1. Nicolas Larrousse TGE-Adonis, CNRS, France
Introducing DARIAH
Thank you for the opportunity to present DARIAH
In the time allowing, we would like to provide you with a brief introduction to DARIAH – the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities including:
Setting the context for DARIAH
Why DARIAH and How
Our founding members and the budgetary principles
How DARIAH will operate through our European-wide network of Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)
DARIAH in the DH landscape
Nicolas Larrousse
TGE-Adonis, CNRS, France

2. Setting the context for DARIAH
Deep digital revolution in the arts and humanities
Need for AH communities to deal with the digital deluge
How to move from the traditional library/archive to digital?
Shall we create new data centers?
How do we take into account communities of practice?
How do we link to scholarly networks?
Do we have generic digital scenarios?
Helping research communities to deal with the digital deluge
How to move from the traditional library/archive setting?
DARIAH as a digital library?
Shall we create data centres?
It might be a better idea to use existing one
How do we take into account communities of practice?
e.g. TEI — Text Encoding Initiative
How do we link to scholarly networks?
Importance of grass-root projects
Do we have generic digital scenarios?
Digitise, preserve, enrich, publish — within an open access culture

3. people and (existing) ressources.
What is DARIAH?
We don’t already have an infrastructure that would:
Bring together individual state-of-the-art digital arts and humanities activities across Europe
Provide access to and disseminate the research that stems from these collaborations and Preserve it
Ensure that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed
DARIAH aims to be this infrastructure but in a lightweight way.
DARIAH link
people and (existing) ressources.
So, why is DARIAH needed?
Constituing networks of people and projects
Give access and share digital ressources
Communites should have effective access to collections, data and tools to undertake their research and that the fruits of their research are, made accessible and disseminated back to the European research community and beyond
Preserve digital ressources on the long term
In order to achieve thises goals, you mays that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH aims to be this infrastructure.
DARIAH will be developed by the researchers, for the researchers.

4. DARIAH Founding Membership
Austria
Croatia
Denmark
France (Host Country)
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
Slovenia
Serbia
DARIAH-ERIC
Wich countries are participating in DARIAH?
The founding members of the DARIAH-ERIC will be the following 10 countries that you see here, including Croatia and Serbia as Associated Countries.
All of these countries have signed the DARIAH-ERIC Memorandum of Understanding stating their willingness to establish the DARIAH ERIC.
The legal seat of the DARIAH-ERIC will be in Paris, France. The coordination of DARIAH is lead jointly by France, Germany and The Netherlands.
We are now in the Last Phase of establishing the DARIAH-ERIC The ERIC is to created in 2013
ERIC structure is founding by states … and is suposed to last more than a classical European Project so we can think on the long term

5. DARIAH budgetary principles
Estimated annual budget: 4 million euro
Members and Observers contribute to the budget
Contributions are based on the latest GDP figures
Contributions consist of two parts:
Cash contribution (ca. 10%)
In‐kind contribution (ca. 90%)
As with any organisation, DARIAH has also laid down its budgetary principles.
With an estimated annual budget of approximately 4 million euro,
Members and observers contribute to the budget. These contributions are based on the latest GDP figures from the World Bank.
Contributions exist of two parts:
Cash contributions (10%)
In-kind contributions (90%) which are monitored through the VCC framework.

6. DARIAH Organization Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)
To establish a shared technology platform for Arts and Humanities research
To expose and share digitially enabled Arts and Humanties research methods, training, expertise and tools
To expose and share scholarly content
To interface with key influencers in / for the Arts and Humanities
Here briefly is alittle of the detail about the specific expertise of the individual VCCs:
VCC1 – eInfrastructure – lead by Germany and Austria will establish a shared technology platform for arts and humanities research
VCC2 – Research and Education – lead by Ireland and Denmark – is where the researchers are. They will expose and share their digital enabled research methods, expertise and tools.
VCC3 – Scholarly Content Management – lead by France and The Netherlands is where the interoperability happens to expose and share scholarly content.
VCC4 – Advocacy, impact and outreach – lead by Germany in liaison with the DCO is the key interface with influencers in and for the Arts and Humanities.
DARIAH will operate through its European-wide Virtual Competency Centres or VCCs.
Each VCC is centred on a specific area of expertise, but at the same time are cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional and international. The map in the bottom right hand corner of this slides represents just some of the institutions that make up our VCC network.
The role of the VCCs is to develop and deliver services for all European’s arts and humanities researchers.

7. VCC Research and Education
DARIAH-EU as an echo chamber of national contributions
Liaison education et recherche
Promotion et diffusion
Forschung
und Lehre
Advocacy
e-infrastructure
Management des contenus
e-Infrastruktur
Forschungs- daten
VCC
Advocacy
VCC Research and Education
Research and Education
Forschung und Lehre
Advocacy
Advocacy
Scholarly Content Management
Forschungs- daten
VCC
eInfrastructure
VCC Scholarly Content
e-Infrastructure
e-Infrastruktur
Core stakeholder group for DARIAH activities are indeed research projects within the humanities that have received a national or European grant and whose work program comprises an important move to digital methods. Such projects are essential for several reasons:
They are anchored on a clear scholarly domain, thus providing a precise insight on the underlying research issues
They are likely to have clear needs in terms of digital data management and tools
They have actual funding for their own grassroots developments, which are likely to bring new tools and services for the corresponding scholarly community at large
They have a clear view that they have to take sustainability measures for their results
Research and
Education
Scholarly Content Management
e-Infra- structure
Advocacy
Research and
Education
Scholarly Content Management
e-Infra- structure
Advocacy
… and other countries DARIAH-nn …

8. DARIAH inside DH landscape
Affiliated projects
EHRI, CENDARI, DASISH, NeDiMAH, DiXiT, CULTURA
Sibling initiatives
TEI, CLARIN, BAMBOO, CESSDA, SHARE, ESS
Cultural heritage initiatives
Europeana, DC-Net, ARROW
Technological initiatives
EGI, EUDAT
Larger circle initiatives
OpenAIRE, APA, GRDI2020
Of course, DARIAH does not work in the digital arts and humanities landscape alone, both in Europe or internationally. We are therefore working towards a collaboration strategy, initially mapping the landscape and then considering each initiatives according to it’s proximity to DARIAH based on thematic interest, institutional anchoring and intended user community.
For example, Affiliated projects are the most closely related to DARIAH and a strong collaborative framework already exists, for example the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) which supports the European Holocaust research community by opening up a portal that will give online access to dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust all over Europe and Israel.