
- Université Paris Diderot France
- Max Planck Society Germany
- University of Marne la Vallée France
- University of Belgrade Serbia
- UNIVERSITE PARIS DESCARTES France
- French National Institute for Agricultural Research France
- University of Bern Switzerland
- Institut Pasteur France
- Inserm France
- French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation France
- Kings College London, University of London United Kingdom
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Serbia
- University of Göttingen Germany
- King's College London United Kingdom
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives France
International audience; The CENDARI infrastructure is a research-supporting platform designed to provide tools for transnational historical research, focusing on two topics: medieval culture and World War I. It exposes to the end users modern Web-based tools relying on a sophisticated infrastructure to collect, enrich, annotate, and search through large document corpora. Supporting researchers in their daily work is a novel concern for infrastructures. We describe how we gathered requirements through multiple methods to understand historians' needs and derive an abstract workflow to support them. We then outline the tools that we have built, tying their technical descriptions to the user requirements. The main tools are the note-taking environment and its faceted search capabilities; the data integration platform including the Data API, supporting semantic enrichment through entity recognition; and the environment supporting the software development processes throughout the project to keep both technical partners and researchers in the loop. The outcomes are technical together with new resources developed and gathered, and the research workflow that has been described and documented.