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Sustainability
Jennifer Edmond
DARIAH Annual Meeting
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dariahEventSlide2
Sustainability of the natural world as the opposite of current climate trajectoriesSlide3Slide4
The ‘Happy 18
th
Birthday’ model of research project sustainabilitySlide5
Horace on Sustainability
I've raised a monument to outlast bronze,
Whose heights no dynast's pyramid can exceed,
Which neither North Wind's bluster nor the gnaw
Of rain, nor countless years in slow stampede,
Nor flight of eras can level to the ground.Slide6
Plato on Sustainability
“The
specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the
reality
.”Slide7
Definitions of Sustainability
to be maintained “at a certain rate or level,” (as in sustainable growth)
and
“
to be upheld or defended as valid, correct, or true” (as in a sustainable argument).
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Imagining sustainability
Imagining research infrastructures Slide9
‘Metonymical’ approaches to sustainabilitySlide10
But infrastructures are, in fact, most like elephants
Need to know your ‘blind men’
Need to know your ‘anatomy’ – asset portfolio and knowledge auditSlide11
Five key principles to guide sustainable development of research projects and infrastructure
(Edmond and
Morselli
, forthcoming)
1. EMBED INTO PARTNERSHIPS and
NETWORKS
2. DEVELOP WITH MODULARITY AND
OPENNESS, KNOWING YOUR USE PARADIGM MAY NOT BE THE ONLY ONE
3. DOCUMENT, VALIDATE and
SHARE
4. MAINTAIN CLARITY OF PURPOSE AND SIMPLICITY OF
ACCESS
5. APPROACH SUSTAINABILITY AS A PROCESS, NOT AN END
PRODUCT Slide12
The DARIAH story so far…
imagine, grow, consolidateSlide13
The DARIAH Future?
a
nd now for something [completely/somewhat]
[different/the same] [?/!].Slide14
DARIAH is a pan-European __________ (thing) that ____________ (verbs) ____________________________.
It… Slide15
Existential Questions
What are our facets? Who are our ‘users’?
What are we good for?
How can we reach beyond our current community to serve the wider humanities community?
What should we say ‘no’ to?
What do we need to do to prove value to our researchers? To our countries?
How can DARIAH embody BOTH definitions of sustainable? How can we, like Horace, become truly embedded?Slide16
Do we need new metaphors for what we are?Slide17
DARIAH ERIC as Hierarchy
General Assembly
Scientific Board
Senior Management Team
CEO, 2 NCC, 2 JRC et. al
DARIAH Coordination Office Staff
Board of Directors (3)
National
OrganisationsSlide18
DARIAH ERIC as Marketplace
General Assembly
Scientific Board
Senior Management Team
(2 NCC, 2 JRC et. al)
DARIAH Coordination Office Staff
Board of Directors
National
Organisations
Virtual Competency
Centres
Working Groups
Funded Projects
National Coordinators Committee
In-kind
reportingSlide19
Do we need new evidence for what we achieve?Slide20
Keynote lecture:
“
Keep calm and yes, we’re open today: Open science and libraries”
Prof
. Dr. Isabella Peters
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel /
ZBW
Leibniz Information Center for Economics