Lightening Talk
Costis Dallas is Research Fellow, Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre, Greece & Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada. He conducts research on digital curation, information practices in scholarship and cultural heritage communication, material culture theory, and museum informatics.
Toma Tasovac is the Director of the Center for Digital Humanities in Belgrade, Serbia. His work focuses on electronic lexicography, text-dictionary interfaces and scholarly editing.
Christof Schöch, researcher at the Chair for Digital Philology, University of Würzburg, Germany. He combines a background in French Literary Studies with interests in scholarly editing and quantitative text analysis.
Abstract
DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts in Humanities – http://www.dariah.eu) is a large- scale, long-term, pan-European endeavour aimed at enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research across the arts and humanities. The goal of this lightning talk is to present those activities in DARIAH which focus on understanding and building a community of practitioners of digitally-enabled research.
DARIAH’s efforts have arisen in response to the storm of digital progress that sweeps a few researchers ahead while leaving a number of them feeling uninitiated, threatened or excluded. Our planned activities are driven by a desire to foster a digital humanities landscape that is both innovative and inclusive. We adopt an integrative approach, so that our study of research practices and needs goes hand in hand with information provision, critical reflection and advocacy. Our goal is to support scholars in adopting and using productively digital technologies; nurture their active participation through user engagement activities; and, help develop a community of practice involving users and developers of arts and humanities virtual research environments.