DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

The research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB is seeking a visionary, dynamic and competent project manager to spearhead the structuring of the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB.

In 2010-2011, the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen) developed a national roadmap for research infrastructures in Denmark in collaboration with research and teaching institutions. The Minister chose to prioritise six research infrastructures that will be launched in the coming period, including the research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB, which is expected to be established by 1 January 2012. More information about the national roadmap for research infrastructure can be found at: http://en.fi.dk/publications/2011/danish-roadmap-for-research-infrastructure-2011.

The research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB will support digital humanistic and social science research and act as the unifying, virtual gateway to relevant digital and digitalized resources for the humanities and social sciences. DIGHUMLAB will furthermore participate in international networks of humanistic research infrastructure and Digital Humanities projects (see e.g. the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin ( www.dho.ie ) or DANS Project, NL ( www.dans.knaw.nl/en )).

A steering committee for DIGHUMLAB that includes the deans of the affiliated universities has been established. Currently Aarhus University, Aalborg University, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark are members of the steering committee. Aarhus University has been designated as the host institution for DIGHUMLAB.

Your job responsibilities
To support development and cooperation within DIGHUMLAB, a secretariat for DIGHUMLAB will be established, with a project manager and administrative staff with broad expertise in Digital Humanities. Secretariat staff will be affiliated with and based at the affiliated universities named above. Besides the project manager, the secretariat will consist of an ICT project staff member, an educational media/ICT staff member and an administrator responsible for general administrative services, accounting, communication and the coordination of joint activities. The secretariat staff will also support activities related to relevant European research infrastructures such as CLARIN and DARIAH. The secretariat staff will refer to DIGHUMLAB’s project manager, who will be employed by the host institution

Please, follow this link for the job description http://www.au.dk/en/about/job/adm/technicalandadministrativepositions/

The GRDI2020 Roadmap Report "Global Scientific Data Infrastructures: The GRDI2020 Vision" is now available in its final release (December 2011).
Global Research Data Infrastructures must be developed for harnessing the accumulating data and knowledge produced by the communities of research, optimizing the data movement across scientific disciplines, enabling large increases in multi- and inter- disciplinary science while reducing duplication of effort and resources, and integrating research data with published literature.GRDI2020 announces the final release of its 10 year visionary Roadmap for Global Research Data Infrastructures.
You can download the Roadmap at this link.

DH in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is surely “alive and kicking”, as a multitude of DH projects as well as funding programs by, among other, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and the  Volkswagenstiftung demonstrate – but DH scholars in this region still lack a representative organization that would formulate our field’s academic interests and requirements and communicate these to regional research policy makers and funding agencies, as well as to the broader public.

In order to facilitate future strategic development of DH as a leading future research paradigm, the DHD invites all academic DH researchers in the German speaking region to come together, exchange ideas and information and establish a joint professional organization called "Digital Humanities Deutschland (DHD)". The DHD is intended as a chapter organization within the European ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing).

The formation of the DHD combines three elements:

• an initial project fair as a platform for the informal presentation of current undertakings in the Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on projects lead by of junior researchers;
• the subsequent founding of a German regional association DHD as a regional chapter of ALLC;
• an expert panel discussion that will explore strategic issues of relevance to the emerging Digital Humanities community in the German speaking countries.

The format of the inaugural meeting will be that of a so-called un-conference. This meeting will be held at the University of Hamburg on 17 July 2012  in conjunction with the DH 2012 and will conclude immediately prior to its opening.  (The registration procedure will be coordinated with that for the DH 2012.)

To receive updates on this initiative, please subscribe to the DH 2012 mailing list and earmark the new DHD web address http://www.dig-hum.de which will go live soon.