What Dariah Eric does

DARIAH ERIC (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is a pan-European research infrastructure consortium, legally established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014 and headquartered in Paris with a coordination office in Berlin. Its core function is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research, teaching, and knowledge exchange across the arts and humanities by coordinating national capabilities, tools, data, methods, and training across its 24 member countries and cooperating partners.

DARIAH's core technology stack comprises a federated portfolio of platforms and services: DARIAH-Campus (open educational resources and training), the Tools and Services Catalogue, OpenMethods, the Transformations open-access journal hosted on Episciences, the Friday Frontiers webinar series, and domain-specific artefacts such as the Dublin Core for Performing Arts metadata framework, the Performing Arts Thesaurus (~1,400 terms) hosted on OpenTheso, and the e-spect@tor video annotation application. Underlying infrastructure is supplied by CNRS/Huma-Num (hosting, OpenTheso, Sharedocs), GWDG (mailing-list storage), CCSD/SciencesConf (event platform), and MailChimp (newsletters); AI/ML capability is consumed through project partnerships rather than developed in-house, with the ECHOLOT Horizon Europe project (2026) representing the most prominent current AI-enrichment initiative.

DARIAH's business model is publicly funded, not commercial. Revenue is generated from annual contributions of its 24 member countries (national consortiums provide both financial and in-kind contributions, including the time of Joint Research Committee members and Working Group participants) and from competitive EU grants under programmes such as Horizon Europe (e.g., ECHOLOT, STARDAST, ATRIUM, OSCARS, ARTEMIS, HABILITER). All core services — DARIAH-Campus, the Tools and Services Catalogue, Working Groups, Friday Frontiers, the Annual Event, and Transformations — are provided free of charge to researchers, educators, and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) professionals. Pricing is therefore not applicable; the organisation operates as a community-led, subscription-funded research infrastructure that distributes through digital platforms, national coordinator networks, EU project consortia, and an annual flagship event that rotates across member countries (Rome 2026, hosted by CNR).

Name

Dariah Eric

Legal name

DARIAH ERIC

Website

https://dariah.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DARIAH ERIC is a publicly funded pan-European research infrastructure consortium that coordinates digital tools, training, metadata standards, and open educational resources for arts and humanities researchers and GLAM professionals across its 24 member countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Infrastructure Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Libraries and Archives (51921), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Library & Electronic Resources Operations (e-Resources, Repositories, Licensing) (EDAEAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Archives, Libraries & Institutional Access Platforms (MPAJAMAJ), Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), EdTech & Digital Learning Policy Research (EDADADAK), Digital Learning, EdTech Enablement & Connectivity for Education (BPADAKAH)

Keywords

• Digital humanities infrastructure
• Research infrastructure services
• Arts humanities research
• Open educational resources
• Digital cultural heritage

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. National Member Contributions: DARIAH ERIC is funded through annual contributions from its 24 member countries. Each country participates through national consortiums and contributes in-kind and financial resources to sustain the infrastructure. The time commitment of JRC members and working group participants constitutes 'in-kind' contributions from member countries.
2. EU Research Project Grants: DARIAH participates as a partner in EU-funded projects under Horizon Europe and other EC programmes, receiving grant funding for specific project activities. Projects include ECHOLOT (Horizon Europe, funded by REA), STARDAST, ATRIUM, ECHOES, CHIRON, OSCARS, HABILITER, ARTEMIS, and others. Funding supports staff, infrastructure development, training activities, and project coordination.
3. Training and Capacity Building Services (Free): Core services including DARIAH-Campus, the Tools and Services Catalogue, OpenMethods, Friday Frontiers webinars, and training grants are provided free of charge to researchers, educators, and GLAM professionals across member countries. No direct revenue is generated; services are supported by infrastructure funding.
4. Small Grants Programme: DARIAH issues small grants (€2,000–€5,000 per event, total allocation €10,000 for 2026) to support summer schools, intensive workshops, hackathons, and training events. Funded from DARIAH's operational budget to strengthen digital skills in the arts and humanities.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

DARIAH ERIC operates a pan-European digital research infrastructure that enhances and supports digitally-enabled research across the arts and humanities. It provides digital tools, services, metadata standards, training programs, and open educational resources to researchers, educators, and cultural heritage institutions across its 24 member countries, funded through national contributions and EU project grants.

