Work packages

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Project administration legal, and financial management
• Consortium management and overall coordination
• Meeting organisation

Responsible project partner: DARIAH-ERIC

Work package members:

Marco Raciti leads work package 1. Marco is DARIAH-EU’s European Project Manager. He obtained a Master degree in “European project management” at the University of Caen Lower-Normandy. In 2014 he joined DARIAH in order to support and manage national and European external funding for the DARIAH-ERIC.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Disseminating information on the project
• Creating publicity material for the DARIAH-ERIC
• Setting up an Innovation Forum, which brings together researchers and relevant stakeholders from creative and cultural industries
• Organising an innovation conference in 2017 where the forum’s results will be presented in the context of the celebration of the European City of Culture Aarhus

Responsible project partner: DARIAH-ERIC

Work package members:

Jakob Epler leads work package 2. Jakob is DARIAH-EU’s Communications Officer. He has a background in social science, journalism and speech communication. Before joining DARIAH-EU he worked as an editor and a freelance science journalist for public broadcasters in Germany. Jakob also teaches public relations and research techniques at Universities as well as in the private sector.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Growing the group of members associated with DARIAH
• Ensuring that new research communities join DARIAH and/or orient themselves on the practices of the consortium.
• Developing an ambassador network for DARIAH covering new regions and disciplines
• Developing a clear vision for a sustainable future for DARIAH that covers new funding models for all regions of Europe

Responsible project partner: DARIAH-ERIC

Work package members:

Mike Mertens leads work package 3. Mike is DARIAH-EU’s Chief Executive Officer. His academic background is in languages and comparative history but he has also professionally been in nursing, social care and in recent years librarianship.

Prior to coming to DARIAH, Mike was responsible for governance, consortial negotiations, outreach, working groups, data services, research data management, and strategic planning at Research Libraries UK. He has also worked with and on the committees of The British Library, The UK National Archives, Jisc, The Digital Preservation Coalition, LIBER and The European Library amongst other organisations in the Library and Information Science sector.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Developing a joint domain for training and education in the DARIAH-ERIC
• Fostering exchange of researchers on digital humanities
• Building human resources in new digital humanities countries through the co-organisation of summer/winter schools

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Developing a high-level architecture that allows the DARIAH member state contributions to be classified and the expected functionality and quality to be defined and assessed
• Improving universal access to data and service, which will increase the usability of provided contributions
• Improving integration of DARIAH data and services by promoting interoperability standards and best practices for the contributions
• Improving compliance by setting up a DARIAH Quality Assessment framework, which will allow for monitoring, defining and assessing the quality of the member contributions

Responsible project partner: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Work package members:

Lisa de Leeuw leads work package 5. Lisa is part of DARIAH-EU’s CIO team. Before joining DARIAH-EU Lisa worked in the banking sector from and was a management assistant to several Executive Vice Presidents of international departments. In 2008 she started at DANS as management assistant to Henk Harmsen and project assistant for the preparation of DARIAH. In 2009 she also took on the secretariat of the Data Seal of Approval.

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Lars Wieneke helps developing a new quality assessment mechanism that will allow DARIAH to better assess, manage and disseminate information about national in-kind contributions. Lars works for the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE). He holds a PhD in Engineering from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.

After graduating from the Technical University of Ilmenau he worked as a researcher in the Department of Interface Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Funded by a Marie-Curie fellowship, Lars joined the EPOCH/CHIRON research group at the University of Brighton in January 2007 and specialised in the application of user-created content for museums and cultural heritage. In 2009, Lars worked as an independent consultant for museums and cultural heritage in France before becoming project manager of a joint research project between the Jewish Museum Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin. He joined the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe in 2011 as a researcher in the Digital Humanities Lab and became the head of the information and technology department in 2014.

