News – DARIAH https://www.dariah.eu Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:18:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 DARIAH Signs New Cooperating Partnership Agreement with the University of Leeds https://www.dariah.eu/2024/03/19/dariah-signs-new-cooperating-partnership-agreement-with-the-university-of-leeds/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:59:00 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13533 Read more]]> The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is proud to announce it has signed a Cooperating Partnership agreement with the University of Leeds.

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 22 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.

“I am delighted that Leeds is joining DARIAH as a cooperating partner” said Professor Andrew Thorpe, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. “This marks a significant development in our institutional support for digital creativity, digital humanities, and cultural partnerships. Being part of this European infrastructure is an exciting step that will help strengthen collaboration and build new opportunities for staff and students. We see DARIAH as an important focus for our work and look forward to connecting with all partners across the cooperating area.”

Knowledge for All: Digital Developments at the University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is one of the largest universities in the UK, with over 39000 students currently enrolled. It is part of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities and is in the top 100 QS World University rankings. Researchers at Leeds are involved in the design, development, and deployment of digital tools in research and practice. There is engagement and funded activity across the University in a range of areas including Corpus linguistics, Representation and Decolonisation in DH, Digital Curatorial Practices in Cultural Collections, Archival Data, and Digital Creativity. The University has a strong culture of research around digital equality and access, the active study of the changing landscape of digital media and social media, responsible and restorative AI, and generative practices. Researchers at Leeds make extensive use of digital means to engage audiences in research and effect societal change, including projects in the arts and humanities where engagement and co-production are central to the research processes resulting in digital outputs, including film, databases, and major web resources.  

The University has made recent significant investments in digital research infrastructure and digital research ideation. The University’s Xr technologies centre, Helix, has just launched alongside a new digital and physical MakerSpace in the Edward Boyle Library. The University Libraries are currently investing in upgraded provision for digital preservation, management, and discovery pipelines to align with global standards of best-practices and FAIR principles as part of the Knowledge for All strategy.

A Hub for Digital Creativity and Culture

The Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub was established in 2023 as the home of digital research in Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds. Working across the institution, supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute and the University of Leeds Libraries, the Hub is the home of Leeds’s Digital Humanities Research Group, promotes digital humanities scholarship and cross-disciplinary collaboration, brings together academic faculty, library and professional support colleagues, and joins the digital dots across services and schools.

The DCCH leads on DH activity in the institution, supporting individual projects, running events and training, and providing advice and resources on DH methods. Hub staff have expertise in digital archives, digital translation, cultural heritage data, generative digital methods, text encoding and analysis, and modelling and transforming humanities data. The Hub is working closely with the N8 centre of excellence in Computationally Intensive Research on their Digital Humanities and Machine Learning themes, connecting DH research at Leeds with a wider regional community of research-intensive universities in the UK. The Hub has a particular remit to promote digital engagement with the University’s rich cultural collections and works closely with the Special Collections and Galleries team. As part of this, and their commitment to interdisciplinary working, the Hub runs an innovative undergraduate internship scheme that pairs students from Arts and STEM faculties on collaborative projects that engage digitally with cultural collections. The DCCH is the point of formal connection between the University and DARIAH-EU and will drive partnership activity.

Integration with DARIAH

Becoming a Cooperating Partner of DARIAH will allow the University of Leeds’s researcher and student community to benefit from the collaborative methodological and pedagogic resources of DARIAH-Campus, and to contribute to this via the DCCH. The University’s membership of DARIAH will enable colleagues at Leeds to pursue new collaborations to further develop their existing research strengths in cultural heritage data, corpus linguistics, geo spatial mapping, the ethics of AI and machine learning in the GLAM sector and contribute to the transnational Digital Humanities conversation.

“Leeds and the DCCH bring an impressive array of digital skills to the DARIAH-EU family, and I look forward to seeing the ways we can benefit from their expertise,” said Edward Gray, DARIAH’s Officer for National Coordination. “They should make an exemplary Cooperating Partner, and I hope, a key member of broader consortium across the UK.”


For more information on the Cooperating Partners membership in DARIAH, their role, tasks and benefits, have a look at our detailed post here.

