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Between 10:00  and 13:00 on 21 June, SSHOC will take over the Twitter account of partner organisation CLARIN to promote the SSH Vocabulary Initiative, to be highlighted at the ICTeSSH2021 pre-conference conference workshop SSH Vocabulary Initiative - What users Want on June 28.

The Science Cluster (ENVRI-FAIR, EOSC-Life, ESCAPE, PANOSC and SSHOC) delivered a new position paper with a formal explanation of the urgent need of EC to support a longer-term role of the five Science Clusters to provide content to the EOSC, to enhance researchers’ involvement in Open Science and to suggest potential cooperative pathways in the Horizon-Europe framework and along with the EOSC Association roadmap.

If you ever played with the idea of crowdsourcing your project, but you took a step back for the lack of information and practical guidelines, now is the time to read along.

Idea of collaboration between research infrastructures and disciplines is central to EOSC. An example of such collaboration within the SSHOC project was showcased in the recent Speech-to-text workshop. It presented the ongoing work undertaken by a partnership of two social science infrastructures (European Values Study and Generations and Gender Programme), and a linguistic infrastructure (CLARIN).

Written by Veronika Keck, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, edited by Irena Vipavc Brvar, Mathilde Steinsvåg Hansen, and Ina Nepstad

A new SSHOC report titled D9.9 Delivery of user-validated Knowledge Graph, and Election Studies Analytics dashboard has been published. This deliverable provides a detailed report on the efforts to build the Electoral Studies Knowledge Graph and the associated user interfaces in the SSHOC project. Additionally, a complete documentation of the implemented Dashboard is given.

A new SSHOC report titled D2.2 Preliminary Report on User Communities' Engagement has been published. Based on the communities identified in the SSHOC project, this is the first of two deliverables that will indicate the actions taken to engage the stakeholders, and the effectiveness of the communication and promotional campaigns. 

Oral sources are extremely fragile, but valuable research objects that are worth preserving. However, this often proves much more demanding than preserving other historical sources, such as artefacts or written documents, since their preservation relies on specialised infrastructure.

A new report D1.4 Second Annual Progress & Activity Report explains all the progress done and the status of work in the second year of the SSHOC project, year 2020.

While usage of social media data for research across academic disciplines is growing, a lot of questions are arising about research methods, and potential standards, e.g., representativeness and reproducibility.