12 million euros for digital infrastructure for the Humanities
Dutch contribution to European research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH. Media studies represented by UvA scholars.
New digital tools will enable researchers to explore profound questions of cultural and social change across the disciplines. The field of media studies in this project is represented by UvA Humanities scholars José van Dijck and Julia Noordegraaf and UvA ICT scholars Maarten de Rijke and Cees Snoek, in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
CLARIAH, a consortium of Humanities research institutes, received a grant of
12 million euros from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO). The grant will fund the development of a digital infrastructure that
combines diverse data sets and software tools from various humanities’
disciplines, and to provide user-friendly tools to search through these data
sets and make them searchable. New digital tools will enable researchers to
explore profound questions of cultural and social change across the disciplines.
Three disciplines form the vanguard of CLARIAH: linguistics, media studies and
socio-economic history. The field of media studies in CLARIAH is represented by
UvA Humanities scholars José van Dijck and Julia Noordegraaf and UvA ICT
scholars Maarten de Rijke and Cees Snoek, in collaboration with the Netherlands
Institute for Sound and Vision.
CLARIAH
CLARIAH stands for Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. CLARIAH provides the Dutch contribution to the European research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH.
Three disciplines play a pioneering role in CLARIAH:
• Socio-economic history: Utrecht University, VU University Amsterdam and International Institute for Social History
• Linguistics: Meertens Institute, VU University Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen
• Media studies: University of Amsterdam (José van Dijck, Julia Noordegraaf, Maarten de Rijke, Cees Snoek, Rens Bod) and the National Institute of Sound and Vision
Besides the organisations named, a large number of other Humanities researchers and organisations will be involved in CLARIAH. For more information go to: clariah.nl.