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Strengthen the articulation between research infrastructures, federating the access to services and resources to the community.

Having a brief and clear list of benefits and showcases explaining how useful can DARIAH be to the community and what services can DARIAH provide.

Define and execute a joint strategy for training, directed to different targets, as a way of securing the social sustainability of a research infrastructure. Based on a survey conducted under the DESIR project, the early-career researchers group appears as the prioritary target (where the lowest rates of digital humanities practices are found).

Raise awareness among Higher Education Institutions to the importance of offering formal training programs aimed at developing competences in the digital humanities.

Provide unified access to learning resources produced by scholars and institutions affiliated with DARIAH so that users can find what they need more easily.

Creating common spaces that can foster the participation and dialogue between the technological dimension and research in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

Establish DARIAH as a structure that can support EU fundraising for the development of Digital Humanities" projects.

Advertise best practices in the areas of Intellectual Property Rights and licensing.

Create mechanisms for support, follow up and engagement among DARIAH users and stakeholders.

Establish clear guidelines/procedures about the organizational model of DARIAH.

Establish a standard feedback form/questionnaire to be given to all the participants in DARIAH training measures to respond to.

Development of a permanent methodology to monitor, measure and validate users’ opinions and reactions about DARIAH’s services and tools, in order to assess DARIAH users’ trust on the already existing services.

Define a set of clear objectives and goals for DARIAH.

Build DARIAH as a researcher-driven infrastructure with a strong focus on usability.

Providing a method of approaching each scientific community according to their discipline and specific needs and considering the different audiences.

Reinforce contents that can help using the infrastructure and provide them through the different stakeholders / interfaces already existing in the universities (e.g. libraries, research support units).

Develop a digital framework to support policies and practices for the citizen science ecosystem.

Develop open peer-review and post-publishing mechanisms in research infrastructures and institutional repositories.

Promote the adoption of scientific evaluation mechanisms that are in tune with open science practices and models, simultaneously complying with institutional, scientific, disciplinary and methodologic diversity.

Disseminate DARIAH among the documentation services of academic and scientific research institutions.

Improve the structure and the contents available at DARIAH"s website, making it easier, clearer and more intuitive to its users.

Implement a clear and comprehensive Business Plan, resulting from a participatory and collaborative process with all stakeholders.

Implement a common strategy for raising regional funding by promoting DARIAH"s integration inthe Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3).

Advertise DARIAH as a long-term sustainable infrastructure, as a way of fostering trust among its users.

Ensuring that every DARIAH tool and service is available in the common infrastructure, gathering them in a platform such as the Marketplace.

Promote the development of strategic joint e-services in digital humanities between DARIAH members.

Support the establishment of a research data management competency center in DARIAH countries to assist policymaking, standards adoption, tool delivery, background information, awareness raising and community building.

Focus communication more strongly by appealing more to individual users.

Research infrastructures should develope towards granting content accessibility to all its potential users, and have a multilingual scope.