The mission of DYAS, the Greek Research Infrastructure Network for the Humanities, is:
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to support the Greek communities of humanities researchers in advancing their work using ICT and in exchanging knowledge and working practices
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to broaden the scope of and opportunities for research through the interconnection of various distributed digital resources
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to promote the access, use, creation and long-term preservation of research data, both primary and secondary, in digital form.
The services being developed by DYAS fall in four groups:
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sharing digital resources through a set of data, person, metadata, vocabulary and software registries
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support for resource development, through a series of guidelines and specialized tools
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contributing to DARIAH services, by participating in specific tasks of the Virtual Competency Centres
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a digital humanities observatory to support continuous monitoring and recording of the advances in the field and to undertake dissemination actions.