Insights from the SSHOC Roundtable of Experts on Data Citation

On May 20th 2021, SSHOC hosted a Roundtable of Experts for Data Citation, to stimulate discussion on data citation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The session was led by CNRS and had around 30 participants, including invited speakers from UGOE, CLARIN, CNR/ISTI, the Turing Institute, the Observatory of Paris - PSL Research University, Vienna - RDA data citation WG, OpenAIRE and CODATA. 

This event followed the discussions that began during a joint event between SSHOC, FREYA, and EOSC-hub - “Realising the European Open Science Cloud” - in November. The session was focused on data citation, and different approaches and experiences related to data citation were discussed by speakers from SSHOC and beyond.

After an inventory of SSH citation practices, the project began developing a prototype to implement a “FAIR SSH Data Citation’’. Based on that work, a first set of recommendations about data citation was drafted, adapted to the specific needs of SSH. For these discussions, experts from known organizations (e.g. RDA, OpenAire, CODATA, Turing Institute, Observatory of Paris) were invited in order to hear their thoughts and feedback on SSHOC's work of the task as well as data citation in the SSH in general.