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The material aims to introduce the Bibliographical Data Working Group – part of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) – and to feature projects fulfilled by this group. This working group since 2019 brings together specialists (as of today: 38 researchers) from a number of different countries and the main goals of the group are to foster the development of cooperation between bibliographies and serve as a platform for knowledge exchange aimed at bringing together creators of bibliographical data, scholars interested in using those resources in data-driven research, and theorists of bibliography and documentation. In the presentation two projects are described in detail: 1. the report “An analysis of the current bibliographic data landscape in the humanities: Bibliodata curation, research, and collaboration; 2. The project “Multilingual encyclopaedic dictionary of types of documents”. The purpose of the article is not only to describe these projects but above all to invite Congress members to collaborate on them. 

There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing focus on monographs in particular. There are a number of existing and emerging OA monograph policies, which are leading to an increased focus on business models. Given this dynamic landscape, it was felt that a more in-depth understanding was needed of European monograph publishers’ current business models for open access, their challenges, and their views on how infrastructure for open access monographs could be improved. This white paper builds on the previous OPERAS Business Models Special Interest Group white paper on Business Models for Open Access (Speicher, et al., 2018). In particular, OPERAS wished to gain a better understanding about how the social sciences and humanities (SSH) publishing community applies or could apply collaborative models for open access books, and what issues it encounters in this context. We further wanted to recognise the challenges publishers faced when engaging with or thinking about engaging in collaborative models for OA books. Are there sufficient funds, enough human resources? Are relevant infrastructures in place? What kind of support is needed? This white paper reports on an OPERAS survey, which was held between February and April 2021 and was designed to serve two core aims: To further our understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape and of the challenges that publishers face in the context of publishing OA monographs. To identify main trends (including opportunities and challenges) and the knowledge of collaborative funding and infrastructure models in OA publishing in SSH. The survey received a total of 77 responses from 17 countries: 14 EU states, the UK, Norway, and the United States. The results provide a more comprehensive insight into how OPERAS can make a tangible change and best support the community in building sustainable paths of transition towards collaborative models for open access books. This white paper presents some early observations from the preliminary analysis of the findings.

This report discusses the scholarly communication issues in Social Sciences and Humanities that are relevant to the future development and functioning of OPERAS. The outcomes collected here can be divided into two groups of innovations regarding 1) the operation of OPERAS, and 2) its activities. The “operational” issues include the ways in which an innovative research infrastructure should be governed (Chapter 1) as well as the business models for open access publications in Social Sciences and Humanities (Chapter 2). The other group of issues is dedicated to strategic areas where OPERAS and its services may play an instrumental role in providing, enabling, or unlocking innovation: FAIR data (Chapter 3), bibliodiversity and multilingualism in scholarly communication (Chapter 4), the future of scholarly writing (Chapter 5), and quality assessment (Chapter 6). Each chapter provides an overview of the main findings and challenges with emphasis on recommendations for OPERAS and other stakeholders like e- infrastructures, publishers, SSH researchers, research performing organisations, policy makers, and funders. Links to data and further publications stemming from work concerning particular tasks are located at the end of each chapter.

Prikaz prve međunarodne DARIAH-HR konferencije Digital Humanities & Heritage, koja se održala u Zadru 13. - 15. listopada 2021.

This presentation introduces the DARIAH working group ELDAH and its latest project on data protection issues in digital humanities, the DARIAH ELDAH Consent Form Wizard (CFW). The CFW is a tool that enables digital humanities scholars as well as the wider research infrastructure community to quickly and easily obtain standardized consent forms that conform to the obligations and regulations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By answering a series of simple questions, scholars do not only learn about data privacy requirements, but are also provided with consent forms for their immediate use. The CFW supports you in collecting the consent of data subjects in three scenarios: gathering data from and/or about living people for research purposes ; communicating through mailing lists or other (digital) communication media ; collecting data and/or consent from participants as the host of an academic event.

Program and the Book of Abstracts from the first international conference of the DARIAH-HR consortium "Digital Humanities and Heritage".

Published in OA on RESSI (http://www.ressi.ch/) on the 15.02.22. We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the H2020 project OPERAS-P. This article explores the theme of Open Research Data and its role in the emergence of new models of scholarly writing. We examine more closely the obstacles and fostering conditions to the publication of research data, both from a social and a technical perspective. International audience

The paper discusses approaches, outcomes and experiences of an ongoing project of collaborative Croatian terminology contribution to the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through the cooperation of university teachers, master level students and museum professionals. The project is conducted on the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS). A model proposed in the project can accelerate the otherwise time-consuming process of developing multilingual thesauri through greater student engagement while achieving multiple educational goals on real-world tasks. The methods of quality control and student engagement from crowdsourcing projects methodologies are applied, but they were revised and improved with respect to the specific needs and requirements of the educational context. The process is segmented into the following stages: 1. Generating a corpus of the relevant terms. Two thousand most frequent terms from four top facest (materials, techniques, objects and periods) were selected from the databases of partner heritage institutions. 2. Translation and linking. Translation of terms into English and linking them to relevant AAT concepts (accompanied with references to relevant reference literature and lexicographical sources) is performed by students. Mapping of Croatian and English terms for specific concepts is further implemented through semantic technologies. 3. Quality control. Methods include peer-checking among students and teacher supervision. Concepts that are particularly demanding (e.g. complex art techniques) are examined by a separate group of students, where examination also includes detailed literature research and comparison. The final stage of quality control is provided by scholars and museum professionals from the corresponding field. 4. Including the terms into AAT. After the quality check, the terms would be included in the AAT and made openly available as Linked Open Data (LOD), provided by the Getty Research Institute. Further open formats for thesauri exchange (Zthes, RDF, JSON) would be provided. This will allow the reuse of project results by other national and international vocabulary projects and create a basis for enriching metadata and enabling multilingualism. That would increase the visibility, accessibility and interoperability of diverse national heritage in an international context, thereby supporting multicultural communication at human and machine level. During the mapping and validation of different concepts from monolingual and multilingual thesauri, via different methods and tools (SPARQL queries, LOD matching, using APIs), participants are becoming aware of linguistic and cultural differences in meaning and vocabulary construction (classifications, selection of preferred terms, fluid spatio-temporal boundaries etc.). In this paper, we would like to discuss how participants (students, heritage professionals, scholars) perceive different aspects of vocabulary development and control and how they practice scholarly primitives (especially annotating, comparing, referring and representing) in the context of the ongoing developments in the methods and technologies related to controlled vocabularies and ontologies in the field of Digital Humanities.

This article presents a vision for a scholarly communication research infrastructure for social sciences and humanities (SSH). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pressing need to access research outputs without the traditional economic and temporal barriers. This article explores the current scholarly communication landscape, assessing the reasons for the slower uptake of open access in SSH research. The authors discuss such frontiers as commercial interests, sources of academic prestige and discipline-specific genres.This article defines and discusses the key areas in which a research infrastructure can play a vital role in making open scholarly communication a reality in SSH: (1) providing a federated and easy access to scattered SSH outputs; (2) supporting publication and dissemination of discipline-specific genres (e.g. monographs, critical editions); (3) providing help with evaluation and quality assurance practices in SSH; (4) enabling scholarly work in national languages, which is significant for local communities; (5) being governed by researchers and for researchers as a crucial factor for productive, useful and accessible services; (6) lastly, considering the needs of other stakeholders involved in scholarly communication, such as publishers, libraries, media, non-profit organisations, and companies.They conclude that a scholarly-driven, inclusive, dedicated infrastructure for the European Research Area is needed in order to advance open science in SSH and to address the issues tackled by SSH researchers at a structural and systemic level.