Bergen, 13 July 2022
As of today, the team of the SSH Open Marketplace is proud to release its research service for the social sciences and humanities. Developed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC), a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, the SSH Open Marketplace is a discovery platform for resources for academics, scholars, and students. The range of resources spans from tools and services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows, available here:
https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/
Contextualisation and community curation are at the heart of the marketplace. Contextualisation means convenient discovery serendipity for the user looking up a specific search term and discovering a tool along with a related tutorial, use cases or even contact information of the resource providers. With ~5.000 records, the final release of the marketplace is ready for community supported curation. While the mass ingestions of dedicated sources, such as the Programming Historian, the CLARIN Language Resource Switchboard, or the DARIAH resources, will continue, the impact of the community curation will be the main driving force for extending and enriching the database from now on. SSHOC thus encourages the community to contribute to the marketplace, including providers, creators of individual resources or general users. Providers and creators of individual resources are invited to use the marketplace as a valuable extension of their visibility within potential user communities on a European scale.
Community curation might be as simple as a suggested correction to an individual item, but could also take more advanced shapes. New workflows, based on research use cases and explaining step by step how to perform a task within the research data lifecycle are for example welcome curation means in the SSH Open Marketplace. Offering a wide selection of useful material is key to attracting an open and active community.
“We believe our curated, context-driven approach will help researchers gain new ideas, spot useful publications, exciting tools to try out, and recommendations by peers from different research communities, institutions, and countries”
Laure Barbot, SSH Open Marketplace Chief Moderator, DARIAH-ERIC
But it doesn’t stop here. Any curation means are very easily possible using the ‘My account’ dashboard of the marketplace. It allows for a convenient user authentication using the EOSC Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) with already existing user accounts such as Google, DARIAH, ORCIDid, EGI, OpenAIRE, or the account of your home institution.
As an activity within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the marketplace connects, for instance, with the EOSC Catalogue & Marketplace and other services. Although the project funded development phase of the SSH Open Marketplace ends in April 2022, the service will be maintained and extended further on. The three European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) CESSDA, CLARIN, and DARIAH have taken responsibility for the SSH Open Marketplace and will work on extending the user base and the content of the service.
"It is a unique success story for DARIAH, CLARIN and CESSDA to have jointly agreed to contribute to the maintenance and sustainability of the SSH Open Marketplace after the end of the SSHOC project. We envision a lively community boosting the SSH Open Marketplace not only for the benefit of the SSH domain but also as an integral part of the larger European Open Science Cloud where it will align with many other disciplines”
Jennifer Edmond, President of the Board of Directors, DARIAH-ERIC
About SSHOC
SSHOC is one of five cluster projects within the larger European Open Science Cloud initiative, unites 20 partner organisations and their 27 associates in realising the European Commission vision to offer researchers in the social sciences and humanities seamless access to a full and unified panorama of flexible, scalable, relevant data and the services, tools and training required to make optimal use of that data.
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