A small research group formed within The Association for Humanities Computing and Digital Culture (AIUCD) community has been working for the past two years on the publication of a Whitebook and a set of Guidelines for the creation of FAIR research outputs in the field of Digital Humanities.
The complete whitebook and guidelines, published in the Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale series, are one of the key research outputs of a now-completed PRIN project, The ATLAS of Italian Digital Humanities. The aim is to map out and define clear methodological pathways for the creation of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research outputs that meet the criteria of scientific excellence.
The guidelines are designed for quick, bite-sized consultation, so as to support the community in the most common types of outputs in the Digital Humanities: digital scholarly editions and text collections, software tools, ontologies and Linked Open Data.
Although the project has been completed, this work is intended to evolve alongside the academic community. Our aim is for these guidelines not to be an end in themselves, but a common basis for discussion amongst those working in the field of Digital Humanities.
We welcome comments, suggestions or other expressions of interest to help us build on the work we have done. Even brief comments can be invaluable in improving the work. In this case, we ask you to share your comments via this feedback form.
We hope to have the opportunity to explore these issues in person during the presentation to be held at the AIUCD conference in Cagliari (3rd-5th June), a forum for discussion that we would like to be open to contributions from all interested colleagues.
Kind regards,
The ATLAS project team
Alessia Bardi, Marina Buzzoni, Marilena Daquino, Riccardo del Gratta, Angelo Mario Del Grosso, Franz Fischer, Sebastiano Giacomini, Chiara Martignano, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Giorgia Rubin, Francesca Tomasi.