EOSC Future grant: FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects
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The aim of this project is to design an interoperable and FAIR-enabler citation model applicable to digital objects in the Cultural Heritage sector. By definition, the digital cultural heritage object (CHO) represents a complex aggregation of information whose integrative level is established by the fusion of dual physical and digital valence, where the information resource and media type inform the vehicle of the represented cultural artefact.
Starting from this seminal definition, the project intends to demonstrate the multi-dimensionality of the citation property of the cultural heritage object by defining a citation model whose reliability and trustworthiness are established according to the application, purposes, and relevance assumed by the reference citation context while preserving, at the same time, the cross-domain inheritance of the citation instance of cultural data.
The project belongs to the group of open-call projects supported by EOSC Future.
Project staff
Cristiana Bettella graduated in Romance Philology and Digital Humanities, works at the Digital Library Department of the University of Padua Library Centre as Metadata and Electronic Resources Services coordinator. She is engaged in digital scholarship, data modelling and curation of the digital repository Phaidra.
Mauro Apostolico graduated in Medieval and Modern Literature and Philology, and works at the Digital Library Department of the University of Padua Library Centre as research support and repository librarian.
Linda Cappellato graduated in Archaeology and Archival and Library Science, and works at the Digital Library Department of the University of Padua Library Centre. She is involved in services related to digital collections, institutional archives, open science, virtual exhibitions and information literacy.
Yuri Carrer graduated in Computer Engineering. In his thesis, he dealt with digital objects, an activity he prosecuted since 2003 at the Library System of the University of Padua. He has developed the Padua@ institutional repositories and research data archives and manages Phaidra as technical manager, dealing with the FAIRification of the repository.
Gianluca Drago (project collaborator) works at the Digital Library Department of the University of Padua Library Centre. Since 2014, he has been collaborating on digitisation and enhancement projects of the cultural heritage of the University Library System, the archiving of documents in Phaidra, and their dissemination by means of virtual exhibitions. Since 2020, he has been coordinator of the Phaidra platform and digitisation projects.
Giulio Turetta graduated in Telecommunications Engineering, and works as Digital Services Librarian at the Digital Library Department of the University of Padua Library Centre. He is a manager of the library discovery service and the local Phaidra digital repository. He is involved in developing and managing library websites, virtual exhibitions, and the institutional archive for research data.
Achille Felicetti (external project collaborator) is a researcher at VAST-LAB PIN, the Prato agency for research and training of the University of Florence. He graduated in archaeology in 2003 from the University of Florence and since 2004 he carries out his research activity at VAST-LAB in the context of international initiatives focused on the application of new technologies to cultural heritage and was involved in European projects such as EPOCH, PARTHENOS, E-RIHS and EOSC. He is currently work package leader in the ARIADNEplus and 4CH projects. His research interests concern metadata implementation, standards development, creation of ontologies and semantic tools for cultural heritage. He is member of the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group and is the coordinator of the CRMarchaeo and the CRMtex extensions.
Activities
- Activity 1 / Digital-CHO-Representation consisting of reviewing the literature and creating the FAIR-CHO Citation Model Zotero Library Group Bibliography
- Activity 2 / Examination of three different types of case studies aimed at capturing the citation relevance of cultural heritage objects and data from a cross-disciplinary perspective: 1. Cross disciplinary exploratory interviews; 2. Digital repositories data citation practices; 3. Cultural data and data metrics
- Activity 3 / Study of three digital archives selected as case studies for the identification of the critical citation elements in support of the development of the citation model
- Activity 4 / Schema Extension Development dealing with the evaluation and development, both in terms of content coverage and functionality, of a context-sensitive schema extension in the RDA Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC)
- Activity 5 / Elaboration of an ontological citation model aligned with CIDOC CRM to formulate extended and semantically structured bibliographic citations for cultural objects, while adhering to the FAIR principles.
Project outputs
- 1-Dec-2022 Project presentation published on the institutional website.
- 22-Dec-2022 Registration and start-up of the Zotero library “CHO citation model”.
- 1-Feb-2023 Project announcement in CLARIN-IT.
