Chair

• Johan Van der Eycken (State Archives)
• Dorien Styven (Kazerne Dossin, EHRI)
• Tom Gheldof (KU Leuven)
• Eric de Ruijter (International Institute of Social History) 

Agenda

• Overview of current projects
• Presentation of SODA (Social Science Data Archive)
• Presentation of BISHOPS (Belgian Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities Open Science)
• Optional: Strategies of: Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland
• WG Activities
• Evaluation of past activities

- Collaboration with SSK

- Belgium and the open science cloud (state of affairs)

• Future projects: introduction and brainstorm session
• Cross-WG and Infrastructural collaboration
• WG-Communication: brainstorm and task division / assignment

After welcoming the participants the coordinators will first introduce the goals and activities of the working group as we have learned at the past annual events that the WG meeting attracts both established members of the WG as well as newcomers interested in the work done by the WG.

Then several projects represented within the WG are presented by the project leaders:

(1) A first presentation focuses on the Social Science Data Archive project or SODA. SODA will be finished by the time the annual event takes place which allows the WG to present the project's concrete results and discuss them with the WG participants. The project leader will give a live demonstration of the functional SODA infrastructure.[1]

(2) The second presentation is dedicated to the BISHOPS-project (Belgian Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities Open Science).[2] This project, funded by Belgian Science Policy, builds on the results of SODA. BISHOPS aims to create a platform for storing, archiving and making research data available for reuse as open data. The current state of affairs as well as the results of the running analysis (researchers' expectations, metadata and the legal aspects (GDPR, Licenses) will be presented. Input from the WG participants is much appreciated.

Following both presentations, the WG's own activities are analysed:

(1) The finalised and running activities are presented briefly and their results will be discussed by the participants in order to decide on their success and a possible relaunch in the future, e.g. the Trust and Understanding-workshop organised in Brussels in May 2018 or the publication of the contributions in a special edition of the Archief- en Bibliotheekwezen journal (A-rating).

(2) The participants will brainstorm about future activities within the scope of the WG.

(3) The participants will discuss how the WG can intensify its collaboration with related Workingroups (Eg. SSK, DRM-WG) and European research infrastructures such as Archives Portal Europe[3] (APE), European Holocaust Research Infrastructure[4] (EHRI), Distributed System of Scientific Collections[5] and E-HRIS[6]. To the extent possible, members of these infrastructures are invited to participate.

The last topic of the WG meeting will be dedicated to the WG communication. This section will consist of a brainstorm session during which the participants will examine how the activities organised by and the expertise represented in the WG can be better publicized and validated, e.g. via blog entries[7] and other media. Concrete tasks regarding communication will be given to WG members in order to boost the WG communication within a set amount of time. 

This WG meeting is public and can be attended by all interested parties.