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Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks - CHAIN

MITH – Nov 10, 2009

MITH is pleased to announce CHAIN, a major new international cyberinfrastructure initiative, which involves centerNet, Bamboo, DARIAH, and others. Press release below:

A meeting was held at King’s College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:

We identified the current fragmented environment where researchers operate in separate areas with often mutually incompatible technologies as a barrier to fully exploiting the transformative role that these technologies can potentially play. We resolved that our present, proposed, and future activities are interdependent and complementary and should be oriented towards working together to overcome barriers, and to create a shared environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained, thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities.

In order to achieve these goals we agreed to form the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks — CHAIN. CHAIN will act as a forum for areas of shared interest to its participants, including:

CHAIN will promote an open culture where experiences, including successes and failures, can be shared and discussed, in order to support and promote the use of digital technologies in research in the Humanities.