As one of the three consortia within DARIAH-BE, the DARIAH-VL consortia is currently made up of the following institutions:
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Ghent University: Prof. Dr. Christophe Verbruggen (Coordinator: DARIAH-VL and DARIAH-BE National Coordinator)
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KU Leuven: Prof. Dr. Mark Depauw, Department of Ancient History
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University of Antwerp: Prof. Dr. Dirk Van Hulle, Department of Literature
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Prof. Dr. Wouter Ryckbosch, Department of History
The day-to-day activities of DARIAH-VL are coordinated by Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University. DARIAH-VL is structured around two major objectives:
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The creation of a humanities-specific digital ecosystem and VRE services in Flanders/Belgium. For this, it operates through Digital Humanities Research Centres at each partner institution. Within the framework of DARIAH-EU, following a bottom-up approach, DARIAH-VL develops user-friendly, sustainable and reusable generic modules and applications in the context of ongoing research projects as part of the VRE service infrastructure.
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Exchange and sustain existing expertise in the Flemish field of digital humanities. Coordinated by, but not limited to the thematic DARIAH Working Groups, a joint knowledge base is being established, research data interoperability is being investigated and innovative, well-documented search and analysis tools for digitized data are being created and disseminated.
The Flemish contribution to DARIAH is the Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure (VRE-SI) offering a sustainable portfolio of services enabling digital scholarship in the arts and humanities in Flanders, Belgium and beyond. The DARIAH VRE-SI plays a central role in the implementation of the digital research lifecycle, for example, by bringing together the tools necessary for analysing and interpreting digital collections. The DARIAH VRE-SI is developed in close collaboration with existing research projects to ensure that the developed services meet the actual needs of researchers.