Between January 2019 and April 2022 SSHOC delivers a series of services and tools for daily use by SSH researchers. All tools will be made available via the SSH Open Marketplace by April 2022.

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European Social Survey as a service

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The European Social Survey (ESS) is a cross-national survey based on scientific standards that has been conducted every two years since 2001. The ESS collects data on attitudes and behaviour patterns of the population in more than 30 European countries. The survey data are provided by the ESS-ERIC (ERIC = European Research Infrastructure Consortium). In cooperation with national institutions, data from interviews on attitudes, beliefs and behavioural patterns are collected throughout Europe. 

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Data management
Accessible at: 
https://ess-search.nsd.no/en/all/query/
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Dataset: investigating the effects of machine translation and post-editing in survey translation

datasets

Dataset of two experiments in the language pairs English-Russian, English-German. The dataset contains linguistic data (Segments translated in different methods) and human data (participants filled in questionnaires). The dataset contains translation versions across different steps of a team translation approach.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Datasets
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Improved and FAIR data Repositories - SHARE survey data

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Technological development continues to offer ways of health data collection that go beyond asking survey questions. Such new types of data were collected in the SHARE survey by means of Dried Blood Spot Samples (DBSS) and accelerometer data. These data demand new data protection rules and must often be extensively processed, validated and calibrated before they can be made accessible. SHARE and CentERdata develop a strategy to provide access to such data according to FAIR principles.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Datasets
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability RoadmapD5.4 User friendly data release, including user guide, of one biomedical data set linked to survey data and including metadata (Access to biomedical data)

Improved and FAIR data Repositories - New ESS data repository

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ESS data and documentation available to users from the new repository accompanied by interoperable services. ESS data can be combined with other types of data from various domains by aggregation to the same regional levels. Data are relevant for various types of users including for policy makers.

Type:

  • Framework

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability RoadmapD5.13 Recommendations for a FAIR compliant integrated data and metadata repository (ESS as a service)

Multilingual Terminologies

datasets

Many different domains lack multilingual terminological resources. Making data and services accessible and usable in SSH is very much a matter of providing terminology across languages and multilingual vocabularies. Shortage of multilingual terminologies and vocabularies represents an obstacle to the access and reuse of information. Using the appropriate vocabularies can greatly improve both discovery and classification. Consequently, for SSHOC, it is important to address this issue with respect to the SSH domain.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Datasets
Accessible at: 
SSHOC Vocabularies access
Data are deposited in the ILC4CLARIN centre
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability RoadmapD4.6 Guidelines for further use of MT systems in social surveys

ARIADNE-plus

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Archaeological data management best practice guidance developed within E-RIHS and SSHOC will be implemented within the ARIADNEplus infrastructure and workflow, which may then be made available as a service within SSHOC.

Property:

  • Data management
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

RESTORE

datamanagement

The RESTORE Data Integration Suite is a toolbox supporting Memory, Cultural, Research institutions and citizen scientists with an interest in historical sources from archives, libraries, and museum collections in the creation of a FAIR digital ecosystem for Humanities Research, fostering semantic interoperability of cataloguing standards and research data opening and sharing.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Data management

SSHOCro

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Cultural and scientific data cannot be understood without knowledge about the provenance (the origin, context or history). Provenance provides a critical foundation for assessing authenticity, enabling trust, and allowing reproducibility. Provenance metadata are data describing objects, people, places, times which are causally related by events. They are event centric and must be described in a historical order to ensure that there are no references to non-existent (non-recorded) events or objects.

Type:

  • Framework

Property:

  • Data management
SSHOC Resources: 
D4.18 SSHOC Reference Ontology (beta version)D4.19 Mapping of two indicative selected standards to the SSHOCroMS19 Consultation with SSH data producersD3.10 A 20th century version of the occupation multilingual ontologyD4.20 SSHOCro (final version)

surveycodings.org

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Surveycodings offers a host of social science codings measuring individual and socio-economic variables. The developed tools consist of a multilingual repository containing questionnaires, data collection tools, and coding frames based on standard statistical classifications covering a large number of countries.

Property:

  • Processing & analysis
Accessible at: 
SurveyCodings
SSHOC Resources: 
D3.4 Multilingual ontologies for Occupation, Industry, Regions and cities, Food items, and Religion, with use case

Knowledge Graphs in Electoral Studies to bring together structured and unstructured data

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The Electoral Studies Knowledge Graph Pilots provides a web-based knowledge and information discovery application for professionals and scientists in the field of electoral studies.

Type:

  • Tool

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
Accessible at: 
Beta version. Final version to be available by the end of 2021 latest.
SSHOC Resources: 
D9.10 User community feedback and usage reportD8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Automatic Verification Tool

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The Automatic Verification Tool (AVT) enables the user to verify translations using Bilingual Word Embeddings and to report to the translators a set of translated questions to be re-checked.

The AVT imports the questions and make use of a trained Bilingual Word Embeddings model. It generates the 10 best foreign language translations of each English word.

Type:

  • Demonstrator

Property:

  • Processing & analysis
Accessible at: 
github
Demo
SSHOC Resources: 
MS18 Beta version of automatic verification software available for testingD4.11 Report on the experience with the automatic verification programme in SHARE wave 9D8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Ethnic and Migrant Minority Survey Registry

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The Ethnic and Migrant Minorities (EMM) Survey Registry, a free online database and tool that displays detailed information about existing quantitative surveys conducted with EMM populations in Europe. 

