Humanities and data: listening to the communities on the path towards FAIRness

In the Humanities, data are difficult to define and all the more so to be properly curated and managed. They can be small and smart, rich and complex, non-standardised in format, without common or consistent metadata and ontologies, and can be subject to complex rights issues. Machine readable tools and materials are rarely available and often incomplete or non-interoperable.

We are presenting the ongoing works and the preliminary outputs of two complementary initiatives, the CO-OPERAS Implementation Network within GoFAIR and the ALLEA e-Humanities Working Group, two initiatives focusing on community needs and supporting the development of practical recommendations for best practices and services that enable the integration of the long tail of Humanities into the EOSC and more widely to adopt Open Science practices.

Our conversation will focus on discussing what data are in the Humanities, identifying the main challenges in the path towards FAIRness and providing recommendations for the digital humanities community.