A discussion-based presentation prepared together with Laurent Romary for the European Research Council workshop on Open Access Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

1. Towards an Open Access policy for
digital arts and humanities in Europe:
a DARIAH vision
Sally Chambers with Laurent Romary
DARIAH-EU
www.dariah.eu

2. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and
Humanities (DARIAH)
To enhance and support digitally-enabled research
across the arts and humanities

3. A quick history of DARIAH
• 2006: DARIAH included in the ESFRI
Roadmap
• 2008 – 2011: Preparatory Phase
project, Preparing DARIAH
• 2011 – 2013: ‘Transition Phase’,
establishing the DARIAH-ERIC,
integrating national activities

4. Towards DARIAH Founding Membership
•Austria
•Croatia
•Denmark
•France (Host Country)
•Germany
•Greece
•Ireland
•Luxembourg
•The Netherlands
•Slovenia
•Serbia

5. DARIAH Coordinating Institutions
Austria: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften and
University of Vienna
Croatia: Institut RuđerBošković
Denmark: Århus University
France: Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Germany: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen
Greece: Academy of Athens - Research Centre for the Study of
Modern Greek History
Ireland:Trinity College Dublin
Luxembourg: Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe
The Netherlands: Data Archiving Networked Services
Serbia: Center for Digital Humanities, Belgrade
Slovenia: Institute of Contemporary History

6. European-wide network of Virtual Competency Centres
Liaison
Promotion
Forschung education
et diffusion
und et recherche
Advocacy Lehre e-infrastructure
Management
e- Forschungs-
daten des
Infrastruktur contenus
VCC VCC Research
Advocacy and Education
Research
and
Forschung Advocacy Education
Advocacy und Lehre Scholarly
e- Content
e-Infrastruktur Forschungs- VCC VCC Scholarly Infrastructure
daten Management
eInfrastructure Content
Research
Advocacy and Research
Education Advocacy and
Education
Scholarly
e-Infra- Content Scholarly
structure e-Infra-
Management Content
structure Management
… and other countries DARIAH-nn …

7. Collaboration
Network of affiliated projects in the wider DARIAH
landscape, e.g. EHRI, CENDARI, ARIADNE

8. Challenge: Research diversity
A wide variety of research communities

9. Digital Archaeology
Viewing platform of the DomusSeveriana on the Palatine in Rome as in its
construction phase in Flavian time (about 80 CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of
the DomusSeveriana over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute

10. DIGHUMLAB
http://dighumlab.dk/

11. TextGrid
www.textgrid.de/en

12. Challenge: Publication diversity
A wide range of publication formats: books, journals,
conferences, academic blogs…

13. Hypotheses.org – academic blogs
http://hypotheses.org/

14. Isidore
www.rechercheisidore.fr
www.rechercheisidore.fr/sparql
www.rechercheisidore.fr/api

15. NARCIS: Gateway to scholarly information in The
Netherlands
Enhancedpublications: ‘anEnhancedPublication is a
newform of communication in science,
whereresearchersmakepublicationsavailable online in
conjunctionwithothermaterial’
www.narcis.nl

16. DARIAH principles
public funded research = a public good

17. Attribution is essential
Encouragesystematicuse of a CreativeCommons CC-BY
licence – supportingsystematicattribution (and
thuscitation) of the source

18. Alleviate the fear
academic primacy vs. increased citation

19. CENDARI Data Sharing Agreement
http://www.cendari.eu/

20. Seamless interconnections
experimentalnew models
whicharticulateseamlessinterconnectionsbetweenb
logs, digital primary sources (from WW1 archives to
musicology) and… publications

21. Innovation?
Scientificpublication is a quicklyevolving
environment…

22. Open electronic publishing
http://www.revues.org/

23. Freemium
http://www.openedition.org/8873

24. Towards a robust repository network?
Variety of existing settings for research
publications, is one single place for research output
necessarily a goodthing?

25. HAL: Human sciences repository
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/

26. OpenAIRE compliance

27. Towards a DARIAH repository?

28. Discussion points?
•Complex group of communities
•Scientificpublications are quicklyevolving
•Towards a robustrepositorynetwork?

29. Questions?
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
dariah-info@dariah.eu
www.dariah.eu dariah-info@dariah.eu

30. Image Credits
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