What is DARIAH-SK
DARIAH-SK is a national consortium for digital research infrastructures in the humanities. We operate as a distributed network of institutions that collaborate in a coordinated manner to provide digital infrastructure services for:
- the research and academic community,
- the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums),
- the general public.
Our areas of expertise include:
- computer processing and dissemination of research data,
- development of open-source repositories for cultural and historical heritage,
- construction and analysis of language databases and corpora,
- ethical auditing of new technologies, and the promotion of open science.
As of February 1, 2026, Slovakia, represented by DARIAH-SK, has been an official member of the European research infrastructure DARIAH ERIC. This transnational platform supports collaboration among the digital humanities research community across the EU.
Vision
DARIAH-SK is a key platform for the digital transformation of the humanities in Slovakia. Our strategic priorities are:
- to provide state-of-the-art infrastructure for research and education,
- to apply modern technological solutions to the services we offer,
- to overcome the fragmentation of domestic initiatives in the digital humanities,
- and to create opportunities for international collaboration.
This vision informs our strategic goals for the coming period:
- to coordinate decentralized activities in Slovakia,
- to support the development and operation of research infrastructure services,
- and to fully integrate into the European DARIAH ERIC network.
We are an open platform, ready to collaborate with both domestic and international partners.
Partners
Bratislava City Gallery
Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts
Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies
Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Off Grid Lab
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
Structure
Coordinating Institution: Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
National Coordinator: Andrej Gogora
Coordinating Committee:
- Andrej Gogora (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Miroslav Zumrík (Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Peter Bednár (Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Michal Sliacky (Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Juraj Šedivý (Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts)
- Matej Harvát (Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information)
- Juraj Podroužek (Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies)
- Katarína Vass (Off grid lab)
- Katarína Trnovská (Bratislava City Gallery)
National Representative: Simona Foltinová (Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic)