eprintid: 32215
rev_number: 17
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datestamp: 2022-09-30 09:04:26
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status_changed: 2022-09-30 09:04:26
type: preprint
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creators_name: Arnold, Matthias
creators_name: Paterson, Duncan
creators_name: Xie, Jia
title: Procedural challenges: The FAIR principles and PRC electronic resources - A case study of Chinese Republican Newspapers.
subjects: ddc-004
subjects: ddc-020
subjects: ddc-490
subjects: ddc-600
subjects: ddc-950
divisions: i-72140
divisions: i-728300
abstract: It is tempting to assume that FAIR data principles effectively apply globally. In practice, digital research platforms play a central role in ensuring the applicability of these principles to research exchange, where General Data Protection Regulation (EU) and Multi-Level Protection Scheme 2.0 (PRC) provide the overarching legal frameworks. For this article, we conduct a systematic review of research into Chinese Republican newspapers as it appears in Chinese academic journal databases. We experimentally compare the results of repeated search runs using different interfaces and with different points of origin. We then analyze our results regarding the practical and technical accessibility conditions. Concluding with an analysis of conceptual
mismatches surrounding the classification of items as “full-text“, and of a case of total data loss that is nevertheless symptomatic of the limited degree of data re-usability. Our results show structural challenges preventing Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability from being put into practice. Since these experiments draw upon our Digital Humanities (DH) research, we include a state-of-the-field overview of historical Periodicals and digitization research in the PRC. Our research on the one hand addresses DH practitioners interested in digital collections, and technical aspects of document processing with a focus on historical Chinese sources. On the other hand, our experience is helpful to researchers irrespective of the topic. Our article is accompanied by a data publication containing sources and results of our experiments, as well as an online bibliography of the research articles we collected.
date: 2022
publisher: Springer Nature
ppn_swb: 181807365X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-322153
language: eng
bibsort: ARNOLDMATTPROCEDURAL2022
full_text_status: public
publication: International Journal of Digital Humanities
issn: 2524-7840
citation:   Arnold, Matthias ; Paterson, Duncan ; Xie, Jia  (2022) Procedural challenges: The FAIR principles and PRC electronic resources - A case study of Chinese Republican Newspapers.  [Preprint]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32215/1/IJDH-D-21-00007_R3.pdf