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Foster the use of open access software in the context of digital humanities.

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.

Promote DARIAH through its representatives and improve contacts with countries at a higher level.

Promote an annual work agenda with clear KPIs for the National Coordinators.

Support the creation of normatives and best practices regarding the preservation, management and curation of digital infrastructures" data.

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

Advocate european policies that promote the sustainability of research infrastructures.

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.

Strive for political resolutions aiming at longer funding cycles for research infrastructures.

Create indicators to allow an analysis over time and to determine the “trust trajectory” in research infrastructures.

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.

Having a brief and clear definition of DARIAH, so that every National Coordinator and accession countries can explain it in the same way to their communities.

Define a set of clear objectives and goals for DARIAH.

Assimilate best-practices and examples from research infrastructures with a higher level of experience and consolidation.

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

Provide a "Welcome & Implementation Kit" addressed to the new members.

Demonstrate the social and economic value of DARIAH to the industry and the greater public.

Increase DARIAH visibility and relevance in the citizen science agenda setting.

Develop an european advocacy plan for digital citizen science in social sciences, arts and humanities.

Labelling and branding all the national resources, activities and services as DARIAH.

Adapting DARIAH orientations, at the european level, to each national context.

Ensuring that all the national in-kind contributions are useful for DARIAH and labelled as DARIAH at the institutional and national level.

Define a multiannual events representation. Participate in the main national and european/international conferences of each scientific discipline, looking for an opportunity to disseminate DARIAH in those fora.

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.

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).

Strengthen DARIAH"s position/representation in european higher education and scientific umbrella organizations.

Expand the visibility of DARIAH outside UE borders.

Development of DARIAH’s profile in new and innovative technology areas.