[Forwarding from the founders of CHAIN. --Peter Suber.]<br><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">With apologies for cross posting.<br>
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A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009,<br>
between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects,<br>
and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and<br>
Humanities:<br>
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* <a href="http://arts-humanities.net" target="_blank">arts-humanities.net</a> (<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/" target="_blank">http://www.arts-humanities.net/</a>)<br>
* ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations<br>
(<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/</a>)<br>
* CLARIN (<a href="http://www.clarin.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.clarin.eu/</a>)<br>
* centerNet (<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/</a>)<br>
* DARIAH (<a href="http://www.dariah.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.dariah.eu/</a>)<br>
* NoC - Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain and Ireland<br>
(<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/" target="_blank">http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/</a>)<br>
* Project Bamboo (<a href="http://projectbamboo.org/" target="_blank">http://projectbamboo.org/</a>)<br>
* TextGrid (<a href="http://www.textgrid.de/" target="_blank">http://www.textgrid.de/</a>)<br>
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We identified the current fragmented environment where researchers operate<br>
in separate areas with often mutually incompatible technologies as a barrier<br>
to fully exploiting the transformative role that these technologies can<br>
potentially play. We resolved that our present, proposed, and future<br>
activities are interdependent and complementary and should be oriented<br>
towards working together to overcome barriers, and to create a shared<br>
environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained,<br>
thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities.<br>
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In order to achieve these goals we agreed to form the Coalition of<br>
Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks – CHAIN. CHAIN will act as<br>
a forum forareas of shared interest to its participants, including:<br>
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* advocacy for an improved digital research infrastructure for the<br>
Humanities;<br>
* development of sustainable business models;<br>
* promotion of technical interoperability of resources, tools and services;<br>
* promotion of good practice and relevant technical standards;<br>
* development of a shared service infrastructure;<br>
* coordinating approaches to legal and ethical issues;<br>
* interactions with other relevant computing infrastructure initiatives;<br>
* widening the geographical scope of our coalition.<br>
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CHAIN will promote an open culture where experiences, including successes<br>
and failures, can be shared and discussed, in order to support and promote<br>
the use of digital technologies in research in the Humanities.<br>
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Sheila Anderson, King's College London (DARIAH)<br>
Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library Göttingen (TextGrid, DARIAH)<br>
David Greenbaum, University of California, Berkeley (Project Bamboo)<br>
Seth Denbo, King's College, London (DARIAH)<br>
Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland (centerNet)<br>
Chad Kainz, University of Chicago (Project Bamboo)<br>
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (CLARIN)<br>
Lorna Hughes, King's College London (ADHO, NoC)<br>
Tobias Blanke, King's College London (DARIAH)<br>
Torsten Reimer, King's College London (<a href="http://arts-humanities.net" target="_blank">arts-humanities.net</a>)<br>
David Robey, University of Oxford (NoC)<br>
Harold Short, King's College London (ADHO)<br>
Katherine Walter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (centerNet)<br>
Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (CLARIN)<br>
Martin Wynne, University of Oxford (CLARIN, DARIAH)<br>
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This information is online at:<br>
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/blog/torsten_reimer/coalition_humanities_arts_infrastructures_networks_chain" target="_blank">http://www.arts-humanities.net/blog/torsten_reimer/coalition_humanities_arts_infrastructures_networks_chain</a><br>
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