Kurzfassung

This paper reports on work conducted in the context of Preparing DARIAH: Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, a collaborative European project co-funded by the ESFRI e-Infrastructures programme, aiming at providing the foundations (strategic, financial, legal, technological and conceptual) for the timely design and construction of the digital infrastructure requisite for scholarly research in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage in Europe.1 The Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre is currently engaging in a two-pronged research programme within the conceptual modelling work-package of DARIAH consisting: a) of the formulation of a conceptual model for scholarly research activity suitable for the representation of actual information practice in scholarly work, and b) of an empirical study of scholarly research activity, based on the elicitation, transcription, encoding, analysis and interpretation of open-question interviews with humanities scholars across Europe.