Beyond this work package 6 will enhance existing DARIAH services to particularly support institutions without a long-standing digital humanities tradition. For these institutions it is of high importance to deploy basic service demonstrators and to embed them into the DARIAH infrastructure. Finally, we will compile service level agreements and present business models to give digital humanities research projects the opportunity to showcase the sustainability of their results and services by using the DARIAH infrastructure.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Developing services that support the whole life cycle of digital humanities projects and are easy to use and consist of simple components
• Enhancing DARIAH services to support institutions without a long-standing digital humanities tradition
• Deploying basic services demonstrators and embed these into the DARIAH infrastructure

Responsible project partner: University of Goettingen

Work package members:

Dr. Stefan Schmunk leads work package 6. Stefan studied History and Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology. He graduated in 2005 and started working as a teaching assistant at the departement of contemporary history at Darmstadt University of Technology (2006-2010). Stefan holds a PhD in contemporary history and was a postdoctoral research fellow in digital humanities at the Leibniz-Institute of European History.

Since 2012 he works as a project manager for “Digital Research Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments” and Deputy Head of the Research and Development Department at the Goettingen State and University Library. His research interests are contemporary history, research data in the arts and humanities, digital methods, virtual research environments and digital research infrastructures.

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Dr. Carsten Thiel holds a PhD in mathmatics from the University of Magdeburg, where he also worked as a teaching assistant (2010-2014). From 2014 to 2016 Carsten was a research associate for the CENDARI project at the Research and Development Department of the Goettingen State and University Library.

Since 2015 he is the technical head and Co-Manager of the DARIAH-DE Consortium at the Research and Development Department of the Goettingen State and University Library. His research interests include digital research infrastructures, distributed development processes, DevOps approach to infrastructure management.

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Stefan Buddenbohm worked as a Management Assistant in Publishing for Bertelsmann in Guetersloh. In 2008 he graduated in Political Science with a diploma from Freie Universität Berlin, where he subsequently started to work at the Center for Digital Systems. In 2009 Stefan joined the Group for Electronic Publishing at the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB).

Since 2012 he is part of the Research and Development Department of the SUB. His research interests include research data infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities, scientific publishing and digital research infrastructures.

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Markus Matoni studied Health Informatics at the University of Goettingen. Prior to his degree he worked as a teaching assistant at the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Goettingen (2010-2014).

Since 2015 he is part of the Research and Development Department of the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB). His research interests include digital research infrastructures, data management and big data.

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Dr. Jenny Oltersdorf studied Library and Information Science and Theology at Humboldt- University. She graduated in 2008 and started working as research assistant in the EERQI and LUKII project. Jenny holds a PhD in Library and Information Science.

In 2014 she joined the DARIAH team at Research and Development Department at the Goettingen State and University Library. Currently she is teaching assistant at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and part of the EU project Parthenos. Her research interests include research data in the arts and humanities, digital methods, as well as the area of research evaluation and information ethics.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Guiding European researchers in the arts and humanities into open data publication by providing the information that is relevant specifically to them
• Understanding the specific needs of the humanities for an open data platform
• Testing the open access platform-concept and see how it can be sustained by end users and using existing platforms
• Promote open data publication by extending the platform with an open data journal

Responsible project partner: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Work package members:

Elly Dijk leads work package 7. Elly works as a policy advisor at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). She is also the coordinator of the national scholarly portal NARCIS. Elly is currently project leader of OpenAIRE 2020 within DANS, and she is, together with TU/Delft, the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) for this project.

This work package focuses particularly on:

• Investigate open digital methods for humanities research
• Understanding the specific needs of the humanities for an open data platform
• Develop standards and services to embed descriptions of these open methods in community resources using existing method ontologies
• Contribute to the sustainability of arts and humanities methods resources by providing a platform for their open and distributed publication

Responsible project partner: DARIAH-ERIC

Work package members:

Tobias Blanke leads work package 8. Tobias is director of DARIAH and a Reader in Social and Cultural Informatics in the Department of Digital Humanities. He leads and manages large international interdisciplinary research initiatives and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Currently, he works on the development of novel teaching approaches in digital methods and big data to understand culture and society.

His academic background is in philosophy and computer science. Tobias worked at Credit Suisse in the city of London, at Free University Berlin, and several smaller media companies in Berlin. He did a PhD on the concept of evil in German philosophy at the Free University Berlin. His computer science PhD was on the theoretical evaluation of XML retrieval using Situation Theory at the University of Glasgow.