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Digitalisering heeft onze samenleving de laatste decennia drastisch veranderd. Er ziin ongekende nieuwe mogelijkheden geschapen voor de wetenschap, de overheid en het culturele leven. Onlangs nog beschreef de Raad voor Cultuur digitalisering als ‘een fundamentele katalysator voor vernieuwing’. Ook onze kenniseconomie is volledig afhankelijk geworden van een zo vrij mogelijk verkeer van digitale gegevens. Grootscheeps gebruik van digitale gegevens kan alleen plaatsvinden als aan heldere randvoorwaarden is voldaan. Door de enorme snelheid van de techniek wordt digitale informatie snel onbruikbaar. Ook ligt manipulatie op de loer en is het voor gebruikers moeilijk te bepalen wat nu ‘echt’ is en wat niet. Behoud van toegankelijkheid en authenticiteit van digitale gegevens krijgen weinig aandacht, omdat ze zich achter de schermen afspelen. Ik noem het wel eens een vorm van ‘corvee’, iets dat onontbeerlijk is, maar waar je geen goede sier kunt maken. Het is daarom zaak om dat corvee zo snel en zo efficiënt mogelijk te organiseren. Dat laatste is precies wat de Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid zich ten doel stelt. Het duurzaam beheer van digitale informatie is een technisch ingewikkeld proces waarvoor veel kennis, expertise en apparatuur nodig is. Lang niet alle instellingen kunnen het zich veroorloven om hiervoor zelf faciliteiten te ontwikkelen. Daarom moet er samengewerkt worden. De NCDD wil als nationale coalitie een gedistribueerd maar samenhangend landelijk netwerk realiseren waarin uiteindelijk voor alle relevante digitale gegevens van de publieke sector een plek zal zijn. Hiervoor moeten niet alleen opslagfaciliteiten beschikbaar zijn, maar vooral ook kennis en menskracht om het beheer goed vorm te kunnen geven. Ook moeten goede afspraken worden gemaakt over de verantwoordelijkheden; wat instellingen zelf moeten doen en welke taken ze in samenwerkingsverbanden vorm kunnen geven. In haar Strategische agenda 2010-2013 geeft de NCDD aan hoe zij dit landelijk dekkend netwerk tot stand wil brengen – met een beperkt aantal organisaties dat als voortrekker optreedt in de eigen sector en dat zeer nauw samenwerkt met alle andere organisaties die de relevante digitale gegevens beheren en ontsluiten. Het plan van de NCDD is een verstandig plan om ervoor te zorgen dat belastinggeld, menskracht en faciliteiten efficiënt gebruikt zullen worden. We zijn ons bewust van de problematiek. Het is nu zaak met zijn allen te werken aan de toekomst van het digitaal geheugen van Nederland.

The Sustaining Digital Humanities in the UK report is timely for the UK Digital Humanities (DH) landscape. The establishment of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has created an opportune moment for the strategic planning of research infrastructure between and across all the research areas. Led by Giles Bergel and Pip Willcox, this report is based on the findings of a workshop held at the University of Oxford’s e-Research Centre (OeRC) on 21 June 2018 and sponsored by the Software Sustainability Institute. The workshop was led by an advisory board of Digital Humanities practitioners, representing a range of career stages, roles, and disciplines. The workshop’s organisers and advisory board are the joint authors of this report, with contributions from workshop participants. The mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) is to cultivate better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research. Currently celebrating its 10th year, the SSI has achieved broadening engagement across academic communities including humanities – for example as a longstanding supporter of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), and with SSI Fellows in the arts and humanities areas. This report was commissioned by the SSI with the aim of advancing its mission within the humanities. Digital Humanities, a broad intersection of models, methods, tools, materials, career paths and affiliations, in both established and novel disciplines was identified as the area within the humanities that most closely aligns with the SSI’s role. The Software Sustainability Institute is supported by the UK Research Councils through Grants EP/H043160/1, EP/N006410/1, and EP/S021779/1.

Il presente contributo affronta alcune questioni metodologiche, tecniche e tecnologiche connesse alla progettazione e realizzazione del Portale delle fonti per la storia della Repubblica italiana, iniziativa che nasce come caso di studio all'interno del Progetto PON Beni e patrimonio culturale: governare la progettazione, finanziato dall'Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale nell'ambito del "Programma Azione Coesione Complementare al Programma Operativo Nazionale Governance e Capacità Istituzionale 2014-2020".

This report provides information about activities and progress towards establishing DARIAH membership in six countries: the Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK, which took place between July and December 2019. Previous activities were described in detail in the D3.2 - Regularly Monitor Country-Specific Progress in Enabling New DARIAH Membership. During the project lifetime, the Czech Republic joined DARIAH ERIC; in other countries, collaboration with DARIAH has been greatly strengthened and significant progress regarding DARIAH membership has been achieved. The report also outlines the next steps in the accession processes, building on the results of the DESIR project.

