D4.18 SSHOCro_v.1.0_beta version

The SSHOC Reference Ontology (SSHOCro) proposes an ontological model and RDF Schema to be used as a top-level ontology for organizing knowledge and information found distributed across various primary sources of information in the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC). It aspires to provide a semantic interoperability framework for the description of the SSHOC data lifecycle, by offering a conceptual model that can be used in order to describe at a generic level the real-world lifecycle of data produced by the generic workflow of processes of collection, connection, interpretation and the auxiliary activities of storing, publishing and finding data –as it actually takes place in the various domains of Social Sciences and Humanities. Its development has, in fact, been informed by data lifecycle management practices in use, in said disciplines. In practical terms, the use of such a model and schema for the research community is twofold: it can be applied as a standard to be used in the step of devising and implementing metadata capture scheme for tracking the data lifecycle in individual projects, institutions and disciplines; it can also be used to map, transform and integrate existing data across projects, institutions and disciplines into interoperable pools of information for reuse and exploitation. Within this frame, SSHOCro proposes an ontological model that tries to capture the tools and services used by research communities across the Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines at each point in the data lifecycle, the kind of data they generate/capture, how and by whom are the ensuing data maintained, used, published and archived and under what conditions. In that sense, SSHOCro assumes the event-centric approach of digital provenance models, which allows tracing the intermediate results (data) of the processes involved in the research workflows in SSH. In this context, keeping track of the processes involved in the data lifecycle amounts to associating each stage with a set of activities performed in it. SSHOCro is being developed in the context of the SSHOC Project, the aim of which is to create the social sciences and humanities area of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) thereby facilitating access to flexible, scalable research data and related services streamlined to the precise needs of the SSH community.SSHOC参考本体（SSHOC Reference Ontology, SSHOCro）提出了一种本体论模型与资源描述框架模式（RDF Schema），可作为顶层本体，用于组织分布于社会科学与人文开放云（Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud, SSHOC）各类信息源中的知识与信息。该本体旨在为SSHOC数据生命周期的描述提供语义互操作性框架，通过构建通用概念模型，从泛化层面描述社会科学与人文各领域中，由数据收集、关联、阐释等核心流程，以及数据存储、发布、发现等辅助活动构成的通用工作流所产生的数据的真实生命周期。其开发实则依托上述学科中现行的数据生命周期管理实践。在实践层面，该模型与模式对研究社区的应用价值兼具双重性：其一，可作为标准，用于设计并实施元数据捕获方案，以追踪单个项目、机构及学科内的数据生命周期；其二，可用于跨项目、跨机构、跨学科的现有数据的映射、转换与集成，将其整合为可互操作的信息池，以供复用与开发利用。在此框架下，SSHOCro提出的本体模型旨在捕捉社会科学与人文各学科研究社区在数据生命周期各阶段所使用的工具与服务、其所生成/捕获的数据类型、后续数据的维护、使用、发布与归档方式及责任主体，以及相关实施条件。就此而言，SSHOCro采用了数字溯源模型（digital provenance models）的事件中心范式，可追踪社会科学与人文领域研究工作流中各流程产生的中间结果（数据）。在此语境下，追踪数据生命周期涉及的流程，实则是为每个阶段关联其下开展的一系列活动。SSHOCro是在SSHOC项目框架下开发的，该项目旨在打造欧洲开放科学云（European Open Science Cloud, EOSC）的社会科学与人文专区，从而助力获取适配社会科学与人文社区精准需求的灵活、可扩展研究数据及相关服务。