DARIAH ERIC in Latvia

Latvia’s digital humanities development strategy provides for Latvia’s accession to DARIAH ERIC as a full member state, ensuring the full integration of national research infrastructure into the European digital humanities landscape.

This objective is based on the significantly strengthened digital humanities ecosystem in Latvia in recent years, formed by two national research programmes—Digital Resources for the Humanities (2020–2022) and Digital Humanities (2023–2025)—as well as the national cooperation network digitalhumanities.lv, which serves as the foundation for the establishment of the DARIAH-LV consortium.

Funding and Support

Latvia’s participation in DARIAH ERIC is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, and the establishment of the national node is strengthened through targeted public funding, including Measure 1.1.1.5, “Ensuring Latvia’s full participation in the Horizon Europe programme, including the provision of a comprehensive set of support instruments and links with the development of RIS3 specialisation areas.”

This funding ensures institutional capacity, inter-institutional coordination, and the sustainable development of digital infrastructure.


Consortium Members

Initial support for, and involvement in, the establishment of the DARIAH-LV consortium has been expressed by several Latvian higher education, research, and memory institutions:

  • Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (consortium coordinator);
  • University of Latvia (including the institutes of the Faculty of Humanities and the University of Latvia Library);
  • Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia;
  • National Library of Latvia;
  • Riga Technical University;
  • Latvian Academy of Culture;
  • Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.

Governance and Contacts

DARIAH-LV activities are led by
Sanita Reinsone, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia

Dissemination and Communication Coordinator:
Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska, Researcher, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia

For more information: [email protected]

What is DARIAH ERIC

DARIAH ERIC was established in 2014 in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 723/2009 as a distributed research infrastructure with the aim of creating a modern, digitally enabled infrastructure to support research in the arts and humanities. DARIAH ERIC has been fully established and recognised as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), and its activities are governed by a specific EU legal framework¹ designed to promote research in the arts and humanities in the digital age.

https://www.dariah.eu/

Mission and Scope

DARIAH ERIC (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is a distributed European digital research infrastructure in the field of the arts and humanities that supports the use of digital approaches in research and education. It maintains and develops digital humanities resources, services, methods, and pedagogical materials, and promotes the adoption of open science practices in the humanities.

DARIAH ERIC operates as a platform that brings together researchers, technology experts, and resource holders, providing access to digital tools, infrastructures, and expertise. This enables humanities researchers to effectively harness technological opportunities in addressing contemporary research challenges.

Infrastructure Model

DARIAH ERIC does not operate a centralised infrastructure; instead, it provides support and expertise for the development of digital humanities infrastructures in its member states, their mutual integration, metadata standardisation, and the development of open-access, FAIR-compliant resources and tools.

In this way, cooperation, inclusion, and coordinated development of digital humanities infrastructures are ensured within a broad, multidisciplinary network of member organisations across 20 member states.

Collaboration and Activities

DARIAH ERIC collaborates with research and education communities to:

  • research and adapt information technology–related methods and tools to enable new research directions and contribute to addressing existing research questions;
  • improve research opportunities and outcomes by linking distributed digital resources;
  • facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise, methodologies, and practices across different fields and disciplines.

Member States and Regional Activities

DARIAH ERIC currently has 23 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden.

Observer states are the United States of America and Egypt. Institutional cooperation partners are located in Latvia, the United Kingdom, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, and Hungary.