Presented as part of "Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities" (#RODH2012) Oct 23-25, 2012, Ireland. More info: www.dri.ie/programme

1. Data Archiving and Networked Services
Never Walk Alone:
Partnerships &
Alliances - DANS
and DARIAH
Peter Doorn
Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services
(DANS)
Coordinator, “Preparing DARIAH” (Digital Research
Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities)
Panel 3: Partnerships Achieving More
Academic-Public-Industry partnerships achieving
more; Large-scale digital goals and challenges
Dublin, October 23, 2012
DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO

2. Contents
• About DARIAH
– DARIAH partnerships
– DARIAH.nl
• About DANS
– DANS partnerships & alliances

3. Why DARIAH? (Science case)
• Changing research practice in a networked world:
– Digital resources (data & tools) form the laboratory of the scholar in the arts and
humanities
– Computational technologies and methods of analysis
– Resources for humanities research are highly distributed
– The scale of research goes up: networked projects
• European projects have no continuity
• The existing structures are too weak (ad hoc
networks, no permanence) and national in scope
• Answer: strong European data
infrastructure, providing continuity and support for
digital A&H research and access to digital
resources

4. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and
Humanities (DARIAH)
2008-2011 2011-2012 2013-

5. DARIAH’s mission
• The mission of DARIAH is to enhance and support
digitally‐enabled research across the humanities and
arts
• To develop, maintain and operate an infrastructure in
support of ICT‐based research practices
• To work with communities of practice to:
– Explore and apply ICT-based methods and tools to enable
new research questions to be asked and old questions to
be posed in new ways
– Improve research opportunities and outcomes through
linking distributed digital source materials of many kinds
– Exchange knowledge, expertise, methodologies and
practices across domains and disciplines

6. Establishing an European Research Infrastructure
Consortium (DARIAH-ERIC)
ERIC Proposal Submitted by France
ERIC Proposal consists of:
• Technical and Scientific Description
Mission and objectives of DARIAH
• Statutes
• Participation
• Governance
• Budgetary principles
• Policy development

7. Countries participating in DARIAH (signed MoU)
• Austria
• Croatia
• Denmark
• France (Host Country)
• Germany (Coordinator)
• Greece
• Ireland
• Netherlands (Coordinator)
• Slovenia
• Serbia

8. DARIAH members & Data Archiving and
Member
Observer
contact partners Networked Services (DANS)
University of Oslo
Cooperating Partner
Non-EU (Cooperating Partner)
Museum of Cultural History (KHM)
King's College London
Centre for e-Research (CeRcH)
Norway University of Copenhagen (KU)
Oslo Department of Scandinavian Research
Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences
(IRCHSS) Copenhagen/ Vilnius University
UK Denmark (VCC2)
Ireland Dublin Lithuania
(VCC2)
Vilnius
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
University of Goettingen Den Haag/ Institute for Corpus Linguistics
Goettingen State and University London Netherlands and Text Technology
Library (SUB) (VCC3)
Goettingen
Germany
Paris (VCC1/
VCC4/DCO) Institute of Contemporary History (ICH)
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
TGE ADONIS
Vienna
Austria
France Swit-
(VCC1) Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI)
(VCC3/DCO) Bern zerland
Ljubljana/Slovenia Centre for Information and Computer Science
Zagreb/Croatia
Italy
Belgrade
Florence
Serbia
Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)
Swiss Academy of Humanities Tirana/
and Social Sciences Albania
Academy of Athens (AA)
Research Centre for the Study
of Modern Greek History
Digital Renaissance Foundation (FRD)
Athens
Digital Curation Unit (DCU)
Ministry of Tourism Culture Institute for the Management
Youth and Sports of Information Systems
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9. DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)
• DARIAH will operate through its
European-wide Virtual
Competency Centres
• Each VCC is centred on a specific
area of expertise
• VCCs are cross-
disciplinary, multi-institutional
and international
• VCCs will deliver services for
all European arts and
humanities researchers

10. DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)
1. To establish a shared technology platform for
Arts and Humanities research
2. To expose and share digitially enabled Arts and
Humanties research
methods, training, expertise and tools
3. To expose and share scholarly content
4. To interface with key influencers in / for the
Arts and Humanities

11. DARIAH governance structure

12. DARIAH-EU Coordination Office (DCO)

13. DARIAH budgetary principles
• Estimated annual budget: 4 (+2) million euro
• Members and Observers contribute to the budget
• Contributions are based on the latest GDP figures
• Contributions consist of two parts:
• Cash contribution (10%)
• In‐kind contribution (90%)
e-Infrastructure
7%
Research &
28% Educa on
46% Liaison
Scholarly
Content
Management
19% Advocacy,
Impact &
Outreach

14. DARIAH collaboration strategy
Affiliated projects:
EHRI, CENDARI, DASISH, NeDiMAH, DiXiT, CULTURA, ARI
ADNE
Sibling initiatives:
TEI, CLARIN, BAMBOO, CESSDA, SHARE, ESS
Cultural heritage initiatives:
Europeana, DC-Net, ARROW
Technological initiatives:
EGI, EUDAT, DASISH
Larger circle initiatives:
OpenAIRE, APA, GRDI2020

