Electoral Studies

Electoral Studies

A task group within SSHOC is building an open research knowledge graph in the field of electoral studies. The knowledge graph will collect, interlink, analyse, and visualise relevant sources of information on voter participation in elections.  The task is led by Prof Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) who is working together with SSHOC partners Semantic Web Company, University of Vienna/AUSSDA, and EURHISFIRM.  The development and production process will serve as a pilot to assess...

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Ethnic and Migrant Minorities

Ethnic and Migrant Minorities

One research group of particular interest to SSHOC is a data community undertaking research on ethnic and migration studies. Led by Prof Laura Morales (Sciences Po) with support from Ami Saji and a small team of junior researchers and research assistants, a SSHOC task group is working to improve how quantitative survey data on ethnic and migrant minorities (EMMs) can be shared with and discovered by a wide range of users in Europe and beyond. This task group is working hand in hand with two...

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Heritage Studies

Heritage Studies

The Heritage Science and Humanities Data Community involves cultural heritage experts and scientists from a range of disciplines – digital humanists, conservators, literary scholars, historians and art historians, archaeologists, architects, chemists, physicists, material scientists, engineers - to name only a few -, who collaborate in the new multidisciplinary field of digital heritage science and humanities, integrating and sharing data across the fields. The data community gathers around...

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