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This report has been prepared by the “Bibliographical Data” Working Group of the DARIAH-ERIC consortium, which develops public digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities. The Group consists of more than 30 members from 15 countries, most of whom are researchers and curators in the public sector who are engaged in bibliographical data (“bibliodata”) research and curation. This report is aimed at all active stakeholders in the humanities bibliodata landscape,especially public sector entities who may benefit from the Group’s insights and engage in cooperation to identify common interests, shape joint agendas, and achieve common goals. Those goals include creating shared infrastructure solutions, harmonising existing standards, and building partnerships to meet major challenges for contemporary bibliodata stakeholders. The bibliodata landscape is a dynamic ecosystem including the many stakeholders who produce, process, and use diverse bibliographical resources (datasets, tools, services). Following the digital revolution, this landscape has been reconfigured and a critical era is now upon us that demands closer investigation. This report analyses the state of the art by defining current bibliodata (Chapter 1), mapping the contemporary landscape (Chapter 2), identifying crucial stakeholder challenges and opportunities (Chapter 3), and offering recommendations for future cooperation (Chapter 4). This report presents an overview of issues in the bibliodata landscape. It is intended to provide a foundation for more detailed reports and case studies on the issues identified in this document.

The report refers to the call for user stories for the Text+ consortium in the context of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The user stories summited by scholars (mainly from the Humanities) present challenges or possible infrastructural solutions related to their individual research data. The report explains the context and methodology, as well as the decisions and steps taken during the call. It also provides an analysis of the major elements and categories of the user stories, and some reflexions for future measures. The data for the analysis is published in the DARIAH-DE Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.20375/0000-000E-67ED-4.

Dating back to premodern times, marketplaces were community centres and hubs of activity. Merchants, officials, and regular citizens gathered not only to exchange goods, but stories - representing a multifaceted vision of what was going on in the community and the world at large. Thanks to active contributions from its national nodes, DARIAH, together with CLARIN and CESSDA, has built the SSH Open Marketplace - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/ -, a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. As one of the flagship DARIAH services, the SSH Open Marketplace is the result of a vision long told by different actors of the DARIAH and DH communities. Its creation has been included in the DARIAH Strategic Plan 2019-2026 and funded under the SSHOC project - sshopencloud.eu/ -, becoming as such a key component of the SSH branch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and involving partners beyond the initial scope. What kind of common story can we continue to collectively develop and tell now that the service is up and running? How can the SSH Open Marketplace support DARIAH research community storytelling and sharing while welcoming others? What are the technical choices behind the visible output that are supporting the initial vision, enabling discoverability and enhancing storytelling? These are some of the questions that the poster and demo of the SSH Open Marketplace would like to open and discuss with the DARIAH Annual Event audience. Our contribution will present how research communities can share, discover and re-use existing resources via the SSH Open Marketplace, and will demonstrate how research infrastructure services can support collective narratives. SSH Open Marketplace (meta)data With around 5 000 items at the time of its final release, the SSH Open Marketplace aggregates resources coming from or curated by the DARIAH, CLARIN and CESSDA networks and beyond. Thanks to this discovery portal, these three ERICs can showcase the productions of their national nodes, letting their story be seen in a new and contextualised way. DARIAH in-kind contributions, CLARIN Switchboard tools and Resource Families items, or CESSDA training resources are sources populating the Marketplace. Exploring, curating and re-using Thanks to its Application Programming Interface (API) and to a Python Library developed to complement its use - gitlab.gwdg.de/sshoc/marketplace-curation -, exploring, curating or re-using the SSH Open Marketplace (meta)data set takes another dimension. With a set of Jupyter notebooks accompanying the library, it is easy to analyse and to improve the data quality of the Marketplace. Context is queen! One of the added values of the SSH Open Marketplace is the contextualisation layer offered to create relations between the resources. One tool can easily be connected to a training material or a related publication. Furthermore, workflows can be used to showcase tools and standards use based on a step-by-step description of real research use-cases. Event’s participants interested in bringing their voices into the SSH Open Marketplace will be guided during the poster and demo sessions. With many thanks to TRUST-IT for the initial design of the poster.

While usage of social media data for research across academic disciplines is growing, a lot of questions are arising about research methods, and potential standards, e.g., representativeness and reproducibility. Furthermore, researchers are concerned about ethics and data protection. These concerns, questions, and possible solutions were discussed during an online bootcamp session that took place on the 8th and 11th February 2021. The outcomes of the bootcamp are summed up in this blog post that was published on the SSHOC web page: https://www.sshopencloud.eu.

In order to channel and align the efforts within the COREF project, the Registry of Research Data Repositories – re3data is revising its conceptual service model according to the most important use cases of the various stakeholders working with re3data. Adopting and reflecting current developments in the research data landscape, the update of the service architecture in COREF is based on a bottom-up approach that addresses the results from a stakeholder survey and a stakeholder workshop in November 2020. The findings from the survey and workshop sessions presented in this report informed the development of a Conceptual Model for User Stories, which embeds the registry within the research community and the infrastructure landscape to meet the emerging needs for a trusted repository reference. re3data 222 pages (2021). doi:10.48440/RE3.013 Published by re3data

The idea behind the DARIAH Research Data Management Working Group is to tackle the challenges associated with the implementation of new FAIR and open data sharing mandates, and offer a unique space for collaboration among representatives of all major arts and humanities disciplines, cultural heritage professionals, and data management experts. More specifically, we are building a knowledge hub for new professionals around data management support (data managers, data stewards, open science officers, subject librarians etc.) from across DARIAH’s national hubs to exchange across the discipline-specific dimension. During our meetings, the conflict between the need for and emergence of new data support roles, and the lack of any established domain-specific curriculum to train them, or, in some cases, even a lack of established good practices, became a recurrent topic which we aimed to address. Instead of embarking on the giant endeavour of curating an exhaustive and authoritative textbook for research data support specialists who work in the arts and humanities field, our idea is to give a snapshot of our own activities in the field and highlight the valuable work of others. Accordingly, the present publication can be read as the written form of a roundtable (or town hall) discussion where experts from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain have come and sat together to report and discuss past or ongoing work, share their fields of interests and provide honest and critical reflections, reveal how their institutions have developed capacities for data support, share their own stories of becoming data support professionals in the domain, and, most importantly, explore together what solutions, tools, practices, and other resources could be used and could be generalised across borders and disciplines. <br> This publication is the result of the Working Group’s first writing sprint, held between the 23 and 24 June 2022 at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN), in the Staszic Palace. The event was made possible by the DARIAH third Working Groups’ (WG) Funding Scheme Call for the years 2021–2023 and the resulting grant, which was administered by the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).