These guidelines — complementing the DARIAH Service and Data Policies — give recommendations and practical advice on how to make resources become part of [the] DARIAH [offer], and as such how these resources can extend/enrich the DARIAH Infrastructure at large.

The guidelines are primarily geared towards DARIAH National Coordinators managing their national resources. However, they apply to any other DARIAH related actors (Working Group chairs or members, recipients of the DARIAH Funding Scheme, members of other DARIAH bodies) interested in integrating resources in the DARIAH environment.

An important principle of the guidelines is to reuse information about the resources already available somewhere in the broader ecosystem to avoid the need to enter the same information multiple times.

To this end, the guidelines define pathways for gathering this information for each resource type — service, data sources, software, publications, datasets, training materials — and what are the main services involved.

The pathways are governed by two premises:

a) make maximal use of existing infrastructure components (repositories, catalogues, registries, etc.), primarily in the Data Spaces (EOSC or DS4CH) context;

b) capture the breadth of the field, not disqualifying resources (esp. software and services) which may be not mature enough for the primary pathway.