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The mission of DARIAH is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices.

DARIAH is working 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

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Boosting cultural heritage online: the European Commission sets up a Reflection Group on digitisation

Friday, 23 April 2010
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European UnionEuropean Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced that the European Commission will entrust three personalities - Maurice Lévy (CEO of Publicis), Elisabeth Niggemann (Head of the German National Library) and Jacques De Decker (writer) - to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe. This Reflection Group will examine the various ongoing initiatives involving both public and private partners (notably the Google Books project) and copyright issues to find ways to boost the digitisation efforts of the complete collections held by libraries, museums and archives in Europe. These recommendations will ultimately help Europeana, Europe's digital library, reach a new dimension: today the Europeana portal (www.europeana.eu) already offers access to over 7 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips, paintings and musical extracts, but this is only a small part of all the works held by Europe's cultural institutions. The establishment of the Reflection Group is part of the Commission's broader strategy to help the cultural sector make the transition towards the digital age. The Group, who will report to Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou, has been requested to submit its conclusions before the end of the year.

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DL.org Publishes Interview with Tobias Blanke

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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project_dlorgDL.org's latest interview is with DARIAH project member Tobias Blanke of the Centre for e-Research at King's College London. Tobias offers insights into pioneering work in the eHumanities, as well as interoperability benefits and challenges, positioning DL.org, DARIAH and other initiatives in this landscape.

The interview looks at the main value-add of Digital Libraries and Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities; early success stories and top-level challenges moving forward; major challenges for DL interoperability; approaches to interoperability recommended, positioning DL.org in this landscape; the role of standards and how DARIAH will contribute to the evolving eHumanities landscape.

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DARIAH Publishes Current Status Survey of Digital Humanities in Greece

Monday, 15 March 2010
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DARIAH_Case-Study-of-Greece_thmThe Academy of Athens recently completed a survey in order to assess Greece’s policy on digital research in the arts and humanities. The aim of this survey is to provide feedback to support the strategic aims of DARIAH. It identified potential stakeholders and invited major research and cultural heritage institutions to express their views on the current state of affairs.

The main research questions which the survey aimed to answer were as follows:

  • Whether Greece has developed a cultural policy for the arts and humanities;
  • If and to what extent are organisations aware of digital humanities as a new methodology;
  • Who are the policy makers;
  • Who are the potential stakeholders;
  • Whether and in what way are institutions willing to contribute to DARIAH;

The survey also reports on Greek government agencies and their policy with regard to European research directives.

The survey results reveal the views of the interviewees with respect to the existence (or not) of a coherent national strategy in digital research in the humanities. The interviewees recognize the main obstacles for the implementation of a national digital infrastructure and provide an interesting self-assessment regarding Greece as compared to the level of other European countries. They were also asked to evaluate the functional and qualitative level of the readiness of their organisations to support digital research and to provide information on their participation in digitisation projects.

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DARIAH on Wired's 'Beyond the Beyond' Blog

Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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Wired logoDARIAH and CHAIN  have been written up (rather humorously in places) on Wired magazine's Beyond the Beyond blog, written by Bruce Sterling.

The blog story empahsizes the highly diverse nature of European projects when viewed from an outside perspective, and offers some musings on what the future may hold.

 

DARIAH Newsletter Issue 5

Friday, 19 February 2010
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Newsletter 5DARIAH Newsletter Issue 5 - February 2010

In this issue:

  • Funding Agency Roundtable Meeting
  • Survey of Digital Humanities in Greece
  • German Grid Activities Related to DARIAH
  • Cooperation Statement from TextGrid, Wikimedia and Creative Commons
  • European University Cyprus interview – Dr Charis Xinari
  • Focus on DARIAH Partners:
    • Archaeology Data Service (University of York, UK)
    • Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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SDH 2010 Conference

Supporting the Digital Humanities 2010
Vienna, October 19-20, 2010

SDH2010 is the first conference to be jointly organized by the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives, which are building the European research infrastructure for the humanities and related disciplines. Read more

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