Repository, Licensing Model, FAIR-Principles

ONAMA's data management fully follows the FAIR principles. The research data is maintained in GAMS (Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System) of the Institute Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ZIM-ACDH) at the University of Graz. GAMS is an OAIS compliant asset management system based on FEDORA and offers several standard export interfaces. All data will be available in the digital repository GAMS under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA licence. By using the flexible CC BY licence models, ONAMA, as a data producer, can retain control over its data and make the generated data publicly available for research.
GAMS is a certified, trustworthy digital repository in accordance with the guidelines of the Data Seal of Approval with a special focus on the permanent storage and reusability of resources that are considered to be durable in the long term. GAMS is listed in the register of research data repositories re3data.org.

Archiving and Preservation

The data storage for GAMS is done via SAN by the IT department of the university (UNI IT). The data is stored redundantly in two computer centres in different campus buildings. Data backup in GAMS is part of the central backup processes of the University of Graz. Daily backups are stored on a disk array and later moved to tape. There is an additional daily offsite backup, which is managed by the centre itself.

Persistent Identifier

As a member of the handle network ZIM-ACDH operates its own handle server. All data objects in the system receive a persistent identifier (PID) based on handle.net and can thus be named explicitly, analogous to a print publication.

Administrative Metadata

All data objects included in GAMS are provided with a PID and administrative metadata in Dublin Core RDF/XML (DCMI), which is also available as Component Metadata (CMDI). GAMS are used during the project not only for archiving the final product but also for early access. Stable versions of the ontology will be released during the project phase and discussed with the community.Applied standards for the ontology

Applied standards for the ontology

The ontology and annotations are developed as RDF/XML resources. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is used to develop ONAMA classes, object properties and instances. ONAMA will be based on CIDOC CRM and will reuse classes and object properties where appropriate. A SPARQL endpoint is available to query the data.

Frontend

The ONAMA front-end is developed by the external provider complement. It is based on WordPress and will contain plug-ins for the visualisation of the ontology. The frontend source code including SPARQL query objects are archived in GAMS and published on GitHub.

List of standards and metadata formats

CIDOC CRM, CMDI, Dublin Core, OWL, RDF, SPARQL

List of norm data providers

GND, Iconclass, Wikidata

Ensuring compliance with the FAIR principles of the participating databases

The data used and referenced in the MHDBDB and REALonline projects follow the FAIR principles. All texts and images of these platforms can be referenced by persistent identifiers. Without a clear and permanent institutional connection of research data, availability beyond the project duration could not be guaranteed. Both databases, in turn, have data management plans in coordination with the University of Salzburg and its planned repository dhPLUS, which guarantee long-term availability. The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), which hosts both databases, is also very interested and would like to participate in the creation of a national repository network to effectively counteract the storage of local claims through cross-institutional redundancy. In a first step, the University of Salzburg is part of the CLARIAH-AT network. The MHDBDB is actively involved in CLARIAH-AT activities. Computer centres and networks such as CLARIAH-AT guarantee the accessibility and reusability of research data in the humanities beyond the active project duration.