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  A Workflow to publish Collections as Data: looking back at Europeana.eu and forward to the common European data space for cultural heritage

  Εδώ και αρκετές δεκαετίες, οι φορείς Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς διαθέτουν τις ψηφιακές συλλογές τους διαδικτυακά, επιδιώκοντας τη διεύρυνση της προσβασιμότητάς τους και την αξιοποίησή τους από ένα ευρύ και διαφοροποιημένο σύνολο χρηστών. Οι πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στις τεχνολογίες της πληροφορίας, όπως η πρόοδος στον τομέα της Μηχανικής Μάθησης, έχουν διαμορφώσει ένα νέο τεχνολογικό πλαίσιο. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, οι ψηφιακές συλλογές δεν αντιμετωπίζονται πλέον αποκλειστικά ως τεκμήρια πολιτιστικού περιεχομένου, αλλά αναγνωρίζονται ως πολύτιμα σύνολα δεδομένων, ικανά να αναλυθούν και να επαναχρησιμοποιηθούν μέσω υπολογιστικών μεθόδων στο πεδίο των Ψηφιακών Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών. Πρωτοβουλίες όπως η θεώρηση των Συλλογών ως ∆εδομένα, οι αρχές FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) και CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics), καθώς και τα πειραματικά εργαστήρια, προσφέρουν κατευθυντήριες γραμμές και βέλτιστες πρακτικές για τη δημοσίευση ψηφιακών συλλογών με τρόπο που καθιστά εφικτή και αξιόπιστη την υπολογιστική αξιοποίησή τους. Στο ίδιο πλαίσιο, η έννοια των χώρων δεδομένων (data spaces) αναδύεται ως νέα βάση για την ενίσχυση της δημιουργίας, της πρόσβασης και της επανάχρησης δεδομένων Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς, όπου οι φορείς της διαδραματίζουν κρίσιμο ρόλο ως πάροχοι δεδομένων. Στο παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζουμε μια ροή εργασίας (workflow) για την εφαρμογή της προσέγγισης Συλλογές ως ∆εδομένα (Collections as Data) εντός των χώρων δεδομένων Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς. Η ροή αυτή έχει αναπτυχθεί στο πλαίσιο του Κοινού Ευρωπαϊκού Χώρου ∆εδομένων για την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και έχει δημοσιευθεί στην πλατφόρμα Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace. Στόχος της είναι να υποστηρίξει φορείς Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς, ερευνητές των Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών και επιστήμονες Πληροφορικής που επιδιώκουν τη συστηματική διάθεση και επαναχρησιμοποίηση δεδομένων Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς μέσω υπολογιστικών διαδικασιών. Η παρούσα μελέτη εξετάζει τις δυνατότητες υιοθέτησης της εν λόγω ροής εργασίας τόσο από θεσμικούς φορείς όσο και από μεμονωμένους ερευνητές, και αποτυπώνει την εφαρμογή της στο πλαίσιο του Κοινού Ευρωπαϊκού Χώρου ∆εδομένων για την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά. Επιπλέον, αναδεικνύει ενδεικτικούς τομείς εφαρμογής, οι οποίοι εκτιμάται ότι θα ωφεληθούν ουσιωδώς από την ευρύτερη υιοθέτηση της προτεινόμενης ροής εργασίας εντός του πεδίου της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς.

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  Introducing Transformations: A DARIAH Journal

  Research infrastructures can only thrive if those who contribute to their development receive academic credit for their work. This insight has motivated DARIAH to launch a diamond open-access overlay journal called Transformations as a practical way of reaffirming our commitment to open science, fairer research assessment practices, and the vital but often overlooked infrastructural contributions to scholarly discourse. As an academic journal, Transformations will highlight not only traditional research articles but also less conventional research outputs, such as workflows, datasets, annotations, software tools, training materials-and the complex labour that underpins them. These kinds of commitments are especially important in the age of artificial intelligence, where the speed and scale of digital technologies often challenge the values and methods of humanistic inquiry. If we want to maintain a humanistic voice in scholarship and sift through the deluge of auto-generated noise, we must insist on transparent tooling and a shared consensus on the value of public infrastructures.

