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c<strong>on</strong>current promoti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> career opportunities); for the def<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>iti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> development of best practices<br />
that meet real discipl<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ary needs; <strong>and</strong> for the iterative creati<strong>on</strong> of a scalable digital <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure that is<br />
based <strong>on</strong> real needs as identified by various discipl<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ary communities.<br />
The f<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>al secti<strong>on</strong> of this report provides an overview of some large humanities cyber<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure<br />
projects <strong>and</strong> how they are beg<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>n<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g to meet some of these needs.<br />
OVERVIEW OF LARGE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS<br />
The past five years have seen the creati<strong>on</strong> of a large number of <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ternati<strong>on</strong>al <strong>and</strong> nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
cyber<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure or e-science/e-research/e-humanities projects, creat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g a fragmented envir<strong>on</strong>ment<br />
that has made it challeng<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g to determ<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>e what type of <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure has already been built or may yet<br />
be created. C<strong>on</strong>sequently, a number of the most important projects, arts-humanities.net, 718 ADHO—<br />
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizati<strong>on</strong>s, 719 CLARIN, 720 centerNET, 721 DARIAH, 722 NoC-<br />
Network of Expert Centres (<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> Great Brita<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>and</strong> Irel<strong>and</strong>), 723 Project Bamboo, 724 <strong>and</strong> TextGrid 725 —<br />
formed a coaliti<strong>on</strong> named CHAIN 726 <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> October 2009. CHAIN, or the Coaliti<strong>on</strong> of Humanities <strong>and</strong><br />
Arts Infrastructures <strong>and</strong> Networks, plans to act as “a forum for areas of shared <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terest to its<br />
participants,” <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clud<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g advocat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g for strengthen<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g digital <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure for the humanities;<br />
develop<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g bus<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ess models; promot<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>teroperability for resources, tools, <strong>and</strong> services; promot<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g<br />
best practices <strong>and</strong> technical st<strong>and</strong>ards; develop<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g a “shared service <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure”; <strong>and</strong> widen<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g the<br />
geographical scope of the current coaliti<strong>on</strong>. The various organizati<strong>on</strong>s had previously organized a<br />
panel at Digital Humanities 2009 to explore these same issues (Wynne et al. 2009) <strong>and</strong> met aga<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> at the<br />
2010 Digital Humanities C<strong>on</strong>ference.<br />
This secti<strong>on</strong> provides an overview of each of these organizati<strong>on</strong>s as well as several other important<br />
nati<strong>on</strong>al humanities <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure projects (i.e., Digital Humanities Observatory, DRIVER, TextVRE,<br />
SEASR) <strong>and</strong> the work they have d<strong>on</strong>e.<br />
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizati<strong>on</strong>s (ADHO) is an umbrella organizati<strong>on</strong> “whose goals<br />
are to promote <strong>and</strong> support digital research <strong>and</strong> teach<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g across arts <strong>and</strong> humanities discipl<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>es.” 727<br />
The organizati<strong>on</strong> was set up to more closely coord<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ate the activities of the Associati<strong>on</strong> for Computers<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the Humanities (founded <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1973), the Associati<strong>on</strong> for Literary <strong>and</strong> L<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>guistic Comput<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g (founded<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1978), <strong>and</strong> the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>teractifs (founded<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1986). The ADHO is adm<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>istered by a steer<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g committee, <strong>and</strong> membership can be obta<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ed<br />
through subscripti<strong>on</strong> to Literary & L<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>guistic Comput<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g. The ADHO is resp<strong>on</strong>sible for oversee<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g a<br />
number of digital humanities publicati<strong>on</strong>s, 728 <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>clud<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g peer-reviewed journals such as Literary &<br />
718 http://www.arts-humanities.net/<br />
719 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/<br />
720 http://www.clar<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>.eu/<br />
721 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/<br />
722 http://www.dariah.eu/<br />
723 http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/<br />
724 http://projectbamboo.org/<br />
725 http://www.textgrid.de/en.html<br />
726 http://www.dariah.eu/<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dex.phpopti<strong>on</strong>=com_c<strong>on</strong>tent&view=article&id=107:cha<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>-dariah-participates-<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>-an-<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ternati<strong>on</strong>al-coaliti<strong>on</strong>-of-arts-<strong>and</strong>humanities-<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>frastructure-<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>itiatives&catid=3:dariah<br />
727 http://digitalhumanities.org/about<br />
728 http://digitalhumanities.org/publicati<strong>on</strong>s