# DARIAH-ERIC Towards a sustainable social and technical European eResearch Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Tibor Kalman, Eveline Wandl-Vogt

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Towards a
sustainable social and technical
European eResearch Infrastructure
for the Arts and Humanities

DARIAH-ERIC VCC1 e -Infrastructures Co-Heads

Tibor Kálmán, GWDG & Eveline Wandl-Vogt, AAS

@ eIRG Workshop: Rome (IT), 10.11.2014

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Outline

* General Overview
  DARIAH-ERIC &
  Conceptual Outline
  eInfrastructures @ DARIAH-ERIC:
  history, administration,
  mission, challenges

- Technical Insight
eInfrastructures @ DARIAH-ERIC:
affiliated projects, collaboration,
outcomes, results

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Outline

* General Overview
DARIAH-ERIC &
Conceptual Outline
eInfrastructures @ DARIAH-ERIC:
history, administration,
mission, challenges

- Technical Insight
eInfrastructures @ DARIAH-ERIC:
affiliated projects, collaboration,
outcomes, results

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General Overview
DARIAH-ERIC

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DARIAH-EU
Mission

DARIAH-ERIC aims to
enhance and support
digitally-enabled research and teaching
across the Humanities and Arts.

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Mission

DARIAH-ERIC aims to

enhance and support
digitally-enabled research and teaching
across the Humanities and Arts.

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure

will be a connected network of tools, information, people and methodologies for investigating, exploring and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure will be a connected network of tools, information, people and methodologies for investigating, exploring and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure will be a connected network of tools, information, people and methodologies for investigating, exploring and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure will be a connected network of tools, information, **people** and methodologies for investigating, **exploring** and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Organisational Framework

## DARIAH-ERIC: a social & technical Infrastructure

* People

* Information

* Expertise

* Knowledge

* Content

* Methods

* Tools

* Technologies

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DARIAH-EU
# Organisational Framework

DARIAH-ERIC: a **social & technical** Infrastructure

* People

* Information

* Expertise

* Knowledge

* Content

* Methods

* Tools

* Technologies

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## Brief history

* **2006**
  DARIAH @ ESFRI Roadmap

* **2008 – 2011:**
  Preparatory Phase project:
  *Preparing DARIAH*

* **2011 – 2013:**
  Transition Phase
  establishing the DARIAH-ERIC
  integrating national activities

* **2014-:**
  DARIAH-ERIC

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DARIAH-EU

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**DARIAH**
Digital Research Infrastructure
for the Arts and Humanities

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DARIAH-EU

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DARIAH-ERIC
Funding members

Founding Members

<table><tr><td>Austria</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Belgium</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Croatia</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cyprus</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Denmark</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>France</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Germany</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Greece</td><td></td></tr></table>

Founding Members

<table><tr><td>Ireland</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Italy</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Luxembourg</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Malta</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Netherlands</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Serbia</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Slovenia</td><td></td></tr></table>

Candidate countries

<table><tr><td>Lithuania</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Poland</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Portugal</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Spain</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Switzerland</td><td></td></tr></table>
Conceptual Overview
elnfrastructures @DARIAH-ERIC

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure will be a connected network of tools, information, **people** and methodologies for investigating, **exploring** and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Mission

The DARIAH-ERIC infrastructure will be a connected network of tools, information, **people** and methodologies for investigating, **exploring** and supporting research across the broad spectrum of the Digital Humanities and Arts.

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# Encouraging people

## ... to share and grow

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# Encouraging people

... to share and grow

DARIAH is providing ...

* guidance,
* e.g. standards, concepts ...

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# Encouraging people

... to share and grow

DARIAH is providing ...

* guidance, e.g. standards, concepts ...

* access, e.g. tools, networks, information ...

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# Encouraging people

... to share and grow

DARIAH is providing ...

* guidance,
* e.g. standards, concepts ...

* access,
* e.g. tools, networks, information ...

* curiosity,
* to grow with the projects within our network

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Encouraging people

... to share and grow

DARIAH is providing ...

* guidance,
* e.g. standards, concepts ...

* access,
* e.g. tools, networks, information ...

* curiosity,
* to grow with the projects within our network

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Examples on the latest trends 2014
Arts and Digital Humanities

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# Arts

## Example 1: Media art

existing prototypes
to be connected
e.g. Archive of Digital Art (ADA)

→ Liverpool declaration

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DARIAH-EU

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Humanities

Example 2:
eLexicography

existing communities of practice
to be connected
e.g. COST IS 1305 ENeL

→ DARIAH Working Group proposal

EUROPEAN
NETWORK OF
e-LEXICOGRAPHY

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EUROPEAN COOPERATION
IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Social Sciences

Example 2:
Social Innovation

existing communities of practice
to be connected

e.g. European School on Social Innovation (ESSI)

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→ DARIAH Working Group proposal
# Challenges for DARIAH and A+H-eResearch-Infrastructures

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DARIAH-EU
# Current challenges

