Towards DARIAH in BelgiumSally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
DH Spring Event, KU Leuven, 28-29 April 2015
Sally Chambers
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH Mission:
DARIAH aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the humanities and arts…
A quick history of DARIAH
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• 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
• 2014+: DARIAH-ERIC
15 Founding Members
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Founding Members
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Founding Members
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovenia
Candidate countries
Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
Who is DARIAH for?
Image source: http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/diversity2.jpg
A wide variety of research communities across the arts and humanities
Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Sally Chambers
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH in everyday life
…DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio of services that directly benefit researchers in their everyday work…
Digital Lexicography
http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/-/k/14017
Toma Tasovac presenting: Interfacing Diachrony: Visualizing Linguistic Change on the Basis of Digital Editions of Serbian 18th-Century Texts at DH 2012.
Digital Archaeology
www.dainst.org/
Viewing platform of the Domus Severiana on the Palatine in Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80 CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the Domus Severiana over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute
Digital Textual Scholarship
www.textgrid.de/en
A virtual research environment for researchers in the text-based humanities to create, analyse, edit, store and publish their research data
Multimedia Research
… a digital infrastructure to facilitate researchers’ access to the Danish radiophonic cultural heritage including appropriate tools and a bibliography
LARM Audio Research Archive
http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/about-larm/
Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step: Involving research communities in Belgium
DARIAH in Belgium
• Belgium has one seat in the General Assembly (BELSPO)
• 3 Consortia (alternating National Coordinator per year)-DARIAH–Vlaanderen (DARIAH-VL)
-DARIAH–Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (DARIAH-FWB)
-DARIAH– Federal (Dariah-FED)
• Actual National Coordination (2014-2015): Ghent University (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities)
Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step: Involving research communities in Belgium
DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH-FWB
• UCL : Paul Bertrand (spokesperson)• ULiège : Björn-Olav Dozo• USaint-Louis : Eric Bousmar • UMons : Bruno De Lièvre • UNamur : Anne Roekens • ULB : Seth Van Hooland
DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH-VL
• Ghent University: Christophe Verbruggen (spokesperson)
• Antwerp University: Dirk Van Hulle• KU Leuven: Mark Depauw
• Coming soon: UHasselt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Infrastructural needs
• Enhancing the potential of digitised data• eHumanities and the humanities digital ecosystem• Integrating data providers in humanities digital Ecosystem• Creation of knowledge bases
Solution: setting up a Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure. ... in DARIAH-EU!
VRE-SI ‘Pilot projects’
Ghent University• Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC,)• TIC Collaborative • Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams• Newspapers crowdsourcing and text mining platform
Antwerp University• The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project• Dutch translations of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy
KULeuven• Trismegistos • NaBuCCoVIAA (Flemish Institute for Archiving): VRE World War I