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  A reproducible framework to publish and reuse Collections as data: the case of the European Literary Bibliography

  GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions host rich content that is provided in the form of digital collections. Bibliographic databases are collections of references focused on a particular topic that can be used to apply Digital Humanities (DH) methods. Recent approaches such as Collections as Data and Labs promote the publication of digital collections supporting computational use.This work aims to provide a framework for publishing and reusing digital collections based on literary bibliographies published by GLAM institutions in order to make them suitable for computational use in the form of Collections as Data, in particular, in the context of the European Literary Bibliography. It also describes the infrastructure used and DH research scenarios to illustrate how the results can be reused for different goals. Digital curators and DH researchers interested in making their datasets available in the form of Collections as Data are the intended audience of this work.

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  Paradata conveys understanding of workflows and facilitates reuse of research data in arts and humanities: the CAPTURE project

  The European Research Council funded research project CAPTURE has investigated the relatively unexplored question of what information about the workflows of creation, management and use of research data is necessary for data to be reusable in the future. This cross-disciplinary multi-methods research underlines the risk of producing documentation that is of little use. It also emphasises the importance of making the already existing information findable, and generating new documentation only on such aspects of workflows that otherwise remain undocumented. The project’s findings also underscore differences in the perspectives of data creators, managers and users indicating that the documentation generated by data creators and kept in data repositories is not always well-understood and usable for data users. Finally, the work in the CAPTURE project points to the need of conceptual clarity. We discuss paradata both as a form of information on workflows, processes and practices, and as a framework concept to discuss how people inform and get informed about workflows, processes and practices in general, in research and beyond.

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  Adding Every Arabic Periodical Published Before 1930 to Wikidata: Moving the Scholarly Crowd-Sourcing Project Jarāʾid to the Digital Commons

  This paper documents the contribution of comprehensive bibliographic data on all Arabic periodicals published before 1930 to Wikidata, the largest public and open knowledge graph. The dataset originated with the scholarly crowdsourcing project Jarāʾid and comprises information on more than 3,000 periodicals, about 2,700 editors and almost 350 holding institutions. As a living union list of Arabic periodicals, the dataset alleviates the infrastructural weaknesses of library catalogues and discovery systems, as well as the epistemic violence of knowledge ecologies. The move to Wikidata addresses the socio-technical shortcomings of our original approach by making the dataset available in a FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and five-star Linked Open Data environment. In addition, the platform provides multilingual interfaces and robust user management and version control, which significantly improves the usability and maintenance of evolving datasets. The paper details workflows and data models and demonstrates the reusability of our approach in other contexts with a second dataset of periodicals from the Ottoman Empire. Finally, the paper shows how the move to Wikidata generates continuous engagement with wider Wikimedia communities that significantly broaden our knowledge about periodicals and their holdings.

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  Fluffy Publication Workflow: Preserving Humanities Research Data with the TextGrid Repository

  This paper introduces a revised publication workflow for textual research data in the TextGrid Repository. This repository supports the accessibility and reusability of research outputs in the humanities. The new workflow simplifies the publication process by integrating familiar tools such as TEI, XPath, Git, and Jupyter Notebooks. This reduces the technical burden for users, while still ensuring metadata quality controls. For these reasons, we refer to the new workflow as fluffy, emphasising its ease of use.The workflow also allows for metadata enrichment without altering original data files, improving overall data and metadata quality and aligning with FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). By showcasing completed research projects, we demonstrate how the workflow enhances the discoverability and citation of published outputs. The paper concludes by outlining future steps to integrate the workflow with additional services, aiming for a more user-friendly experience and higher metadata quality.

