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Proceedings of the Conference: "Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda - Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research" VIENNA 2018

The Charter of the EOSC Task Force on Researcher Engagement and Adoption, set-up in September 2021, states that ���The overarching principle for developing EOSC is that research has to be at the core of the EOSC initiative. Thus, deep engagement with research communities is fundamental in order to understand their needs and requirements and ensure that the way in which EOSC operates and the existing and future community services are of use and value to researchers and respect the academic sovereignty of scientific results, research data and digital objects���. Over the last 36 months, FAIRsFAIR has provided practical solutions for the implementation of FAIR data principles throughout the research data life cycle. This has been achieved by fostering FAIR data culture and the uptake of good practices in making data FAIR. The FAIRsFAIR project addressed the development and concrete realisation of academic quality data management, procedures, standards, metrics and related matters, based on the FAIR principles. The engagement of European stakeholders was fundamental across all the activities. To that end, a mix of channels was used with the ultimate aim to ensure active participation and an overall feeling of being part of an enlarged community. For example, a bottom-up approach was established wherever possible and relevant; adaptation and flexibility ensured that the best engagement channels were used to reach each target community. It is important to highlight how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting decision to organise workshops as online events had a positive impact on allowing interested participants in several activities to be reached. In particular, the switch to online events was instrumental in involving professionals from universities and other higher education institutions, who usually experience a different set of capacity and budgetary challenges, in attending physical events held outside or far from their countries. But this was also true for other events including the Synchronisation Force series, the national roadshows and the data steward instructor training. The participation of different stakeholders in the online workshops greatly enriched the discussions and contributed to shift the focus from Europe-centric issues involving FAIR research data with international insights and experiences. In order to present the impact achieved, this document presents the activities performed and analyses the related results around the FAIRsFAIR main stakeholders.

This second version of the Data Management Plan (DMP) follows the template structure for an Open Research Data Pilot (ORDP) (section 2). As elaborated in the first version of the DMP (Admiraal et al. 2021), we see data management planning as inherent part of the overall knowledge exchange coordination in the project, and therefore closely related to the development of the socio-technical roadmap (Guillotel-Nothmann et al. 2022). In the first section Introduction we summarise Polifonia’s approach towards data management planning. We further detail the progress made from the DMP version 1 to 2, and by which methods those were achieved. In section 2 Polifonia Data Management Plan, we use the ORDP template, to document the achievements of data management in Polifonia, and discuss main achievements of Polifonia such as the Polifonia Ecosystem, the Polifonia Knowledge Graph, and Polifonia Ontology and the Polifonia Portal from the point of view of best practices in data management. A short Outlook section summarises tasks and steps toward the DMP version 3.

The deliverable reports on the collaborative methodology and tools for the technical development of the Pilots of the Polifonia Project. Technical development is coordinated by a Technical Board that designed a methodology inspired by agile software development methodologies, adapted to the needs of a research project consortium. Developers and domain experts are engaged in collaborative workshops in a co-creation process that leads to the identification of task-oriented working groups. These are developed autonomously and associated to Work Package activities. Technical outputs of the activities are collected and harmonised into a Polifonia Ecosystem - a collection of resources for musical cultural heritage preservation and reuse (software, end-user tools, data, requirement specifications, documentation, etc...). The collaborative tools for development are centred on a share space on GitHub, a Discord server for instant messaging, and a mailing list. The deliverable report on the initial work conducted on the pilots, particularly focusing on highlighting collaboration among consortium partners and shared of expertise between domain experts (musicologists, music historians) and technology experts. Finally, the deliverable illustrates preliminary plans for a Polifonia Web Portal, an aggregator of Musical Heritage Knowledge.

From January 2019 to April 2022 SSHOC transformed the current social sciences & humanities data landscape with its disciplinary silos and separate facilities into an integrated, cloud-based network of interconnected data infrastructures. The final conference programme was designed to showcase the results achieved, lever on the valuable synergies built and learn about user stories from the community. There was also time to reflect on policy & sustainability issues and look towards the future. The SSHOC Final Conference brought together 290 of which 90+ joined in Brussels from Research infrastructures, Researchers, Research Libraries and Archives, EOSC key-players, industry and policymakers from the Social Sciences and Humanities and beyond.

International audience; With this White Paper, which gathers contributions from more than 25 experts of 3D imaging, modellng and processing, as well as professionals concerned with the interoperability and sustainability of research data, the PARTHENOS project aims at laying the foundations of a comprehensive environment centered on the researchers' practices concerning 3D digital objects.The topics addressed in the document are meant to help to ensure the development of standardized good practices relating to the production, the handling, the long-term conservation and the reuse of 3D objects. Therefore, even if the focus is put on technical questions (formats, processing, and annotation), the White Paper also identifies the need to clarify the legal status of 3D objects, in order to facilitate their reuse(s) in non-research contexts, in particular in Museums.