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DARIAH-CH Workshop “Creating workflows in the SSH Open Marketplace” https://www.dariah.eu/2024/03/15/dariah-ch-workshop-creating-workflows-in-the-ssh-open-marketplace/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:15:27 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13543 Read more]]> The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) – marketplace.sshopencloud.eu – is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies.

Workflows and the DARIAH-CH workshop

Workflows are a specific content type in the SSH Open Marketplace and are defined as “Sequences of steps that one can perform on research data during their lifecycle. Workflows can be achieved by using diverse tools, resources and methods, and the useful resources are connected to each step.” (SSH Open Marketplace 2023).

Workflows:

  • are built, within the SSH Open Marketplace, on use cases that bring into light recommended tools, formats and methods, and are reusable for other researchers
  • represent “the living memory of what should be the best research practices in a given community”
  • are a good way to point to tools and services that researchers are using. This will help others in understanding which digital methods may serve their needs the best

(Barbot and colleagues, 2024, Contextualizing Research Tools & Services through Workflows in the SSH Open Marketplace. Journal of Open Humanities Data)

The DARIAH-CH workshop is thus a great opportunity to help tool and data creators, data management staff and service providers in disseminating their offer and contextualising their resources for the benefit of the arts and humanities communities.

Information about the event

Date: Friday, 26 April 2024

Time: 10:00AM-3:00PM CEST (additional optional session 3:00-5:00PM)

Location: Online (Zoom)

Speakers: Laure Barbot (DARIAH EU), Michael Kurzmeier (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage), Cristina Grisot (DARIAH-CH), with the support and participation of other members of the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board

Target participants: Swiss scholars from arts and humanities who use digital methods, as well as data management staff and service providers

* Please note that this event is only open to the Swiss research community. However, DARIAH-EU is happy to support the organisation of similar workshops if other DARIAH members or partner institutions are interested.

Programme

* Times are in CEST

  • 10:00-10:30: presentation of the SSH Open Marketplace
  • 10:30-11:00: demo of item creation and of existing workflows
  • 11:00-11:30: Q & A session
  • 11:30-12:00: conceptualisation of participants’ workflows Lunch break
  • 13:00-3:00: hands-on session in break out rooms
  • 3:00-5:00: optional session to polish and publish workflows

Registration

If you would like to register, click here.

Registration deadline: March 29, 2024

As part of the registration form, we would like to collect some information about your research and your ideas of the workflow topic you would like to develop during this workshop. If you do not have a concrete idea, we can help you formulate one or you can join another person or team’s workflow.

Win a travel grant to the 2024 DARIAH Annual Event!

In the context of the 2024 DARIAH Annual Event, which takes place on June 18-21 in Lisbon on the theme of Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities, DARIAH-CH offers a full travel grant for the best workflow created during this workshop and published on the SSH Open Marketplace.

The voting will be done by the participants in the workshop one week after the end of the workshop.


* You can download the flyer of the event here.
* This post is republished from here.

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Job Opportunity: DARIAH’s Board of Directors is looking for a new member (0,5 FTE) https://www.dariah.eu/2024/03/14/job-opportunity-dariahs-board-of-directors-is-looking-for-a-new-member-05-fte-3/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:13:56 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13552 Read more]]> DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is a European research infrastructure, which aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH’s mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. We maintain an infrastructure that supports researchers working in the diverse community of practice known as the arts and humanities to build, analyse and interpret digital or hybrid resources. DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014 and is one of the Landmarks on the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). In 2024, the consortium is composed of 22 member countries as well as many cooperating partners across 10 non-member countries.

The Board of Directors is the executive body of the DARIAH ERIC and its legal representative. It is composed of 3 members, each working on a part-time basis (0,5 FTE). We are looking to appoint a new member of the Board of Directors from 1 September 2024, who will work closely with the two other existing members.

Applicants for this position should be:

  • an active researcher with significant experience in the application of digital methods to arts and humanities research and a good understanding of what a research infrastructure entails.
  • an inspirational leader, with a proven track record of managing national and international organisations or projects.
  • a flexible and gifted communicator, able to advocate for DARIAH’s interests across disciplines and countries, with scientific, political and general audiences.

Application Procedure

If you wish to apply, please send an email to Alice Dijkstra, Senior Programme Officer at the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and Vice-Chair of the General Assembly, a.dijkstra@nwo.nl and cc: recruitment@dariah.eu including:

  • a 2-3 page CV, outlining your research activities and strategic leadership experience
  • a covering letter in support of your application
  • the names and contact details of at least two referees
  • a 2-3 page document outlining your vision for DARIAH for the next 3 years.

