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 +====== History of SSHOC-CH ======
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 ===== How it started? ===== ===== How it started? =====
 SSHOC-CH builds on the **SSH RIs in Switzerland** initiative, which started in spring 2022, with the creation of a coordination group consisting of the directors of national research infrastructures (RIs) in the SSH, the national coordinators of international SSH RIs with Swiss participation (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS, SHARE, GGP) and the representatives of the Swiss Academy for the SSH.  SSHOC-CH builds on the **SSH RIs in Switzerland** initiative, which started in spring 2022, with the creation of a coordination group consisting of the directors of national research infrastructures (RIs) in the SSH, the national coordinators of international SSH RIs with Swiss participation (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS, SHARE, GGP) and the representatives of the Swiss Academy for the SSH. 
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 Such a SSHOC-CH organization is necessary in order to **facilitate the access of the SSH fields and its sub-fields to a satisfactory national ecosystem of services, data and tools** in the future years. Nevertheless, the success of such a national enterprise depends on the cooperation among the members of the Swiss SSH scientific and infrastructural community, as it was highlighted in the position paper and proved successful in the case of SSHOC-NL  Such a SSHOC-CH organization is necessary in order to **facilitate the access of the SSH fields and its sub-fields to a satisfactory national ecosystem of services, data and tools** in the future years. Nevertheless, the success of such a national enterprise depends on the cooperation among the members of the Swiss SSH scientific and infrastructural community, as it was highlighted in the position paper and proved successful in the case of SSHOC-NL 
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 With this vision, a **SSHOC-CH kick-off meeting** took place in autumn 2023 and gathered members from the scientific community, national RIs providing services for the Swiss SSH scientific community, and from the national nodes of European SSH RIs who were interested in supporting and getting involved in this project. With this vision, a **SSHOC-CH kick-off meeting** took place in autumn 2023 and gathered members from the scientific community, national RIs providing services for the Swiss SSH scientific community, and from the national nodes of European SSH RIs who were interested in supporting and getting involved in this project.
  
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 Following the meeting that took place in autumn 2023, where all stakeholders supported the creation of the SSHOC-CH Association, we take the necessary steps to move forward. **The SSHOC-CH Association is founded** with the occassion of a half-day workshop on the need and the future of infrastructures for the social sciences and humanities community in Switzerland (April 24, 2024). Following the meeting that took place in autumn 2023, where all stakeholders supported the creation of the SSHOC-CH Association, we take the necessary steps to move forward. **The SSHOC-CH Association is founded** with the occassion of a half-day workshop on the need and the future of infrastructures for the social sciences and humanities community in Switzerland (April 24, 2024).
-Behind the disciplinary differences regarding data types, technologies, methodologies, and research questions, scholars from social sciences and humanities face similar challenges when it comes to complying to Open Science requirements. Be it survey data, experimental data, digital editions, text data, multi-modal data, images, historical records, social media data, large language models, so on and so forth, infrastructure and expertise are required to create, process, analyze, store, and archive them.  
  
-In Switzerland, infrastructure and expertise are available in the so-called **national infrastructures** such as FORS, SWISSUbase, DaSCH and LiRI, but also local infrastructures and long-term projects such as Collection Builder, Fondue, Geovistory, nodegoat, Année politique Suisse, swiss vote, histHub, the four national dictionnaries, dodis, metagrid, infoclio.ch and various digital editions, to name but a few. +Behind the disciplinary differences regarding data types, technologies, methodologies, and research questions, scholars from social sciences and humanities face similar challenges when it comes to complying to **Open Science** requirements. Be it survey data, experimental data, digital editions, text data, multi-modal data, images, historical records, social media data, large language models, so on and so forth, infrastructure and expertise are required to create, process, analyze, store, and archive them. </WRAP></WRAP>
  
-However, there is a lack of active exchange between these infrastructures in order to develop joint, uncomplicated solutions for research and to catch up with European solutions. The Social Science & Humanities Open Cloud Switzerland (SSHOC-CH) is in the process of being established and it aims at **finding synergies and fostering collaborations between the social sciences and humanities**, and to building an ecosystem of national infrastructures and expertise which will support scholars from social sciences and humanities in their research and in managing their data in the spirit of Open Science and FAIR principles.+In Switzerland, infrastructure and expertise are available in the so-called **national infrastructures such as FORS, SWISSUbase, DaSCH and LiRI**, but also local infrastructures and long-term projects such as Collection Builder, Fondue, Geovistory, nodegoat, Année politique Suisse, swiss vote, histHub, the four national dictionnaries, dodis, metagrid, infoclio.ch and various digital editions, to name but a few. 
  
-The **SSHOC-CH Coordination Group** consists of Georg Lutz (FORS), Cristina Grisot (CLARIN-CH & DARIAH-CH), Stefanie Steinmetz (GGP, UNIL), Noah Bubenhofer (LiRI, UZH) and Sacha Zala (Dodis). +<WRAP group> 
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-For more information about the initiative and how to get involved, please write to [[cristina.grisot@uzh.ch|Cristina Grisot]] or [[georg.lutz@unil.ch|Georg Lutz]].+==== Contact 📧 ==== 
 +For more information about activities preceding the launch of SSHOC-CH, please write to [[cristina.grisot@uzh.ch|Cristina Grisot]] or [[georg.lutz@unil.ch|Georg Lutz]].
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