This document describes mechanisms where interoperability ofdata is ensured with the use of standards. The standards wecovered are both domain related, the archival standards in XMLformats such as EAD, EAC-CPF and EAG, and transversalstandards, whose use is recommended in the context of any digitalproject, in particular the ISO standards for the representation oflanguage, script and countries.Interoperability of archival descriptions expressed in EAD is madepossible with the specification of a specific EAD profile for EHRI.This profile is built and maintained using the TEI-ODD framework,which is explained of the first section of the report.Interoperability and reusability of EHRI resources is also ensuredwith the design of more consistent URLs, composed withstandardised methods and using ISO reference codes. This designhas to be seen as a first step through a persistent identifier system.The work initiated in WP11 and presented in this document will becontinued, enhanced and developed by other EHRI work packages,WP7 Virtual Access to EHRI Virtual Observatory, WP10 ResourceIdentification and Integration Workflows and WP13 Research DataInfrastructures for Holocaust Material.

Given the dynamic rate of change in the OA books business models landscape, the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Special Interest Group launched a survey in 2021 to 1) improve our understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape and of the challenges that publishers face in the context of publishing OA monographs; and 2) to identify main trends (including opportunities and challenges) and the knowledge of collaborative funding and infrastructure models in OA publishing in Social Science and the Humanities. This white paper updates and expands an earlier version published in 2021, which presented the preliminary analysis of the findings. Despite a small sample of presses meaning that no strong trends ought to be discussed, several insights were drawn and should be considered important directions for the future. Key findings in the report have been grouped into three main areas: collaboration, funding, and support. The report found that, although not opposed to the idea, a majority of presses do not engage in collaboration, specifically collaborative models for shared infrastructure, mainly due to the lack of knowledge and information, or perceived lack of need. This indicates that, for OA books, we are still at the early stage of the adoption curve for collaborative shared infrastructure. In terms of funding, most publishers perceive themselves to be somewhat sustainable. For institutional publishers, parent organisations are crucial as providers of financial or non-monetary support of OA. In addition, most publishers stress the need to have more resources and rely on more than one funding source, including grants and subsidies. The report found that awareness-raising and targeted support and training could be used to engage the presses but further incentivisation may be required to encourage publishers to collaborate more widely. We believe that the insights from this white paper may be interesting to a number of projects, such as DIAMAS, OPERAS-PLUS, and Palomera and have presented areas for further research and more specific actionable points for these projects.

The DESIR project sets out to strengthen the sustainability of DARIAH and firmly establish it as a long-term leader and partner within arts and humanities communities. The project was designed to address six core infrastructural sustainability dimensions and one of these was dedicated to training and education, which is also one of the four pillars identified in the DARIAH Strategic Plan 2019-2026. In the framework of Work Package 7: Teaching, DESIR organised dedicated workshops in the six DARIAH accession countries (Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) to introduce them to the DARIAH infrastructure and related services, and to develop methodological research skills. The topic of each workshop was decided by accession countries representatives according to the training needs of the national communities of researchers in the (Digital) Humanities. Training topics varied greatly: on the one hand, some workshops had the objective to introduce participants to specific methodological research skills; on the other hand, a different approach was used, and some events focused on the infrastructural role of training and education. The workshops organised in the context of Work Package 7: Teaching are listed below:• CZECH REPUBLIC: “A series of fall tutorials 2019 organized by LINDAT/CLARIAHCZ, tutorial #3 on TEI Training”, November 28, 2019, Prague;• FINLAND: “Reuse & sustainability: Open Science and social sciences and humanities research infrastructures”, 23 October 2019, Helsinki;• ISRAEL: “Introduction to Text Encoding and Digital Editions”, 24 October 2019, Haifa;• SPAIN: “DESIR Workshop: Digital Tools, Shared Data, and Research Dissemination”, 3 July 2019, Madrid;• SWITZERLAND: “Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities”, 5-6 December 2019, Neuchâtel;• UNITED KINGDOM: “Research Software Engineering for Digital Humanities: Role of Training in Sustaining Expertise”, 9 December, London.

The following report, OPERAS Design Study, has been composed thanks to the OPERAS-D project, in its first stage. The report joins all the studies that explore the landscape of OPERAS’ field of activity, analyse the visibility of Open Access monographs, establish the technical mapping of the OPERAS Consortium, survey users’ needs regarding scientific communication and academic publishing, present the services's portfolio and their roadmap, and finally look ahead to the development of the governance structure, business and legal model of the future infrastructure within the ESFRI framework. One word can synthesize what these studies and reports tell us about OPERAS’ field of work: fragmentation. Hence, the OPERAS vision and mission, which arises naturally from this finding: integration.

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.

Najważniejsze wyniki europejskiego sondażu praktyk badawczych oraz potrzeb cyfrowych w humanistyce i naukach o sztuce, przeprowadzonego przez grupę roboczą DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO). Badanie jest efektem współpracy europejskich badaczy z różnych krajów w ramach Grupy Roboczej DiMPO. Badanie zostało pomyślana jako ponadregionalny sondaż podłużny, przeprowadzany co kilka lat online w krajach europejskich. Jego celem jest dostarczenie opartego na danych przeglądu praktyk badawczych, potrzeb i postaw europejskich badaczy z nauk humanistycznych wobec zasobów cyfrowych, metod i narzędzi, w perspektywie przestrzennej i czasowej. Wyniki pierwszego sondażu (zakończonego w marcu 2015) zostaną zaprezentowane w wieloautorskim raporcie, który zawiera analizy zbiorcze i porównawcze oraz pięć raportów narodowych. Kolejne badanie planowane jest na 2017-2018. Więcej informacji: bit.ly/scholarlypracticesPrzekład na polski: Maciej Maryl (Centrum Humanistyki Cyfrowej Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN)