CURRENTLY PATERNITY LEAVE. Notes on my work with (cultural heritage) FAIR data. Topics cover Programming, Open Science, Digital Humanities, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Metadata, data catalogs, Wikidata, RDF, SPARQL and the Semantic Web.

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Sven Lieber

Dear subscriber,  Welcome to the first edition of my new weekly newsletter! Within different recurring categories I will provide updates of my work, my personal journey, and topics such as Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, FAIR data, Open Science and many more. It is conference season!

FAIR Data Digest #1

Hi everyone,  in today’s slightly more technical edition I will focus on my recent encounters with the Linked Data query language SPARQL. Many of you may know it as a language to retrieve data (possibly from Wikidata). I mainly use it for a project where I recently found some performance issues that could be resolved by either rewriting the query or changing the approach.

FAIR Data Digest #22

Dear subscriber,  welcome to the second edition of the newsletter and also a warm welcome to all new subscribers. It has been an interesting week. In this edition I will talk about some work updates, a one-day workshop I’ve attended last week and I have a video recommendation.

FAIR Data Digest #2

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FAIR Data Digest #17

Hi everyone,  welcome to another summer-break edition. This time with a webinar recording about persistent identifiers for FAIR data and news about data cataloging with DCAT both in Europe and the US.  ::: {.subscription-widget-wrap attrs=“{"url":"https://fairdata.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}” component-name=“SubscribeWidgetToDOM”}  Thanks for reading FAIR Data Digest!

FAIR Data Digest #10

Hi everyone,  greetings to one of our summer editions! Whether you're on vacation, just back, or about to head off, I've got some interesting content to share with you.

FAIR Data Digest #9

Hi everyone,  today’s edition is about FAIR data that is not necessarily related to cultural heritage, but related to cars 🚗. We will have a look into an Open Data dataset of the Dutch government that provides data which hopefully helps me to answer some questions about
<strong>
 child safety seats
</strong>
. Statistics shown in this post come from this GitHub repository.

FAIR Data Digest #23

Hi everyone,  did you ever wonder how FAIR data is put into practice? This week I went down the rabbit hole and what I brought back is the start of a new series to
<strong>
 unravel the many FAIR data initiatives
</strong>
. There are also some good news for (Belgian) FAIR data in my work update!

FAIR Data Digest #5

Hi everyone,  I’m on vacation now, but thanks to pre-scheduling you won’t miss out FAIR data updates! Today I want to share with you a research paper in which the authors report on the creation of large amounts of FAIR data which they host on Wikidata.

FAIR Data Digest #12

Hello everyone,  welcome to today’s Halloween edition about
<em>
 data anti-patterns
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that hopefully will scare you so much you don’t do them :-) Things you better avoid when aiming for FAIR data. Anti patterns?

FAIR Data Digest #20

Hi everyone,  greetings from Karlsruhe in Germany where I am attending a conference about research data infrastructure at the moment.

FAIR Data Digest #15

Hi everyone,  it has been a while since we talked about research infrastructures. Many of them might sound abstract or just like super specialized app stores. But today we have a brief look into something very tangible: heritage objects that are analyzed by instruments or are digitized in other forms. There is lots of diverse data in Heritage Science. ❓ FAIR Buzzword Bingo: what is E-RIHS?

FAIR Data Digest #21

Hi everyone,  in today’s edition I will try to explain what DARIAH / CLARIAH is and what they do in the context of FAIR data. I am also sharing a video of some recent presentations about Wikipedia from the Wikimedia Research Showcase. ::: {.subscription-widget-wrap attrs=“{"url":"https://fairdata.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}” component-name=“SubscribeWidgetToDOM”}  Thanks for reading FAIR Data Digest!

FAIR Data Digest #8

Hi everyone,  if you are a researcher and you want to follow the FAIR data principles you are not left alone. In today’s edition I will try to explain what ERIC is and what they have to do with FAIR data. As for work updates: I was on a small camping vacation in France, so there are no work updates, but I came back with many ideas for the future!

FAIR Data Digest #6

Hi everyone,  this week it’s all about hands-on! I will talk about a webinar on trying to fix quality issues in Wikidata by using its ontology. Additionally I will share a few resources around basics and advanced uses of the query language SPARQL that is used to query Linked Data, for example from Wikidata.

FAIR Data Digest #4

Hi everyone,  last week I told you about
<em>
 European Research Infrastructures Consortia
</em>
or ERIC in short. Today we gonna look into one of these ERICs that is active in the Cultural Heritage field. I also have to celebrate a tiny anniversary related to Wikidata and I will share a resource about FAIR Jupyter notebooks.

FAIR Data Digest #7

Hi everyone,  welcome to the 3rd edition of my newsletter! Besides the fact that we have suffered the first official heat wave in Belgium this year, I have other hot information to share.

FAIR Data Digest #3

Hi everyone,  welcome back to today’s edition in which I share a work update related to bibliographic data and provide information to an upcoming interesting talk. ::: {.subscription-widget-wrap attrs=“{"url":"https://fairdata.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}” component-name=“SubscribeWidgetToDOM”}  Thanks for reading FAIR Data Digest! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

FAIR Data Digest #19

Hi everyone,  this edition starts with two announcements before it dives into the topic of software engineering skills for data science. This newsletter started as a
<strong>
 weekly newsletter
</strong>
in which I shared topics around FAIR data and updates about my work. Selecting one or more topics each week is fun and helps myself to
<em>
 summarize
</em>
and
<em>
 understand
</em>
topics better.

FAIR Data Digest #18

Hi everyone,  as promised, today you will hear more about the research data infrastructure conference where I and around
<strong>
 680 other people
</strong>
attended last week in Karlsruhe, Germany. Grab a cup of coffee of tea and enjoy today’s edition!

FAIR Data Digest #16

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FAIR Data Digest #14

Hi everyone,  this last summer-break edition ties in with the previous edition. Last week I’ve wrote over research to make
<strong>
 publication metadata
</strong>
from the free publishing service CEUR-WS
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 available in a FAIR fashion
</strong>
, such that the data can be explored.

FAIR Data Digest #13

Hi everyone,  today’s summer-break edition is for anyone who likes free and open knowledge. There is a short video that explains the intriguing new
<strong>
 Wikifunctions
</strong>
project. Besides that I will talk about my experiences of creating a Wikidata page about a company, hopefully it inspires you to also contribute to free and open knowledge.

FAIR Data Digest #11

FAIR Data Digest

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great summer. The academic year is about to start and I
hope you are hungry for some knowledge :-) In today's edition I want to
introduce you to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

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# ❓ FAIR Buzzword Bingo: EOSC {#fair-buzzword-bingo-eosc}

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There are already countless intertwined research and infrastructure
initiatives in the cultural heritage field, even more beyond it. In this
category I will focus on one of the many FAIR data-related initiatives,
this week: **the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)**

You probably have heard the following phrase before:

> *"the cloud is just someone else's computer"*

While this is true, this *someone* usually is not a private person, but
a professional service provider that also backups your data and keeps
the **software and infrastructure up to date** and running. Important
features that should not be underestimated in terms of added value,
required skills and costs!

It's hard to imagine a world without cloud services. In a private
context you have probably synced your contacts and/or photos with a
cloud service from *Android/Google*
([Q94](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94)) or *iOS/Apple*
([Q48493](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48493)). Common are also
*Dropbox* ([Q142539](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142539)) or open
source solutions such as *Nextcloud*
([Q25874683](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25874683)). The latter can
also be used in a business context to collaboratively edit documents,
share data and E-mail or Instant message with colleagues. Although in a
business context most businesses probably use Microsoft products such as
*Microsoft 365* ([Q775811](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q775811)) or
*Google Drive*-related products
([Q9340](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9340)).

