1. DARIAH: Paving the way for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Europe Peter Doorn Coordinator, DARIAH PPP Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services Expert Board Hearing, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Madrid, 2 November 2009

3. The implications of the changes for new requirements of research facilities

4. DARIAH: what does it aim for and what has it to offer?

5. What are we doing right now and where are we?

6. How will it be organised?

7. What will it cost?

9. From Humanities computingto e-humanities Roots go back to the 1960s: text analysis, e.g. bible studies quantitative social and economic history computer linguistics digital archaeology E-humanities as analogy of e-science: ‘science increasingly done through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet, using very large data collections, large-scale computing resources and high performance visualisation.’

10. CLIWOC-project (Climate of the World Oceans) Collaboration of historians and meteorologists

11. Journal entries, 26-29 September 1758 Month: September Ship’s name: Noordbeveland Year: 1758 Date: 26th Weather on board Wind Day: Tuesday Peculiarities

12. Shipping Routes 1750-1850(Spain, Netherlands, England, Argenentina) Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI

13. Average yearly temperatures, 1750-1850 Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI

14. Wind direction and speed Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI

15. Wind directions and rainy days, Atlantic, 1770-1780 Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI

16. Archaeology

17. Data collection in the field

18. Databases of finds

19. Photos, GIS, sherds

20. Virtual archive of finds, publications, data and documentation

23. R.I. for the natural sciences: ice breakers for polar research, satellites, telescopes, particle accelerators, laboratories

26. European activities are until now funded on a project basis and carried out as voluntary activities by national partners

27. Stable, pan-European research infrastructures for the arts and humanities hardly exist

29. The existing structures are too weak (ad hoc networks, no permanence) and national in scope

31. Link distributed digital source materials of many kinds

32. Provide access to digital research collections

34. DARIAH preparation project partners

35. DARIAH consortium in October 2008 and 2009

37. Spain

38. Sweden

39. Austria

40. SwitzerlandOther prospective partners in: Rumania,Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Serbia, FYROM Members Associate Aspiring Prospective

41. Strategic, financial, organisational and legal objectives Strategic: To determine the strategic vision, goals, objectives and policies for DARIAH, ensuring they are based upon and will meet stakeholder requirements, clearly identified business drivers, and identified benefits for European research Financial: To define a sustainable business model for DARIAH that allows for the provision of long-term services to the European research community in the humanities, while ensuring adaptability to new user needs and new technological developments Logistical: To deliver a business plan that describes the organisational set-up and the management structure, the role of the institutions and persons involved (stakeholders, staff, experts, partners, expansion with new partners) Legal: To determine the rights and obligations of different types of DARIAH partners and allowing for the inclusion of new partners;draft licence agreements,products and services contracts; ERI ornon-ERI, that is the question.

42. Technical and conceptual objectives Architecture: To draft the technical reference architecture of DARIAH, consisting of draft engineering plans, as well as demonstrators for key enabling technologies. Conceptual: Develop foundation of a coherent, interlinked, and collaboratively maintained virtual infrastructure of digital resources in the partner institutes. Model and evaluate the research processes in selected digital humanities disciplines.

44. Virtual Competency Centers (VCCs)Each of the centers will be located physically in one of the DARIAH partner countries, but other partners can take part in the centers, hence the virtual aspect

45. The VCCs will bear responsibility for specific tasks and expertise

46. National centres (prominent institutes) participate in VCCs.

49. An ERIC shall have its own legal entity (International Organisation)

50. The European Commission shall approve the Statutes of an ERIC before its official establishment

51. Obligatory organs:

52. General Assembly of Members (and Associate members without voting rights)

53. Board of Directors

54. Optional Organs:

55. Scientific Board

57. Proposal: national contributions related to GDP

58. Funding structure to be discussed with funders at Oxford meeting on December 8.

59. Commitment: in progress

60. in some countries financial commitment “in principle” (Ireland, France, Germany)

61. in some countries on national roadmap (Holland)

63. Prototype of new, expandable portal Photo courtesy of Guus Lange of RACM

64. Opportunities for Spanish archaeology Archaeological excavation at Punta dos Prados in Ortigueira Northern Galicia Courtesy Cesar Parcero-Oubina of The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa)

65. Relations to other projects and networks

66. Preparing DARIAH: time schedule October 2006 Publication ESFRI Roadmap Financial Commitment? December 2006 Publication relevant FP7 call Q3 2008 Agreement EC funding 2008 2009 2010 2007 May 2007 Deadline Capacities call ESFRI projects Q4 2009 Funders’ meeting Q3 2010 DARIAH conference Q4 2008 Start “Preparing DARIAH” Q1 2011 Start construction DARIAH

67. Additional information www.dariah.eu