<div dir="ltr">For those of working with humanities researchers (or looking to do so)....<div><br></div><div>-Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Natalie Harrower</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:N.Harrower@ria.ie">N.Harrower@ria.ie</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:12 AM<br>Subject: [CODATA-international] Publication of 'Sustainable and FAIR Data Sharing in the Humanities' (ALLEA)<br>To: <a href="mailto:codata-international@lists.codata.org">codata-international@lists.codata.org</a> <<a href="mailto:codata-international@lists.codata.org">codata-international@lists.codata.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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interested in the publication of </span><a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/sustainable-and-fair-data-sharing-in-the-humanities/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sustainable
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a new ALLEA report authored by the working group E-Humanities. It provides a series of recommendations tailored to humanities researchers to produce data and other research outputs along FAIR principles, and it was developed through an open consultation process.
Press release below.</span></div>
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<a href="https://allea.org/lets-be-fair-allea-presents-recommendations-for-sustainable-data-sharing-in-the-humanities/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Let’s
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report</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> provides
key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable”, in line with the FAIR principles. The document is designed as a practical guide to help scholars, research funders, professionals and policymakers
navigate the shift towards a sustainable data sharing culture.</span></div>
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world, the abundance of data offers new opportunities for all research fields, including the humanities, where the digitisation of texts, images, sounds, video recordings and other data types can significantly contribute to advancing research, while also transforming
methodologies and scholarly communications.</span></div>
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management, and data management requires common guidelines for good implementation. In recent years, the </span><a href="https://www.force11.org/fairprinciples" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">FAIR
principles</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> have
been widely adopted as best practice in data management for research and other professional fields. For instance, they are quickly gaining ground in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, whose data collections hold crucial resources for scholars in
the humanities. Addressing these developments, the ALLEA report “</span><a href="https://allea.org/portfolio-item/sustainable-and-fair-data-sharing-in-the-humanities/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sustainable
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helps translate these principles into practice. It proposes technical, legal and ethical considerations to construct, store, present, disseminate and preserve data in such a way that they can be retrieved, accessed, reused, and interoperable.</span></div>
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exploit the true potential of humanities scholarship, and to share and combine data across disciplines to address big challenges, we need an awareness and common understanding of the FAIR principles and the nuances of their implementation. It is clear from
ongoing discussions in scholarly communication and through the development and rapid proliferation of the Open Science paradigm that the FAIR principles are having a sustained impact on research practice. To support scholars and institutions aiming to produce
FAIR data, this report combines practical advice on how to align with the principles, with a focus on practical guidance from a humanities perspective. We hope they prove useful in the collective effort to move towards more a more open research landscape,”</i></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> states
Dr. Natalie Harrower, Chair of the ALLEA E-Humanities Working Group.</span></div>
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data management lifecycle, the report is structured in five stages: (1) identify, (2) plan, (3) collect/produce, structure & store, (4) deposit for preservation, cite & share, and (5) disseminate. For each phase, a set of practical recommendations and further
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was prepared by the </span><a href="https://allea.org/e-humanities/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ALLEA
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Royal Irish Academy<br>
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