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CENDARI and the Future of
Research
Deirdre Byrne, Trinity College Dublin
Presentation to The European Library AGM
17th September 2013
CENDARI is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research

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CENDARI!
• Who is CENDARI?
• What are the goals of the project?
• Overarching goals
• Network
• Resource
• Technical
• Time scale and Sustainability

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14 Consortium Partners, 8 Countries
2012-2016, total budget €6.5M
• Trinity College Dublin
• Freie Universität Berlin
• University of Birmingham
• Czech National Library
• Università di Cassino
• The European Library
• Consortium of European Research Libraries
• King’s College, London
• INRIA
• University of Stuttgart
• Goettingen State and University Library
• Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Arts
• Fondazione Ezio Franceschini
• Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino

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Primary Aims of CENDARI
Pilot a research infrastructure leveraging
analogue networks to integrate digital
resources for historical researchers that is easy
to use/access and essential to their research
goals
Two Pilot Areas
• World War I
• Medieval European Culture

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-Uniting Library and archival holdings within existing metadata
frameworks.
- Not ‘YASABE’ (Yet Another Search and Browse Environment)
-Creating seamless modes for intake and comparison of data.
-Supporting transnational and comparative approaches across
disciplines, locations and modalities
Overarching Goals:
The CENDARI ‘Enquiry Environment’

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• Historians
• Librarians
• Archivists
• eScientists
• Research Infrastructures and relevant
IT/humanities projects
All contributing communities to the
wider vision of the CENDARI ‘enquiry
environment’
Networking Goals: Broad Collaborations

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Overcome the tendency to focus on well-developed,
well-financed library and archival collections and
create a more balanced view of historic collections
CENDARI is working to:
• Transcend national and institutional data silos
• Describe (often for the first time) important assets
in lesser-known library collections and archives
Resource Goals:
Showcasing Europe‘s Hidden Archives

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Powerful tools and services to underpin
interactive search environment
• Multilingual search functions
• Indexes of named entities
• Personalisation features
• Shared research and teaching spaces
• Data visualisation
• Annotation trails
• etc.
Technical Goals: New Paradigms

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Timescales and Sustainability
• Project duration 2012-2016
• On-going cooperation with other e-humanities
infrastructures and projects to avoid duplication of
activities
• Investment not only in the resources and
technologies, but in the methodologies required to
maximise their value
• End results to be integrated into DARIAH (Digital
Research Infrastructure for the Arts and
Humanities)

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Designing technologies to meet resource
provider and researcher needs
• Creating a feedback loop with users (historians
/collections experts)
• Development workshops
• Training programmes
• Expert seminars
• Summer schools
• Visiting Researcher Fellowships
Integrated, Interactive, Inclusive

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Thanks
Deirdre Byrne
CENDARI Project Officer
Trinity Long Room Hub
Trinity College Dublin
Email: info@cendari.eu
Web: www.cendari.eu
CENDARI is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research