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Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland), Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin), David Brown (Trinity College Dublin) and Marcin Werla (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center) are few of the authors of the newly published How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines. This report, edited by Maciej Maryl and Klaudia Grabowska (DigitalRead more

The Image Science and Media Art Research Working Group received funding in 2017 for the project “DARIAH Digital Art, Science and Technology Institution Network” (DARIAH-DASTIN). This project aimed in developing a new profile for institutions on the Archive of Digital Art (ADA) to become visible as stakeholders in the media art community and beyond, exchangeRead more

DARIAHdocs is an open-source-based joint pilot project of DAASI International and DARIAH-EU. It enables humanities researchers to work on their documents with research fellows mutually and at the same time. The application offers many functions analogous to cloud office solutions. The goal behind this project is to provide researchers with a tool that supports collaborativeRead more

The Women Writers in History Working Group received funding in 2017 to test and develop the NEWW VRE (New approaches to European Women’s Writing) tool in line with researchers’ requirements and in view of teaching at different levels. The project allowed for: 1. further data entry and curation (by WG-members) as well as tool adaptingRead more

Following the workshop on “Software Sustainability: Quality and Re-Use” in 2017, the collaborating infrastructures CESSDA, CLARIN and DARIAH have established the European Research Infrastructure Software Engineers‘ Network (EURISE Network). The Network organised its follow-up workshop on “Software Sustainability within Research Infrastructures” on 12-13 March 2019 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The event provided a platform forRead more

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) kick-off meeting was held in Utrecht on 11 and 12 March 2019 and gathered more than 100 participants from the 47 partner organisations of the project and beyond. The aim of this meeting was to introduce the project and its work packages, but it was also aRead more

The Thesaurus Maintenance Working Group received funding in 2017, through the DARIAH Working Group Funding Scheme, to organise and host a workshop for testing and validating the following tools and services developed and maintained collaboratively by the Working Group: the BackBone Thesaurus (BBT) – an overarching thesaurus for the humanities, under which the terminologies/ structuredRead more

The Sustainable Publishing of (Meta)data Working Group, chaired by Afelonne Doek, Dorien Styven, Eric de Ruijter and Johan Van Der Eycken, received funding in 2017 through the DARIAH Working Group Funding Scheme to organise a workshop on the topic of “Trust and Understanding: the value of metadata in a digitally joined-up world”. Storing, securing andRead more

Open Methods was awarded the second place (1st Runner Up) in the category Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts, following the winning nomination of the British Library’s Digital Scholarship blog. Open Methods is a DARIAH initiative created by the Humanities at Scale project in cooperation with OPERAS and acts as a metablog platformRead more

The Ethics and Legality in the Digital Arts and Humanities (ELDAH) Working Group, chaired by Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, Walter Scholger and, lately, Vanessa Hannesschläger, received funding in 2017 through the DARIAH Working Group Funding Scheme to develop the project “Open Licensing, Ethics and Scholarly Conduct in DH”. As a Working Group, ELDAH is dedicated toRead more