- 15-Feb-2023 Project announcement at the panel “Musei al futuro” promoted by the University of Padua Museum Centre.
- Feb-Mar 2023 Meetings (face-to-face and/or virtual) with project stakeholders and exploratory interviews with cross-disciplinary research groups from the University of Padua and European cultural heritage projects and organisations.
- 14-Mar-2023 Project announcement in the monthly newsletter of the University of Padua Library System: https://campagne.ict.unipd.it/mautic/email/preview/801.
- 24-Apr-2023 SWIB023 abstract submission “Discovering citability of Cultural Heritage Objects. A case study on data repositories registries”.
- 26-May-2023 Project Workshop at the University of Padua Library System.
- 1-Jun-2023 Meetings with OpenCitations Director and University of Bologna data stewards.
- 7-Jul-2023 By invitation: project presentation to the Heads of the Humanities Departments of the University of Padua.
- 14-Jul-2023 Discussion within the University of Padua Open Science Commission for Unipd registration on EOSC Portal.
- 24-Jul-2023 Zenodo Community “A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects – Project Outputs” available at: https://zenodo.org/communities/fair-cho/
- 24-Jul-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Drago, Gianluca, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A Fair-enabling Citation Model for Cultural Heritage Objects. Lessons (not Yet) Learned from an Ongoing Project”. July 24, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8176851.
- 27-Jul-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A2.2a Digital Repositories Data Citation Practices. Supplementary Material”. Zenodo, July 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8188806.
- 28-Jul-2023 Carrer, Yuri, contributors Apostolico, Mauro, Bettella, Cristiana, Cappellato, Linda, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A4 Schema Extension Development: Source Code for 4.2 The RDA Metadata Standards Catalog as a Home for Citations Practices: A Proposal”. Zenodo, July 28, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8191748.
- 2-Aug-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “FAIR-CHO Citation Model Zotero Group Library Bibliography. Supplementary Material”. Zenodo, August 2, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8207653.
- 3-Aug-2023 Application for registering the University of Padua (02/08/2023) as EOSC Provider: approved on 03/08/2023 – https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/providers/eosc.unipd.
- 4-Aug-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A2 Case Studies Examination”. Zenodo, August 4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8215438.
- 4-Aug-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A3a CHO Citation Elements. Repository Case Studies. Template”. Zenodo, August 4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8215558.
- 7-Aug-2023 Application for registering Research Data Unipd (03/08/2023) https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/ as EOSC data source: approved on 07/08/2023 – https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/research-data-unipd/.
- 8-Aug-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A4 Schema Extension Development”. Zenodo, August 8, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8224167.
- 15-Aug-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “A3 CHO Citation Elements. Repository Case Studies”. Zenodo, August 15, 2023. https://doi.org/doi:10.5281/zenodo.8249060.
Selected repositories: Archaeological Data Service (ADS), Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), Phaidra – University of Padua. - 25-10-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. “Citabilità dei dati culturali e Scienza aperta. Intorno al progetto “A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects”. GenOA week 2023, Genoa. Genoa University (Selected talk). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10201425.
- 23-Nov-2023 Bettella, Cristiana, Apostolico, Mauro, Cappellato, Linda, Carrer, Yuri, Felicetti, Achille, and Turetta, Giulio. Towards “A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects”. Phaidracon 2023 (Vienna, 22-23 November 2023) (Invited lecture). https://hdl.handle.net/11353/10.2043815.
- 13-Dec-2023: Italian Data Stewards Community (continuous participation), officially launched on 7th November 2023: https://www.icdi.it/en/news-en/228-first-in-person-meeting-of-the-icdi-c….
- 30-Jan-2024: Call4Comments to Draft DRI Citation Review 2024.
- 17-Apr-2024: Italian Data Stewards Community. 2nd meeting in person (Bologna, University of Bologna) (Invited talk).
More information
· Documentation: https://zenodo.org/communities/fair-cho
· Downloads: https://zenodo.org/communities/fair-cho
· License: CC BY 4.0
· Contact: fair-cho@cab.unipd.it
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