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Collaborative EuropeaN Digital/Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI)

Leitung: Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz

Koordination/Bearbeiter: Dr. Anna Bohn; Dr. Aleksandra Pawliczek

Beginn: 1.11. 2011

Förderung: European Commission (7th Framework Programme for Research)

Partner:

Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)

Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

University of Birmingham (UK)

Kings College London (UK)

Georg August Universitaet Göttingen (Germany)

Czech National Library, Prague (Czeck Republic)

International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin (Italy)

Fondazione Ezio Francheschini (Italy)

Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart (Germany)

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (France)

Consortium of European Research Libraries (UK)

De Koninkljike Bibliotheek - European Library (Netherlands)

The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European Research Area, creating a powerful new platform for accessing and investigating historical data in a transnational fashion overcoming the national and institutional data silos that now exist. It will leverage the power of the European infrastructure for Digital Humanities (DARIAH) bringing these technical experts together with leading historians and existing research infrastructures (archives, libraries and individual digital projects) within a programme of technical research informed by cutting edge reflection on the impact of the digital age on scholarly practice. The enquiry environment that is at the heart of this proposal will create new ways to discover meaning, a methodology not just of scale but of kind. It will create tools and workspaces that allow researchers to engage with large data sets via federated multilingual searches across heterogeneous resources while defining workflows enabling the creation of personalized research environments, shared research and teaching spaces, and annotation trails, amongst other features. This will be facilitated by multilingual authority lists of named entities (people, places, events) that will harness user involvement to add intelligence to the system. Moreover, it will develop new visual paradigms for the exploration of patterns generated by the system, from knowledge transfer and dissemination, to language usage and shifts, to the advancement and diffusion of ideas. Two domains have been chosen as case studies to develop this flexible research environment, in the first instance for historical research, but easily adaptable in future for other humanities domains. The first case study will be in the area of First World War studies, a timely area of research as we are fast approaching the centenary of this pan-European conflict that is already generating much interest from academics to the general public across Europe. The second case study will focus on mediaeval history in the creation of an Atlas of Medieval Culture that will develop new paradigms from which to investigate and bridge linguistic, cultural and spatial boundaries. These two groups of historical scholars with seemingly divergent needs and concerns will be brought together under the CENDARI umbrella to address wider questions of history and identity as well as spatial and temporal relationships in Europe. This collaboration will add a further interpretive layer to the development of the infrastructure. The involvement of a wider researcher community as well as cultural heritage organisations will ensure its broad relevance beyond the test cases. By remapping the European archival and documentary landscape and encoding this remapping into the enquiry environment, CENDARI sets up the conditions necessary for genuinely transnational and pan-European research that will facilitate the emergence of new paradigm for humanities research and a new consciousness of European history.