The French National 3D Data Repository for Humanities: Features, Feedback and Open Questions

TL;DR

This paper presents the French National 3D Data Repository for Humanities, detailing its features, data organization, standards, and challenges in creating a FAIR-compliant service for 3D research data in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Contribution

It introduces a specialized 3D data repository for Humanities, discussing its design choices, standards, and the challenges faced in making it a widely used FAIR service.

Findings

437 references in the repository at the time of writing

Feedback on challenges in developing and promoting the service

Open questions and future development directions

Abstract

We introduce the French National 3D Data Repository for Humanities designed for the conservation and the publication of 3D research data in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. We present the choices made for the data organization, metadata, standards and infrastructure towards a FAIR service. With 437 references at the time of the writing, we have feedback on some challenges to develop such a service and to make it widely used. This leads to open questions and future developments.