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.

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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 

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

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.

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