In the age of digital information technology and the constant availability of information through the Internet, it is not only important to have democratic access to knowledge, but also essential to consider the potential that lies in the critical production and expansion of knowledge.
Of particular interest and concern to cultural heritage institutions and Humanities scholars are issues of copyright on, provision of and access to digitized material. There is a recognizable political drive in the European Union to facilitate free and public access to cultural heritage and research data in general hosted at publicly funded institutions. However, the lack of legal harmonization and the diverse and often unclear national legislations on the use and provision of resources by public cultural heritage or research and education institutions has been prohibiting a much broader engagement.
Focus areas of interest:
DARIAH-EU promotes open access of methods, data and tools. But it also stands for a responsible conduct. As an infrastructure for Arts and Humanities researchers it will not be able to solve all issues arising in the quickly progressing domain of digital research. But with its new ethics and legal strategy it will contribute generally and especially wherever it concerns researchers from communities connected to DARIAH. This will lead to better access to tools and data for researchers as well as to guidelines and orientation for the conduct of their research. Policy makers will equally profit from the outputs of the working group as they will be facilitated with background information on issues related to the working group’s topic.
Full list of the ELDAH Working Group Members
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Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar
Head of the Archive
Koraljka is the national coordinator for Croatia and the primary contact for the researchers and...
Koraljka is the national coordinator for Croatia and the primary contact for the researchers and institutions from Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro (Western Balkans Hub).
Skills and research fields:Cultural Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities
See more See less koraljka@ief.hrVanessa Hannesschläger
Vanessa studied German literature at the University of Vienna and worked on various digital archives...
Vanessa studied German literature at the University of Vienna and worked on various digital archives projects about Austrian writers before joining the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-OeAW) in 2015. There, she is involved in a number of research projects focusing on digital editing and data modelling. She is an expert on legal aspects of digital humanities research and open science. In addition to co-chairing the DARIAH working group ELDAH, she is co-chair of Open Science Network Austria’s working group on Legal Aspects of Open Science and a member of the CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee.
Skills and research fields:Legal issues and licensing, Data modelling, Digital editing, Community involvement, Open Science
See more See less Vanessa.Hannesschlaeger@oeaw.ac.atWalter Scholger
Deputy Director of the Center for Information Modeling, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz
Walter Scholger studied History and Applied Cultural Sciences in Graz (Austria) and Maynooth (Ireland). He...
Walter Scholger studied History and Applied Cultural Sciences in Graz (Austria) and Maynooth (Ireland). He has been the Deputy Director of the Center for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz (Austria) since 2008, where he is primarily dealing with administrative issues, project management and the coordination of the Centre’s teaching activities. He is involved in several international projects focusing on legal aspects of academia and digitization, a member (and co-lead) of several working groups of DH umbrella organizations dedicated to DH curricula development (ADHO Digital Pedagogy SIG) and issues of digital publication (DHd Working Group “Digitales Publizieren”). A veteran contributor to DARIAH-EU, he was one of the driving forces behind the “DH Course Registry” and has been active in several Working Groups, serving as Co-Lead of the “Training and Education” Working Group from 2013 to 2017 and the Working Group on “Ethics and Legality in Digital Arts and Humanities” since 2017. In January 2019, he was appointed Deputy National Coordinator for Austria.
Skills and research fields:Legal issues (copyright, privacy, licensing) in research and education, Digitization of Cultural Heritage, Open Science, Digital Publications
See more See less walter.scholger@uni-graz.at
