The WorldFAIR Project

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is participating in the WorldFAIR Project, a major global collaboration between partners from thirteen countries across Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America funded by Horizon Europe. WorldFAIR will advance the implementation of the FAIR principles for data sharing, in particular those for Interoperability, by developing a cross-domain interoperability framework and recommendations for FAIR assessment in a set of eleven disciplines or cross-disciplinary research areas.

DRI is leading the Cultural Heritage case study, which seeks to explore how established image sharing practices within the sector can be more closely aligned with the FAIR principles: first, by mapping the policies, practices and technologies which already facilitate the interoperability of both image data and associated metadata provided by Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) organisations; second, by producing a set of recommendations that build on the sector’s successful practices and third, by implementing the recommendations at the Repository. The overall outcome of the case study will be the production of our own use case describing the successes and challenges of implementing the recommendations, providing an example to GLAM organisations and DRI members seeking to adopt the FAIR principles. The DRI is also pleased to be able to highlight the achievements in the cultural heritage sector of our WorldFAIR Project partners, which may usefully inform the development of data sharing best practices in other domains.

Project team: Beth Knazook and Joan Murphy, Digital Repository of Ireland

The Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Working Group

The DRI wishes to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the following people in developing FAIR recommendations for the Cultural Heritage sector:
Dr Sümeyye Akça Marmara University, Information and Records Management | Dr Renata Oliveira de Araujo Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | Keren Barner Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa | Dr Kathryn Cassidy Digital Repository of Ireland | Dr Isabel Ceron Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia | Dr Josiline Chigwada University of South Africa | Dr Steven Claeyssens KB, The National Library of the Netherlands | Anita Cooper Royal Irish Academy | Dr Claudio Cortese 4Science SpA | Dr Milena Dobreva GATE Institute, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski | Dr Kristina Hettne Leiden University Libraries | Eileen J. Manchester Digital Innovation Division (LC Labs), Library of Congress | Mikala Narlock University of Minnesota | Dr Esther Olembe University of Yaounde II-SOA National Archives | Gina O’Kelly Irish Museums Association | Dr Rebecca O’Neill Wikimedia Community Ireland | Thomas Padilla Internet Archive | Dana Reijerkerk Stony Brook University | Glen Robson IIIF Consortium | Dr Antje Schmidt Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg | Dr Tim Sherratt Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra | Margaret Warren Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, Metadata Authoring Systems

DRI Publications

Knazook, Beth, Murphy, Joan, & Dias, Murilo. (2024). WorldFAIR (MS13) Cultural Heritage Test Ingest (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10869664

Murphy, Joan, Knazook, Beth, O’Carroll, Aileen, Cassidy, Kathryn, Long, Kevin, & Kenny, Stuart. (2024). WorldFAIR Project (D13.3) Implementation and Testing of Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations: DRI Case Study Report (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10850009

Knazook, Beth, Murphy, Joan, Barner, Keren, Cassidy, Kathryn, Claeyssens, Steven, Cortese, Claudio, Manchester, Eileen J., Padilla, Thomas, Reijerkerk, Dana, Robson, Glen, Schmidt, Antje, Sherratt, Tim, & Warren, Margaret. (2023). WorldFAIR Project (D13.2) Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations Report (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7897244

Knazook, Beth, & Murphy, Joan. (2023). WorldFAIR Project (D13.1) Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: Practices and policies supporting Cultural Heritage image sharing platforms (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7659002

Other Resources

WorldFAIR Project website: https://worldfair-project.eu

WorldFAIR Project Outputs and Deliverables. (2023- ). Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/communities/worldfair-project/

WorldFAIR Conversations: Cross-Domain Interoperability and Challenges. (8 Jan 2024). YouTube. https://youtu.be/PGXUXYztDaU

WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Guidelines and Recommendations from Social Surveys and Cultural Heritage. (6 Dec 2023). YouTube. https://youtu.be/m3eTbWVk-3E

Why Aren’t We Talking About Collections as Data? International Data Week / RDA Plenary 21, Salzburg, Austria. (23 October 2024). https://www.rd-alliance.org/why-arent-we-talking-about-collections-data

WorldFAIR Project – Sharing Cultural Heritage Images as Data: Supporting Open Science through Interoperability. (6 July 2023). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8138313

WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the project’s first round of disciplinary reports: Updates from the Social Surveys and Cultural Heritage. (14 Jun 2023). YouTube. https://youtu.be/Dx5TlxSTtpw

The WorldFAIR Project: Making Cultural Heritage Data FAIR at the Digital Repository of Ireland. DARIAH Annual Event 2023: Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?, Budapest, Hungary. (22 May 2023). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7950663

Introducing the WorldFAIR Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Working Group (17 May 2023). WorldFAIR Project. https://worldfair-project.eu/2023/05/17/introducing-the-worldfair-cultural-heritage-image-sharing-working-group/

WorldFAIR @ RDA’s 10 Year Anniversary: Image sharing systems and practices in Cultural Heritage. (28 Feb 2023). YouTube. https://youtu.be/5fDrFBQF8Ok

CODATA. (25 Oct 2022). FIPs in WorldFAIR: What have we learnt? Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/764200280