The closing date for applications is: Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 23:59 CEST.

For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.

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DARIAH Representative Elected Chair of ISO Agency https://www.dariah.eu/2024/03/11/dariah-representative-elected-chair-of-iso-agency/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:04:26 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13516 Read more]]> The Maintenance Agency of ISO 639, an international body responsible for standardizing language codes, recently elected Laurent Romary,  a DARIAH representative, as its chairman.

ISO 639 is responsible for curating two- and three-letter codes used to identify languages and language groups. These codes are crucial for computer applications globally, particularly those dealing with textual or oral content in multiple languages. They serve as a fundamental standard and are systematically integrated into various platforms, including all web pages worldwide.

“ISO 639 plays an essential role in digital scholarship as a basic building block of some of the core standards in digital humanities, including the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines,” said Laurent Romary. “I feel honored by the opportunity to bring DARIAH expertise to such an important international endeavor.”

Romary is Director of Culture and Scientific Information at Inria and was the founder and the first director of DARIAH. During his years of research in computational linguistics and digital humanities, he developed a strong interest in the standardization and sharing of open linguistic data, and identified the need to implement shared infrastructures in the service of open science.

Romary’s appointment is expected to further enhance the collaboration and expertise within ISO 639, benefiting digital scholarship and language technologies worldwide. His extensive experience and dedication to advancing international standards position him well to lead the agency in its mission to maintain and evolve essential linguistic codes for the digital age.

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The University of Edinburgh joins DARIAH as Cooperating Partner https://www.dariah.eu/2024/03/04/the-university-of-edinburgh-joins-dariah-as-cooperating-partner/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 07:46:00 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13473 Read more]]> 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 Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. 

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 22 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.

The University of Edinburgh is a global leader in research and education with a rich tradition of academic excellence and innovation across many disciplines. It boasts significant research strengths in informatics, creative tech, ethical approaches to Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing, digital cultural heritage, digitisation and digital collections, and mapping and geographic information processing. Through Edinburgh Futures Institute, the University is focused on developing new co-creative and data-rich approaches to address the increasingly complex challenges of our time. 

“We are very excited to welcome Edinburgh to DARIAH,” said Edward Gray, DARIAH’s Officer for National Coordination. “Edinburgh has a proven track record in digital humanities, and the Centre for Data, Culture & Society supports work at the forefront of issues relevant to society, such as responsible AI and how digital scholars can understand the climatic impact of their research. They are a valuable addition to our community.”

MacEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, Photo Credit: Laurence Winram

Work in the Digital Humanities

The University of Edinburgh is home to the Edinburgh International Data Facility, hosts the UK’s national high performance computing clusters and has recently been announced as the future home of the UK’s first exascale supercomputer. In this context, Edinburgh Futures Institute provides a unique environment for arts and humanities research, supporting collaboration, skills development, cross-disciplinary exchange and access to a world-class data and computing infrastructure. 

Current digital humanities aligned research initiatives include: Creative Informatics which stimulates data-led research partnerships between creative industries and the tech sector; XR Network+ Virtual Production in the Digital Economy which supports researchers working with virtual production technologies; the Gaelic Algorithmic Research Group, an international research group devoted to developing modern technologies for Gaelic and utilising them both to strengthen and better understand the language and its associated culture; and the BRAID programme, which  works to integrate Arts, Humanities and Social Science research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem.

The Centre for Data, Culture & Society, a specialist hub within the Edinburgh Futures Institute empowers researchers in the arts and humanities to engage with data-rich and digital methods.  The Centre offers training on computational research methods, prototyping, seed funding and technical guidance, as well as hosting a wide range of research events.  The Centre also plays a role in supporting national and international projects and initiatives such as hosting TEI-by-Example, collaboratively leading the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition, a community interest group aligned with the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association, and providing training for the UK’s Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering community in collaboration with King’s College London, Cambridge University and the Turing Institute.

Edinburgh Futures Institute. University of Edinburgh. Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Credit: Keith Hunter. 

