Project Description
CLARIAH-DE is a project to merge the two research infrastructure networks CLARIN-D and DARIAH-DE. The project aims to merge the two established research infrastructures over a period of two years (2019–2021). In this way, researchers from the humanities and cultural sciences should find it much easier to carry out scientific work with complex digital tools and special data sets.
CLARIN-D and DARIAH-DE share a common interest in the digital research of textual and linguistic sources from the perspective of the humanities and cultural studies. In doing so, the two networks have each specialised in specific research areas for a good decade. The aim of CLARIN-D is to establish a network of centres closely linked to selected subject disciplines as the backbone of a research infrastructure, especially for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The disciplines cover a broad spectrum of the humanities, for which language resources play a central role in research. DARIAH-DE supports research in the humanities and cultural sciences working with digital methods and procedures with a broad research infrastructure consisting of the four pillars of teaching, research, research data, and technical components.
The merging of the infrastructures of both consortia into CLARIAH-DE is an important milestone towards a common space for cooperative digitally-supported research in the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences in Germany and Europe. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and aims to contribute to the further development of national research infrastructures.