This document discusses building bridges between the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and arts and humanities research communities. It notes that the EOSC Declaration calls for inclusiveness of all disciplines and countries. Deeply embedding open science into different research realities and disciplinary cultures is key. Thematic research infrastructures like the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) project connect domain-specific communities to the EOSC by contextualizing services, engaging users early, and targeting engagement activities. SSHOC is testing an open marketplace and training researchers to help arts and humanities communities join and benefit from the EOSC.

1. Building bridges between
the EOSC and Arts and
Humanities research
communities
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra (& Laure Barbot)
DARIAH ERIC, SSHOC
29.03.2021
@etothczifra @DariahEU

2. EOSC Declaration: ”no disciplines, institutions or
countries must be left behind.”
”GRANTING that the vision of European
Open Science is that of a research data
commons, widely inclusive of all disciplines
and Member States, sustainable in the long-
term.”
”Only a considerable cultural change will
enable long-term reuse for science and for
innovation of data created by research
activities: no disciplines, institutions or
countries must be left behind.”
https://eosc-portal.eu/sites/default/files/eosc_declaration.pdf

3. Deeply embedding Open Science into research realities
and disciplinary cultures is key
The emergence and design of Open
Science paradigm has been implicitly
designed along numerous underlying
assumptions about how science operates
and communicates.
Traditions and processes of Arts and
Humanities research have not had the
same impact on it.
See also: Knöchelmann, M. Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?
Publications 2019, 7, 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7040065

4. EOSC for research domains: connecting thematic
Research Infrastructures to the EOSC
The thematic organizations of actors and services is a fundamental layer in the
EOSC landscape, and are serving as primary hubs of scientific innovation.An
example:

5. This project is funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under Grant Agreement No. 823782
The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
Expected impact
With thanks to SSHOC team for this
slide.

6. This project is funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under Grant Agreement No. 823782
SSHOC in action
● Knowledge is situated by default →
contextualizing services, tools are
key
● User engagement from early phases
of development
● Targeted engagement activities with
SSHOC communities:
- testers of the SSH Open
Marketplace ~130,
- training 150+,
- certification 14 repositories,
- 3 data communities actively
engaged via case studies in the
project: electoral studies, ethnic
and migrant minorities, Heritage
Studies”

7. This project is funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under Grant Agreement No. 823782
The SSH Open Marketplace
With thanks to Laure Barbot for this
slide.
To get involved:
● Visit the SSH Open
Marketplace now and
give us your feedback
● Join SSH Open
Marketplace Tester
Community
● Go to our Gitlab
instance to follow the
technical development

8. This project is funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under Grant Agreement No. 823782
Who are operating and sustaining the thematic clusters?
Source: Ron Dekker: CESSDA Data Day 2021 – Social Science Data Archives in Poland; about Benefits of joining CESSDA and Data Sharing in Europe.
“ESFRI cluster
projects -
Position papers
on expectations
and planned
contributions to
the EOSC” -
https://doi.org/10
.5281/zenodo.36
75080

9. .
https://www.dariah.eu/ @DARIAHeu
DARIAH provides its expertise to co-design
EOSC core and thematic services useful for
research communities.
Mission: to empower arts and humanities research
communities with digital methods to create,
connect and share knowledge about culture and
society.
As a member of different projects – such as the
SSHOC Cluster project, TRIPLE or ERIC Forum –
or initiatives, DARIAH is already contributing to
the federation of infrastructures linked by the
EOSC.

10. DARIAH in the UK

11. Connecting services that are important for the Arts and
Humanities communities to the European data commons
Content types that are important for the arts and humanities communities (digital critical editions,
audiovisual data, encoded documents,, images etc.) became visible on a shared, European horizon.
Check out here: https://dariah.openaire.eu/ learn more here: https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/995

12. Opening a bigger window on Arts and Humanities
scholarship
• Creating pathways to the open
research culture in Arts and
Humanities
• Building infrastructural
components of open
Humanities that are inclusive
with a wide range of content
types
• Building bridges between local
and domain-specific
communities of practice and
the emerging European Open
Science ecosystem.