The Centre’s Director, Dr Lisa Otty, who will act as scientific coordinator for the partnership comments: “Building capacity for digital humanities research is a core element of our mission, which aligns perfectly with the DARIAH membership. We’re excited about the collaborative opportunities that joining DARIAH will open up, and at the prospect of working more closely with other digital research hubs and centres of expertise across the UK and Europe. With our focus on training and skills development, we also look forward to contributing to DARIAH-Campus and to a range of related working groups and initiatives in the coming years, and we welcome contact from other DARIAH members with shared interests.”

Founding Director of CDCS, and current Director of Creative Informatics, Professor Melissa Terras said “Success in the data-led approaches to the arts and humanities depends on developing communities, best practice approaches, and shared infrastructure. We are delighted to become members of DARIAH, formally connecting with many of our valued colleagues across Europe in the digital research hub space. We hope the large-scale data innovation projects currently underway at Edinburgh will also contribute expertise to this joint endeavour.”

The University of Edinburgh is delighted to join DARIAH and be part of the growing network of UK Cooperating Partners. Building on existing networks and relationships, the Centre for Data, Culture and Society will work in close collaboration with these partners to strengthen the integration of the UK’s digital humanities community within the DARIAH community.

“Beyond welcoming a world-class institution, it is really important for us to obtain a diverse geographic spread amongst institutions in the United Kingdom as we look to build a vibrant DARIAH-UK consortium,” said Gray.  

For more information on the Cooperating Partners membership in DARIAH, their role, tasks and benefits, have a look at our detailed post here.


* Banner picture: The MacEwan Hall, with Edinburgh Castle in the Background. Photo credit: Tricia Malley & Ross Gillespie

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Introducing the DARIAH Overlay Journal: an alternative and transparent publishing model https://www.dariah.eu/2024/02/29/introducing-the-dariah-overlay-journal-an-alternative-and-transparent-publishing-model/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:59:05 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13484 Read more]]> Author: Françoise Gouzi
Reviewers: Elena Giglia, Sy Holsinger, Tomasz Umerle

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is planning the introduction of an overlay journal, and has chosen Episciences platform for this project. The application for this overlay journal is currently in progress, awaiting evaluation from Episciences. Episciences is a French public publishing platform provided by one of DARIAH’s French partner institutions, the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD). It will help its communities to develop a new transparent and ethical publishing model within their own institutions. CCSD is developing the French national open repository HAL-SHS, which is one of the DARIAH-FR’s in-kind contributions. Episciences is also onboarded on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Portal.

What is in an “overlay journal”?

An overlay journal is an innovative type of scholarly publication that operates on top of pre-existing data repositories and preprint servers. Unlike traditional journals, overlay journals do not host content themselves. Instead, they select, peer review and formally publish links to content that is already hosted on other platforms, such as HAL or arXiv, or institutional repositories. Articles, or any type of content that has been selected for publication, receives a proper citation and a digital object identifier (DOI), ​​making it possible for readers to reference and link to these documents reliably.

Earlier literature has referred to such journals as “deconstructed journals” or “superjournals” (Eysenbach, 2019 & Smith, 1999). Overlay journals combine elements from the gold and green routes to Open Access (OA), which have often been presented as separate paths to enable Open Access.

An overlay journal is a scientific journal, with a unique editorial line and publication project, which relies on a Diamond Open Access evaluation and publication platform.

  • There are no access fees
  • There are no publication fees

With the overlay model, the gold OA element is reflected in the journal curating content through editorial work, managing its peer-review and ultimately making the final output available in OA without any paywall for readers. The green element comes from overlay journals basing parts of their publication processes on public OA repositories (see e.g. Pinfield, 2009Rousi & Laakso, 2022).

Innovating editorial workflows or how to transform evaluation practices

As an overlay journal, and if accepted by Episciences, Transformations will be a distributed publication system that decouples publication from evaluation:

  1. Authors deposit their work as a preprint in an institutional repository (HAL, Zenodo, ArXiv or other national repositories) and send the link to Transformations for consideration.
  2. Transformations organises peer review of the preprint.
  3. Corrections are made by the authors and a new version of the preprint is deposited in the open repository.
  4. Once the required corrections have been made, the publication receives a DARIAH seal of publication and a citation from Transformations (which is automatically communicated to the repository). 

