Service Desk
Social sciences and humanities
CSC services and solutions of relevance to researchers across social sciences and humanities include:
- Computing resources for your computational research
- Research data management services for storing large amounts of research data, or for sharing data or results long-term
- Cloud services for hosting the results of your research as e.g. a web page or application
- Language resources for either accessing existing language resources or processing your language data, either text or audio
- Training and expert support in research data management
Most of our services are free of charge for academic researchers in Finland, but require a user account at CSC.
If you have any questions about CSC’s services for social sciences and humanities, don’t hesitate to contact CSC Service Desk.
Resources
Our user guides and tutorials in Docs CSC is generally your first stop for information about how to use any CSC service. For example:
We also encourage you to contact our Service Desk with any issues. Your questions will be forwarded to the appropriate expert. This is also helpful in developing our documentation and services, as we understand the type of problems users encounter.
We also host casual user support sessions on Zoom, where users of all levels and our experts can ask questions and share solutions.
The Language Bank of Finland
The Language Bank of Finland serves researchers using language resources across digital humanities and social sciences. It offers a wide variety of text and speech corpora and tools for studying them. Some corpora are completely public, some are available for anyone with an academic affiliation, and some are available only by application. With a total of approximately 49 billion words, it currently hosts corpora in Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Swahili, a variety of Uralic languages and even Ancient Near East languages written in cuneiform. Some are parallel corpora, meaning that they contain the same text in more than one language.
Other resources
- Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Tietoarkisto)
- DARIAH-FI – National research infrastructure for data-intensive social sciences and humanities in Finland
- DARIAH-EU – The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Training
- Training calendar
- Online self-study course on research data management
- Fairdata services training
- Language Bank self-study course at CSC
We also recommend the following training materials by our partners:
- Courses for graduates and post-graduates in humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences (FIN-CLARIN)
- CESSDA Training resources (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives)
- Data management guidelines (Finnish Social Science Data Archive)
Read more about the services
Allas
Data storage service for research projects
Use Allas service for storing and sharing all types of data during your research project
Fairdata
Research Data Repository
Integrated services for storing, publishing and sharing research data
Noppe
Cloud platform for educational use
Easy-to-use applications for working with data and programming
SD Desktop
Sensitive Data Desktop
Service for analysis of sensitive research data in a secure cloud computing environment
SD Connect
Sensitive Data (SD) Connect
A simple user interface for storing and sharing sensitive data.