENS example

18. Changing times Where the story becomes complicated

19. LOLF (Loi organique relative aux lois de finances 2001) RGPP (Révision Générale des Politiques Publiques 2007) LRU (Loi relative aux libertés et responsabilités des universités 2007) Changing times

20. The Persée example

22. The CRN (centres de ressources numériques) examples (from 2005)

29. Quetelet network An infrastructure for statistical data

31. The « very bigs » Next gen french cyberinfrastructures

35. The « très grandes infrastructures de recherche » (TGIR) Integration in ESFRI roadmap (from 2008)

37. Towards an european convergence ?

38. You turn now ! What is the situation in your country? Do you think a european convergence is possible ? Desirable ? Horrible ?