What is the SSH Open Marketplace?

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace, built as part of the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud project (SSHOC), 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.

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.

Watch the “SSH Open Marketplace - explained the easy way” to understand what the service has to offer!

Using the SSH Open Marketplace, you can:

• Search the resources, refining your query through faceted search.
• Browse the content by activities or keywords
• Obtain a detailed view of every item registered in the website, including a structured set of metadata describing the resource, and highlighting the related items to facilitate the discovery of relevant resources
• Contribute to the Marketplace by suggesting new content or enriching existing items. See the Contribute pages for all the details.
• Re-use the SSH Open Marketplace content using the Application programming Interface (API). See the API documentation section, if you want to know more.