By bringing a massive amount of innovative solutions, SSHOC will uncover new ways to deliver research in the social sciences and humanities domain.

The Humanities and social sciences have much in common when it comes to (sharing) research data and (using) tools to process data. Collaboration and whenever possible integration of each others assets is an important next step. This will be done in the SSHOC project. When this project is completed, data and tools for SSH scientists will be much more accessible, usable and known to the community. Strong collaborations with and between partners CLARIN ERIC, DARIAH ERIC, ESS ERIC and SHARE ERIC will ensure sustainability and dissemination of the infrastructure.

Thanks to SSHOC, handling of language data in SSH will be methodologically more NLP-inspired. SSHOC will also lead to improved usability and greater reuse of CLARIN's resources, tools and services as well as improved accessibility to training materials for new generations of SSH researchers.

The large scale close collaboration of agents/stakeholders related to language resources of many types, e.g. LRs providers, NLP/TDM developers, metadata and data curators and end users from the NLP and the SSH communities will shed new light on the way both communities view each other, their methodologies, their established workflows and provide new insights on their needs and possibilities on collaboration.

SSHOC will contribute to the collaboration of scientists across disciplinary boundaries and will facilitate innovative research activities within the context of the European Open Science Cloud.

SSHOC's goal to normalise the sharing and re-use of data through application of the FAIR principles is an important step in maximising the value and future scientific and societal impact of SSH data.

By providing FAIR data, open tools and interconnected services for researchers, SSHOC contributes fundamentally to a common European Open Science Cloud.

SSHOC is helping to develop data infrastructures that meet the needs of the social sciences and humanities, as well as the natural sciences. Given the policy challenges we face, such as climate change and inequality, it is essential that infrastructures support all disciplines.

Assisting members of relevant user communities to actively use the SSHOC infrastructure will result in more and better use of investments that lie at the basis of the data, tools and services that are made accessible by SSHOC, thus leading to increased research productivity and increased likelihood of serendipitous research outcomes.

I see the SSHOC Marketplace as one important goal of the project to boost the visibility and usage of the ERICs outcomes and services.

SSHOC will stimulate multidisciplinary collaboration across the various subfields of SSH and beyond, and increase the potential for societal impact.

LIBER supports this initiative through its wide network of libraries and by leading activities on fostering communities, empowering users & building expertise

SSHOC is a unique opportunity to further enhance the Social Sciences and Humanities ERIC infrastructures by creating an accessible and interoperable storehouse of products, services and training materials. As each task is completed, the lessons learned will be applied to the design of future tasks, effectively ensuring ongoing improvement in research outputs. In Work Package 4 "Innovations in data production", ESS ERIC and Sciences Po will collaborate on building a versatile Online Panel Administration Layer, a multilingual, multi-sample web application with the capacity to accommodate a wide range of studies.

SSHOC will connect experts and expertise from two domains: the social sciences and humanities. It will create a platform where researchers from these domains can meet and facilitate synergies. Based on FAIR principles SSHOC will pave the way for reuse of data and tools, and it will illustrate how open science may lead to new insights into advancing society and increasing well-being.

SSHOC will generate very rich datasources, which can be easily integrated with other research tools and areas, in a multimodal and multidisciplinary way

The importance of SSHOC is that it brings together the relevant infrastructures from across the arts and humanities and social sciences, and allows us to compare different domain issues and to share best practice. In turn the scale of SSHOC ensures that the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences are well represented in the EOSC, and it can demonstrate the added value provided by e-infrastructures in our domains.

An integrated and interlinked Social Science & Humanities Open Cloud can push research, innovation and business in the respective fields and above.

It furthermore can support the European data economy by providing meaningful data to enable the development of powerful and explainable AI solutions.