SSHOPENCLOUD

SSHOC Announces New 2026 Leadership

Einar Tobias Grude — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:07:53 +0000

Date:

10 October 2025

We are pleased to announce that SSHOC’s activities in 2026 will be led by newly elected Sally Chambers (from DARIAH ERIC - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) as Chair, and Vania Virgili (from E-RIHS ERIC - European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science) as Vice-Chair. This decision was taken by the SSHOC Governing Board during their meeting on 27 November 2025.

The Governing Board continues to be composed of the ERICs from the ESFRI Social Sciences & Humanities domain: CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, EHRI, E-RIHS, ESS, and SHARE, together with ESFRI Projects GGP, GUIDE, OPERAS and RESILIENCE.

As the newly elected coordinators of the SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, Sally Chambers and Vania Virgili will serve voluntarily in 2026, coordinating the SSHOC Cluster. The Cluster brings together 20 members from research organisations, data archives, funding agencies, and the national nodes of the cluster’s infrastructures. They will also represent SSHOC in communications with external bodies such as the European Commission (EC), ERIC Forum, and the EOSC Association, as well as act as liaisons with the EU-wide science clusters initiative OSCARS.

SSHOC’s governance bridges the full breadth of the research infrastructure landscape in the humanities and social sciences, including the complementary contributions of heritage science. The involvement of E-RIHS at the leadership level is especially significant, as E-RIHS recently became an ERIC (on 28 March 2025), and the cluster is proactively giving space for newly established ERICs to take leadership roles. This signals a stronger commitment to fully integrating cultural heritage expertise into the overall SSH data ecosystem.

Sally Chambers will be taking on the Chair role after a year of acting as Vice-Chair of SSHOC: “I am grateful to follow on from Darja Fišer (from CLARIN-ERIC) as the next Chair of the SSHOC Governing Board in 2026, in what will be a crucial year for Research Infrastructures. In the coming months, SSHOC will need to navigate the emerging landscape of Research and Technology Infrastructures, advocate for the strategic importance of the SSH RIs in the next Framework Programme, as well as understand our role in the recently launched EOSC Federation. I am delighted to join forces with Vania Virgili in her new role as Vice-Chair, to address these challenges through our shared commitment to strengthening collaboration across social sciences, humanities and now heritage science infrastructures.”

“As a newly established ERIC, taking on the Vice-Chair role in SSHOC is, for me, a meaningful recognition that heritage science has a place at the European core of research infrastructures. I am grateful that SSHOC has, over the years, served as a vital forum for exchanging experiences and tackling shared challenges. As Vice‑Chair, I am committed to ensuring balanced representation across disciplines, supporting the Chair, and encouraging other SSH research infrastructures to step forward as leaders in future cycles. With E‑RIHS now a full ERIC, I look forward to contributing heritage science expertise to SSHOC’s mature cluster, building on past achievements and strengthening collaboration to support and represent the broader SSHOC community across the social sciences and humanities,” said Vania Virgili in her speech.

The new Chair and Vice-Chair take on their roles as of 1st January 2026, where one of their first tasks will be to present the SSHOC Annual Plan for 2026.

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills

Einar Tobias Grude — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:03:40 +0000

Date:

12 January 2026

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills.

Click here to see the flyer for the events.

Save the dates and register here!

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

The Marketplace highlights and showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the SSH research data life cycle.

Training Series Learning objectives

Understand Open Science, FAIR and CARE principles in practice
Participants will be able to explain the Open Science paradigm and the FAIR and CARE principles, and assess their implications for responsible research data management across the full data lifecycle in the arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
Navigate and critically use the SSH Open Marketplace
Participants will be able to confidently navigate the SSH Open Marketplace to discover, evaluate, and select relevant tools, services, datasets, workflows, and training materials for their research needs.
Integrate digital resources into research workflows
Participants will be able to incorporate SSH Open Marketplace resources into discipline-specific research workflows, enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and efficiency in arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
Contribute to and curate resources
Participants will be able to contribute their own communities’ high-quality resources to the SSH Open Marketplace by applying editorial guidelines, metadata standards, and best practices for documentation, interoperability, and reuse, as well as reuse Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
Apply domain-specific standards, resources and research practices
Participants will be able to document, share, and reuse domain-specific research workflows, data, and tools within arts and humanities (DARIAH), social sciences (CESSDA), language sciences (CLARIN), cultural heritage contexts, thereby fostering interoperability, FAIR compliance, and sustainable knowledge exchange within national and European research infrastructures
Leverage the SSH Open Marketplace for community-specific applications

