Business Models for Digital RIs Using the Example of DARIAH · EURISE Workshop · Utrecht

### Business Models for Digital Research Infrastructures Using the Example of DARIAH

![Logo](images/dariah-logo.png)

Frank Fischer
 **@umblaetterer**

Higher School of Economics  ·  Moscow 
DARIAH-EU   🇪🇺   Board of Directors

frank.fischer@dariah.eu  ·  [homepage](https://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/182492735)

**This presentation:** [lehkost.github.io/slides/2019-03-12-utrecht-eurise/](https://lehkost.github.io/slides/2019-03-12-utrecht-eurise/)

[EURISE Workshop](https://euriseworkshop.sciencesconf.org/)  ·  Utrecht  🇳🇱  ·  12 Mar 2019

## Acknowledgement

This presentation builds on work done within the framework of the H2020 project [DESIR](https://www.dariah.eu/activities/projects-and-affiliations/desir/) («DARIAH-ERIC Sustainability Refined»), specifically on the «Report on a business plan and marketing strategy» by Arnaud Roi, Sally Chambers and Marco Raciti.

### DARIAH

DigitAl Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

### Vision

The Arts and Humanities are anchored at the centre of a technologically evolving knowledge society.

### Mission

DARIAH's mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society.

- **empower**: adding capacities that meet new or emerging research requirements
- **research**: contribution to a knowledge-based society (aiming for knowledge that is open and available to all)
- **communities**: strong believe in the value of working together (collaboration, diversity, social responsibility)
- **digital methods**: focus on how technology is transforming not objects, but activities
- **creating, connecting and sharing knowledge about culture and society**: the ultimate goal of all the disciplines of the arts and humanities (shedding light on the complexities and contradictions of the human experience, potential to contribute to creating a better, more tolerant and more inclusive society)

## DARIAH Does/Is Four Things

* Education and Training
 * complement traditional training with corresponding material and alternative teaching methods (workshops, summer schools, hackathons, etc.)
* The (future) Marketplace
 * enable access to research solutions (tools, services, data, workflows, know-how), also aiming at researchers who don't regard themselves as *digital* humanists
* Foresight and Policy Work
 * making the voice of the A+H heard in research policy discussions, promote nascent policies to our communities
* Working Groups
 * see next slide

### Market Analysis: Stakeholders

![mindmap](images/mindmap_stakeholders.jpg)

Mindmap created by Eliza Papaki and Arnaud Roi (DARIAH Coordination Office).

### Organisation Chart DARIAH-EU

![Organigram](images/orga.png)

## Two Keywords

- structurally, DARIAH-EU is a **membership organisation**
- officially, we are an **ERIC** (European Research Infrastructure Consortium)

## Member States

#### Founding Members

Austria 🇦🇹
Belgium 🇧🇪
Croatia 🇭🇷
Cyprus 🇨🇾
Denmark 🇩🇰
France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Greece 🇬🇷
Ireland 🇮🇪
Italy 🇮🇹
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Malta 🇲🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Serbia 🇷🇸
Slovenia 🇸🇮

#### New Members Since 2014

Poland 🇵🇱
Portugal 🇵🇹

#### Cooperating Partners/DESIR

Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Finland 🇫🇮
Hungary 🇭🇺
Israel 🇮🇱
Norway 🇳🇴
Romania 🇷🇴
Spain 🇪🇸
Sweden 🇸🇪
Switzerland 🇨🇭
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

## ERICs

- an ERIC is «a specific legal form to facilitate the establishment and operation of research infrastructures with European interest» ([ec.europa.eu](https://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index.cfm?pg=eric))
- ERIC landscape: [20 ERICs](https://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index.cfm?pg=eric-landscape
) currently, among which two are addressing the needs of Humanities researchers (CLARIN and DARIAH)

### DARIAH History

* 2006: DARIAH appears on ESFRI Roadmap¹
* 2008–2011: Preparatory Phase
* 2011–2013: Transition Phase
* 2014: DARIAH-ERIC²
* 2014–2018: Construction Phase
* 2019–: Operational Phase

¹ ESFRI: European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (set up in 2002) 
² ERIC: European Research Infrastructure Consortium

## Income Streams

- our business model combines …
 - **membership fees** and
 - **competitive grant income**
- … to facilitate development of shared infrastructure services for our members

## Running Projects

PARTHENOS
 01/05/15–30/04/19

HIRMEOS
 01/01/17–30/06/19

DESIR
 01/01/17–31/12/19

E-RHIS
 01/02/17–31/01/20

openAIRE
 01/01/18–31/12/20

SSHOC
 01/01/19–30/03/22

Thanks.

– https://www.dariah.eu/ –