DiPText-KC is pleased to announce the publication of the ATLAS Whitebook and Guidelines ‘FAIR Research on Italian Digital Cultural Heritage’ in the Series Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale.

These publications are two of the key research outputs of the PRIN 2022 project The ATLAS of Italian Digital Humanities (ATLAS).

Their aim is to map out and define clear methodological pathways for the creation of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research outputs meeting the criteria of scientific excellence.

The Guidelines are designed for a quick, bite-sized consultation, in order to support the community of reference in the most common types of outputs in the Digital Humanities: digital scholarly editions and text collections, software tools, ontologies and Linked Open Data.

Although the ATLAS project has been completed, this work is intended to evolve alongside the academic community.

Its authors’ aim is that the Guidelines are to be not an end in themselves, but a common basis for discussion amongst those who work in the field of Digital Humanities.

As a result, comments, suggestions or other expressions of interest are welcome via this feedback Web form, in order to help the ATLAS project team build on the work they have done.

The ATLAS project team includes, among others, Riccardo Del Gratta (formerly CNR-ILC CoPhiLab | formerly DiPText-KC), Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC CoPhiLab | DiPText-KC) and Franz Fischer (UniVE VeDPH | DiPText-KC).

The ATLAS project team hopes to have the opportunity to explore these issues in person during the presentation of the Guidelines at AIUCD 2026 – Digital Technologies and Public Engagement: Practices and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities (Cagliari, 03-05/06/2026), within a discussion forum that will hopefully be open to contributions from participants interested in the topic.