As the related call of proposals states, “the initial phase is [...] the most delicate and difficult one for new pan-European infrastructures in the process to become fully operational [...]”. HaS-DARIAH helped establishing DARIAH as a long-term leader and partner within arts and humanities communities by growing its community, offering education activities, providing a better access to national contributions, developing tools and core services.
Dissemination represented a key element. Stakeholders have been regularly informed about latest developments of the project. Other communication activities were especially targeted on enhancing DARIAH's communication, for example by upgrading the DARIAH website and creating publicity material. HaS-DARIAH worked also on another important aspect of digital humanities, innovation, and organised a “DARIAH Innovation Forum”. The event took place in Aarhus and brought together traditional industries associated with arts and humanities like design and media with new digital industries. The question on how to implement an ethical framework for DARIAH was raised during the project. HaS-DARIAH brought together experts to create a Working Group dealing with ethics issues.
HaS-DARIAH focused on Open Data and Open Methods. Open Access publishing of research data is not yet a common practice within the arts and humanities. DARIAH developed an open humanities data platform to make the information about existing collections more accessible.HaS-DARIAH provided a Data Deposit Recommendation Service (DDRS) which helps identifying suitable research data repositories for humanities researchers. A multidisciplinary metablog has been created to republish peer-reviewed content. The aim is to highlight and promote research publications and blogposts that deal with DH methods and tools.
HaS-DARIAH supported the integration of in-kind contributions by providing a range of services that will make it easier to integrate national digital humanities projects and scale their results to a European level. HaS-DARIAH established a space, to assess, evaluate and disseminate national contributions. DARIAH delivered a new reference architecture to better identify the forms of contributions. An online tool has been developed for the collection, assessment and evaluation of national contributions to the infrastructure. In addition, the project enhanced the DARIAH infrastructure and the whole life cycle of DH projects by focusing on central services, basic tools and the accessibility of those. Moreover, the project investigated how Service Level Agreements are implemented across distributed infrastructures.
DARIAH engaged with new communities and regions through regional hubs, workshops and the development of an Ambassadors Network. Four regionals hubs have been established, involving countries not yet members of DARIAH. This led DARIAH to get several new cooperating partners. The project had the objective to integrate larger research communities. Several workshops have been organised during the project leading to the creation of new working groups in DARIAH. The project established an Ambassadors Network, composed of DARIAH senior members, which raised awareness of and participation in DARIAH. The Network contributed to engage with new communities and regions attracting new potential users.
Training and education activities represented an important milestone of the project. Three Summer/Winter Schools and four Master Classes have been organised. Furthermore, #dariahTeach, which is an open source platform for high quality teaching and training materials, has been strengthened with new courses and translations.