Participants will be able to design and implement customized application scenarios by utilizing the SSH Open Marketplace to create, curate, and disseminate tailored resource lists or complex catalogs that meet the specific needs and standards of their respective research communities.

Overview of sessions and learning objectives per session

Training session

Learning objectives

Material

20 February: FAIR, CARE & Open Science Principles

1. Explain the core principles of Open Research and their relevance for SSH research practices.

2. Distinguish between FAIR and CARE principles and understand their complementary roles in data governance.

3. Identify key FAIR-compliant research infrastructures relevant to SSH research.

4. Assess the implications of Open Science requirements for data management planning and project design.

5. Apply FAIR and CARE principles to a concrete research use case or project scenario.

Slides

20 March: Introduction to SSH Open Marketplace

1. Describe the purpose, scope, and added value of the SSH Open Marketplace for SSH research.

2. Navigate the SSH Open Marketplace interface to locate resources (tools, services, datasets, training materials, and workflows).

3. Use search and filtering functions to identify relevant resources for a specific research question.

4. Understand how the Marketplace connects community use-cases to European SSH research infrastructures.

5. Select appropriate resources from the Marketplace for early-stage or exploratory research tasks.

17 April: Making the most of the SSH Open Marketplace

1. Explore and differentiate advanced resource types such as workflows.

2. Integrate Marketplace resources into existing research workflows.

3. Evaluate the quality, relevance, and reuse potential of Marketplace entries using metadata and relations.

4. Enrich existing Marketplace records by adding metadata, links, and contextual information.

5. (Re)use Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.

15 May: Contributing to the SSH Open Marketplace

1. Understand the role of community contributions in sustaining the SSH Open Marketplace.

2. Add new tools, datasets, workflows, or training materials to the Marketplace.

3. Apply editorial guidelines and quality standards for resource curation.

4. Use metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies to improve interoperability and discoverability.

5. Critically review and improve existing Marketplace entries to enhance reuse and FAIRness.

6. Understand programmatic access and re-use of marketplace material via API and Wordpress plug-ins.

19 June: Thematic Art and Humanities

1. Identify DARIAH services and workflows relevant to arts and humanities research.

2. Understand how arts and humanities research workflows are represented in the SSH Open Marketplace.

3. Apply DARIAH tools and workflows (e.g. ATRIUM) to concrete research scenarios.

4. Integrate heterogeneous data types typical of arts and humanities research into FAIR-aligned workflows.

5. Share and document arts and humanities workflows for reuse within the SSH community.

18 September: Thematic GLAM institutions

1. Understand the specific characteristics and challenges of cultural heritage and GLAM data.

2. Identify relevant tools, standards, and services for GLAM data in the SSH Open Marketplace.

3. Apply FAIR principles to digitised and born-digital cultural heritage data.

4. Integrate GLAM datasets into interdisciplinary SSH research workflows.

5. Promote reuse and sustainability of cultural heritage data through documentation and sharing practices.

16 October: Thematic language data

1. Identify CLARIN services and standards for managing and analysing language data.

2. Understand FAIR and legal/ethical challenges specific to language data (e.g. sensitive or personal data).

3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to discover language resources, tools, and workflows.