Transformations: A DARIAH Journal will make public the time between submission and publication (average time in weeks between the first submission of the article and its publication in the journal), which is one of DOAJ criteria regarding transparency of editorial practices, guaranteeing authors reasonable publication times.

The editorial board will encourage referees to review the article as soon as possible, preferably within three weeks

Reviewers will be asked to provide formal feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal. For the peer review process, the editorial board will rely on the Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers from COPE.

Transformations: A DARIAH Journal will enable researchers to publish a diversity of Digital Humanities outputs (publications linked with data) that they usually don’t get enough academic credit for.

Through this new overlay journal DARIAH aims to reach several objectives that we present below: propose a transparent and ethical publishing model ; promote best practices and editorial quality standards to contribute to the evaluation framework of innovative outputs ; improve metadata quality of open repositories from DARIAH member states and SSH communities. With this innovative journal, DARIAH would like to demonstrate leadership and popularise distributed publication platforms in the domain of Arts and Humanities.

What’s innovative in open peer-review?

Purely transparent peer reviewing can have multiple aims, including ensuring accountability for comments and allowing other readers to benefit from the reviewers comments. 

Open Peer Review enhances the quality, reliability and effectiveness of the Peer Review process by enabling open discussions among reviewers and the wider community. It also enhances the visibility, recognition and reputation of reviewers and their contributions.

Furthermore, more transparent evaluation fosters greater accountability and effective error detection, building trust and confidence in the research community.

It facilitates the exchange of knowledge and ideas among researchers, encouraging constructive criticism and helping identify flaws or areas for improvement.

The content selected to be published will be based on the quality of the methodology rather than the expected impact of the research results.

Episciences, an alternative publishing platform 

Episciences has a complete publishing system, covering all disciplines and is based on a Diamond model. It provides this on its own site which allows it to manage both the editorial workflow and the publication of articles for the overlay journals.

It enables an open peer review process, a more innovative way of reviewing (both names of authors and reviewers are known) that DARIAH encourages and advocates within its communities of researchers.

Episciences meet the “FAIR practice” (6 recommendations on how to put FAIR into practice for the EOSC, research funders and policymakers) and the exemplary criteria defined by the Open Science French Steering Committee. The Episciences platform is also onboarded on Open AIRE Graph as Data source (https://oai.episciences.org/) enabling broader visibility and use for all SSH and Arts communities in Europe.

  • Diamond open access allows immediate free access—without identification or DRM (Digital rights management, the management of legal access to digital content)—to publications being deposited in an open archive. Submission and publication are not conditional on the payment of a per-unit publication fee (APC).
  • The data and metadata produced are open, standardised, structured, easily accessible and interoperable. Each published editorial unit has a unique, persistent identifier (DOI).
  • Throughout the editorial process, the article remains the full and complete property of its author.
  • Long-term preservation is ensured by Cines (French National Computer Center for Higher Education).

Fostering Diamond model

As part of its Open Science strategy, DARIAH-EU is willing to make a strong commitment to Diamond Open Access. DARIAH-EU recently signed the Manifesto on Science as Global Public Good: Non commercial Open Access which is aligned with the following main principles: science as a public good is an universal right; equity, diversity and multilingualism; recognition and assessment ; scientific outputs as scholar property and human heritage; collaboration with non-commercial stakeholders.

Innovative and transparent publication in the arts and humanities that enable alignment with the increasingly digital research workflows is among the key strategic priorities of DARIAH-EU, and one of its pillars within the 3rd Strategic Action Plan (2022-2025). This will also engage DARIAH and its communities in strengthening evaluation cultures around valuable scholarship and results that remain out of the scope of traditional research assessment frameworks, such as various forms of data and software publications, digital editions, methodological papers, training materials, etc. 

DARIAH also aims to explore and support publication mechanisms that are community controlled and that shed more light on research processes underlying resources than the traditional units of scholarship stemming from print culture. Furthermore, the DARIAH overlay journal is expected to play a role as a layer connecting the dots in our distributed infrastructure, highlighting individual datasets or research outputs and contributing to their increased citability.

