The DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2018, held on May 22-24 in Paris, France, was a lively meeting point for researchers, Working Groups, DARIAH-related projects, and the DARIAH governing bodies to exchange experiences, present progress, explore new ideas, and discuss future challenges. The event welcomed more than 150 participants.

This year’s theme was Open Science. Growing out of the broader Open Access movement, the topic of an even deeper Open Science has emerged in recent years, both from the research community itself, as well as from research institutions, funders, governments and supranational bodies that wish to see science done in a way that has more impact, is more accessible to both academic peers and the public and is available for inter- and multidisciplinary research.

DARIAH-EU decided to set Open Science as the theme of this year’s Annual Event with the aim of engaging the DARIAH-EU community in discussions on how we deal with issues of open science in research infrastructures, and how the humanities can adopt new methodologies for open collaboration. The event featured two keynotes by Teresa Scassa (Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa) and Jon Tennant (Former Executive Editor of the Geoscience Communication journal and a leader of the Open Scholarship movement).

For more information on the event, visit the archived website.

Programme Committee

• Frank Fischer – DARIAH-EU; Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Adeline Joffres – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Huma-Num
• Mike Mertens – OpenAIRE Advance
• Francesca Morselli – DARIAH-EU; Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
• Suzanne Dumouchel – DARIAH-EU; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Huma-Num
• Marcin Werla – Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• Roxanne Wyns – LIBIS K.U.Leuven
• Agiatis Benardou – Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”