These presentations and training materials were part of a workshop called 'Hard to Share Data in the Social Sciences and Humanities' held at the SURF Offices in Utrecht on 24 June 2025 as part of the 2025 DCC Spring Training Days. The workshop was aimed at data support professionals and combined relevant content from a set of three workshops on hard to share data aimed at researchers that took place earlier this year, please see the related works below. 

This workshop introduced different types of data in the Social Sciences and Humanities, that are hard to share such as non-personal sensitive data, field notes, or research data to which the CARE Principles apply.  It outlined some best practices around managing and sharing these types of data in relation to the FAIR Principles and Open Science including a range of different case studies. In addition, it provided an overview of the CARE Principles.

The session included an interactive group discussion along three topics: 

•Ethics and CARE

•Field notes

•Secure environments

Presentations have been made available here where possible as PDF, PPTX and ODP. The PDF files are the definitive version, whereas the PPTX files are the most accessible and the ODP is open. Text files are provided in PDF and in the case of the Session Plan, Word/ODT so that it a can be edited.

Acknowledgements:

This workshop was part of the project ‘Beyond personal data: a new initiative to support early-career researchers with hard-to-share data’ with file number ICT.TDCC.001.002, which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Social Sciences & Humanities (TDCC-SSH).

The session organisers would like to thank the invited speakers, who contributed to the content in previous sessions,  as well as the participants who attended the training session.