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Edited by Christof Schöch, Julia Dudar and Evgeniia Fileva. With contributions by Joanna Byszuk, Julia Dudar, Evegniia Fileva, Andressa Gomide, Lisanne van Rossum, Christof Schöch, Artjoms Šeļa and Karina van Dalen-Oskam. The aim of this publication is to document and describe current, widespread research practices in CLS, based on a large collection of publications that have been published in this field over the last approximately ten years. The perspective of this survey is primarily descriptive: it aims to document current, widespread practices as the authors were able to observe them in the published literature. In this sense, the survey can also serve as an annotated bibliography of sorts and as a guide to further reading. Despite the fact that this survey is not intended as an introductory textbook, it can nevertheless also serve as an introduction to several research areas or issues that are prominent within CLS as well as to several key methodological concerns that are of importance when performing research in CLS.

The internal rules and procedures applicable to the PALOMERA EU funded project are primarily defined in the Consortium Agreement signed between all the beneficiaries, funded and unfunded. In addition to which a Project Information Management System (PIMS) implemented in Confluence1 provides a full knowledge base regarding the organisational management of the PALOMERA Project. The Project Information Management System (PIMS) is based on the FitSM Standard2. This deliverable describes these rules and procedures. It explains the overall functioning within the consortium and the rules that must be respected by each partner, on the one hand to be in line with obligations written in the Grant Agreement, and on the other hand to ensure fluid, efficient and respectful interactions between partners. It is intended to provide guidance and direction for internal governance and management, escalation procedure, internal communication, reporting procedures and internal review process applicable to the project outputs. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

The SSH Vocabulary Commons brings together experts and managers from SSH research infrastructures CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH and E-RIHS that agree to share their expertise and work towards common recommendations for firstly, using and managing vocabularies used in SSH and secondly operating, sharing and managing of vocabulary services useful for the broad SSH community. The SSH Vocabulary Commons work is specifically directed towards: - Common recommendations for creating, managing and using vocabularies used in SSH research and resource management that will make the SSH infrastructures better interoperable and more efficient. - Aligning current vocabulary management practices with EOSC and FAIR principles making vocabularies first-class citizens, easy to find, share and access. - Improving facilities for multilingual vocabularies. - Promoting sharing of vocabularies and management procedures and software between different SSH domains and organizations by recommending specific Knowledge Organization/Representation language formats e.g. SKOS and how to apply these e.g. vocabulary metadata, versioning - Providing easier cross domain integration of (meta)data and semantic interoperability by supporting and providing procedures for vocabulary matching - Maintaining contacts with vocabulary software development teams and promote SSH infrastructure interests - Facilitating vocabulary recommendation, supporting researchers finding relevant vocabulary for their research. - Providing a default vocabulary hosting and publishing service for orphaned vocabularies

The OPERAS-PLUS Data Management Plan (DMP) provides information regarding the collection, management, and processing of data collected and/or produced during the project phase (1 September 2022-31 August 2025) and outlines measures to make this data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable).

The OPERAS-PLUS Communication Strategy and Toolkit describes the communication goals and objectives of the project and wider OPERAS Research Infrastructure, as well as outlines the activities and tools that will be used to achieve them. It provides a framework for consistent and effective communication across all channels and stakeholders. The strategy includes messaging, audience analysis, channel selection, and measurement and evaluation criteria. The toolkit, on the other hand, provides specific templates, guidelines, and resources for implementing the strategy. Overall, this Communication Strategy and Toolkit is essential for ensuring that all communication efforts align with the goals and effectively reach their target audience.

Vocabularies are used in a wide range of services. These include long-term digital archives as well as research project overview websites and training platforms. Vocabularies allow depositors and users to describe resources by indicating their most relevant aspects, usually summarised in single keywords. Analysing vocabularies is therefore a productive way of discovering which aspects of a research area are covered by a particular service, and how services relate to each other. This hands-on session presents a practical workflow for comparing vocabularies from different services and identifying possible overlaps. “Vocabularies” is used here in a broad sense, including both controlled vocabularies (ranging from controlled lists to thesauri) and folksonomies, i.e. collections of uncontrolled keywords used in a service. A Jupyter notebook is included, containing the Python code needed to perform the comparison. A set of vocabularies are already provided for comparison (such as the SSH Open Marketplace keywords and Getty AAT). In addition, an accompanying presentation illustrates some preliminary thoughts on vocabulary terminology, usage and interoperability (with a special focus on the users’ perspective) as well as the description of a comparison between vocabularies of the Austrian DH community recently performed at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage.

Controlled vocabularies prove useful for improving the quality of topical keywords describing SSH publications. This presentation deals with the challenge of improving the quality of keywords which are expressed in the form of strings (keywords-strings). Experiences from Dariah.lab project (lab.dariah.pl) and TRIPLE project show that these keywords-strings on many occasions originate from controlled vocabularies if they were applied by institutional actors (e.g. data officers in digital libraries) and hence can be easily enriched with references to controlled vocabularies. On the other hand, keywords-strings from authors are less frequently originating from these kinds of resources. This presentation outlines automated and semi-automated methods for enriching both types of keywords-strings with references to controlled vocabularies.

This presentation was given during the PALOMERA Series launch event with Niels Stern (OAPEN/DOAB) and Ursula Rabar (OPERAS/OAeBU), hosted by Lucy Barnes (OABN/PALOMERA). This event explores the PALOMERA project and how the community can engage with its work via the OABN. Find out more about the OABN PALOMERA Series: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2023/03/02/the-oabn-is-working-with-palomera/. You can watch the recording of this event on the OABN YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnM91NFs8QU. PALOMERA is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.