## Framework:

Arts and Humanities @ Cyberscience

* Data | Information

* Disciplines, Scientific Paradigms

* People

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Change

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Challenges

* Big Data in the Humanities

* Inter-, transdisciplinary Humanities

* Knowledge Societies

* Citizen Science

* Open Access, Open Data, Open Science

* Open Innovation

* Inclusive Innovation:
  Technological and Social Innovation

* Sustainability

* Funding

Change

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DARIAH-EU

Trends 4 Arts & Humanities
Technical Insight

DARIAH-ERIC

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DARIAH-EU
Collaboration with
European infrastructures

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# Different Interests in Research Infrastructures

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# Network of affiliated projects (1)

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ARIADNE

Archaeologists

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CENDARI
COLLABORATIVE EUROPEAN DIGITAL
ARCHIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

Dixit
Digital Scholarly Editions
Initial Training Network

Medieval and
Modern Historians

Digital Textual
Scholarship

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Holocaust
Researchers

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CHARISMA

Cultural Heritage
conservation

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Digital Methods

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DARIAH-EU
Network of affiliated projects (2)

* Enable discipline-specific infrastructures

- Integrating activities

* e.g. ARIADNE, CENDARI, CHARISMA, EHRI

* Research into e-Research, analysis of methods:

- NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities)

- TaDiRAH (Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities)

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# Example affiliated project: Cendari

* CENDARI: "is a research infrastructure project aimed at integrating digital archives for the medieval and World War one eras."

* What does CENDARI get from DARIAH?

- DARIAH[-DE] technical environment (e.g. collaboration tools, long-term archiving, virtual machines)

- Expertise in data modeling and standards for (meta-) data interoperability

- Sustainable infrastructure and sustainability plan for CENDARI results

* How does DARIAH benefit from CENDARI?

- Close links with historians, their research questions and methods

- Access to a wide network of European archives

- Good practices in formats and standards for archival description (EAG, EAC, EAD)
# DARIAH e-Infrastructure

* The DARIAH e-Infrastructure needs to support

– Collaboration

– Sharing

– Contributions

* What is the technical background for it?

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Collaboration on the
Technical infrastructure

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# Collaboration on the Technical Infrastructure

* Collaboration with other (European) infrastructures

* The DARIAH e-Infrastructure aims interoperability

* DARIAH utilizes existing standards and existing services

- Examples

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# Examples of Collaboration on the Technical Infrastructure

<figure><img src="image_55.png" /><figcaption>## Federated, Generic Search</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_56.png" /><figcaption>## Collaboration Tools</figcaption></figure>

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# DARIAH AAI

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DARIAH is a Network of ...

* a wide variety of research communities across the arts and humanities

* affiliated projects in the wider DARIAH landscape, e.g. EHRI, CENDARI, ARIADNE

* working communities of practice

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DARIAH-EU
# DARIAH AAI (2)

* In Whom We Trust?

* “A connected network of people, information, tools, and methodologies for investigating, exploring and supporting work across the broad spectrum of the digital humanities”

- Find and use a wide range of research data

- Work across domains and disciplines

* Group and attribute management integration with DARIAH AAI

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# DARIAH AAI (3)

* Possible ways for DARIAH:

- Own federation for the Arts and Humanities

- Federation of federations

* eduGAIN is a good approach to pan European AAI for DARIAH

* DARIAH would like to see more and reasonable attributes available

* Combination of eduGAIN and community specific DARIAH homeless-IdP and attribute authority

* Support safe attribute release via GÉANT Code of Conduct

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# Federated, Generic Search

* Schema/Crosswalk Registry

— Federated search relies on crosswalks

— Mappings and rules allow transforming the queries to match the constraints of sources

* Collection Registry

— Data sources (collections)

* Indeces

— Store crawled and analyzed content

— Dynamically created based on crosswalks

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DARIAH-EU
Federated, Generic Search (2)

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# Collaboration Tools

* Technical Infrastructure

* Project Management, Code
  Hosting, Revision Control,
  Software Testing,
  Documentation,
  Communication, Issue
  Tracking System with
  software (e.g. Etherpad,
  JIRA, Jenkins, Greenhopper
  among others)

DARIAH-EU

DARIAH-DE

DARIAH-NL

DARIAH-AT

DARIAH-FR

Geo-Browser

TextGrid

## Documentation Management

Confluence

Liberay

Etherpad

SVN

## Project Management

Jira+Greenhopper

## Development Tools

Jenkins

Sonar

Nexus

OpenLDAP

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# Basic Services – Persistent Identifier

* Persistent identification of digital objects

- for publishing and referencing

* It requires standards and services

* DARIAH applies existing standards and services

- Handle (www.pidconsortium.eu), URN, etc

- Globally distributed resolution

* Service operated by DARIAH partners

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Summary

* Productive infrastructure and services are available and widely used.

* DARIAH can serve as a blueprint for other A+H infrastructures and research domains.

* Long-term perspective: Increase number of “commodity” services.

* Network: Lower the barrier for projects and communities to connect / join in!

* Funding: Creating a sustainable ecosystem is costly: sustainable funding structures are needed!

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DARIAH-ERIC

Towards
a sustainable social and technical European
eResearch Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

[DARIAH-EU VCC1 eInfrastructures Co-Heads](#)
[Tibor Kálmán](#), [GWDG](#) & [Eveline Wandl-Vogt](#), [AAS](#)

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