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In between the Berlin and the Paris meetings, I prepared an outline that aims at showing what is intended  with the Charter. It also wants to invite to a further dialogue regarding the development of the Charter. Don't hesitate to post comments or e-mail the address below!ConceptThe Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter is developed in order to frame the conditions ofcollaboration between Cultural Heritage Institutions and scholars. It simplifies informationretrieval and transactions related to the scholarly use of cultural heritage data.The Charter is an online environment that allows one to declare their commitment to thereuse conditions expressed for each collection or object registered in the Charter. The keyelements each of the parties commits to in terms of access, use and reuse are to be foundthere.As a trusted network of stakeholders, it generates reciprocate awareness and raises visibilityand transparency.StakeholdersThe stakeholders the Charter addresses are: Cultural Heritage Institutions, Cultural HeritageLabs, Researchers, Data Centers and Research Institutions.• Cultural Heritage Institutions are considered in their function as curators ofcollections and objects in their physical form and as potential primary initiators ofcorresponding digital surrogates, from basic descriptions (catalogues of collections,metadata for specific objects) to more elaborate outputs (scans, 3D models, physicalanalyses, etc.)• Primary data can be hosted by CHIs or by Higher Education Institutions likeuniversities, but they are in many cases curated by dedicated Data Centers. TheseCenters play a key role in guaranteeing the stability, the visibility and the long timeavailability of the primary data.• Cultural Heritage Laboratories have a high-level expertise in Cultural Heritage. Theygive essential insights into Cultural Heritage history, technologies, environment, andalteration.• Researchers are invited to sign in person, independently from the institution forwhich they are working at the time they sign the Charter. However, academic institutions (departments, universities, research institution or funding agencies)wishing to sign the Charter are welcome to do so as well.The Charter environment allows these actors to declare general principles (common workethics), and more broadly all the relevant information needed to understand how a givendataset can be reused. It allows them to get in contact with partners they would want towork with.Development frameworkThe Charter is conceived to complement, not replace, existing infrastructures andcatalogues. The initiative comes from DARIAH but strives for a wider involvement of acommunity of interest that includes for instance infrastructures like CLARIN-EU, E-RIHS,Europeana and affiliated projects such as HaS, IPERION-CH, EHRI, PARTHENOS.The Charter is neither a substitute to CHI content catalogues nor a copyright clearingenvironment. It provides information on reuse, recommendations and links to content thatmight be of interest for the user (catalogues, license information, etc.).Several workshops are conducted in the Winter 2016-2017, primarily but not only with CHIrepresentatives, in order to tackle technical as well as conceptual issues. Interviews withscholars are conducted in parallel. A first prototype for the web environment will beavailable in the Spring of 2017.Contact: charter@dariah.eu