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SHAPE-ID has been funded by the European Commission to explore the challenge of how to better support the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) perspectives into interdisciplinary research with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and other scientific disciplines, including Medicine, particularly in the context of addressing societal challenges. In this context, SHAPE-ID Work Package 3 (WP3) organised a series of workshops to learn directly from the experiences of researchers from across disciplines, as well as policy makers, funders and representatives from research performing organisations, industry and the cultural sector. This deliverable comprises two parts: Section A illustrates the matrix for integration of learning cases and the framework of analysis that was co-designed with the SHAPE-ID partners at the Co-Design Workshop, held at ISINNOVA, in Rome, on 13-14 June 2019. Section B illustrates a challenge-oriented research evaluation framework, criteria and tools proposed to evaluate research projects, as well as an evaluation methodology proposed for the learning workshops.

The aim of T6.5 activities was to provide targeted training events to the SSH community in the form of workshops and webinars. The aim of the events was to maximize the uptake of SSHOC resources and to promote data-driven and cross-disciplinary research directions. Targeted training webinars aimed to complement training workshops. This report concerns training webinars which were conceived as thematically narrower and shorter online events that would precede or follow the workshops, while the workshops were conceptualized as comprehensive and immersive training sessions. Because of their online format, the webinars were highly inclusive since the attendance was possible for a great variety of individuals who for different reasons would be unable to attend the in-person events, and consequently, greatly expanded the outreach of SSHOC outcomes. Given the training design in the form of workshop- webinar pairs and the fact that most of the workshops were, like webinars, delivered online, the organisation of the events largely overlapped. In order to provide a concise report on the work done in SSHOC Task 6.5, this deliverable gives a detailed account of the webinars delivered, while for all other aspects that concern training workshops, please refer to Deliverable 6.14 Report on Training Workshops (Pahor de Maiti & Fišer, 2022). The nine targeted training webinars listed below were organised from March 2019 to December 2021 and followed six thematic clusters: Data Science for the Social Sciences and Humanities 1.1. Hands-on Tutorial on Transcribing Interview Data (03/2019) 1.2. Sharing Datasets of Pathological Speech (10/2020) Data Science for Heritage Science 2.1. Use and Re-Use of Scientific Data in Archaeology and Heritage (04/2020) Data Protection and the General Data Protection Regulation 3.1. GDPR and the DARIAH ELDAH Consent Form Wizard (10/2020) Data Stewardship and Research Data Management 4.1. Tools and Resources for FAIR Data (05/2020) 4.2. Introducing the Newly Launched Ethnic and Migrant Minority Survey Registry (10/2020) Data Citation 5.1. FAIR SSH Data citation: Practical Guide (12/2021) Text Mining for the Social Sciences and Humanities 6.1. Quanlify With Ease: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Corpus Analysis (04/2020) 6.2. SSHOC'ing Drama in the Cloud: the Added Value of SSHOC/CLARIN Services (06/2021) The webinars usually lasted for an hour and consisted of presentations and a moderated questions and answers sessions at the end. Special care was taken in the preparation of the program and moderation of the live stream in order to ensure an engaging experience for the participants. The webinars were attended live by 638 people, that is 70 participants per webinar on average. Additional outreach was gained through playbacks of the recordings, published on the SSHOC YouTube channel,1 which have so far accounted for another 1127 views (data obtained on 28/02/2022). In total, the webinars reached 1765 people. Thanks to the online format, the webinars attracted a very diverse audience with regard to participants’ geographical location (on average 25 countries were represented at each webinar). Training webinars successfully reached its key target groups which included researchers, research performing institutions and research libraries, but the webinars were also followed by other stakeholders identified as relevant for SSHOC (e.g. research infrastructures, private sector, or civil society). The webinars were followed by a blogpost, furthermore presentations slides and recordings were uploaded to SSHOC channels for future use. When relevant, lessons learned about the organisation of webinars were informally shared with other SSHOC members in order to contribute to knowledge sharing about impactful online training events. Training webinars proved to be a cost- and time-efficient training format which was warmly welcomed by user communities. The attendance numbers and the feedback show that the webinars addressed current topics, successfully engaged with diverse user communities and established collaborations between speakers that extend beyond the SSHOC project. Due to the online format, webinars were highly accessible to a great variety of individuals regardless of their background, geographical location, family situation, work duties, and career level. Despite the virtual fatigue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these training webinars managed to attract a high number of participants and covered a wide variety of topics which were intertwined with other efforts realised within SSHOC. The webinars thus crucially contributed to one of the main SSHOC objectives—empowering individuals to maximise data re-use through Open Science and FAIR principles. Approved by EC - 04 May 2022

International audience; Association rule mining often leads the analyst into a rough rummaging process to identify rules that are relevant to understand specific problems. We propose a visualization interface to assist the rule selection process and evaluate it on an RDF knowledge graph derived from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. The user interface supports data exploration with focus on the overview of rules through a scatter plot, subsets of rules through a chord diagram chart, and itemsets through an association graph which is dynamically created by entering an item of interest (i.e. a named entity). Further, the analyst can interactively recover a list of publications containing the named entities involved in a particular rule. Among the original aspects of our approach, we highlight the representation of attributes describing measures of interest (i.e. confidence and interestingness), a visual indication of existence (or not) of symmetry in association rules, the exploration of subsets of rules according to clusters of publications and named entities, and an interactive prompting that aims at expanding the discovery of named entities within selected association rules. We assess our approach through a semi-structured interview involving experts in the domains of data mining and biomedicine, whose feedback could assist the refinement of the visual and interaction tools.

This report is the sixth in a series of SPARC Europe and DCC analyses of national Open Science policies in Europe and covers the period between March 2020 and August 2020. This issue provides an update on activity across European Member States and relevant countries from the European Research Area. This issue includes a section on policy change related to Covid-19 and an overview of European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) policy-related activities among the European Commission supported INFRAEOSC 5b projects. \ud \ud To access previous versions of the analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe and other SPARC Europe reports related to Open Data please see https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-data/sparc-europe-open-data-resources/.

As a response to COVID-19 and while the onset of the pandemic was still in its very early stages, in April 2020 the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), Research and Innovation Center "Athena", as co-ordinator of APOLLONIS, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, organized a Twitter Conference under the title “DH in the Time of Virus”. This event aimed at battling academic isolation and facilitating and supporting community building and osmosis in DH research and education. Due to its sensitive timing, with Italy going through extreme difficulties and Europe and the US entering quarantine and work-from-home regimes, the Twitter Conference provided a platform of communication of DH research pursuits as well as of expression of an unprecedented human experience. With the support of a DARIAH Theme grant, a year later, in 2021, we designed and organized a digital workshop in which we reunited the Twitter Conference participants alongside further DH researchers who were selected through an open call. The outcome of these events is an electronic as well as a printed publication monitoring the effects of the pandemic on e-Education, e-Research and digital tools, methods and platforms, the developments the pandemic has expedited and the delays it may have caused in DH research and the distance covered and toils endured by DH researchers and practitioners to keep track of their work.