Organization

DIGITAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Pan-European ERIC providing shared digital infrastructure for arts and humanities research, now a key player in EOSC and open science for SSH.

Infrastructure providersocietyFR

H2020 projects

As coordinator

Total EC funding

€4.2M

Unique partners

260

What they do

Their core work

DARIAH ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure (ERIC) headquartered in Paris, dedicated to building and sustaining digital tools, services, and platforms for arts and humanities researchers. They operate shared infrastructure that enables scholars across Europe to access digital resources, collaborate across borders, and apply computational methods to humanities research. Their work spans from maintaining digital humanities platforms to actively shaping Europe's open science ecosystem, particularly the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) for social sciences and humanities.

Core expertise

What they specialise in

Digital humanities infrastructureprimary

5 projects

Core mission visible across HaS-DARIAH, DESIR, CLS INFRA, PARTHENOS, and artes EUmanities — building and sustaining shared digital infrastructure for humanities research.

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) integrationprimary

4 projects

Central participant in SSHOC, EOSC Future, OpenAIRE-Advance, and TRIPLE — all focused on connecting humanities data and services into Europe's open science cloud.

Open access and scholarly communicationsecondary

3 projects

Contributed to OPERAS-P, HIRMEOS, and OpenAIRE-Advance on open access publishing infrastructure and open scholarship frameworks.

FAIR data and research data managementsecondary

3 projects

SSHOC, EOSC Future, and OpenAIRE-Advance all address FAIR data principles and open research data for the humanities.

Heritage science digitizationsecondary

2 projects

Participated in PARTHENOS (heritage e-research networking) and E-RIHS PP (heritage science preparatory phase).

Computational literary studiesemerging

1 project

CLS INFRA (2021-2025) is their most recent infrastructure project, applying computational methods specifically to literary studies — a more specialized direction.

Evolution & trajectory

How they've shifted over time

Early focus

ERIC establishment and digital humanities

Recent focus

Open science and EOSC integration

In 2015-2017, DARIAH ERIC focused inward — building and consolidating its own infrastructure as an ERIC, with projects like HaS-DARIAH (scaling up) and DESIR (sustainability). Keywords centered on "digital humanities," "ERIC," and graduate-level research training. From 2018 onward, the focus shifted dramatically outward toward open science and EOSC integration, with repeated keywords like "open science," "EOSC," "FAIR data," and "research infrastructures." This reflects DARIAH's transition from establishing itself as an institution to becoming a key node in Europe's broader open science infrastructure.

DARIAH is positioning itself as the gateway through which arts and humanities connect to Europe's open science cloud, making them an essential partner for any SSH-related EOSC initiative.

Collaboration profile

How they like to work

Role: infrastructure_providerReach: European41 countries collaborated

DARIAH ERIC primarily participates as a partner rather than leading consortia — coordinating only 2 of 13 projects, both focused on its own infrastructure development. However, with 260 unique consortium partners across 41 countries, they are a highly connected hub organization. Their participation pattern suggests they contribute domain expertise and infrastructure access to large-scale projects rather than driving project design, making them a reliable and well-networked partner to bring into consortia that need humanities and open science credibility.

With 260 unique consortium partners across 41 countries, DARIAH ERIC has one of the most extensive collaboration networks in the SSH research infrastructure space. Their reach is genuinely pan-European and extends well beyond the EU, reflecting their role as a major ERIC connecting institutions continent-wide.

Why partner with them

What sets them apart

DARIAH ERIC is one of very few ESFRI-listed research infrastructures dedicated specifically to arts and humanities, giving it institutional weight that individual universities or research groups cannot match. As an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), it carries a legal status recognized across EU member states, making it a uniquely credible partner for any project requiring formal humanities infrastructure representation. For consortium builders, having DARIAH on board signals serious commitment to SSH integration and opens doors to their network of hundreds of humanities institutions across Europe.

Notable projects

Highlights from their portfolio

SSHOC
Largest single EC contribution (EUR 1.64M) — a flagship project creating the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud, placing DARIAH at the center of SSH-EOSC integration.
HaS-DARIAH
As coordinator with EUR 842K, this was DARIAH's foundational scaling project that evolved the ERIC from establishment phase to operational maturity.
EOSC Future
Their most recent major project (2021-2024), confirming DARIAH's ongoing role as a key humanities voice in shaping the European Open Science Cloud.

Cross-sector capabilities

Digital infrastructure and cloud servicesOpen science policy and FAIR data complianceHeritage and cultural preservation technologyMultilingual discovery platforms and NLP

Analysis note: Strong profile with 13 projects and clear evolution visible in keyword data. Website and VAT fields are missing from the source data, but the organization's identity as an ERIC is well-established through project evidence. One project (artes EUmanities) lists DARIAH as a third party with no EC funding, suggesting an advisory or hosting role rather than active research participation.