LONG-TERM ARCHIVING
Preservation and Dissemination of Digital Research Data
ARCHE (A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs) is a service that offers stable and persistent hosting as well as the dissemination of digital research data and resources for the Austrian humanities community. ARCHE welcomes data from all humanities fields.
If you have resources, would like to share them, and want to make sure that the data will be around in the future, contact us. We offer both archiving and online availability for your resources. If needed, we will assist you in converting data and metadata into required formats.
We have prepared a set of policies and information for your reference, which you can access via the navigation menu at the top right or the cards in the “Practical Guide” section, which is displayed at the bottom of each page.
To get a quick introduction to ARCHE, you may watch our videos featuring Dante, a project leader, and Nora, a curator at ARCHE.
What is ARCHE?
The deposition process
HISTORY
Institutional Affiliation and Development of the Repository
ARCHE is the successor of a repository project established in 2014 as CLARIN Centre Vienna / Language Resources Portal (CCV/LRP). The mission of CCV/LRP was to provide depositing services and easy and sustainable access to digital language resources created in Austria. ARCHE replaces CCV/LRP and extends its mission by offering an advanced and reliable data management and depositing service open to a broader range of humanities fields in Austria.
ARCHE is a service offered by ACDH-CH, a national centre of expertise in digital humanities founded with the intention to promote the change towards the digital paradigm in the humanities.
ARCHE was awarded the CoreTrustSeal in 2017, a core level certification for trustworthy data repository systems, which was renewed in 2021. To learn more, visit coretrustseal.org. ARCHE has also been recognised as a service providing centre (B-Centre) by the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN.
In July 2020, the technology underlying ARCHE has been fundamentally overhauled, while still preserving all data, resolution of persistent identifiers (PIDs), as well as the user interface and APIs exposing data to external applications. For more details on the updated architecture see Technical Setup.
MISSION
Access to Digital Research Data
ARCHE’s primary mission is to provide easy and sustainable access to digital research data and resources for researchers in the humanities. It aims to achieve this by preserving digital data in the long-term, and by promoting the use of open access and open data policies. Have a look at our Collection Policy to find out about the scope of ARCHE.
To aid researchers in preparing their data for long-term preservation, ARCHE offers a set of policies and standards as well as consultancy.
As the successor of the Language Resources Portal (LRP), ARCHE offers language resources as Austria’s connection point to the European network of CLARIN Centres.
ARCHE has embraced the FAIR Data Principles and provides Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data and metadata.
GUIDANCE
Important Information
Technical Setup
Software components, client libraries, dissemination services, and storage procedures
