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International audience; Published in OA on RESSI (http://www.ressi.ch/) at the end of Octobre 2021. 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.

Research and development are facilitated by sharing knowledge bases, and the innovation process benefits from collaborative efforts that involve the collective utilization of data. Until now, most companies and organizations have produced and collected various types of data, and stored them in data silos that still have to be integrated with one another in order to enable knowledge creation. For this to happen, both public and private actors must adopt a flexible approach to achieve the necessary transition to break data silos and create collaborative data sharing between data producers and users. In this paper, we investigate several factors influencing cooperative data usage and explore the challenges posed by the participation in cross-organizational data ecosystems by performing an interview study among stakeholders from private and public organizations in the context of the project IDE@S, which aims at fostering the cooperation in data science in the Austrian federal state of Styria. We highlight technological and organizational requirements of data infrastructure, expertise, and practises towards collaborative data usage.

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.

Godine 2019. obilježila se 200. godina rođenja Vatroslava Lisinskog. Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu pripremila je publikaciju Prilozi o Vatroslavu Lisinskom (1819. – 1854.): povodom 200. obljetnice rođenja s popratnom izložbom kako bi još jednom ukazala na važnost njegova opusa u kontekstu hrvatskog glazbenoga romantizma te glazbene, ali i sveukupne hrvatske baštine. Osim te opsežne publikacije i izložbe, koja otkriva Knjižnicu kao bogatu riznicu vrijedne građe o Lisinskom, izrađena je i komplementarna virtualna izložba čija se nit vodi predstavljanjem bogatih fondova i zbirki čija građa svjedoči o kulturnim, povijesnim, sociološkim, ali i drugim činiteljima u razvoju i oblikovanju nacionalnog identiteta.

Već dugi niz godina u službenim dokumentima povezanim s jezičnom politikom u Sloveniji predviđa se postavljanje zajedničkoga terminološkog portala koji bi objedinio sve raspoložive terminološke izvore, pa smo stoga analizirali slobodno dostupne internetske stranice slovenske terminologije (Terminologišče, Termania, Evroterm) i pojedinih specijaliziranih rječnika (npr. Islovar, Rječnik EZS, Rječnik pojmova osiguranja). Analizirani izvori međusobno se razlikuju dizajnom, brojem autora, izvorima ili tematskim područjima, neki od njih sadržavaju definicije i ekvivalente, pa se postavlja pitanje kako ih sve opravdano navesti na jednom mjestu. Veoma je važno već u početnoj fazi planiranja izrade portala odrediti ciljnoga korisnika jer različiti korisnici (npr. različiti stručnjaci, prevoditelji, lektori i drugi) imaju različite potrebe. To podrazumijeva važnost razmatranja načina organizacije terminoloških izvora i postupke njihova ažuriranja. Upravo stoga smatramo da je rješenje Hrvatskoga terminološkog portala (http://nazivlje.hr), koje nudi zajedničku tražilicu za sve terminološke izvore, uvrštene u veće skupine i pregledno razvrstane u terminološke izvore, dovoljno transparentno i za tu svrhu prilagođeno korisniku. For many years, in language policy documents in Slovenia, the establishing of a terminology portal that would integrate all available terminological resources was planned. Therefore, we have analyzed freely accessible Slovenian terminological websites (Terminologišče, Termania, Evroterm) and individual specialized dictionary projects (Islovar, EZS glosar, Slovar zavarovalnih izrazov). These resources have different designs, one or more authors, various number of resources or subject fields, some of them contain definitions and equivalents, so the question arises on how to reasonably combine them in one place. It is very important to determine its primary addressee in the initial phase of planning of the portal since different terminology users (e.g. subject field experts, translators, proofreaders) have different needs. Therefore, it is very important to consider how to organize terminological resources and ensure their updating. We find the Croatian Terminology Portal (http://nazivlje.hr/), which offers a unique search engine for all terminological sources that are a part of larger groups, sufficiently transparent and user-friendly for that purpose. V razpravi so predstavljena in analizirana slovenska prostodostopna terminološka spletišča in spletne strani nekaterih terminoloških slovarskih projektov, ki se razlikujejo po številu virov oziroma strokovnih področij, zasnovi, številu avtorjev, obsežnosti itd. Glavni namen je bil ugotoviti možnosti predstavitve raznolikih terminoloških virov v novem terminološkem portalu, pri čemer je treba upoštevati, da imajo različni uporabniki terminologije različne potrebe.

In the framework of the H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud project, we have implemented an advanced solution for the automatic deployment of digital data repositories based on Invenio, the digital library framework developed by CERN. Exploiting cutting-edge technologies, such as Docker and Apache Mesos, and standard specifications to describe application architectures such as TOSCA, we are able to provide a service that simplifies the process of creating and managing repositories of various digital assets using cloud resources. An Invenio-based repository consists of a set of services (e.g. database, message queue, cache, workers and frontend) that need to be properly installed, configured and linked together. These operations, along with the provisioning of the resources and their monitoring and maintenance, can be challenging for individual researchers or small-to-moderate-sized research groups. To this purpose, the INDIGO-DataCloud platform provides advanced features for orchestrating the deployment of complex virtual infrastructures on distributed cloud environments: it is able to provision the required resources automatically over heterogeneous and/or hybrid cloud infrastructures and to configure them automatically ensuring dynamic elasticity and resilience. This approach has been successfully adapted to support the needs of the researchers and scholars in the domain of the Digital Arts and Humanities.

