The document introduces guidelines created by the PARTHENOS project to help make research data more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The PARTHENOS project aims to strengthen cooperation in various humanities fields. The guidelines were developed based on interviews, surveys, and a review of over 100 data management policies. They contain 20 recommendations structured around the FAIR principles to help researchers and repositories better manage research data. The guidelines are available online and will be translated and used to develop workshops.

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An introduction to the PARTHENOS
Guidelines to FAIRify data management
and make data reusable
Femmy Admiraal
KNAW-DANS
CARARE meeting: Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana
Amersfoort, 28-06-2019

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The PARTHENOS project
PARTHENOS aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the
broad sector of Language Studies, Humanities, Cultural Heritage,
History, Archaeology and related fields. PARTHENOS will achieve
this objective through the definition and support of common
standards, the coordination of joint activities, the harmonization
of policy definition and implementation, and the development of
pooled services and of shared solutions to the same problems.
• Project period: 1 May 2015 – 31 October 2019
• PARTHENOS consortium: 16 partners from 9 countries
• Coordinator: PIN, University of Florence, Italy

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WP3: Common Policies Implementation
• Overview of existing policies in the Parthenos disciplines, for different data lifecycle
phases;
• Find the commonalities between disciplines in the humanities in terms of policies, RDM
and IPR, open access;
• Find the gaps: what disciplines are advanced in terms of policies and what are not?
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WP3: Common Policies Implementation
• Overview of existing policies in the Parthenos disciplines, for different data lifecycle
phases;
• Find the commonalities between disciplines in the humanities in terms of policies, RDM
and IPR, open access;
• Find the gaps: what disciplines are advanced in terms of policies and what are not?
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Ø Give recommendation and guidance to: - humanities researchers
- data archives
- cultural heritage institutions

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WP3: Common Policies Implementation
Approach:
• Interviews with humanities researchers in the project and external between 2016-2018;
• Survey on current data management practices among PARTHENOS partner institutions;
• Comparison of over 100 data management policies;
• Literature review.
Result:
• PARTHENOS Deliverable D3.2: Hollander et al. 2019. Guidelines for Common Policies
Implementation (final);
• Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable.
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Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable
AIM AND USERS
• 20 guidelines structured around the letters of FAIR: Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
• Main user groups: - data producers / researchers (Bulb)
- RIs and Data Archives (Wheels)
• Available via the Parthenos Training Suite: Manage, Improve
and Open Up your research data
• Designed for humanities researchers but can be used broadly
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Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable
Invest in people and infrastructure
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Findable
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Findable
• Focus is on Metadata Schema and Identifiers. Humanists work with a variety of sources
(from archives, museums, or surveys) and each of them requires a specific metadata
standard;
• Main message: make use of the right fields to describe the right research object;
• Identifiers also play an essential role for the humanities:
they need to be as unique and persistent as possible.
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Accessible
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Accessible
• Focus is on where the researcher’s data are stored (trustworthy), how they can be
retrieved (protocols), and stating if and how much they are accessible;
• Main message: your research data can be as standardized as possible, but if they can’t be
accessed, they cannot be consulted and cited, reused, etc.
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Interoperable
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Interoperable
• Focus is on making the researcher’s data able to dialogue with other (researchers’) data;
• Main message: use of standards, vocabularies/ ontologies, APIs, support the researchers
who want to connect their data with other data.
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Reusable
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Reusable
• Focus is on being able to integrate other researchers’ data into your own research and vice
versa;
• Main message: not only data, but also their documentation and reuse licences are
important. Humanities data are all about interpretation, but aim to the higher data
integration.
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What’s next?
• Translations planned into: - Italian and German (expected release July 2019)
- Greek and Hungarian (expected release September 2019);
• Guidelines will be used to develop template workshop;
• Policies on which the work is based will be integrated in PARTHENOS Policy Wizard.
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Thank you!
Femmy Admiraal
femmy.admiraal@dans.knaw.nl