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
Accessible at: 
EMM Survey Registry
SSHOC Resources: 
SSHOC D9.1 Challenges that user communities face when attempting to contribute to SSHOCD9.4 Database with the metadata of surveys to EMMs across EuropeD9.2 Midterm evaluation report

[MCSQ]: The Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires

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A database of survey questionnaires’ texts. The first version is compiled from questionnaires from the of European Social Survey (ESS) and the European Values Study (EVS) in the English source language and their translations into Catalan, Czech, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Data management
Accessible at: 
https://www.upf.edu/web/mcsq/
SSHOC Resources: 
D4.3 Survey specific parallel corpora D4.4 Guidelines for building survey-specific corporaD8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Framework for data use agreement

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Generic template for a Memorandum of Understanding or similar contract, easily adaptable to new institutions. Annexes for special conditions will be included.

Type:

  • Framework

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
SSHOC Resources: 
D5.9 Framework and contract for international data use agreements on remote access to confidential dataD5.12 International Secure Data Facility Professionals Network (ISDFPN)

Cultural heritage Aïoli-platform

datamanagement

An innovative web service for the reality-based 3D annotation and large-scale collaborative documentation of heritage artefacts. For this service, the existing Aïoli platform 

 

Type:

  • Tool

Property:

  • Data management
Accessible at: 
Aioli
SSHOC Resources: 
D4.16 Specification of the new features of the Aïoli platformD4.17 New version of the Aïoli platform

Audio Survey Experiment

datasets

The Audio Survey Experiment provides guidelines describing how to integrate the collection of digital language data into the traditional social sciences data collection process and provides audio transcript data which can be analysed with the help of natural language processing tools.

Type:

  • Dataset

Property:

  • Datasets

Web Panel Sample Service (WPSS) for cross-national surveys and panels

datamanagement

Web Panel Sample System (WPSS). A web application which, paired with a survey platform will enable the centralised management of a cross-national sample for academic studies.

Type:

  • Tool

Property:

  • Data management
SSHOC Resources: 
D4.1 A sample management system for cross- national web surveyD4.2 Ready to use sample management system

SSH Conversion Hub

datamanagement

A registry of (meta)data conversion services featuring the most relevant SSH (meta)data formats and encompassing links to services, format recommendations for increasing interoperability, software recommendations, and a software library. Selected conversion tools will be created where necessary.

Type:

  • Tool

Property:

  • Data management
Accessible at: 
https://conversion-hub.sshopencloud.eu
SSHOC Resources: 
D3.1 Report on SSHOC (meta)data interoperability problemsMS14 Inventory of existing (meta-)data format interoperability solutionsD3.6 Report on SSHOC format interoperability solution services, including new software

Virtual Collection Registry

datamanagement

Based on the already functional CLARIN VCR, the VCR service will enable researchers to create integrated, coherent sets of links to digital objects. These virtual collections will provide persistent identifiers and federated login. 

The collection metadata is openly available and accessible via the Virtual Language Observatory.

Type:

  • Software

Property:

  • Data management
Accessible at: 
Virtual Collection Registry
Virtual Collections short guide
SSHOC Resources: 
MS5 SSHOC web platform continuous marketplace integration with SSHOC service offerMS12 Implementation plan SSHOC Switchboard and VCR ServicesD3.8 Implementation report and available SSHOC Switchboard and VCR services

CLARIN Switchboard

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An extension of the current CLARIN Language Resource Switchboard, the SSHOC Switchboard will match language resources and tools to data types, automatically guiding researchers to the appropriate language analysis application, and enabling the publication, sharing and reuse of the resulting data via B2SHARE.

Type:

  • Software

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
Accessible at: 
Switchboard
Blog on the use of the Switchboard
Screencast on the use of the Switchboard
SSHOC Resources: 
MS12 Implementation plan SSHOC Switchboard and VCR ServicesD3.8 Implementation report and available SSHOC Switchboard and VCR servicesD8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

Archive in a Box (Dataverse)

datamanagement

The repository will be built upon the community-driven open source Dataverse software platform. Its modular design facilitates integration with other data services such as DataCite or ROpenScience,  allows for distributed file storage, and supports the development of additional functionality and services.

Type:

  • Framework

Property:

  • Data management
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability RoadmapD5.6 - Report on principles of governance and sustainability for repository services that make use of the software delivered in D5.5MS24 Implementation of standard Dataverse installation on EOSC (Standard installation of repository service online)

API for Generations and Gender Programme (GGP)

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This API will integrate a policy imputation algorithm into social surveys, which covers around 20 indicators including family policy, employment, labour markets, and pensions.

The API will be usable by all European survey infrastructures and the wider research community.

Type:

  • Demonstrator

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
SSHOC Resources: 
D4.15 Report on integrating API into GGPD8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap

FAIR SSH data citation prototype

sharing

The FAIR SSH Data Citation prototype is a software tool designed and developed  in the SSHOC project to support the process of creating FAIR SSH citations.

Type:

  • Software

Property:

  • Sharing & discovery
SSHOC Resources: 
D8.1 Governance and Sustainability Roadmap