The SSH Open Marketplace: a multi-voiced story

Abstract

<em>Dating back to premodern times, marketplaces were community centres and hubs of activity. Merchants, officials, and regular citizens gathered not only to exchange goods, but stories - representing a multifaceted vision of what was going on in the community and the world at large.</em> Thanks to active contributions from its national nodes, DARIAH, together with CLARIN and CESSDA, has built the SSH Open Marketplace - marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/ -, a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. As one of the flagship DARIAH services, the SSH Open Marketplace is the result of a vision long told by different actors of the DARIAH and DH communities. Its creation has been included in the DARIAH Strategic Plan 2019-2026 and funded under the SSHOC project - sshopencloud.eu/ -, becoming as such a key component of the SSH branch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and involving partners beyond the initial scope. What kind of common story can we continue to collectively develop and tell now that the service is up and running? How can the SSH Open Marketplace support DARIAH research community storytelling and sharing while welcoming others? What are the technical choices behind the visible output that are supporting the initial vision, enabling discoverability and enhancing storytelling? These are some of the questions that the poster and demo of the SSH Open Marketplace would like to open and discuss with the DARIAH Annual Event audience. Our contribution will present how research communities can share, discover and re-use existing resources via the SSH Open Marketplace, and will demonstrate how research infrastructure services can support collective narratives. <strong>SSH Open Marketplace (meta)data</strong> With around 5 000 items at the time of its final release, the SSH Open Marketplace aggregates resources coming from or curated by the DARIAH, CLARIN and CESSDA networks and beyond. Thanks to this discovery portal, these three ERICs can showcase the productions of their national nodes, letting their story be seen in a new and contextualised way. DARIAH in-kind contributions, CLARIN Switchboard tools and Resource Families items, or CESSDA training resources are sources populating the Marketplace. <strong>Exploring, curating and re-using </strong> Thanks to its Application Programming Interface (API) and to...