The rapid development of new digital tools and infrastructures in recent years and their application to a variety of disciplines has transformed how we store, access and retrieve information available to us. This has also shaped the ways how knowledge in a diverse cultural context is presented, used and re-used. The exploreAT! project builds upon not only Austrian, but also European cultural identity from the aspect of language, in particular dialects. Unlike standard languages, dialects are in times of globalization under considerable threat of diminishing, and this ultimately poses a risk to the intangible record that is language and through which a history of tangible culture is expressed. In this paper we elaborate on the possibilities digital means and the infrastructure and services of the EGI-Engage project offer in revealing and giving access to unique traditional cultural knowledge contained in a non-standard language resource on the example of the Bavarian dialects in Austria (DBÖ). Digital tools and services allow our heterogeneous corpus of data to be virtually exploited and preserved. The flexibility of the internet allow these data to become not only visible, but searchable and extractable. Through the digitization efforts, and use of European infrastructures the hidden cultural narratives within the data can be uncovered, enriched and shared for the benefit of knowledge society.

This paper describes the achievements of the H2020 project INDIGO-DataCloud. The project has provided e-infrastructures with tools, applications and cloud framework enhancements to manage the demanding requirements of scientific communities, either locally or through enhanced interfaces. The middleware developed allows to federate hybrid resources, to easily write, port and run scientific applications to the cloud. In particular, we have extended existing PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions, allowing public and private e-infrastructures, including those provided by EGI, EUDAT, and Helix Nebula, to integrate their existing services and make them available through AAI services compliant with GEANT interfederation policies, thus guaranteeing transparency and trust in the provisioning of such services. Our middleware facilitates the execution of applications using containers on Cloud and Grid based infrastructures, as well as on HPC clusters. Our developments are freely downloadable as open source components, and are already being integrated into many scientific applications. Journal of grid computing 16(3), 381 - 408 (2018). doi:10.1007/s10723-018-9453-3 Published by Springer Nature, Dordrecht

Danas je gotovo nemoguće zamisliti razvoj znanosti, novih spoznaja i otkrića u niti jednoj grani istraživanja bez primjene naprednih digitalnih tehnologija, pa tako niti u humanističkim znanostima. S razvojem digitalnih alata i metode, razvila se tako i nova akademska disciplina – digitalna humanistika koja se bavi primjenom računalnih alata i metoda u tradicionalnim humanističkim disciplinama kao što su antropologija, arheologija, povijest, lingvistika, književnost, primijenjena umjetnost te brojne druge. Na ovom predavanju predstavit će se otvoreni znanstveni servisi koji se razvijaju u sklopu DARIAH Thematic Servisa, jednog od 8 sastavnih servisa EOSC-hub projekta te ostali EOSC-hub servisi i alati dostupni za korištenje široj znanstvenoj zajednici iz područja digitalne humanistike i umjetnosti. Ti servisi imaju za cilj olakšati znanstvenicima i korisnicima iz područja digitalne humanistike korištenje naprednih računalnih tehnologija te njihova istraživanja učiniti otvorenijima i dostupnijima široj zajednici. Glavni servis koji se razvija je DARIAH znanstveni portal kojega čini niz različitih humanističkih računalnih servisa koji se oslanjaju na cloud infrastrukturu u pozadini.

Iako se čini da je ideja otvorenoga pristupa istraživačkim podatcima opće prihvaćena, postoji i niz prepreka i izazova u njezinu ostvarivanju, koji je mogu prevladati bliskom suradnjom svih sudionika u znanstvenom procesu, pomnim planiranjem i financiranjem, te edukacijom o rukovanju istraživačkim podatcima i trajnom čuvanju za daljnje korištenje. Uz prikaz raznolikosti istraživačkih podataka i tehničkih pretpostavki za njihovu dugotrajnu pohranu i čuvanje te slobodno korištenje, objašnjava se i uloga svih sudionika u znanstvenom procesu i njihovoj suradnji kao nužnom preduvjetu za slobodan pristup istraživačkim podatcima. Također se navode inicijative i projekti u Hrvatskoj čija je svrha uspostavljanje repozitorija istraživačkih podataka. Research data are the basis of scholarly knowledge. They are being collected, observed or created for the purpose of analysis in order to produce new research results, new information and knowledge. They fully depend on the context and interpretation. Enabling open access (OA) to research data is one of the key elements of the open science initiative. Data management practices vary considerably across research disciplines regardless of the data type. In addition, practices and norms on data collecting, describing, archiving and disseminating can sometimes differ even within the same research discipline. Funding agencies have started to recognize the benefits of efficient data management. Accordingly, more and more funders require a Data Management Plan when submitting proposals. Besides these efforts, the infrastructure for technical and organizational support of data management, as another important precondition in achieving OA to research data, has also been developed. The paper presents the current state of the policies, infrastructures and standards for open research data.