Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud
A task group within SSHOC is building an open research knowledge graph in the field of electoral studies. The knowledge graph will collect, interlink, analyse, and visualise relevant sources of information on voter participation in elections.
The task is led by Prof Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) who is working together with SSHOC partners Semantic Web Company, University of Vienna/AUSSDA, and EURHISFIRM.
The development and production process will serve as a pilot to assess the opportunities and challenges for similar developments in other communities, including the EURHISFIRM community.
Knowledge graphs are common in modern life and most people interact with them daily - for example through intuitive search results in Google or voice assistants like Alexa or Siri.
The SSHOC task team is handling both the technology and the content aspects of the election studies knowledge graph. Progress to date is reported in the reports D9.6 Demarcation Report and D9.7 Design of the Knowledge Graph.
Knowledge graphs are typically self sustaining and expand gradually through continuous updates. One way to effect this expansion is to organise crowd-contributions to tasks such as classifying materials like datasets and articles which are used as a basis for algorithm training.
Interested in getting involved?
Contact cees.van_der_eijk@nottingham.ac.uk
D9.7 Design of the Knowledge Graph
D9.8 User-community involvement plan
Upcoming reports
Delivery of user-validated Knowledge Graph, and Election Studies Analytics dashboard (D9.9)
User community feedback and usage report (D9.10)
Usability evaluation report (D9.3)
Concluding report (D9.11)
This report is a shortened version that contains the second part of the SSHOC legacy booklet, showcasing the tools, resources and plug & play communities produced by the SSHOC project, through their dedicated factsheets. We start this section with the SSH Open Marketplace, and continue with the factsheets per category: Sharing & Discovery, Data Management, Processing & Analysis, Datasets, Training & Support
The social sciences and humanities (SSH) encompasses researchers with roots in very diverse domains and methodological frameworks, from heritage researchers documenting work with 3D digital objects to interdisciplinary social researchers seeking new modes to analyse existing sources, to name but a few. In the digital age, new insights and ground-breaking research increasingly relies on powerful, tailored tools and environments for research within and across disciplines.
This Exploitation Plan gives an overview of the joint and multiple individual exploitation paths aimed at increasing the impact of all the Key Exploitable Results developed during the SSHOC project lifetime (from January 2019 to April 2022). The Plan is aligned with the contractual obligations defined in articles 28 and 29 of the SSHOC Grant Agreement (No. 823782).
This report constitutes SSHOC Deliverable 9.10, which describes the first stage of testing of the Knowledge Graph (KG) for Electoral Studies that constituted Deliverable D9.9 (‘Delivery of user-validated Knowledge Graph, and Election Studies Analytics dashboard’).
