FAIR and Heritage Collections

This set of training materials originates from the workshop 'FAIR and Cultural Heritage' held at Maastricht University on 23rd October 2024, 10am-1pm. The trainers and authors of these materials were Deborah Thorpe and Jetze Touber, DANS-KNAW. The topics covered by the session were:

• Introduction: FAIR and Heritage Collections 
• Generic Metadata for Scientific Databases 
• Vocabularies and Thesauri to Standardise and Enrich Metadata 
• Current work on FAIR and Cultural Heritage in the Dutch landscape 

In addition to four lecture-style presentations on the above topics, were through interactive discussions and exercises in which participants shared and put their earning and existing knowledge relating to metadata and heritage collections into practice. There was plenty of time for questions and answers and the opportunity to formulate the learning outcomes of the day into ‘take home messages’ or things that each participant will put into practice in their own work.

Both the workshop design and the materials themselves were inspired by, adapted from, and at times reuse slides and exercises from the 2023 workshop 'Metadata(standaarden) voor FAIR erfgoedonderzoek', with materials created by Cees Hof, Tamara van Zwol, Pascal Flohr, Jetze Touber, and Arne Wossink (link: https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/nl/activities/metadatastandaarden-voor-fair-erfgoedonderzoek). Maximum attention has been taken to crediting these creators within the files deposited here, as well as any other resources that have been reused within the workshop.

The materials shared are:

• Session plan: this is shared as a train-the-trainer resource to help potential reusers to plan and structure a future training session based on the below materials. This document explains how the rest of the materials were used within the workshop. This is shared in .docx, .odt and .pdf format. The word document is most easily edited and adapted. The .pdf is the stable version that would be considered the reference file. 
• Slide decks: these are distributed the same across three file formats: .pptx, .pdf, and .odp. The .pptx is the original format in which the material was created and is editable for future sessions, the .pdf is the most visually stable with accessible properties, and the .odp is the most open. In case of formatting issues, the .pdf would be considered the reference file. 
• Exercise and accompanying resources for the exercise: shared in .docx, odt and .pdf format.