With this new innovative publishing project, DARIAH fulfils several commitments:

  • Promote and better assess innovative forms and outputs (publications linked to datasets, software)
  • Propose a transparent (FAIR) and ethical publishing model and contribute to transforming the evaluation framework of publication landscape
  • Enhance reviewing activities and skills in the Research Assessment framework
  • Connect and value national open repositories (DARIAH members and SSH communities)
  • Demonstrate leadership and popularise distributed platforms in the domain of A&H

The added value of the DARIAH overlay journal is to help the Arts and Humanities communities to reuse tools and workflows. Transformations: A DARIAH Journal does not pretend to be just another “Digital Humanities” Journal, but aims to make sustainability and reproducibility of research its main objectives. We will pay particular attention (as a requirement in the submission phase) to ensuring the availability of the resources and associated software.

Françoise Gouzi, DARIAH Open Science Officer

Best practices and editorial quality standards

In order to be compliant with international standards of editorial quality for open access journals, as soon as the DARIAH journal is created, we will start a process to be registered in the DOAJ (first stage) and reach the DOAJ Seal (higher registration level) in the next two years.

The DOAJ Seal is awarded to journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing. There are seven criteria that a journal must meet to be eligible for the DOAJ Seal. These relate to best practices in long-term preservation, use of persistent identifiers, discoverability, reuse policies and authors’ rights.

But open access journals (see definition of DOAJ Open Access) could also apply to be registered in DOAJ (without reaching the DOAJ Seal). However, several conditions must be met before applying:

  1. Journals should adhere to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
  2. The journal must be actively publishing scholarly research:
  • Any research subject area
  • Publish at least five research articles per year
  • Primary target audience of researchers or practitioners

3. A new or flipped journal must demonstrate a publishing history of more than one year or have published at least ten open access research articles.

The full text of all content must be available for free and open access without delay

  • No embargo period
  • No requirement for users to register to read content
  • A charge for the print version of a journal is permitted

Ensuring compliance with more than 40 criteria of the DOAJ form is one of the main goals for publishers to improve their Open Access policy (about copyright and licensing, business model and editorial management). With these criteria, publishers can also address clear instructions for authors (in particular, on data policy linked to publications) and improve metadata quality, as well as the indexing and visibility of the journal.

Improving the quality of Open Repositories 

Episciences propose a new autonomous submission and reviewing module adopted by Transformations that will enable the submission of preprint, software and datasets (and link them together). It will also be possible to publish open proofreading reports that could be deposited in HAL (or other Open Repositories – OR) linked to the documents submitted in the platform.

As an overlay journal service, Episciences relies on third-party services for storage and APIs (HAL, Zenodo, ArXiv and other OR).

The publication process is backed up by open repositories that will enable DARIAH to connect and value national open repositories (considered as services of DARIAH members and SSH communities). These repositories will be OAI-PMH compliant and will improve their metadata quality using the “notification protocols” developed by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). 

COAR Notify is a technology that sends notifications to enrich metadata in open repositories, facilitating and automating the link between research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services (overlay-journals and open peer review services). Notify notifications are designed to be sent and received using the W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) standard. 

LDN standard supports sharing and reuse of notifications across applications, regardless of how they were generated. This allows for more modular systems, which decouple data storage from the applications that display or otherwise make use of the data. The protocol is intended to allow senders, receivers and consumers of notifications, which are independently implemented and run on different technology stacks, to seamlessly work together, contributing to decentralisation of our interactions on the Web. Instead of treating notifications as ephemeral or non-persistent entities, this specification enables the notion of a notification as an individual entity with its own URI.

“Next Generation Repositories (NGRs) is an ongoing initiative of COAR to identify common behaviours, protocols and technologies that will enable new and improved functionalities for repository systems.” (COARNotify protocol).

With this new innovative publishing model, DARIAH will work on improving the metadata quality of repositories within SSH communities and providing research evaluation guidelines in order to make peer review more efficient and transparent. 


* This post is republished, see original post here.

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Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2024 #DHH24 https://www.dariah.eu/2024/02/26/helsinki-digital-humanities-hackathon-2024-dhh24/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:15:39 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13456 Read more]]>

Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H24 | 15.–24.5.2024

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 will be organised on 15.–24.5.2024 as a CLARIN and DARIAH international summer school. The event will be organised as an in-person hackathon. Participation to #DHH24 is free to all accepted participants. In addition, there will be bursaries for travel and lodging.

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
 
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH23#DHH22#DHH21#DHH19#DHH18#DHH17#DHH16 and #DHH15.