15. BAMBOO
GRID 2020 EUDAT
international
Cultura DC-Net
NeDiMAH
DASISH community OpenAire EGI
projects European Europeana
CENDARI
EHRI CLARIN
ARIADNE CESSDA
CLIO-INFRA SSH infra- SHARE
national structures
eSciDoc TextGrid ESS
science
Arts-humanities.net management HERA
LARM Isidore Science Europe ESF

16. DARIAH-related project:
– To support the European
Holocaust research community
– To integrate key archival
collections (to support
transnational Holocaust
research)
– To build a virtual observatory
– To help initiate new levels of
collaborative research
http://www.ehri-project.eu/

17. CLARIN Goal: integrated and interoperable research
infrastructure of language resources and technology, offering a
stable, persistent, accessible and extendable infrastructure and
therefore enabling eHumanities
• integrated: connected resource and service centres
• interoperable: resources and services based on Semantic Web technologies to
overcome format, structural and terminological differences
• stable: resources and services with a high availability
• persistent: resources and services are planned to be accessible for many years so
that researchers can rely on them
• accessible: accessible via the web; tailored to the needs of the communities
making use of them
• extendable: the infrastructure is open so that new resources and services can be
added easily

19. National Roadmaps
TGE-Adonis (F)
DARIAH-DE
CLARIAH (NL)
DigHumLab (DK)
PITI (LT)
DARIAH-A
IRCHESS (IR)
SI-DIH (SI)
DYAS (GR)

20. CLARIN.nl + DARIAH.nl = CLARIAH
CLARIN DARIAH
ERIC ERIC
CLARIN DARIAH
NL NL

21. Common Lab for Research in the Arts and
Humanities (CLARIAH)
CLARIN DARIAH
ERIC ERIC
CLARIAH

22. CLARIAH.nl Mission
• Create a virtual ‘Common Lab’ facility for
eHumanities research.
• Provide integrated access to unprecedented
collections of seamlessly interoperating digital
research resources and innovative tools to
process them in virtual workspaces.
• Enable Data Intensive Science in the humanities.

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24. What is DANS?
• Institute of Dutch Academy and Research
Funding Organisation (KNAW & NWO) since 2005
• First predecessor dates back to 1964 (Steinmetz
Foundation), Historical Data Archive 1989
• Mission: promote and provide permanent access
to digital research information (digital archives in
the humanities and social sciences)

25. Our main activities and services
• Encourage researchers to self-archive and reuse data by
means of our Electronic Archiving SYstem EASY
• Our largest digital collections are in archaeology, social
sciences and history (moving into other domains)
• Provide access, through Narcis.nl, to thousands of scientific
datasets, e-publications and other research information in
the Netherlands
• Data projects in collaboration with research communities
and partner organisations
• Advice, training and support (Data Seal of
Approval, Persistent Identifier Infrastructure)
• R&D into archiving of and access to digital information

26. NARCIS.nl: Access to Research Information,
e-Publications, Data Sets and more

27. Challenge for the next five years

28. Research Data
Report Researchers
Aggregation: the
enhanced publication
Organizations involved: Topics linking to
Funder and research institute related information

29. Links directly to data in DANS archive
All data types: data, text, maps, video, audio, still images…

30. Data Seal of Approval
5 Criteria
16 Guidelines
The research data:
• can be found on the
Internet
• are accessible (clear
rights and licenses)
• are in a usable format
• are reliable
• can be referred to
(persistent identifier)
www.datasealofapproval.org

31. Certification EUDAT
RD-Alliance
International E-IRG APA
NeDiMAH
Community OpenAire+ EGI
DASISH
projects European Europeana
ARIADNE EU
DwB EHRI CLARIN CESSDA
DCCD DARIAH
ESFRI
CLIO-INFRA Roadmap LifeWatch
National infrastructure ESS
CLARIAH BiGGrid Community
projects NL Health data
Univ. Libraries/3TU DC
e-Humanities Geodata
NCDD SURF

32. My personal LinkedIn network

34. Certification DARIAH
DANS role in DARIAH:
• coordinated DARIAH preparation
phase
• CIO (Chief Integration Officer) in
www.trusteddigitalrepository.eu DARIAH central office
• coordinator of VCC 3 (with
France)
Three levels of trust • Initiator and leading
participant in CLARIAH
Front office / back office: NL Coalition for
• Univ. Libr.: data services for local Digital Preservation:
communities • KB: scholarly publications
• DANS/3TU DC: Long-term • DANS: research data
archiving, training and • Sound & Vision: broadcasting
advice, national • National Archives: public records
aggregation, common • EYE Film Museum: cultural sector
standards, persistent identifier
Univ. Libraries/3TU DC NCDD

35. Data Archiving and Networked Services
Thank you for your attention
and visit us at:
www.dans.knaw.nl
www.narcis.nl
peter.doorn@dans.knaw.nl
DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO