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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 report provides an overview of the activities of the PID Forum and the interactions with major stakeholders in the third and last year of the FREYA project.

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.

This workshop was envisaged to focus on the goals and aims of realising the SSHOC part of the EOSC, where SSH data, language processing tools, and services are made available, adjusted and accessible for users across SSH domain. It provides a forum to discuss common requirements, challenges and opportunities for developing, enhancing, integrating tools and services for managing and processing SSH research data. Such SSH scenarios based implementations of currently existing language tools and services demonstrate their multidisciplinary usability and stimulate further multidisciplinary collaboration across the various subfields of SSH and beyond, which will increase the potential for societal impact.

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

This is the report of the second FAIRsFAIR Synchronisation Force workshop, organised online as a series of eight sessions from 29th of April until 11th of June 2020. The objective of these sessions was to measure the progress towards implementing the recommendations outlined in the Turning FAIR into Reality report (2018). To do this, FAIRsFAIR brought together representatives of the Working Groups of the EOSC Executive Board, INFRAEOSC5 projects, ESFRI clusters, and the FAIRsFAIR European Group of FAIR Champions to share information on the progress of their FAIR-oriented activities and to discuss commonalities and priorities. The report addresses the EOSC Executive Board and Governing Board and their successors, as well as the European Commission’s EOSC programme (together called “the EOSC Governance” in this report), in addition to the participants and other EOSC-related projects. A table in the document summarises the amount of activity with regards to the 27 recommendations from the Turning FAIR into Reality report (TFiR). It is a snapshot in time and the observations and analysis in the report express an interpretation of the situation - confirmed by the workshop participants. The overall conclusion of the workshop series and this review of project activities is that the implementation of the Turning FAIR into Reality recommendations is clearly being addressed across the range of projects and activities surveyed. The EOSC Governance should look at the less well covered TFiR Recommendations 6, 8, 11 and 13 (coded “some activities support this recommendation”), determine whether extra activity is needed and which could be provided through EOSC co-creation activities, through the Horizon Europe funding initiative or through other means. Workshop participants also felt that supporting recommendation 23 should be reclassified as a priority recommendation. Finally, this report proposes additional actions that address gaps in the Turning FAIR into Reality Action Plan that were identified by the workshop discussions.

This deliverable describes the first release of the SSHOC Training Toolkit which was launched on April 20th 1 2020 . The Toolkit consists of an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to develop and improve their own training activities. The Toolkit at the time of the launch listed over 70 materials from 41 different sources in various formats, such as slides, modules, videos, games and other items. Materials cover a range of topics including Research Data Management, FAIR data, text encoding, Open Science, and quantitative analysis, as well as didactics for better development and implementation of training activities Information about these train-the-trainer materials was collected and are displayed using a dedicated drupal- based application that was already utilized for the inventory of existing training materials described in D6.7 Inventory of existing learning materials (Ďurčo, Illmayer & Barbot, 2019). The Toolkit will be further developed in collaboration with the SSHOC Training Community and presented and evaluated during the SSHOC Train-the-Trainer Bootcamps. Note on the terminology While the original title of the toolkit mentioned in the grant proposal and agreement was “SSHOC Train-the- Trainer Toolkit” rather than “SSHOC Training Toolkit”, the task team has decided to adapt the name to “SSHOC Training Toolkit” as it more accurately describes the content of the toolkit and its use. The Toolkit is directed at SSH trainers, but next to train-the-trainer materials, the toolkit also contains information on other learning and training materials available for the SSH community. The development of the toolkit was based on an already performed inventory for SSH learning materials (D6.7) and it was felt that the collected information was of use to SSH trainers and the SSH community as well. Therefore, it was decided to adjust the name of the toolkit to better reflect its content and potential use. The term “SSHOC Training Toolkit” is hence used in the deliverable names and in the SSHOC online communication. This deliverable has been accepted by the European Commission on - 03 November 2020