1. Enable researchers to have a wider, simplified and more efficient access to the best research expertise and services they require to conduct their investigations
● Transnational Access offers to scholars access to 14 TASC and TAAD institutions to develop their projects in historical religious studies (online sources, instruments, files and databases, experts to discuss the project, the sources and the methodologies)
● welcoming 87 scholars from various European countries and countries associated to H2020
● The results of the TNA user projects will be published in recognized scientific journals. (18 publications by TNA users resulting from a ReIReS TNA Scholarship are available, 51 more are forthcoming, and 10 presentations are given at conferences
● The creation of the unified discovery environment, now called ReIReSearch and hosted at reiresearch.eu
2. Integrate the complementary capabilities of the operators of related infrastructures by developing synergies, strengthening a culture of cooperation and leading to improved and harmonised services
Creating synergies between TNA activities with Training activities, development of innovation in digital tools (WP6) and epistemological approach to the domain of historical religious studies.
3. Create innovation in methodologies concerning historical religious studies
Create new methodologies for discovery and processing of large datasets through the unified discovery environment a shared data model, a centralized access to datasets allowing researchers to investigate the possibility of creating a network of interlinked concept schemes or ontologies.
The TNA users’ projects will contribute to innovations in methodologies concerning historical religious studies because they cover new fields of research and topics that have not yet been studied.
4. Foster innovation in services and tools for research, by integrating and implementing the existing technological means and resources, particularly digital tools, but also by developing new and innovative instruments
The integration of tools has been achieved enabling data aggregation, discovery, mapping, normalisation, enrichment and access according to the defined access policies is planned. A set of technical guidelines and metadata mapping specifications allows new data providers to connect their data sources to the ReIReS unified discovery environment, either through APIs (data discovery) or by aggregation (data hub).
5. Educate a new generation of scholars that is ready to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research
A training programme was established for (especially young) scholars and others, training the use and study of special documents in their holdings, and to digital humanities. With the input of experts, 12 trainings have been executed reaching 231 attendants (not counting the overlap).
More impact has been created by 34 attendants who trained others and transferred the knowledge and insights to new target audiences (reaching several hundred people).
6. Foster cross-disciplinary fertilisations and a wider sharing of information, knowledge and technologies across fields and between academic and industry;
TNA users interact intensively with the respective local experts and thus contribute towards the transnational networking in religious studies in Europe.
A commercial publisher plays an active role in ReIReS. The input member of the publishing industry, further aligns the interests of academics and publishers with regards to the visibility and discoverability of datasets.
ReIReS has been able to reach more than 1.1 mio people in Europe and beyond, thus spreading the word about ReIReS, its results and its meaning for the academic world and the wider audiences.
