SSH Open Marketplace Training Series

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is hosting a series of 8 online hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills. The webinars take place once a month, always on the third Friday of the month. The first four webinars focus generally on FAIR principles and Open Science in the humanities and social sciences and present various aspects of the SSH Open Marketplace. The following four webinars are thematic, divided by discipline.

SSH Open Marketplace is a discovery portal for the humanities and social sciences that aggregates and contextualizes resources, tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications, and workflows for all phases of the data lifecycle.

More information and the registration link can be found here. It is possible to register only for selected webinars.

Workshops overview:

FAIR, CARE & Open Science Principles

20 February 2026, 13:00-14:30

This introductory webinar will familiarize participants with the basic principles of Open Science and demonstrate their relevance for SSH. Participants will learn to distinguish between the FAIR and CARE principles, identify FAIR-compliant research infrastructures, and apply FAIR and CARE principles to a concrete research use case or project scenario.

Introduction to SSH Open Marketplace

20 March 2026, 13:00-14:30

This workshop will introduce the SSH Open Marketplace, its purpose, scope, and added value for SSH research. Participants will learn to navigate the SSH Open Marketplace interface to locate resources and to use the search and filtering functions to identify relevant resources and select appropriate resources for their research questions.

Making the most of the SSH Open Marketplace

17 April 2026, 13:00-14:30

This webinar will focus on exploring complex resource types such as workflows and their integration into existing research practices. Participants will learn to evaluate the quality, relevance, and reuse potential of Marketplace entries using metadata and relations, and to enrich existing records.

Contributing to the SSH Open Marketplace

15 May 2026, 13:00-14:30

A workshop focusing on understanding the role of community contributions in sustaining the SSH Open Marketplace. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills needed to add new tools, datasets, workflows, and training materials. They will learn to apply editorial guidelines, use metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies, and become familiar with programmatic access and re-use of marketplace material via API and WordPress plug-ins.

Thematic Art and Humanities

19 June 2026, 13:00-14:30

A specialized workshop focused on Art and Humanities will present DARIAH services. Participants will learn to apply DARIAH tools and workflows (e.g. ATRIUM) to concrete research scenarios, integrate heterogeneous data types typical of arts and humanities research into FAIR-aligned workflows, and share workflows for reuse within the SSH community.

Thematic GLAM institutions

18 September 2026, 13:00-14:30

This webinar will focus on the field of cultural heritage and GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) and the specific characteristics of research data in these areas. Participants will learn to identify relevant tools in the SSH Open Marketplace, apply FAIR principles to both digitized and born-digital data, and integrate GLAM datasets into interdisciplinary SSH research workflows.

Thematic language data

16 October 2026, 13:00-14:30

This thematic workshop will focus on CLARIN services and standards for the management and analysis of language data. Participants will become familiar with the legal and ethical aspects of data management specific to language data (e.g., sensitive or personal data). They will also learn to use the SSH Open Marketplace to discover discipline-relevant resources and to prepare language datasets for reuse.

Thematic Social sciences

20 November 2026, 13:00-14:30

The final thematic workshop, focused on the social sciences, will present CESSDA services, standards, and tools. Participants will become familiar with best practices for the management, documentation, and sharing of data in the social sciences and will learn to apply FAIR and ethical principles to both quantitative and qualitative data.

Last updated on February 18, 2026