DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
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Grant Holder:
Supporting and enhancing digitially enabled research.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices across the arts and humanities, acting as a trusted intermediary between disciplines and domains. DARIAH is working with communities of practice to:
| Project start date: 2008-09 | Project end date: 2010-12 |
- Apply and explore ICT-based methods and tools to enable new research questions to be asked and old questions to be posed in new ways
- Link distributed digital source materials of many kinds
- Manage and provide access to digital research collections
- Exchange knowledge, expertise, methodologies and practices across domains and disciplines
Subject domains:
Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Dance Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language and Literature, Modern Languages, History, Law, Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies, Linguistics, Media, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies, Architecture: History, Theory & Practice, Community Arts (including Art and Health), Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries, Visual Arts, Design
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Curation | Strategy and project management |
| Spatial | Content types |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| design | Discipline |
| linguistics | Discipline |
| sound | Content types |
| 3D object | Content types |
| music | Discipline |
| archaeology | Discipline |
| moving image | Content types |
| text | Content types |
| media | Discipline |
Funding sources:
European Union
Content types created:
3D object, Dataset/structured data, Moving Image, Sound, Spatial, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Fedora Commons
Digital resource created:
The preparatory phase project will construct two demonstrators:
- an exemplary Service-Oriented Architecture based on the “Archaeological Records of Europe - Networked Access” (ARENA).
- an exemplary digital archive to showcase DARIAH as an infrastructure that offers sustained access to arts and humanities research results in various formats. The archive will be based on the collections at the Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Denmark among others.
Data Formats created:
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Publications:
http://www.dariah.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=72
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| Archaeology Data Service |
| Oxford University Computing Services - Oxford Text Archive |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Peter Doorn, Sheila Anderson, Tobias Blanke, Seth Denbo, Mike Priddy |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| Author(s) of record | Seth Denbo |
| Title | DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities |
| Record created | 2009-11-04 |
| Record updated | 2010-05-07 11:05 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2978 |
| Citation of record | Seth Denbo: DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities . <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2978> created: 2009-11-04, last updated 2010-05-07 11:05 |