The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is happy to announce it has signed a new Cooperating Partnership agreement with the University of Brighton in Brighton, UK.
DARIAH is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) whose mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. In addition to having 23 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.
“We are very pleased to welcome Brighton,” said Edward Gray, DARIAH’s Officer for National Coordination, “not only for their proven excellence in visual and material culture, but also for their important role to play in bringing DARIAH to the UK community. Brighton joins the growing network of DARIAH partners in the UK, including The School of Advanced Study University of London, King’s College London, the University of Exeter, the University of Leeds, and the University of Edinburgh – and I think this demonstrates what a positive dynamic we have going on in the United Kingdom.”
The University of Brighton has established esteem and a long history of world-leading expertise in developing and embedding digital methods and tools across the Arts and Humanities disciplines and continues to work with researchers as well as Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) organisations across the world. The University of Brighton was an early precursor of European efforts towards establishing digital workflows, tools and repositories for 2D/3D media in cultural heritage. To this day, they continue to work at the forefront of computational methods and infrastructures, as well as continue efforts to empower researchers and practitioners using digital methods in the arts and humanities.
Research at the University of Brighton
Brighton’s expertise within the Digital Humanities research spans across schools and research units. At the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research and Enterprise Group, researchers investigate novel methods for digitisation, data management and large-scale analysis and visualisation underpinned by high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence. Applications of these methods span the visual and tangible material culture as well as intangible living heritage practices, bringing our networks beyond heritage institutions into the creative industries, including craft and historic industries. Computer Scientists work particularly closely with Arts and Humanities researchers through the University’s world-leading Centre for Design History, to augment and learn from arts and humanities research in key areas such as museums, archives and exhibitions, and fashion and dress histories, and through key themes relating to transnationalism, sustainability and activism. In addition, our work has focused on and been inspired by the University of Brighton Design Archives, an internationally significant scholarly resource focusing on British design and global design organisations in the twentieth century.
Collaboration with DARIAH
Within DARIAH, the University of Brighton will actively promote and contribute to supporting research in visual and material culture. This includes engaging with researchers in the Arts and Humanities community who are interested in utilizing, managing, preserving, analyzing, linking, and creatively reusing digital media assets, both in 2D and 3D formats. In particular, we are interested in engaging with researchers working on i) material culture and art/design history, as well as, ii) material knowledge and intangible practices in collaboration with communities across the world, and iii) other creative research practices within disciplines such as the visual arts, design and media studies. The University of Brighton is contributing training resources developed during funded research, as part of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Infrastructures programme, to DARIAH-Campus. Additionally, we will support the case for the UK to achieve full membership of DARIAH, as well as facilitate networking and coordination with other communities, including the Eurographics Working Group on Graphics and Cultural Heritage.
“Researchers at the University of Brighton have a long-standing history of contributing to and collaborating with the European research community,” said Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Reader at the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering. “Cooperation with DARIAH will enable us to continue contributing to European efforts in developing the next generation of researchers, enhancing global knowledge about culture and society.”
For more information on the Cooperating Partners membership in DARIAH, their role, tasks and benefits, have a look at our detailed post here.
