DARIAH-DE

DARIAH-DE (funded 2011-2019) supports humanities scholars and cultural scientists working with digital resources and methods in research and teaching. To this end, the network is establishing a digital research infrastructure and developing materials for teaching and further education in the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The DARIAH-DE operational cooperation (2019-2021) continues these goals.

Together with successful initiatives in the field of DH in Germany

• DARIAH-DE supports the development of virtual research environments in the humanities by providing advice, linking previously separate activities and providing technical infrastructure.
• DARIAH-DE also uses and links existing digital resources, services and findings across individual disciplines and specific research questions.
• DARIAH-DE establishes and researches a decentralized technical infrastructure on which humanities methods can be implemented and used.

This goal does not only include technical tasks, but also concerns local and international activities, and above all is designed for the long term.

DARIAH-DE was conceived on the basis of the following guiding principles:

• The greatest possible participation and involvement of researchers and their research processes from the humanities disciplines in close cooperation with computer scientists and IT specialists,
• Provision of new tools and technologies that are required by the specialist disciplines and that take into account the integration of existing resources and infrastructures,
• access to and re-use of scientific research data and services as well as a freely accessible, technical research infrastructure. In this respect, DARIAH differs from portals such as Europeana, which do not focus on research data but on the identification of cultural assets.

The German Wissenschaftsrat identifies a number of key areas that need to be considered when developing research infrastructures in the humanities, such as the “long-term archiving of research data with reference and citation options”, “uniform standards”, “linking digital data with metadata”, “interdisciplinary cooperation”, “use of research infrastructures in teaching”, etc. During its two and a half year preparation period, the ESFRI project DARIAH-EU identified these topics as relevant fields of action, which were realized in the subsequent phase of establishing a humanities research infrastructure.

Project team members

The start of the operational cooperation in March 2019 marked a new phase in the development of DARIAH-DE. 16 partner institutions have laid the foundation for the sustainable operation and thus the continuation of DARIAH-DE by concluding an operating cooperation agreement. The operating cooperation partners have different humanities and technical backgrounds. They include universities, libraries, computer centers, non-university research institutions, academies of science and commercial partners.

Many other institutions have participated in the development of DARIAH-DE as partners in the phases DARIAH-DE I-III (2011-2019) and are now part of the constantly growing network as former partners. Cooperation partners, associated partner projects and initiatives as well as the Memorandum of Understanding partners form another important part of this network. They use DARIAH services or develop them further within the framework of their own research priorities. Some of them are also connected to DARIAH-DE via national/international initiatives or projects that use the DARIAH infrastructure, such as EHRI and CENDARI.

Partner of the operation cooperation:

• Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, contact: Prof. Dr. Torsten Schrade
• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, contact: Alexander Czmiel
• DAASI International GmbH, contact: Peter Gietz
• German Archaeological Institute, contact: Dr. Philipp von Rummel
• Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen, contact: Prof. Dr. Philipp Wieder
• Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, contact: Dr. Hartmut Beyer
• Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, contact: Ole Meiners
• Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz, contact: Thorsten Wübbena
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, contact: Dr. Rainer Stotzka
• Max Weber Foundation, contact: Dr. Michael Kaiser
• Göttingen State and University Library, contact: Regine Stein
• Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg - Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, contact: Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich
• Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History, contact: Harald Lordick
• Technical University of Darmstadt - Institute of Linguistics and Literature and Institute of Philosophy, contact: Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp
• University of Trier, contact: Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch
• Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg - Institute of German Philology - Chair of Computer Philology and Modern German Literary History, contact: Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis

The project is coordinated by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen).