Reflections on the DARIAH Theme call: past, present and future · Warsaw

### Reflections on the DARIAH Theme Calls:
## Past, Present and Future

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

Frank Fischer ¹ ²  ·  Anne Grésillon ²  ·  Nathalie Fargier ³  ·  Marianne Ping Huang ⁴ Klaudia Grabowska ⁵  ·  Maciej Maryl ⁵

¹ Higher School of Economics, Moscow 
² DARIAH-EU 
³ École normale supérieure de Lyon 
⁴ Aarhus University 
⁵ Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

[DARIAH Annual Event 2019](https://dariah-ae-2019.sciencesconf.org/program/graphic/date/2019-05-16)  ·  Warsaw  🇵🇱  ·  16 May 2019

### **Chapters**

1. DARIAH Theme Calls 2015–2018
2. "Hack4CH: Persée UP!"
3. "Archives that Matter"
4. "Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions"
5. Outlook

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# Chapter 1.

### DARIAH Theme Calls 2015–2018

### DARIAH Theme Calls

- since 2015, the Board of Directors – in consultation with the Senior Management Team – sets an annual thematic priority, the **DARIAH Theme**
- invoking activities and events related to a topic important to DH researchers
- = main funding activity directly addressing our community, along with the Working Group funding calls

### DARIAH Theme Calls Recap

- 27 projects funded so far
- funded project-leading institutions were:
 1. DARIAH National Coordinating institutions,
 2. partner institutions of a DARIAH member state,
 3. DARIAH Cooperating Partners
- 12 out of 17 current DARIAH member states were funded so far
- most successful (3 funded projects each): France, Austria, Denmark

### DARIAH Theme Calls 2015–2018

- 2015: "Open Humanities" (6 funded projects)
- 2016: "Public Humanities" (7)
- **2017: "Cultural Heritage and Humanities Research"** (7)
- 2018: "Strategic Service Sustainability for DARIAH" (7)

overview: https://www.dariah.eu/?p=148

### Recap Theme Call 2017:
## "Cultural Heritage and Humanities Research"

- [CfP via SciencesConf](https://dariahtheme2017.sciencesconf.org/) (deadline was April 15, 2017)
- 7 successful projects

### Funded Proposals 2017

- 🇦🇹 "Digital Infrastructures for Digital Cultural Heritage and Media Art Research"
- 🇭🇷 "Cooperation Framework of Digital Infrastructure in the Region – Opportunities and Needs in Case of Material Concerning Famous People in Science and Culture"
- 🇩🇰 "Archives that Matter: Towards an Ethico-Aesthetic Decolonial Reuse & Shared Infrastructure of Colonial Archives"
- 🇫🇷 "Hack4CH: Hackathon for Cultural Heritage"
- 🇮🇹 "Opening Data in Heritage Science. Setting the context for data opening and reuse across Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage"
- 🇵🇱 "Making Cultural Heritage Data Accessible and Reusable: Finding Best Practices"
- 🇵🇱 "Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions"

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# Chapter 2.

### "Hack4CH: Persée UP!"

![The Persée Portal](images/persee-up.jpg)

A 3-Day Hackathon to imagine new ways to browse and search the Persée digital library

**The Persée Portal ([www.persee.fr](https://www.persee.fr/))**

![The Persée Portal](images/persee-website.jpg)

- Archives of French academic publications (journals, serials, proceedings, books) from the 19th century to today
- 770k full-text docs available in Open Access
- Extensive level of description
- FAIR compliance
- 70M visits per year
- RDF graph and Sparql Endpoint

### Context and objectives

- Imagining innovative interface display
- Fostering metadata enrichment services
- Encouraging creative re-use of Persée data
- Connecting with DARIAH communities

### Collaboration in practice

- 1 study day with researchers specialised in data visualisation
- 2 days of exchanges, ideation and coding
- 3 challenges:
 - Browsing experience
 - Geovisualizing resources
 - Searching images
- 25 participants organised in multidisciplinary teams (IT developers / librarians / reserchers / web designers)

### Results and impact

- 4 prototypes with specific focus on named entities tagging and linking, graph visualisation, geo visualisation
- Convergence with needs and demands that have been formulated in the context of DH projects (white label “Perseid”)
- Advice to other French structures organising Hackathons

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# Chapter 3.

### "Archives that Matter"

PLACEHOLDER

(separate Powerpoint presentation)

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# Chapter 4.

### "Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions"

PLACEHOLDER

(separate Powerpoint presentation)

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# Chapter 5.

### Outlook

### Recap Theme Call 2018

- 13 applications, of which 12 were eligible, and the winners are:
 - Awareness, understanding and having fun. Fostering communities around the **Standardization Survival Kit** (Inria de Paris)
 - **DARIAHdocs** as sustainable collaboration platform (DAASI)
 - **Digital Humanities Course Registry** Sustain – Improving Sustainability through Usability (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
 - Standard Sustainability: Improving the Usability of the **Text Encoding Initiative** (TEI) (CNRS-CIHAM UMR 5648)
 - Sustainability for **CENDARI** data sets (SUB Göttingen)
 - Towards a Sustainable Annotation Tool: Integrating **Recogito** with DARIAH (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [HIIG])
 - **#dariahTeach** PROTEUS: A Novel Model for Sustaining Peer-Reviewed Open Access Teaching Materials (University of Maastricht)

source: https://www.dariah.eu/?p=3332

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