Combatting Bias

Research within the social sciences and humanities (SSH) depends significantly on data sources, many of which perpetuate - historical biases and inequalities. Combatting Bias is an initiative that aims to critically examine the use of this data, as well as define sustainable, ethical and transparent standards to which future SSH data creation can adhere to. We call these standards FAIR+, a combination of the FAIR principles that make data technically sound; together with +, to ensure data is ethically sound as well. We conduct this research in collaboration with four projects creating datasets from colonial archives and ten advisors from the social sciences and humanities.

Combatting Bias is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Social Sciences & Humanities (TDCC-SSH). For more information about the TDCC-SSH, please visit their website.