Research Ideas and Outcomes :
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Corresponding author: Sharif Islam (sharif.islam@naturalis.nl)
Received: 22 Aug 2022 | Published: 25 Aug 2022
© 2022 Sharif Islam, Andreas Weber, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
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Islam S, Weber A, Tóth-Czifra E (2022) From Green Deal to Cultural Heritage: FAIR Digital Objects and European Common Data Spaces . Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e93815. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e93815
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This talk outlines a vision for Common European Data Spaces, proposed by the European Commission, where FAIR principles (
A May 2022 report on the challenges and opportunities of European Common Data Spaces highlights the following points:
Open data holders have extensive experience in data publishing, metadata management, data quality, dataset discovery, data federation, as well as tried-and-tested standards (e.g. DCAT) and technologies. There seems to be very little knowledge/technology transfer from the open data community to the data spaces community, which is a missed opportunity. Data space implementations should not reinvent wheels that the open data community has already developed, tested, and used extensively.
Whether the data is private, shared, or open, using data from multiple sources requires interoperability at several levels, from identifiers to vocabularies. The question of which data intermediaries will act as neutral agents to ensure interoperability is underexplored in the data space context. Public administrations, building on their experience of publishing open data, are best placed to take on such roles
Building on previous conversations facilitated by DiSSCo, DARIAH, Europeana, and Archives Portal Europe Foundation, (
The data infrastructure and FAIR related activities explored in our collaboration are of strategic importance to help Europe and the rest of the world deal with important societal issues. Therefore, bringing this collaboration within the context of FDO provides an ideal avenue to explore potential data, policy, and implementation matters, in order to address the two gaps outlined above for Common Data Spaces. Furthermore, the ideas expressed in Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage (with Europeana as the core stakeholder) and Green Deal Data Spaces need further clarification concerning implementation planning and most importantly, how multiple commons would work together. With DARIAH coming from the humanities and DiSSCo from the natural sciences side, such collaborations and synergy should align with the Common Data Spaces vision. The philosophy and ideas behind data and digital commons are not new (
Given that curated objects are informational resources for the researchers, but can also provide contexts, and make visible the relationships between artefacts, people, publications, organisations, provenance, and events, it is important to think of them as much more than just records in a database. Additionally, FDOs as the digital representations of the curated objects have the potential of fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations (such as between biology, history, art or anthropology) and of providing a wider lens for understanding materiality and the role of data (
Data Commons, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Natural History, Digital Humanities, DiSSCo, DARIAH, Europeana, Archives Portal
Sharif Islam
First International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects, presentation