Objective
The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European Research Area, creating a powerful new platform for accessing and investigating historical data in a transnational fashion overcoming the national and institutional data silos that now exist. It will leverage the power of the European infrastructure for Digital Humanities (DARIAH) bringing these technical experts together with leading historians and existing research infrastructures (archives, libraries and individual digital projects) within a programme of technical research informed by cutting edge reflection on the impact of the digital age on scholarly practice.
The enquiry environment that is at the heart of this proposal will create new ways to discover meaning, a methodology not just of scale but of kind. It will create tools and workspaces that allow researchers to engage with large data sets via federated multilingual searches across heterogeneous resources while defining workflows enabling the creation of personalized research environments, shared research and teaching spaces, and annotation trails, amongst other features. This will be facilitated by multilingual authority lists of named entities (people, places, events) that will harness user involvement to add intelligence to the system. Moreover, it will develop new visual paradigms for the exploration of patterns generated by the system, from knowledge transfer and dissemination, to language usage and shifts, to the advancement and diffusion of ideas.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Ireland
See on map
Participants (14)
14195 Berlin
See on map
11000 Beograd
See on map
B15 2TT Birmingham
See on map
WC2R 2LS London
See on map
37073 Gottingen
See on map
110 01 PRAHA 1
See on map
50123 FIRENZE
See on map
50124 Firenze
See on map
70174 Stuttgart
See on map
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
See on map
EC1R 0NE LONDON
See on map
Participation ended
2595 BE DEN HAAG
See on map
03043 Cassino
See on map
2595 BE Den Haag
See on map