Definition

This type of contribution involves the coordination of DARIAH activities. The coordination roles that are paid by DARIAH-ERIC can not be considered as in-kind contributions. For instance coordination of or cooperation in:

  • National Coordinator coordinates DARIAH activities in his or her country. In the NCC they meet regularly to integrate their national DARIAH activities at the European level. Each DARIAH Member Country has its own National Coordinator.
  • VCC Heads: their work is based on pro-bono activities. A Memorandum of Understanding defines the amount of hours that a VCC head should dedicate to DARIAH per year.
  • Working Groups (coordinators): their work is based on pro-bono activities. Their work is regulated by a tacit contract

Enterprise Viewpoint

The DARIAH IKC Community comprises of the following:

  • DARIAH Coordination Community

DARIAH Coordination Roles

The following roles have been identified as belonging to the DARIAH Coordination Community:

  • Coordination Activity Subsystem (passive role): the community component representing the DARIAH Coordination Community as a whole.
  • Coordination Activity Owner (passive/active role): (individual or institution) the agent that has the overall responsibility of the coordination activity.
  • Coordination Activity Provider (active role): an agent (institution) that performs a certain action in the context of the DARIAH coordination
  • Coordination Activity Implementer (active role): the agent who performs the activity on the behalf of the Coordination Activity Provider
  • Coordination Activity Consumer (active/ passive role): an agent (individual/ institution) that receives, consumes or experiences the outputs created during a coordination activity
  • Coordination Activity Manager (active role): the agent that has a day to day overview of the running of the activity. This role is also the point of contact for issues with the smooth running of the activity
  • Coordination Activity Management Subsystem (passive role): The component that provides coordination support for coordination activities.

DARIAH Coordination Behaviours

The following are the identified behaviours of the DARIAH Coordination Community:

  • Coordination Activity Management: the behaviour of the Coordination Activity Manager and the Coordination Activity Management Subsystem, who has a day to day overview of the running of the activities.
  • Coordination Activity Support: the behaviour of the Coordination Activity Provider and the Coordination Activity Management Subsystem, whose task is to support the coordination activities
  • Coordination Activity Execution: the behaviour of the Coordination Activity Implementer, who is responsible to perform a certain action on behalf of the Coordination Activity Provider.

Information Viewpoint

Data

Data object type: information useful for the participants, internal project documentation (shared documents such as action plans for example), official outputs (official documents)

Agents

  • Coordination Activity Owner: the agent that has the responsibility of the coordination activity.
  • Coordination Activity Provider: an agent (institution) that performs a certain action in the context of the DARIAH coordination
  • Coordination Activity Implementer: the agent who performs the activity on the behalf of the Coordination Activity provider
  • Coordination Activity Consumer: an agent (individual/ institution) that receives, consumes or experiences the outputs created during an activity
  • Coordination Activity Manager: the agent that has a day to day overview of the running of the activity. This role is also the point of contact for issues with the smooth running of the activity

Services

  • Communication Support: external (DARIAH website), internal (team collaboration softwares such as Confluence Wiki, Basecamp)
  • Processing tool: the contribution tool

Contracts

  • Memorandum of understanding: defines the amount of hours a VCC Head should dedicate to DARIAH a year.
Case Study - A DARIAH institution offers a contribution.
The institute fills a self-assessment and submits it via the Contribution Tool. The assessment criteria are provided by the tool. Assessment criteria are offered for each type of contribution. This self-assessment is peer reviewed by the appropriate peer review group via the tool, composed of VCC Heads and members of the Working Groups. When the VCC Heads peer-review in-kind contributions, they act as Coordination Activity Implementer. The Coordination Activity Provider is the peer-reviewing group (composed of VCC heads and Working groups members). It acts on the behalf of DARIAH, which is the Coordination Activity Owner. The Coordination Activity Consumer is also DARIAH, since it will be the beneficiary of the expertise of this group to review in-kind contributions. The Coordination Activity Subsystem is represented by the Contribution Tool. DARIAH and the VCC belong the DARIAH Coordination Community.