4. Integrate CLARIN tools into linguistic research workflows.

5. Prepare and document language datasets for reuse within national and European infrastructures.

20 November: Thematic Social sciences

1. Identify CESSDA services, standards, and tools relevant to social science research.

2. Understand best practices for managing, documenting, and sharing social science data.

3. Use the SSH Open Marketplace to locate CESSDA-related datasets and services.

4. Apply FAIR and ethical principles to quantitative and qualitative social science data.

5. Connect social science research workflows to European data services and infrastructures.

FAIR-by-design learning materials

The training series are conceptualised following the FAIR-by-design methodology developed in skills4EOSC (Filiposka et al. 2024), which consists in taking a systematic approach for conceptualizing each training session, e.g. defining the target audience, the learning objectives and the means to achieve them in each training session, publishing the materials and guides about how to use them, among others. FAIR learning materials enable the reuse of the materials both by learners and by trainers.

Target audience

The workshop series is aimed at a broad audience with links to the social sciences and humanities - from beginners to experienced researchers and practitioners who want to contribute their perspectives or benefit from the experiences of others.

More about the SSH Open Marketplace

The SSH Open Marketplace is:

a discovery portal, to foster serendipity in digital methods
an aggregator of useful and well curated resources
a catalogue, contextualising resources
an entry point in the EOSC for the Social Sciences and Humanities researchers

The SSH Open Marketplace is not:

a repository. Nothing is hosted in the SSH Open Marketplace. Workflow content type can be hosted, but this is an exception.
a data catalogue. The goal is not to collect all the SSH datasets, but selected datasets are indexed to support the contextualisation (dataset mentioned in a publication or used in a training material for example).
a commercial Marketplace. There is nothing to sell in the SSH Open Marketplace. Commercial software/services can be referenced

SSHOC 2025 Updates

m.berutto — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:49:09 +0000

Date:

28 February 2025

We are happy to announce that SSH Open Cluster’s activities in 2025 will be steered by Chair Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC) and Vice-Chair Sally Chambers (DARIAH ERIC). They were elected by the SSHOC Governing Board which is composed of the 6 ERICs CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS, EHRI and SHARE, and 5 ESFRI Projects E-RIHS, GUIDE, GGP, OPERAS and RESILIENCE.

At the start of 2025, the SSHOC Governing Board congratulated the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), represented by its Director Reto Speck, on its achievement of becoming an ERIC seven years after entering the ESFRI Roadmap, and welcomed a newly appointed Director of SHARE ERIC, David Richter. The reinforced SSHOC Governing Board has adopted the SSHOC Annual Work Plan for 2025, which is organized into three Strategic Pillars that will promote excellence in our research and technical communities and will help to advance the research infrastructure offer for social sciences and humanities research and communities: 1) Sharing Data, Tools and Workflows, 2) Training and Education and 3) Advocacy and Outreach.

As the newly elected coordinators of the SSHOC Governing Board, Fišer and Chambers will serve in 2025 on a voluntary basis, coordinating the SSHOC General Assembly comprising 19 members from research organisations, data archives and funding agencies, with all the research infrastructures´ national nodes. They will also represent the Cluster in communication with external bodies such as the EC, ESFRI, ERIC Forum, and EOSC Association. They will also act as liaisons with the 5 EU Science Clusters project OSCARS, that is consolidating FAIR data management and connecting research communities from all scientific domains to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

For more information, see:

EHRI inauguration ceremony as 30th ERIC: https://www.ehri-project.eu/inauguration-ceremony-in-warsaw-ehri-becomes-an-eric-to-secure-the-future-of-holocaust-research/

SSHOC: https://sshopencloud.eu/

OSCARS: OSCARS project

Hackathon: Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data

s.bozzi — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:42:27 +0000

Hackathon: Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data

The hackathon ‘Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data’ is a three-day online event hosted by the Infra4NextGen project.

Individuals or teams will produce visualizations of data for a chance to win a share of €4,000.

Date:

03 December 2024 - 09:00 to 05 December 2024 - 15:00

Workshop: Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook

s.bozzi — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:38:05 +0000

Speakers: Franz Eder, University of Innsbruck and Anita Bodlos, University of Innsbruck

In the first part of this two-day workshop, participants will learn the basics of open science and reproducible research.

