Identity

DARIAH-GR/DYAS

DARIAH-GR is the Greek Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. It supports the Greek humanities scientific communities and contributes to the development of research with the use of information technologies. It expands the scope and opportunities for research through the interconnection of distributed digital resources of various kinds. It also promotes the access, use, creation and long-term preservation of primary and secondary research data in digital form, and supports the exchange of knowledge, methods and work practices among scientific communities.

DYAS — Research Infrastructure Network for the Humanities implements the mission of the Greek research infrastructure for the arts and humanities DARIAH-GR in coordination with the European Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities DARIAH. Greece is one of its founding members, and DYAS is the body representing Greece in the European Infrastructure. The National Infrastructure, which is financed by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology under the NSRF, entered its construction phase on May 1, 2013. Since 2017, DARIAH-GR/DYAS and CLARIN:EL are the two components of the National infrastructure APOLLONIS: National Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities and for Language Research and Innovation.

Partners

Academy of Athens (national coordinator)
Athena Research Center – Information Systems Institute (IMSI) – Digital Curation Unit (DCU)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Department of History and Archaeology
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) – National Technical University of Athens
School of Fine Arts
Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) – Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI) – FORTH

Mission

The mission of DARIAH-GR/DYAS is:

      • to enable the sharing of digital resources (data, terminology, models, software) developed by the research community and to facilitate the development of these resources.
      • to support the creation of local mechanisms and systems for the reliable management of research data.
      • to ensure the creation of a dynamic single information space for the humanities through the interoperability of systems and data.
      • to support the dissemination of the use of open tools for research and the development of collaborative environments.
      • to contribute to the dissemination of the knowledge and skills required for the effective use of digital resources and information technologies in the humanities.
      • to contribute to the development and consolidation of copyright clearance mechanisms and systems.
      • to investigate and promote ways for the widest possible social profitability of humanities related digital resources.

In the current development phase of DARIAH GR/ DYAS, its goals of are:

      • the creation of the technological infrastructure for the aggregation of data (digital records) from repositories and databases maintained by humanities institutions;
      • the development of curation, enrichment and access services through specialized semantic search and display services presented through a web portal that will unify both content and services;
      • the maintenance and enrichment of existing data registries (entities, persons, organizations, data sources, etc.);
      • dissemination and targeted training activities in modern tools and technologies for creating collections, curating and enriching information, etc., including summer schools, seminars and internships; and
      • the operation of the Digital Humanities Observatory to record and evaluate the uptake and to analyze the use of digital resources and tools in the humanities.

History

Until 2017, when it merged with CLARIN:el to form Apollonis, DARIAH GR/ DYAS as the National Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, had gone through the following two phases:

A. Preparatory phase (2009-2011): The project entitled “Creating an Infrastructure Network for Research in the Humanities” received national and EU funding following a call by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology for the “Creation of National Research Networks in Thematic Areas concerning Research Infrastructures of the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures (European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, by ESFRI- European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures)». The partners that formed the DYAS network studied the conditions for the development of the National Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and its interconnection with the corresponding European Infrastructure. In this context, two studies were prepared, a Feasibility Study and a Study on the Strategy for benefitting from DARIAH EU, the European Research Infrastructure.

The network also organized two community awareness events focusing on developments in the humanities and specifically on the introduction and application of digital tools and methods in the humanities; a conference for the presentation of the program “Creation of an Infrastructure Network for Research in the Humanities” (2010); and a workshop entitled “Humanities Meet Computer Science” (2011).

B. Construction phase (2013-2015): This project entitled “DARIAH-GR National Digital Infrastructure for Research in the Arts and Humanities” also received national and EU funding following a call by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology.
The construction of the national infrastructure was organized around the following four axes:

      1. Digital resources community services
      2. Tools and guidelines for the development of digital resources
      3. DARIAH EU Services
      4. Digital Humanities Observatory.

Apollonis (2017-2020)

A new phase began in 2017, when following  a call by the General Secretariat of Research and Innovation the two humanities related national infrastructures CLARIN:el and DARIAH GR/ DYAS combined to form a single infrastructure, Apollonis, the national infrastructure for the arts and humanities and language innovation. The infrastructure received national and EU funding to support its mission. Within the new framework, the mission of  DARIAH GR/ DYAS, includes

      • the creation of the technological infrastructure for the aggregation of data (digital records) from repositories and databases maintained by humanities institutions;
      • the development of curation, enrichment and access services through specialized semantic search and display services presented through a web portal that will unify both content and services;
      • the maintenance and enrichment of existing data registries (entities, persons, organizations, data sources, etc.);
      • dissemination and targeted training activities in modern tools and technologies for creating collections, curating and enriching information, etc., including summer schools, seminars and internships; and
      • the operation of the Digital Humanities Observatory to record and evaluate the penetration and to analyze the use of digital resources and tools in the humanities.
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