Research data and humanities: a European context

The article holds an inquiry on research data in the field of humanities, into the European zone. Defining these kind of data as primary source and basis of the scientific research's results, specificities characterizing them, in humanities, have been individualized. The attention paid to research data in European policies confirms their strategic role to the development and optimization of the scientific research. The analysis of a few research infrastructures and projects focused on research data in humanities, shows the state's policy central role to improve and develop them, making individual activities efficient and restricting a lack of homogeneity, supporting the presence of easily identifiable, usable and integrated systems. In this context, up until today, Italian rear position referring to systems of collection, management, preservation and sharing of the research data, seems to place itself in development's prospects.