Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) sector face a multitude of challenges. In addition to the numerous theoretical and empirical approaches to research, they have to cope with a large pool of vocabularies and vocabulary service tools and platforms. These challenges can extensively hinder their positive impact on data aggregation, discovery, and access.
Towards resolving the challenges, CLARIN and SSH Open Cloud project (SSHOC) conducted three online awareness-raising sessions in September 2020. Experts from SSHOC and other related Horizon-2020 projects further elaborated the insights collected during these sessions in a virtual workshop organized in early November 2020. The experts also discussed whether controlled vocabularies and vocabulary hosting platforms could be made more interoperable by following the FAIR principles during the workshop.
As a result, it was decided to give a final recommendation for SSHOC vocabulary platforms that would host and publish SSH vocabularies after more discussions. Furthermore, as SKOSMOS was becoming the vocabulary platform of choice, it was decided to closely collaborate with their development team to implement the SSH desiderata.
The discussions during the virtual seminar also highlighted semantic and technical interoperability as the most important requirements for managing the vocabularies. The necessity of making vocabularies comply with the FAIR principles, publishing their metadata, and standardizing using linked open data formats were also discussed.
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