1. Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
EGI DARIAH
Competence Centre
Web-meeting 8
I would like to thank you all for coming, my name is Davor, I will be a activity coordinator for DARIAH CC (together with prof Karolj Skala),
I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Ruđer Bošković Institute
Davor Davidović
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia 1

2. Agenda Status of the CC AAI Training and dissemination
Collaborative actions
Future plans

3. Status of the CC End of the first project year
The second year is focused on A&H gateway(s), training, user support and dissemination
Integration of the 3 mini-project
Integration with DARIAH AAI system
WG status (by Maarten)
Positive response from all VCC-heads
waiting for the final decision

4. Status of the CC D6.2 – Data repository for DARIAH (01.2016)
Submitted for internal review
Waiting for the feedback
Expected delay – 1 week
D6.5 – Final version of Multi-Source Distributed Real-Time Search and Information Retrieval application ( )
Draft version – end of January ???
Mid-February – external revision
Deadline – end of February

5. AAI Skype call with DARIAH WG “FIM4D”
Peter Gietz and Martin Haase
Technical details how to connect with DARIAH AAI
CC provides science gateway via robot certificates (per-user sub-proxy)
SAML-based login mechanism → service provider for DARIAH
Pilot project for DARIAH AAI WG
AAI workshop for Service and Resource Providers?
15-16 March, Manchester (link)

6. Training and dissemination
Sustainability and user involvement plan (Maarten)
Initial version done by Maarten: here
Could be used by DARIAH VCC1 as a guideline on how to use EGI infrastructure
DHBenelux conference (
Luxembourg, 9-10 June 2016
Abstract submission deadline: 12th Feb 2016
Digital Humanities 2016 (
Krakow, July 2016
Workshop proposal deadline: 14th Feb 2016
EURALEX 2016 ( )
Tbilisi, Georgia, 6-10 Sep 2016
Poster and workshop proposals accepted
Advertising DARIAH related events
E-Infrastructure forum ( )

7. Collaborative actions
Project collaboration
OpenMinTed (
to create an open, service-oriented ep-Infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) of scientific and scholarly content.
Researchers can collaboratively create, discover, share and re-use Knowledge from a wide range of text-based scientific related sources in a seamless way.
4 working groups – based on the standards
OpenMinTed platform services: Registry, Workflow, annotation
Community use cases:
READ – Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (
Provide CC gateway and EGI VO as a baseline RI?
Fine-tuning CC services?

8. Future plans Increase efforts in dissemination
Publication/presentation/workshops on community events
Define training activities and user support
One training event (webinar?) for each mini-project
Publish materials on EGI training portal and DARIAH wiki
Establish collaboration (pilot-projects) with other A&H projects
e-Science gateway → DARIAH service provider?
AAI
Integrating CDSTAR, gLibrary, PSSE with e-Science gateway
Provide as DARIAH services
Integrating other DARIAH-related application