They will learn the difference between replicability and computational reproducibility, know what FAIR data is, and be aware of how to handle personal and sensitive data.

Date:

28 November 2024 - 09:00 to 29 November 2024 - 13:30

Location:

Online

Webinar: Data Visualization with R and Jupyter

s.bozzi — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:06:00 +0000

Speaker: Franz Eder, University of Innsbruck

As part of Infra4NextGen, AUSSDA – The Austrian Social Science Data Archive is hosting a webinar on Data Vizualisation in R and Jupyter for social science researchers, MA and PhD students.

Date:

19 November 2024 - 10:00 to 11:30

Location:

Online

Launch Event - 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects & Services

s.bozzi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:50:40 +0000

On Friday, 15 January 2025, from 11:00 to 12:30 CET, join us online for the launch of the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.

Date:

15 January 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30

Location:

Online

Conference and Course on Secondary Data Analysis and Data Sharing

s.bozzi — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:41:48 +0000

A two day face-to-face conference on data sharing and secondary data analysis in child and youth wellbeing research will be held on 9th and 10th December 2024 in Zagreb, Croatia, along with a one-day statistical course on how to access and compare data from different sources on 11th December 2024. The events are organised as part of the COORDINATE project, which aims to build a community of researchers focused on enhancing child wellbeing.

Date:

09 December 2024 - 09:00 to 11 December 2024 - 18:00

Location:

Zagreb, Croatia

Ukraine Webinar: Developing Transnational Access to European Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities

j.ahern — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:11:59 +0000

The Ukraine Webinar took place on October 1st, 2024, and was a joint event of the ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Social Sciences and Humanities, together with SSHOC, the Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.

Date:

01 October 2024 - 09:00 to 13:00

Location:

Online

Catalogue:

Improved and FAIR data Repositories - SHARE survey data

Science Clusters Position statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:52:20 +0000

Date:

06 March 2024

The ESFRI Science Clusters, operating as a cluster of clusters in projects like OSCARS and EVERSE, have released the Science Clusters Position Statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research, which articulates the Science Clusters’ vision for the future towards the successful implementation of the EOSC, as the result of five years of collaborative efforts, including interactions with the European Commission, EOSC Association, ESFRI-EOSC task force, and e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG).

Read the position paper here

The document firstly reminds that the Science Clusters prioritise advancing researchers’ access to data, tools, and resources for data-driven science, and contribute to the sustainability of ESFRI and pan-European RIs through the development of a cross-border open innovation environment for FAIR data management and analytical services, respectful of CARE (Collective Benefits, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics) principles and attentive to digital security.

The position paper:

Acknowledges the progress accomplished, updates the common work plan from 2021, expresses the Science Clusters' determination to establish thematic community-based ‘EOSC Science Cluster Nodes’, contingent upon resources and explains the potential implications on the interconnection with the EOSC EU Node and national nodes.
Emphasises adaptability of the Science Clusters to a unified vision capable of accepting different needs within EOSC and outlines their operational role within the EOSC Federation.
Demonstrates the requirement for urgent support of a targeted Science Cluster destination action within Horizon Europe and future framework programmes in order to enable the operational role of the Science Clusters.

Read the position paper here

Prior to its open dissemination, the document was presented and discussed with representatives of key stakeholders, including the EC, ESFRI and EOSC boards, and the EOSC Association in occasion of the ESFRI-EOSC Task Force consultation workshop held on March 1^st, 2024.

SSHOPENCLOUD

SSHOC Announces New 2026 Leadership

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills

SSHOC 2025 Updates

Hackathon: Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data

Hackathon: Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data

Workshop: Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook​

Webinar: Data Visualization with R and Jupyter

Launch Event - 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects & Services

Conference and Course on Secondary Data Analysis and Data Sharing

Ukraine Webinar: Developing Transnational Access to European Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Science Clusters Position statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research

Workshop: Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook