The HUMAL Registry is a public search and discovery layer under development for finding and evaluating humanities datasets, workflows, code repositories, teaching materials, and other research objects. The Registry does not itself store research data and does not replace DataDOI, E-varamu, Zenodo, GitHub, or other repositories, but creates a curated profile of these objects tailored to the needs of humanities researchers. A Registry entry shows, among other things, what type of object it is, where its authoritative version is located, what should be cited, what usage rights apply, whether the workflow can be run, and which data, code, outputs, and publications are associated with the object. The Registry enables objects to be searched and filtered by topic, method, language, place, time period, object type, access conditions, reproducibility, and other research-relevant characteristics. Relationships between objects allow users, for example, to move from a dataset to workflows that used it, or from a workflow to its source data, outputs, and publications.
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Public users can search and browse humanities datasets, workflows, and other research objects in the Registry and follow links from a Registry entry to the original repository, data source, runnable workflow, provenance package, or related publication. To publish through HUMAL, an author prepares a workflow or dataset entry using Workflow Publisher and submits it to the Registry. Before publication, the technical, scholarly, and rights-related readiness of the entry is checked. The precise division of responsibilities between review and automated checks will be defined during the MVP.
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