The document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure called DARIAH to support humanities research in Europe. It proposes that DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage data and tools to process this information. The infrastructure would link distributed resources across Europe and support innovative, international and interdisciplinary digital humanities research through a decentralized network of national and thematic organizations. Preparation projects are underway to define DARIAH's strategic vision, business model, technical architecture and governance structure.

1. Towards a new research infrastructure for the arts and humanities Peter Doorn Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services Athens May 6 th , 2009

3. Ideas about the future may be false... Mouse? How Rand Corporation envisioned the future (2004) home computer in 1954

5. Humanities computing

6. Aetolian Studies Project: settlement history from prehistory to modern times

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

8. Journal entry, 26-29 September 1758

9. Shipping Routes 1750-1850 Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI

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

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

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

13. Archaeology

14. Data collection in the field

15. Databases of finds

16. Photos, GIS, sherds

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

18. Electronic Depot Netherlands Archaeology (EDNA)

19. Archaeological Data Service (UK)

28. A digital research infrastructure for the humanities is comparable to a virtual astrophysics observatory

33. DARIAH preparation project partners

39. Arts and humanities disciplines according to European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) and in selected countries

40. Relations to other projects and networks

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

44. Additional information www.dariah.eu