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CitiObs 5h ago

📢 This Thursday (March 19) at #RDA VP26

Nuria Castell will speak on:
FAIRification of Citizen-Generated Data
🕗 8:00 CET

How can we make citizen-generated data FAIR and better connect it to research?

Learn more 👇
https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/p26/

#CitizenScience #FAIRdata #OpenScience

Open Context 7h ago

Open Context turns 20 this year! To mark the occasion, we finally wrote up a long article that provides details about how we organize and publish data, and how we relate to the broader landscape of data repositories in #archaeology

https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3

#datacuration #openscience #FAIRdata #CAREdata

Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance

This paper describes the rationale and strategies behind Open Context, an online data publishing service for archaeology. Launched in 2006, Open Context has published over 2 million records from 191 projects and sub-projects, representing the work of more than 1,600 scholars working across the world. As described in this paper, the current shape of Open Context’s data dissemination and curation efforts reflect our attempts to navigate a landscape filled with diverse and evolving challenges. Responses to professional, institutional, and sustainability issues, some of a global character and some of a United States specific character, have helped shape Open Context’s technological and semantic choices. Though focused on United States specific experiences, we hope that this in-depth discussion of how Open Context responded to these multifaceted concerns will help advance international community wide conversations about information architectures, governance, and social factors in archaeological informatics.

Daniel Mietchen 12h ago

The slides for my talk "Diamond Open Access as a Principal Component of FAIR Mathematics" at the #MaRDI workshop "From the proof to the library shelf" are up at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19065897

#FAIRdata #FAIRsoftware #FAIRmath #SeDOA #DiamondOA #mathematics #libraries

Diamond Open Access as a Principal Component of FAIR Mathematics

This is a presentation given at the Vom Beweis zum Bibliotheksregal 2026 workshop in Leipzig on 17 March 2026.Abstract: The FAIR principles are reshaping the curation and reuse of mathematical research data, software and publications, both within initiatives like MaRDI and far beyond. To fully leverage their potential, however, the specific challenges of mathematical communication - ranging from rendering and indexing complex notation to interlinking with research software - require equally robust publishing solutions. This talk argues that Diamond Open Access, where neither authors nor readers pay for literature access, is not merely an economic alternative but a fundamental component of addressing these challenges at the intersection of mathematical content and technology. We will explore how community-governed Diamond models (e.g., university presses, overlay journals) are uniquely positioned to let mathematical needs drive technical solutions. Unlike commercial workflows, these platforms can prioritize the integrity of mathematical content, e.g. by preserving the semantic fidelity of formulas throughout publishing workflows, enabling support for LEAN-style formalizations and more actively facilitating software discovery. Drawing on developments from zbMATH Open as well as the SeDOA and find.software projects, this session outlines actionable strategies for librarians to cultivate and integrate these Diamond ecosystems into their workflows. We conclude with a practical outlook on how Diamond infrastructures can and do serve as a key vehicle for seamlessly connecting publications with FAIR data, ensuring that the “math” in the metadata remains as usable and discoverable as the article itself.

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