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.

Themes

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:

  • Eurovision Song Contest
  • Enlightening Illustrations: Analyzing the Role of Images in Enlightenment-Era Luxury Books
  • Echoes of the Chambers: Studying Democracy through Parliamentary Speeches
  • Cultures of online discourse

(See further information on the #DHH24 themes)

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H24

13.3.–12.4.2024 Application period
16.4.2024 Applicants informed of acceptance
16.–23.4.2024 Registration to #DHH24 for accepted participants
29.4. & 6.5.2024 Two #DHH24 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
15.–24.5.2024 #DHH24 hackathon in Helsinki

Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.

Venue

Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 (see on map)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 15.–24.5.2024. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Wednesdays 29.4. and 6.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, spon­sor­ship of travel and ac­com­mod­a­tion for international participants).

24.5.2024 12:30–15:30, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, room Studium 1 (F3020), 3rd floor
Public presentations of the projects.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l70

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

You can contact the organisers via email: dhh-hackathon@helsinki.fi.

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Nile University joins DARIAH as Cooperating Partner https://www.dariah.eu/2024/02/26/nile-university-joins-dariah-as-cooperating-partner/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:51:27 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13448 Read more]]> The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is happy to announce it has signed a new Cooperating Partnership agreement with Nile University (NU) in Giza, Egypt. 

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 22 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.

“On behalf of the Board of Directors of DARIAH-EU, I would like to extend our enthusiasm for the new Cooperating Partnership between DARIAH-EU and Nile University in Giza, Egypt. This collaboration, the first of DARIAH-EU with an Arab country, marks a significant stride towards our mission of empowering research communities with digital methods to create, connect, and share knowledge about culture and society” said Agiatis Benardou, DARIAH-EU Director.

Nile University is conceived to be a leader in technology and business education in Egypt and the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. It aims to prepare competent graduates to address local and regional challenges, and to contribute in fulfilling the needs and aspirations of the MENA region. The new School of Digital Humanities will collaborate with the existing NU School of Information Technology and Computer Science, which would introduce Egyptian, Arab and other international students to a developing field that does change a lot and rapidly. This will constitute remarkable opportunities for experiential learning and community-led action research, and toward establishing a vigorous collaboration across disciplines to address the “science of culture” through the methods of culture analytics and Digital Humanities.

Integration with DARIAH 

This partnership between the School of Digital Humanities at Nile University and DARIAH offers several opportunities for growth, innovation, and knowledge exchange. One of the immediate benefits would be the opportunity to jointly organise major conferences and workshops in the field of Arabic Digital Humanities. These events would serve as platforms for sharing research, fostering collaboration, and addressing critical issues in the region. Examples of planned activities and participation in DARIAH bodies and initiatives include the foundation of the first-ever Working Group on Arabic Digital Humanities that would provide a collaborative platform for scholars to collectively advance knowledge of Arabic and Islamic culture and history using digital methods and resources. The new Working Group aspires to collaborate with the DARIAH-EU Multilingual DH Working Group to explore cross-linguistic research opportunities that involve Arabic and other languages, facilitating the exchange of methodologies and best practices for working with diverse linguistic datasets. Other initiatives include organising a ‘DARIAH Day’ in several Arabic countries with the goal of showcasing research initiatives and attracting potential partners, stakeholders and funding agencies. 

“This Cooperating Partnership holds great promise for knowledge exchange” said Agiatis Benardou. “Together with our Egyptian colleagues, we envision organising events in Arabic Digital Humanities, creating platforms for research sharing, collaboration, and addressing critical issues in Digital Arts and Humanities research in the region”.

Collaboration with DARIAH would provide the NU’s faculty and students with access to a wealth of knowledge, resources, and expertise in the field of Digital Humanities. This exposure to cutting-edge research, methodologies, and tools would significantly enhance the academic programmes and research, facilitating the development of digital tools and methods tailored to the specific needs of the Arabic language and culture. Such collaboration could lead to the recruitment of visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows who specialise in areas complementary to the expertise of the NU’s faculty. 

