#EuropeanaAthens

Date: 2016-01-07

The Europeana Research Workshop “Using European Infrastructures for Humanities research: Scoping Content, Tools and Users” was hosted by the Digital Curation Unit – Athena R.C., on 12 and 13 October 2015. The aim of the workshop was to bring together several key stakeholders of Europeana (Research Infrastructures, projects, e-content experts and digital humanists) to discuss and brainstorm on how the new platform of Europeana Research should be structured to best serve the needs of the research community. Around the table sat several representatives from various research infrastructures initiatives including EHRI, DARIAH Teach, Pelagios, Iperion CH, Parthenos and DARIAH.

The lively discussions that resulted from this interesting panel evolved around issues of data licensing, copyrights, interoperability, identifying the different user communities, and collaboration with partner infrastructures which are at the heart of the debate and the dialogue which is developing around digital infrastructures in a broader perspective. The various discussions that took place in the course of the two-day workshop were in many ways productive and useful not only for defining the ways in which the new platform could potentially deal with and serve the needs of such a diverse audience, but also in promoting the dialogue and cooperation between stakeholders, institutions and infrastructures working in the field of Digital Humanities.