Definition
Generally speaking, a service can be described as one or multiple objects, systems or activities that an agent makes available to another agent, in order to enable a user to perform a specific activity. In the context of DARIAH a service represents an action that one or more institutions affiliated to DARIAH (the service provider/s) offers to another (DARIAH) institution or single researcher in order to enable the user of the service to reach a certain objective (related to the enrichment, dissemination and sustainability of research outputs).
For all types of DARIAH services a Generic DARIAH Service Provision has been described with the following:
- An Enterprise Viewpoint,
- an Information Viewpoint,
- and a Computational Viewpoint.
Each of these viewpoints is a generalisation of the more specific subtype of service contribution.