DARIAH and Affiliated Projects General VCC Meeting 22

DARIAH and (Affiliated) Projects General VCC Meeting 22 April, 2015 Tobias Blanke, Marianne Ping Huang, Conny Kristel www. dariah. eu

Overview • • • Mapping types of projects Affiliated projects and DARIAH Short updates Knowledge exchange and sustainability Suggestions

DARIAH projects • Parthenos (Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies) – Franco Niccolucci • Humanities at Scale – Tobias Blanke and Marco Raciti

PARTHENOS Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies Franco Niccolucci - PIN Project Coordinator PARTHENOS is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Programme

What is PARTHENOS • PARTHENOS is a H 2020 cluster proposal to develop joint strategies, policies and common solutions for the humanities and linguistic data lifecycle; common AAA (authentication, authorization, access) and data curation policies, including long-term preservation; standardization and interoperability; common tools for data-oriented services • Based on DARIAH, CLARIN and the RI on digital humanities and cultural heritage (ARIADNE, CENDARI, EHRI, IPERION, DCH-RP) • Start date 1 st May 2015 – 4 years • 15 partners from 10 countries

Partners & projects

Why PARTHENOS • Digital research in the sector of language studies, humanities, history, cultural heritage, archaeology and other related fields, has own features that characterize a distinctive research methodology, sometimes combined with methods and tools borrowed from other disciplines • PARTHENOS addresses the needs of a large and homogeneous ‘sector’, exploiting the sector commonalities while recognizing the diversity of the ‘disciplines’ that belong to it, in an interdisciplinary perspective

Project activities • Common policies and strategies, and their implementation • Data lifecycle, access to shared repositories and guidelines for developing the Data Management Plan (DMP) • One-stop shop for accessing the data infrastructure • Standardization and semantics • Support a common set of standards • Foster interoperability, by putting humanities semantics on strong foundations • Joint interoperability solutions • Deploy theoretical solutions with implementation tools, preferably re-using Open Source products by EU projects • Coordinated networking, communication and outreach activities

Common policies and strategies • Joint policies and solutions for the humanities data lifecycle, from acquisition to access, management, curation, and longterm preservation • Common data access and authentication policies • Common quality criteria for digital repositories, including certification (Data Seal of Approval – DSA) • Common IPR management policies • Joint Resource Registry of infrastructures, datasets, services, reference resources • Foresight studies about shared advanced digital methods for the humanities, taking into account the immaterial as well as the material nature of the matter of investigations

Standardization & Semantics • Minimal standardization level (standards survival toolkit) • Interoperable documentation standards, based on the definition of shared semantics and the creation of crosswalks among different metadata systems • Common reference resources such as, for example, thesauri, gazetteers and authority lists, enabling crossdiscipline de-referencing and data linking • Integration and publication of vocabularies using SKOS and innovative technologies enabling Linked Data • Mutually accepted procedures for the quality assessment of digital cultural objects

Joint Interoperability Solutions • Common tools for services and in particular interoperable services to be activated across individual/disciplinary domains; in particular, easy-touse search interfaces for both metadata and content descriptions • Shared tools for the (both formal and semantic) quality assessment of metadata • Shared tools for annotation of the digital documentation of material and immaterial products of human activity • Joint guidelines for the architecture, design and implementation of new archives of the sector, to guarantee future interoperability

Flagship Expected Results • Guidelines on data management • Produce a coherent, authoritative, well accepted set of policies/guidelines/tools concerning the management of data lifecycle and related issues such as IPR, quality and so on • Solutions for AAA (Authentication-Authorization-Access) • Standardization and semantics • Produce a wide set of standards and semantics, originated from community needs and tailored to the methodology and intended use by researchers • Services and tools • Produce a coherent set of tools for carrying out research using and re-using data

PARTHENOS is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Horizon 2020 Programme. The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Contact: franco. niccolucci@gmail. com www. parthenos-project. eu

Humanities at Scale • DARIAH-ERIC owned Project (just funded for 2 years (2015 -17)) • Develop the DARIAH core • Expand DARIAH: ambassador network; digital humanities summer schools; Impact board and conference • Share expertise: data knowledge; funding principles; support DARIAH contributions • Basic services: Methods and data life cycle; reference architectures; open data

Network of affiliated projects Archaeologists Holocaust Researchers Medieval and Modern Historians Digital Textual Scholarship Cultural Heritage conservation Digital Methods

Network of affiliated projects Research projects within the humanities that have received national or European funding and whose work programme comprises an important move towards using digital methods are a core stakeholder group for DARIAH activities

Categories of affiliated projects • Enable disciplinespecific infrastructures • Integrating activities • CHARISMA/IPERION-CH • EHRI and CENDARI • ARIADNE • Research into e-Research • Analysis of methods: Ne. Di. Mah • Education • Digital Scholarship: Di. Xi. T • Collaborations with other Infrastructures • CLARIN • e-Cloud • DM 2 E • DASISH

Short update on EHRI • EHRI launched its virtual observatory in Berlin in March 2015

EHRI-2 New funding for EHRI under Horizon 2020 (8 m, 2015 -2019) • New partners in esp Eastern and Southern Europe (22 partners from 17 countries) • Working with the Holocaust data directly • Enable data-driven research • Involve all relevant communities and stakeholders

DARIAH in various phases of a project • Project development (project registry, matchmaking, Annual DARIAH Theme) • Knowledge exchange • Impact • Sustainability

How do affiliated projects benefit from DARIAH? • DARIAH technical environment (e. g. virtual machines, long-term archiving, single-sign on, collaboration space) • Expertise in data modeling, standards for (meta-) data interoperability and virtual research environments • Sustainability (research data, results and publications, exploration business models)

How does DARIAH benefit from affiliated projects? (1) • Close links with research communities, their research questions and methods Digital Medieval Studies Digital Literary Studies • Researchers with clear needs in terms of digital data management and tools • Funded grassroots developments that can be extended to the European scholarly community

How does DARIAH benefit from affiliated projects? (2) • Demonstration of impact Public History of the Holocaust Conference Berlin, July 2013 • Expansion of DARIAH network (partners in affiliated projects)

Sharing knowledge between DARIAH and APs – suggestions • Involve partners in affiliated projects in DARIAH network • Increase visibility of projects within DARIAH (website, co -organised events, encourage participation in/collaboration with working groups) • Organise exchange of knowledge • …… 24 October 2021

Towards sustainable digital services DARIAH Members + Project outcomes

Towards sustainable digital services • DARIAH as guide in sustaining and connecting the results of projects beyond their funding • Early identification of outputs of projects that should be developed and/or migrated to sustainable digital services for the arts and humanities research community in general • Not one-size-fits-all, but different strategies for sustainability • Explore and develop new business models • Address different dimensions of sustainability

Sustainability workshop (1) Workshop: “Sustaining CENDARI – Building DARIAH”, 21 -22 January 2015 • How key outputs of CENDARI provide value to the DARIAH community in the medium to long term? • How can these outputs be preserved / developed after the project funding ends? • What are the constraints for the future sustainability?

Sustainability workshop (2) Workshop: “Sustaining CENDARI – Building DARIAH”, 21 -22 January 2015 • Participation of DARIAH affiliated projects including DM 2 E • Key outcome: DARIAH white paper outlining processes for the sustaining and sharing of the results of fixed-term projects within the context of DARIAH.

Questions, comments, dilemma’s? … thank you