Additionally, here are some further ideas and hints, more generally about the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cluster (SSHOC) in relation to the OSCARS Open Calls.
Inspired by the strategic plans of our constituent Research Infrastructures (see further details below), SSHOC has identified the following three Strategic Pillars to guide our activities for 2024-2028:
*Sharing Data, Tools and Workflows
*Training and Education
*Advocacy and Outreach
In answer to your question, “what are three major ways to connect to SSHOC?” we make the following proposals, which are linked to SSHOC’s three Strategic Pillars:
1. Sharing Data, Tools and Workflows: by contributing to Datasets, Tools & Services and Workflows to the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace
2. Training and Education: organise training and education activities, e.g. workshops, webinars etc. related to Open Science practices in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and contribute resulting Training Materials to the SSH Open Marketplace
3. Advocacy and Outreach: make use of existing Datasets, Tools & Services, Training Materials and Workflows in the SSH Open Marketplace with new communities not yet connected to SSHOC and share the results of your activities with the SSHOC community, e.g. via Blog posts, publications etc.
Furthermore, you could highlight your existing (or planned) contributions to the Research Infrastructures that are members of the SSH Open Cluster:
*CESSDA | Consortium of Social Sciences Data Archives
*CLARIN | Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
*DARIAH | Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
*EHRI | European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
*E-RIHS| European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science
*ESS | European Social Survey
*GGP | Gender and Generations Programme
*GUIDE| Growing Up In Digital Europe: EuroCohort
*OPERAS | Open Access in the European Area Through Scholarly Communication
*RESILIENCE | Religious Studies Research Infrastructure
*SHARE | European Research Infrastructure Consortium for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement
Additionally, should it be of assistance, here is some further background information about the SSH Open Marketplace and SSHOC which may be useful:
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace
Grounded in the three guided principles of contextualisation; curation and community, 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. It is: a discovery portal, to foster serendipity in digital methods; an aggregator of useful and well curated resources; a catalogue, contextualising resources and an entry point in the EOSC for the Social Sciences and Humanities researchers.
SSHOC: a Brief History
The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cluster (SSHOC), is one of the five Science Clusters with the goal of stimulating cross-domain research infrastructure collaboration for Open Science. With its origins in the Horizon 2020 funded SSHOC project, which ran from January 2019 - April 2022, it had the objective of transforming the current social sciences and humanities data landscape with its disciplinary silos and separate facilities into an integrated, cloud-based network of interconnected data infrastructures, which culminated in the SSHOC Final Conference. Following the end of the project, the growing consortium has agreed to continue to collaborate under the SSHOC Memorandum of Understanding, to enhance mutual interaction, build upon and expand existing synergies and expertise, and support sharing of know-how in all areas of common interest.
Currently the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cluster, is comprised of a group of European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) that include: the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN), Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), European Social Survey (ESS), and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE); emerging SSH Research Infrastructures, such as European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS), European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), Growing Up In Digital Europe: EuroCohort (GUIDE), OPen scholarly communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (OPERAS) and REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Innovation, Experts, conNections and Centres in Europe (RESILIENCE) and other Partner Institutions, such as Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PNSC), which provide infrastructural services for the Social Sciences and Humanities.