ingrid dillo - digital humanities challenges and the research data alliance

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Digital humanities challenges and the Research Data Alliance

Ingrid Dillo DANS/RDA TAB

Panel session Digital Data Sharing: Opportunities and Challenges of Opening ResearchDH16, Krakow 15 July 2016

EASY: long-term Electronic Archiving System for self-deposit

Core services

DataverseNL for short/intrmediate term storage

• Why are some regions in the world rich and others poor?• Why is the negative representation of minorities so

persistent?• How and why is language changing?

Culture change

Thousands of data silos in the humanities

Historical databases

Art image collections

Archeological GIS

Linguistic corpora

Textual corpora

Open up and connect the silos

Why not share?

• Those data are mine!

• Discredit my findings

• Still analyzing the data

• I cannot trust the data produced somewhere else

..fear, distrust and a little bit of laziness..

“Perhaps the biggest challenge in sharing data is trust: how do you create a system robust enough for scientists to trust that, if they share, their data won’t be lost, garbled, stolen or misused?”

RDA: building social and technical bridgesRDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data

across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange knowledge, share discoveries, discuss barriers and potential solutions, explore and define policies and test as well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate global data sharing.

ReproducibilityData preservationBest practices for domain

repositoriesCurriculum developmentData citation

Data type registriesMetadataand so many more!

Output: solutions enabling cross platform discovery based on existing open protocols and standards

Output: harmonised standard for core certification of digital repositories

RDA Outputs

Thanks for listening!For more information:

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