A discussion - hosted by Open Preservation Foundation - on preferred formats, policy and terminology. We want to bring together different viewpoints, so we can learn and grow as a community. Keynote speakers in this discussion are: Sam Alloing (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Valentijn Gilissen (DANS), Paul Wheatley (Digital Preservation Coalition).

16 February | The next DTL DSIG meeting will be hosted by the Case-study Research & Data Reuse (CaRe & DaRe) project. This project develops a novel decentralized procedure for the reuse of qualitative case study data, in which researchers maintain sovereignty over their own data, and makes data FAIR without open sharing.

DARIAH is pleased to announce the first session of the popular in-house webinar series Friday Frontiers: Spring 2023 Series. In this edition: How do we tell the story of humanities as the essence of understanding humankind in its all aspects and bring it back to the table as an equal partner of science? Seeking an answer to this question, DARIAH will present the scope and dissemination of the Queens of Humanities campaign run last year by OPERAS-PL. Its purpose was to promote innovative humanistic approaches and show their relevance in today’s world.

The Oral History introduction course will introduce you to the basics of oral history. You will also be given literature and examples to help you further. Between meetings, you will work alone or in pairs on small assignments. The online introduction course consists of four two-hour sessions and takes place on Tuesdays: 7, 14, 21 March and 4 April, from 10 am to 12 pm. The course fee is €130 per person for all sessions.

14 March | Are you a data steward, data manager, or researcher in the heritage sciences? Are you or will you be responsible for managing research data derived from the analysis of cultural heritage collections or objects, and would you like to store your data “FAIR” so that they can be better found and (re)used by others? Then sign up for the E-RIHS workshop on metadata for FAIR heritage research.

A three-day hybrid conference will once again bring together researchers, data scientists, policymakers, and data stewards from disciplines from all over the world to share new ideas and explore best practices in using data. Also the Research Data Alliance will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Plenary Meeting on 21-23 March 2023 in Sweden, going back to where RDA was launched in March 2013. For more info and registration, click on the button.

To address the I of Interoperability in FAIR, semantic artefacts are key. To achieve interoperability and integration, the growing number of these artefacts need to be mapped to each other. Would you like to know why mappings matter and how to make them FAIR? Then sign up for the free FAIR-IMPACT workshop on exactly this topic!

In this Data Trail we will give you an introduction to the CESSDA Data Archiving Guide (DAG) and the different chapters of the DAG. We also share how our DANS policies and workflows correspond to the recommendations.