In the process of creating a Reference Architecture for the DARIAH in-kind contributions, we were able to count on the support of already existing reference models and reference architectures, both in the fields of ICT, humanities and social sciences.

The models that we used as a reference for our architecture are well known models implemented in the design of ICT processes like the ODP-RM (Reference Model - Open Distributed Processing). In addition, a recently developed model as the RM-SSH (Reference Model for Social Science and Humanities) for data infrastructures developed by the DASISH project provides a more abstract reference model for our work on the DARIAH RA, whose field of action is in the digital arts and humanities.

The methodology section of the DARIAH-RA refers to two relevant Reference Models of two topics and introduces the concept of viewpoints used throughout the Reference Architecture (DARIAH-RA):