“This partnership will help our efforts in Egypt to collaborate with international partners in analysing and documenting born-digital cultural heritage – e.g alternate reality games, online videos, social media posts/tweets, etc. The new School of Digital Humanities at Nile University is envisioned to be a hub that nurtures research, teaching, and study of societies and cultures in a global context. The aim of its collaboration with DARIAH is to promote a holistic approach and to facilitate a common conversation about Eastern and Western societies and cultures, as well as the different traditions that continue to develop within them. Through many activities under this collaboration, we anticipate equiping Egyptian and Arab students with digital tools and computational techniques to explore new modes of doing research in the humanities and social sciences.” said Eid Mohamed, Founder of the new School of Digital Humanities at Nile University.

Nile University’s location in Egypt provides DARIAH with an entry point to a region with rich cultural and historical significance. This collaboration could potentially lead to partnerships with other institutions in the Middle East and North Africa, further extending DARIAH’s regional influence. Collaboration with NU would provide DARIAH with valuable access to expertise and insights into the specific challenges and opportunities of Digital Humanities in the Arab world. This regional focus can enrich DARIAH’s understanding of diverse cultural contexts and expand its global reach.

For more information on the Cooperating Partners membership in DARIAH, their role, tasks and benefits, have a look at our detailed post here.

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ATRIUM Project Successfully Launched https://www.dariah.eu/2024/02/21/atrium-project-successfully-launched/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:23:45 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13444 Read more]]> Earlier this month, DARIAH was delighted to host the kick-off meeting for ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) in Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, from 1st-2nd February. This four year project will exploit and strengthen complementarities between four leading European infrastructures: DARIAH (digital arts and humanities), ARIADNE (archaeology), CLARIN (languages) and OPERAS (social sciences), in order to improve workflows and access to the state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media pertaining to archaeological research.

As ATRIUM brings together 17 partners and 12 affiliated entities across 12 countries, the launch event played host to over 60 guests from across Europe over the two days of planning and discussion. DARIAH Director Toma Tasovac introduced the project, situating it within the European Research landscape, before the various Work Packages were outlined over the following day and a half. ATRIUM will align itself with various initiatives such as the OSCARS Project, by providing a holistic framework for data access and organisation. Its workflows will be created using the SSH Open Marketplace templates, and interoperability with EOSC (the European Open Science Cloud) is a key priority for the services that ATRIUM will facilitate, by making them interoperable and ensuring the workflows are integrated.

On the second day, several breakout sessions were facilitated, where the plans and workflows for various Work Packages were planned and debated, including discussions about how best to support the project’s goals of improving metadata quality, developing training materials and services, and strengthening the ties between the infrastructures and partners involved.

One of ATRIUM’s goals is to facilitate the development and delivery of training for digital humanities researchers. One component of this will be to make a skills requirements assessment through surveys, desk research, interviews and currently available data from previous projects in order to develop a curriculum to support cross-disciplinary research, which will then be available on DARIAH-Campus.

You can follow @ATRIUM_EU on Twitter/X and check back here for the new ATRIUM website launch soon.

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BAL-ADRIA 2024: The fifth Baltic-Adriatic Summer School on Digital Humanities https://www.dariah.eu/2024/02/08/bal-adria-2024-the-fifth-baltic-adriatic-summer-school-on-digital-humanities/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:55:23 +0000 https://www.dariah.eu/?p=13414 Read more]]> BAL-ADRIA is a collaboration between countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, and countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea, thus connecting Northern and Southern Europe.

In a supportive academic environment, we are offering good-sized classes ideal for learning, discussing and getting feedbacks on your ideas and thoughts. The programme is taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and social sciences and is delivered in a form of lectures, seminars and practical workshops.

This year, Bal-Adria is organised for:

  • students registered within Linnaeus University
  • students of Doctoral program Knowledge society and information transfer, University of Zadar
  • other participants (other universities, institutions, organisations,…)

The schedule is as follows:

  • First week, 12-16 June – Online, asynchronously (obligatory online participation)
  • Second week, 17-21 June – Zadar, Croatia (obligatory in-person participation)
  • Last week 22 June – 03 July – Online, asynchronously  (obligatory online participation)

Application opens: 15 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2024

See more information about the summer school and how to apply here.

The Baladria Summer School has been initiated by the iInstitute, Linnaeus University’s iSchool affiliated with the Digital Transformation Knowledge Environment, and is organized in collaboration with the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar and has been taking place since 2019. For earlier Baladria Summer Schools, please visit the former Baladria website.

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