This report is the first deliverable of Task 8.2 “Trust & Quality Assurance” within WP8 of the SSHOC project. The distributed character of data infrastructures within the SSHOC communities requires developing an agreed approach to assessing the trustworthiness and quality of data repositories. This deliverable provides an overview of Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) standards offering a certification framework for communities represented in the SSHOC project (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, E-RIHS). Moreover, the deliverable lays the ground for the SSHOC trust work that is needed in order to facilitate the adoption of TDR standards and the FAIR principles in SSH data repositories across the board. In this report, ‘trust’ refers to the landscape of issues, standards and processes related to trustworthy digital repositories. Trust between all parties in the quality of data and services is critical for research infrastructure in terms of people, processes and technologies. The level of trustworthiness can be assessed through evaluation against agreed requirements. The SSHOC project unites 20 partner organisations and a further 25 linked third parties. When this report refers to the SSHOC repositories, it means the research data repositories within CESSDA ERIC, CLARIN ERIC, DARIAH ERIC and E-RIHS communities regardless of their participation in the SSHOC project. It is also important to note that in the context of this report, the term ‘quality’ refers to the technical quality of the repositories i.e. their compliance with the Trusted Digital Repository standards, not to the scientific quality of their digital assets. In line with the aims of Task 8.2, the report specifies modes of support in building trust and helping repositories reach TDR certification. The report charts the current trust landscape within the SSHOC communities and selects the repositories that will be the main focus of the support activities provided by Task 8.2 at later stages in the project. In addition, the report outlines a certification plan for these repositories. All repositories within the SSHOC communities are potential recipients of support from Task 8.2, but the efforts must be aligned with realistic expectations of progress during the project timeframe. CoreTrustSeal is selected as the standard TDR certification reference within the task. Due to the diversity of repositories within the SSHOC communities, a flexible yet sustainable approach to trust is needed that is adaptable to a wide variety of data infrastructures. The CoreTrustSeal provides a demonstrable approach to internal and external review, providing a means to determine the strengths and weaknesses of data stewards and a basis for comparison between them. However, certain types of organisations for which the CoreTrustSeal requirements are not applicable are also identified. Task 8.2 helps identify these cases and thus develop the CoreTrustSeal framework to better support a variety of repositories. Further work for Task 8.2 includes the provision of recommendations for sustainably maintaining trust across the SSH ERICs beyond the lifetime of the SSHOC project. This document is relevant to the SSH ERICs and to repositories across the SSHOC communities. There are no direct dependencies with other SSHOC tasks, but Task 8.2 aligns itself as necessary with both SSHOC tasks and existing EOSC-related efforts promoting trust and the FAIR principles. {"references": ["Beuth. DIN 31644:2012-04: https://www.beuth.de/en/standard/din-31644/147058907 [22 January 2020]", "CASRAI Repository: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Repository [22 January 2020]", "European Commission. European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): https://ec.europa.eu/research/ openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud [22 January 2020]"]} This deliverable has been accepted by the European Commission on - 03 November 2020

Training is an important aspect of knowledge acquisition and transfer in the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud project (SSHOC). For successful implementation and promotion of the SSH Open Cloud, it is crucial to empower users, and to facilitate mutual learning and networking among data producers, users, and experts. Therefore, the SSHOC Training Community has been established. It aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration between experts who provide training to scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) on tools and services offered by the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). As part of various training formats during the SSHOC project lifecycle, T6.4 has conducted a series of bootcamps. These four events were directed at different stakeholder groups, primarily research libraries and archives, universities, and research-performing institutions. The bootcamps covered a broad range of topics and tools relevant for Open Science and Research Data Management and for conducting training in those fields. This deliverable reports the outcomes of the bootcamps that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, took place online. Chapter two brings individual bootcamp reports that provide deeper insights into structure, topics,and stakeholder representation. Since the final bootcamp, co-located with the IASSIST conference, was organised in May 2021 due to the original postponement of the IASSIST conference, the final deliverable describing the bootcamps (D6.12) as well as the deliverable of the final version of the toolkit (D6.11) and its related milestone (MS41) were delayed. In the following chapters, a reflection of all the bootcamps is provided together with a compilation of lessons learned and best practices for setting up online events. Waiting EC approval

This deliverable presents the outcome of the EOSC landscape and policy gap analysis in the countries covered by the project: Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It formulates an initial set of recommendations for national and international stakeholders about the measures for alignment and harmonization of policies to facilitate the implementation of the EOSC. They will be validated and updated in the next phase, based on dedicated liaisons and engagement activities.