Product overview

DARIAH is a pan-European research infrastructure for arts and humanities scholars, consisting of multiple interconnected products and services. The core offerings include DARIAH-Campus (an online platform for open educational resources), the Tools and Services Catalogue (for discovering digital humanities tools), Transformations journal (open-access publication), and various Working Groups. Supporting services include Friday Frontiers webinars, the Annual Event conference series, Open Science activities, and Training and Education programs. The infrastructure connects with the SSH Open Marketplace for resource discovery. DARIAH operates through a network of 24 member countries with coordinated governance through the Board of Directors, Joint Research Committee, and National Coordinators Committee.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DARIAH-Campus: DARIAH's online platform for open educational resources
• DARIAH Annual Event
• Friday Frontiers
• Transformations
• #dariahTeach
• SSH Open Marketplace

Products and services

• DARIAH-Campus Online platform for open educational resources (OERs) in digital arts and humanities, hosting training materials, courses, and learning modules. Supports DARIAH's training and capacity-building mandate across Europe.
• Tools and Services Catalogue A catalogue of digital tools, services, data, knowledge, and software relevant to digitally-enabled arts and humanities research, part of the ATRIUM Service and Software Catalogue accessible through DARIAH infrastructure.
• Transformations: A DARIAH Journal DARIAH's open-access journal publishing research articles, data papers, and workflows in digital arts and humanities. Peer-reviewed and published on the Episciences platform with multilingual special issues.
• DARIAH Working Groups Interdisciplinary and transnational working groups addressing specific digital humanities topics such as #dariahTeach, Theatralia, ELDAH, and Community Engagement, fostering collaboration across DARIAH's member countries.
• DARIAH Annual Event Annual conference series bringing together digital arts and humanities researchers across Europe for presentations, workshops, working group meetings, and networking. The 2026 event takes place May 26-29 in Rome, Italy, hosted by CNR.
• Training and Education Programs Research skills development and training programs including summer schools, intensive workshops, hackathons (e.g., Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon), small grants of €2,000-€5,000 per event for digital arts and humanities training events.
• Open Science Activities Activities supporting arts and humanities towards open practices including the Heritage Data Reuse Charter framework and OpenMethods platform for sharing research methodologies and workflows in digital arts and humanities.
• Friday Frontiers Webinar Series Free webinar series (Spring and Autumn/Winter seasons) allowing researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to learn about current research, best practices, tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice. Sessions are recorded and published on DARIAH-Campus.

