For the future of Area Studies the digital accessibility of data is of crucial importance. A number of national and transnational initiatives are already building sustainable and accessible electronic research data infrastructures, such as OstData for East, Central, and Southeast European Studies. OstData (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) crosses disciplinary and national boundaries, and incentivises the archiving and publication of research data along the FAIR principles.

The workshop has two objectives: first, it will discuss strategies to strengthen the inclusion of research communities in Eastern, Central, and Southeast Europe in efforts to build pan-European research data infrastructures for management. Second, it will present ideas to widen, and increase recognition for the publication of research data in the humanities and social sciences.

Program and more informations: https://www.osmikon.de/forschungsdaten/ostdata-final-workshop

Organized by: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), Collegium Carolinum – Forschungsinstitut für die Geschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei (CC), Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europas (GWZO), Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropa-forschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (HI), and Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)