But in a research and professional context you probably have many
**domain-specific data** you need to **find** and **use**. There is also
the whole point of data sovereignty, do we want to outsource our
research data to many different companies in the private sector? Or do
we want a public cloud with clear governance? This is where the European
Open Science Cloud comes in!

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In summary, the EOSC is the glue that brings several cloud initiatives
and research infrastructures together, the different computers of other
people, to stay in the metaphor. The key idea is to to provide a single
cloud that in fact accesses **decentralized data in a federated way**:
data stored at different research institutions in Europe. Spoiler: FAIR
data comes in very handy when one wants to achieve something like that.

Without noticing you might have already used EOSC-related services. One
example is the research data repository **Zenodo**
([Q22661177](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22661177)) from the
*OpenAIRE* ([Q25106053](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25106053))
initiative: a platform to which you can upload research data for the
purpose of sharing with persistent Document Object Identifier (DOI)
links. But there is more. More than 3 million research and innovation
tools can be found in the EOSC Marketplace.

[Check the Marketplace
out!](https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/){.button .primary}

EOSC thus stands not alone, In fact it also integrates nicely with other
large initiatives that I have presented in previous editions. The
*ERIC-forum* ([Q120510649](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120510649))
commits to Open Science via *EOSC*
([source](https://www.eric-forum.eu/2020/08/31/input-of-the-eric-forum-to-the-open-consultation-for-the-strategic-research-and-innovation-agenda-sria-of-the-european-open-science-cloud-eosc/)).
Also *ESFRIs* ([Q2623454](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2623454))
collaborate closely with *EOSC*
([source](https://www.esfri.eu/working-groups/esfri-eosc-task-force)).
One particular example is the ERIC *CLARIN*
([Q2986825](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2986825)) which I presented
in a [previous edition](https://fair-data-digest.org/archive/7) of the
newsletter. Below is a short interview explaining how one of the more
recent FAIR projects around the EOSC relates to CLARIN.

If you are more in industry you might have heard about *GAIA-X*
([Q74431584](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74431584)), an initiative
about a federated system that meets the highest standards of digital
sovereignty while promoting innovation. It is a similar initiative more
for the business context. Due to the synergies there is also an
alignment between GAIA-X and EOSC
([source](https://eosc.eu/news/aligning-priorities-eosc-gaia-x)).

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## History of EOSC: facts and a Greek tragedy

The European Commission identified the need for the creation of an
European Open Science Cloud already in the 2016 report "*Open
Innovation, open science, open to the world"* ([DOI:
10.2777/061652](https://doi.org/10.2777/061652)). For a little more
**behind-the-scenes** I recommend the article "*Politics and Open
Science: How the European Open Science Cloud Became Reality (the Untold
Story)*" ([DOI:
10.1162/dint_a_00069](https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00069)) which
explains the making of EOSC as a **Greek tragedy**.

A lot has been accomplished since 2016! Besides establishing the
governance framework, the initial project *EOSCpilot*
([Q122222344](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222344)) focused on
several pilot projects to remove fragmentations and demonstrate
interoperability. Dozens of projects followed, from *EOSCsecretariat*
([Q122222399](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222399)) for increased
coordination to *DICE*
([Q122222426](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222426)) for data
management and storage and *FAIRsFAIR*
([Q100151455](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100151455)) for the uptake
and implementation of the FAIR principles.

## EOSC and FAIR data

The most important question for this newsletter: **how about FAIR
data?**

I think this part is already clear. There is so much FAIR in
EOSC-related acronyms that it becomes obvious. For example, as mentioned
above, one of the recently finished projects was the FAIRsFAIR project.
The latest FAIR offspring is FAIRCORE4EOSC
([Q122222583](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122222583)). Thus FAIR
really is meant to be a core part!

**What do you think about EOSC**, are you involved and how are your
experiences? Please let me know if I've missed something important!

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