Quantifiable outcome

• ATRIUM survey: 366 unique digital tools/services mentioned by 334 researchers across 31 countries, with 62.6% mentioned only once — demonstrating DARIAH's role in addressing tool fragmentation
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• ECHOLOT Consortium (European Cultural Heritage Optimised Linked Open Tools)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 April 2026ECHOLOT is a Horizon Europe project with 15 partners from 12 countries, funded by the European Commission REA. DARIAH participates in ECHOLOT alongside major initiatives including Europeana, the Wikimedia movement, EOSC, and the Data Space for Cultural Heritage. DARIAH oversees the evaluation phase ahead of the final software release, while the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW) contributes to requirements engineering and system design.
• CNRS – UAR3598 – Huma-NumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) through its UAR3598 Huma-Num division provides hosting for DARIAH's legal address in Paris, webhosting services, and infrastructure support. Huma-Num also provides OpenTheso hosting for the Performing Arts Thesaurus, Sharedocs storage for mailing list data, and other technical infrastructure services.
• EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMBL leads the STARDAST project ('STewardship and Recognition for DAta Science Talent'), a pan-European training ecosystem for data experts. DARIAH participates as a project partner, providing a data steward and community manager to work on data stewardship roles and workforce integration across institutions, with a focus on the Digital Humanities sector.
• FIN-CLARIAH / DARIAH-FIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIN-CLARIAH, particularly its DARIAH-FI component, co-organizes the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon (#DHH26), the 11th iteration of this annual international summer school. DARIAH supports this event as a core capacity-building and community engagement activity.
• University of Helsinki (Department of Digital Humanities)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki is a key co-organizer of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026, providing academic leadership and hosting the event at Minerva Plaza. Researchers from the department lead hackathon theme development.
• Aalto UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAalto University co-organizes the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026, contributing expertise in distributed algorithms, computational methods, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Professor Jukka Suomela from Aalto's Department of Computer Science is among the event organizers.
• CLARIN-EUmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCLARIN-EU is a supporting partner of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026. DARIAH and CLARIN collaborate within the ATRIUM project (alongside ARIADNE and OPERAS) and the SSH Open Marketplace, integrating services across European research infrastructures for social sciences and humanities.
• HELDIG (Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHELDIG co-organizes the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 alongside FIN-CLARIAH and the University of Helsinki, contributing to interdisciplinary digital humanities research and training in the Finnish context.
• Marie Curie Training Networks (CASCADE and MECANO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCASCADE and MECANO, two Marie Curie Training Networks, provide support for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026, contributing to training and skills development for early career researchers in digital methods.
• CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle RicerchemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Italian National Research Council (CNR) hosts the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 (May 26–29, Rome, Italy). This is a flagship annual gathering for the DARIAH community, including working group meetings, the DARIAH-Campus OER Showcase, and the Programme Committee activities.
• EuropeanacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropeana is a key partner within the ECHOLOT project and the broader European cultural heritage data ecosystem. DARIAH collaborates with Europeana on interoperability standards, linked open data, and cultural heritage data enrichment as part of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).
• Wikimedia MovementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Wikimedia movement is a partner in the ECHOLOT project, collaborating on workflows for publishing and round-tripping GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) data to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Sweden leads a specific case study on reintegrating enriched data back into source databases.
• EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDARIAH is an active participant in the EOSC ecosystem, with its services forming part of the SSH Open Marketplace entry point for arts and humanities researchers. DARIAH contributes to FAIR data practices, open science standards, and EOSC-compliant infrastructure within the European research data landscape.
• ATRIUM Project Partners (ARIADNE, OPERAS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerATRIUM ('Advancing FronTier Research in the Arts and Humanities') brings together DARIAH-EU, ARIADNE, CLARIN, and OPERAS to strengthen digitally-enabled data-driven research across Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The project develops a shared Service & Software Catalogue, training curriculum (hosted on DARIAH-Campus), and Trans-National Access programme. DARIAH oversees training contributions and technical integration.
• ACDH-CH (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerACDH-CH collaborated with DARIAH-EU to launch the new version of DARIAH-Campus and continues to contribute lecture series and resources to the platform. It also participates in ECHOLOT alongside DARIAH.
• OSCARS Cluster (Open Science)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDARIAH participates in the OSCARS cluster promoting open science across research infrastructures. Through OASIS (Open Audiovisual Science Innovation Scheme), DARIAH Working Group Theatralia contributes to open science methodologies and video-based research tools.
• Institut des Amériques / CNRS (PERFORMA Project)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Institut des Amériques, funded by CNRS, co-finances the multilingual performing arts thesaurus project (PERFORMA) led by the Theatralia Working Group. The collaboration enables multilingual translations (French, Croatian, English, Spanish) and incorporates American continental performance studies theories.
• 24 DARIAH Member CountriescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDARIAH's 24 member countries participate through national consortiums, contributing financial and in-kind resources to sustain the pan-European infrastructure. National coordinators facilitate local engagement, organize national activities, and represent their countries in DARIAH governance.

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Key highlights7 records

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