Re:ERUA CoCult: Towards a participatory data governance for community heritage documentation

Deliverables of the project "Communities οf Cultural CommonalIties of Paris and Mytilene [CoCult]", selected under the 2nd Open Call Research – External Stakeholder Collaboration of the Re-ERUA “Research and Engagement for the European Reform University Alliance”, linked to ERUA, the Alliance of European Reform Universities within the European Universities Initiative. Project CoCult’s main concept is to collaborate with the cultural commonalities of two international regions (Paris, France and Mytilene, Greece) in order to document their cultural identity. The accent is placed on intangible cultural heritage, such as traditions, performing arts, social practices, fashion, festive events, and cuisine. With the support of external stakeholders, representatives of the cultural commonalities will be engaged in activities that promote the documentation of their culture in participatory and open ways. The project’s goals are: - The adaptation of a methodology for participatory data governance on intangible cultural heritage elements of cultural commonalities - The participation of representatives of cultural commonalities in experimental activities, in order to promote their intangible cultural heritage - The use of digital tools that allow for engagement of the representatives of cultural commonalities and the alliance partners - The implementation of citizen-enhanced open science practices for interdisciplinary collaboration among different universities The deliverables here include: i) The presentations of the methodology and workshop presentation, and the interactive presentation using the Mentimeter tool, shared as Open Educational Resources (OER) 1. ReERUA CoCult- Presentation - Participatory Data Governance for Cultural Heritage 2. ReERUA CoCult- Workshop Presentation - HistoryPin Activity 3. ReERUA CoCult- Mentimeter interactive presentation ii) 3 policy compliance documents: A Code of Conduct drawing from existing codes (cf. ACM, 2018; ALLEA, 2017) and including guidelines pertinent to research collaboration with communities/citizens in heritage-related settings. * An Open Science disposition document, drawing from the RE:ERUA Open Science Fundamental Course (Heber et al., 2022) and the 9-factor typology assessing the openness scope in citizen-science projects in cultural heritage under the term “citizen enhanced open science” (Zourou & Ziku, 2022). The document aims to provide a stepwise approach to good practices in open science, including the creation of a sustainable and trustworthy cultural data repository. * A Participatory Data Governance framework, adjusting the methodology developed by the Ada Lovelace Institute that translated the 8 Ostrom’s principles for governing the commons to 23 design principles governing data (ALI, 2020; 2021). The document will adjust the Ada framework in order to specifically address collaboration with communities/citizens in research settings of cultural data governance. 4. ReERUA CoCult- Code of Conduct 5. ReERUA CoCult- Citizen Enhanced Open Science mapping 6. ReERUA CoCult- Participatory Data Governance mapping iii) The project's dataset, report and program: 7. CoCult CSV dataset - Intangible Cultural Heritage testimonies by community members 8. ReERUA CoCult- report ReERUA CoCult- PROGRAM LESVOS_12-13_07_2023 The alliance partners involved in the collaboration are: a) University of Aegean, Department of Cultural Informatics, Intelligent Systems Lab, scientific director George Caridakis (associate professor). b) Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Department of Digital Humanities, Lab. Paragraphe, scientific director Samuel Szoniecky (associate professor) and Everardo Reyes (full professor). Included external stakeholders are: a)Iliaktida AMKE Civil Non-Profit Company (Greece) b)Centre numérique d’innovation sociale (CNIS) Université Paris (France) The project is funded within the Horizon2020 project Research and Engagement for the European Reform University Alliance [ID: 101035808], under the Work Package "Innovation and Societal Engagement, which aim is to drive ERUA to foster the engagement for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) of all sectors’ organizations and citizens through good governance, mutual learning, agreed practices and multi-actor and public engagement initiatives in research and innovation.