Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data. DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School, 4-8 July 2017, Le Mans, France. 5th and last day, July 8th – Digital representation and data accuracy for Humanities. Humanities at Scale and Dariah-EU. Nicolas Larrousse – Research officer, TGIR Huma-Num. Abstract: https://bvh.hypotheses.org/3330#resume-NLarousse

1. Bibliotheca Digitalis
Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks
From Primary Source to Data
DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School
Le Mans, 4-8 July 2017
Humanities at Scale
& Dariah-EU
5th and last day, July 8th – Digital representation and data accuracy for Humanities
Nicolas Larrousse
Research officer, TGIR Huma-Num

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A French Infrastructure for
Digital Humanities
Nicolas
Larrousse
DARIAH an European Infrastructure
For Humanities
Nicolas Larrousse
Le Mans 08/07/2017

3. An Infrastructure for Humanities?
Huma-Num, an Infrastructure
Very Large Research Infrastructure?
What exactly is an Infrastructure?

4. Huma-Num’s Ecosystem

5. …
ProjectsERICs
is entrusted with France’s
participation in
is involved in

6. What Is DARIAH?
DARIAH is a pan-European community
of researchers to facilitate humanities
research in the digital age

7. Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities
Make human traces digitally available
Documenting:
material
Documenting:
origin, date,
material
Qualifying:
authenticity
Qualifying:
authorship,
research value,
authenticity
Analyzing:
names, dates
Analyzing:
layout,
transcription,
names, dates
Communicating:
contextualization
Communicating:
corpus, rights,
contextualization

8. Founding Members
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Founding Members
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovenia
Candidate countries
and associated members
Lithuania
Spain
Switzerland
Founded 2006
17 Members Countries
New Members since ERIC
agreement was signed
Poland
Portugal
Slide by Suzanne DuMouchel

9. • Sharing knowledge to create new
connections and insight, through
networking, training and projects
• Sharing tools to promote the work of
others with similar research questions
• Sharing data to allow new projects to
start from a higher baseline
• Sharing networks to build key
relationships and seek funding
• Sharing a voice to be heard in
European and national policy debates
People
Data
Computation
People
Data
Computation
DARIAH is a Community
Slide by Suzanne DuMouchel

10. High-level Principles (Community)
• Governed and led by the arts and
humanities research community
• Become community-driven
• Be inclusive
• Promote openness
• Enable transnational collaboration
• Promote standards and best practices

11. High-level Principles (Organisational)
• Operate under a sustainable business model within
the larger scientific community in Europe
• Be receptive to community needs
• Deliver easy-to-use services and resources
• Delegate trust and share responsibilities
• Display high quality services

12. High-level Principles (Science & technology)
• Enable digital arts and humanities research
• Integrate existing resources, research and services
• Use innovations from the national DARIAH partners and scale
them to a European level
• Deliver methodological innovation and promote
interdisciplinary research
• Stay digitally-focused and analogue-aware

13. Virtual Competence Centers
as Knowledge Transfer Points
VCC 1 – e‐Infrastructure
1.A+H Infrastructure Services
2.A+H Research Environment demonstrators
3.A+H Service Environment
4.Data Federation and interoperability
5.Developer community
6.Preservation Infrastructure
7.Reference Software Packages
VCC 2 ‐ Research & Education
1. Community engagement
2. Training and Education Programme
3. Understanding research practices
4. Virtual Research Environment
VCC 3 – Scholarly Content Management
1.Best Practices and Open Access
2.Curation
3.Dissemination and Digital Publishing
4.Enrich digital scholarly content
5.Reference Data Registries
VCC 4 – Advocacy, Impact & Outreach
1.Ensuring capacity in DARIAH
2.Ensuring Participation in DARIAH
3.High‐level Advocacy
4.Impact and value
5.Outreach
Slide by Suzanne DuMouchel

14. Working Groups

15. E‐RIHS
Communities/Projects
within and around DARIAH

16. How to Access DARIAH
• DARIAH Marketplace (Coming Soon) for tools and
services
• DARIAH Annual Meetings (next one in Aarhus, November
2017) for community interactions
• DARIAH Theme/Ambassador funding for small projects
• DARIAH Working Groups for collaborative work
• DARIAH central team for access to information and advice
• DARIAH training events and materials to improve your
skills

17. Humanities At Scale?
“Add-On“ to DARIAH
Help during the construction phase of DARIAH
WP for training and Education