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  The Music Encoding Initiative: Its Generation Workflows

  This article explores the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) by examining the workflows that support its generation and manipulation within musicological research. Since its creation to fill the absence of a standard for encoding musical works, MEI has evolved into a powerful, flexible XML framework capable of representing not only Western common music notation but also specialised systems such as mensural, neumatic, and tablature notations.This study underscores how the choice of workflow is never neutral: it profoundly shapes the quality, sustainability, and interoperability of encoded data. It analyzes three principal modes of generating MEI files—via web applications like Verovio and MEI Garage, through integrated software solutions such as MuseScore and Sibelius (enhanced by plugins), and using programmatic approaches that rely on command-line tools or programming libraries. Each method presents distinct advantages and limitations, depending on the user's technical expertise, the complexity of the repertoire, and the scale of the project.Beyond generation, the article also addresses tools for enriching and editing MEI files, from metadata completion with MerMEId to more advanced, interactive environments like Mei-Friend, which combine score visualization with direct XML editing. Special attention is given to the encoding of early music, highlighting initiatives that adapt MEI to the complexities of historical notations.Ultimately, the article emphasises that adopting MEI is not simply a technical choice but one that entails significant human and scholarly considerations. It calls for broader training and the thoughtful integration of automated workflows to ensure that digital music editions are both robust and aligned with open science principles.

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  A reproducible workflow for the creation of digital twins in the cultural heritage domain

  This article explores how to create reproducible workflows for the 3D acquisition and digitisation of cultural heritage objects to ensure sustainability and reusability across various institutions. In addressing two main research questions, the paper proposes a workflow that involves the systematic acquisition, processing and digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts. In particular, the workflow focuses on developing digital twins for cultural heritage settings and exhibitions and proposes baseline standards for both technical and interpretative aspects of digitisation. The workflow has been derived from and tested on the pilot case of the temporary exhibition The Other Renaissance: Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Wonders of the World, in the context of the CHANGES project. The article reflects on software and hardware equipment to select, the procedures and techniques to use and the formats to adopt to comply with openness, accessibility, transparency, reproducibility, reusability and sustainability in the research workflow, building on previous works on fostering reproducibility in research and improving the interoperability of 3D data across different systems. It highlights the need for transparent documentation of every step of the process, focusing on accountability and practices in the context of cultural heritage research. Finally, the article suggests improvements for enhancing the sustainability of these kinds of workflows and discusses future directions for digitisation efforts and sharing practices.

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  Fluffy Import: Preserving Humanities Research Data with the TextGrid Repository

  This paper introduces a revised workflow for the publication of textual research data within the TextGrid Repository, designed to enhance the accessibility and reusability of research outputs in the humanities. The new workflow aims to simplify the process for researchers by integrating user-friendly tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, reducing the technical burden of metadata management and data publication. Researchers can now publish their data using familiar technologies such as TEI, xPath, and GitHub repositories, while benefiting from enhanced metadata quality controls and streamlined processes.The workflow also supports the enrichment of metadata without requiring modifications to original data files, ensuring compliance with the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). By showcasing completed research projects, we demonstrate the potential for improved discoverability and citation of research outputs through the new system. The paper concludes with a discussion of future developments aimed at fully automating the publication process, minimising the need for manual intervention, and expanding the applicability of the workflow across disciplines.

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  A Workflow to publish Collections as Data: looking back at Europeana.eu and forward to the common European data space for cultural heritage

  For decades, cultural heritage (CH) institutions have been making their digital collections available for potential communities of users. Recent advances in technology, such as machine learning, have provided a new context in which digital collections are a rich resource that can be analysed and reused by means of computational methods, for example in the humanities. Initiatives such as Collections as Data, the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable and CARE (collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, ethics) data principles, and experimental Labs provide best practices and guidelines for publishing digital collections suitable for responsible computational use. In addition, data spaces have recently emerged as a new concept to foster creation, access and reuse of heritage data in which CH institutions play a key role as data providers. In this work we present a workflow for adopting Collections as Data in CH data spaces. The workflow has been developed in the context of the common European data space for cultural heritage and published on the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Marketplace. It aims to support CH institutions, humanities researchers and computer scientists interested in making CH data available in data spaces. The article illustrates how the workflow can be adopted by CH institutions or applied by researchers wishing to publish digital collections suitable for computational use. We also demonstrate how the workflow is being adopted in the common European data space for cultural heritage, and describe a selection of potential areas that we believe will most benefit from the wide application of the workflow in the CH domain.