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The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) was included in the first Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in 2006, and since 2014, it has been established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Croatia has been participating in DARIAH since early preparatory phase by following and fostering its vision to enable excellent research in the arts and humanities, focusing not only on the local, but also on the regional and European perspectives. On the local level, main focus of the DARIAH-HR activities since 2014 has been the development of a cooperation between the scientific, GLAM and the IT sector, as well as the establishment of the cooperation between the Ministry of Science and Education and the Ministry of Culture on the planning and financing of national infrastructure for digital humanities. As a center of a DARIAH Western Balkan Hub, DARIAH-HR is also fostering cooperation in regional frameworks through different projects and organization of events. Finally, on the European level, DARIAH-HR efforts are focused on initiating the establishment of new working groups covering areas that are not sufficiently represented in DARIAH, such are WG on Ethics and Legality, WG Theatralia, and (likely) WG Art History and Technology through which we could plan more ambitious pan-European projects.

In parallel with the so-called humanities crisis, the field of digital humanities has been rapidly expanding since the beginning of the 21st century. There is still a critical debate going on about what DH is and whether we can talk about a new discipline at all, or it is just about a collaboration of two different fields - humanities and computing. Keeping out of these discussions, scientists and experts from different fields joined their efforts in the development and exploitation of the benefits of IT trends and new technological opportunities to advance humanities research and education. The idea of creating a pan-European digital research infrastructure for digital arts and humanities, aiming to ensure long-term accessibility and access to cultural and scientific information along with the support to researchers at all stages of the research process, officially began in 2006. DARIAH was included that year in the first Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), and since 2014 has been established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Guided by the principle “by researchers for researchers”, scientists themselves lead and supervise the development of their digital research environment. Today, DARIAH is the network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries with the mission to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. Croatia is one of the founding members and has been included in its development since the early preparatory phase (2007). The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in its role as a coordinating institution (since 2013) has under- taken many important activities. Among other things, it has positioned Croatia as a regional hub (DARIAH Western Balkan Hub) and the contact point for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro, so today it is fostering cooperation in regional framework through different projects and organization of events.

This presentation introduces the DARIAH working group ELDAH and its latest project on data protection issues in digital humanities, the DARIAH ELDAH Consent Form Wizard (CFW). The CFW is a tool that enables digital humanities scholars as well as the wider research infrastructure community to quickly and easily obtain standardized consent forms that conform to the obligations and regulations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By answering a series of simple questions, scholars do not only learn about data privacy requirements, but are also provided with consent forms for their immediate use. The CFW supports you in collecting the consent of data subjects in three scenarios: gathering data from and/or about living people for research purposes ; communicating through mailing lists or other (digital) communication media ; collecting data and/or consent from participants as the host of an academic event.

Program and the Book of Abstracts from the first international conference of the DARIAH-HR consortium "Digital Humanities and Heritage".

The paper discusses approaches, outcomes and experiences of an ongoing project of collaborative Croatian terminology contribution to the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through the cooperation of university teachers, master level students and museum professionals. The project is conducted on the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS). A model proposed in the project can accelerate the otherwise time-consuming process of developing multilingual thesauri through greater student engagement while achieving multiple educational goals on real-world tasks. The methods of quality control and student engagement from crowdsourcing projects methodologies are applied, but they were revised and improved with respect to the specific needs and requirements of the educational context. The process is segmented into the following stages: 1. Generating a corpus of the relevant terms. Two thousand most frequent terms from four top facest (materials, techniques, objects and periods) were selected from the databases of partner heritage institutions. 2. Translation and linking. Translation of terms into English and linking them to relevant AAT concepts (accompanied with references to relevant reference literature and lexicographical sources) is performed by students. Mapping of Croatian and English terms for specific concepts is further implemented through semantic technologies. 3. Quality control. Methods include peer-checking among students and teacher supervision. Concepts that are particularly demanding (e.g. complex art techniques) are examined by a separate group of students, where examination also includes detailed literature research and comparison. The final stage of quality control is provided by scholars and museum professionals from the corresponding field. 4. Including the terms into AAT. After the quality check, the terms would be included in the AAT and made openly available as Linked Open Data (LOD), provided by the Getty Research Institute. Further open formats for thesauri exchange (Zthes, RDF, JSON) would be provided. This will allow the reuse of project results by other national and international vocabulary projects and create a basis for enriching metadata and enabling multilingualism. That would increase the visibility, accessibility and interoperability of diverse national heritage in an international context, thereby supporting multicultural communication at human and machine level. During the mapping and validation of different concepts from monolingual and multilingual thesauri, via different methods and tools (SPARQL queries, LOD matching, using APIs), participants are becoming aware of linguistic and cultural differences in meaning and vocabulary construction (classifications, selection of preferred terms, fluid spatio-temporal boundaries etc.). In this paper, we would like to discuss how participants (students, heritage professionals, scholars) perceive different aspects of vocabulary development and control and how they practice scholarly primitives (especially annotating, comparing, referring and representing) in the context of the ongoing developments in the methods and technologies related to controlled vocabularies and ontologies in the field of Digital Humanities.