Add overview document on RDA multilingual voc SSH WG (#77)

Co-authored-by: Charles Tapley Hoyt <cthoyt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Noemi Betancort Cabrera <52533808+nbetancort@users.noreply.github.com>

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recommendations/A_International_Collaboration/working-groups/README.md

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 # Working Groups
 
 - [RDA FAIR Mappings](rda-fair-mappings.md)
+- [RDA Multilingual Vocabularies](rda-multilingual-vocabularies.md)

recommendations/A_International_Collaboration/working-groups/rda-multilingual-vocabularies.md

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+# RDA Alignment of Multilingual Vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities WG
+
+This working group intends to address challenges concerning the interoperability
+multilingual nature of controlled vocabularies in the social sciences and
+humanities (SSH).
+
+Controlled vocabularies are a major discovery tool in the digital environment
+and this is true also for the social sciences and humanities (SSH). However,
+while such vocabularies would seem one of the most appropriate tools to ensure a
+high visibility of the SSH research outputs, the availability, usage, and
+interoperability of controlled vocabularies remains very heterogeneous. They
+remain for the most part disconnected from one another, differing not only in
+scope, but in methodology, accessibility, and level of standardization. From
+this first set of observations derives the necessity to at least harmonize their
+discoverability level within the SSH and beyond.
+
+The working group plans to address these issues by providing collectively
+approved recommendations for creating, extending, updating, and aligning
+multilingual vocabularies in the SSH. The objective of this RDA WG, currently
+co-chaired by
+[OPERAS RI (open scholarly communication in the European Research Area for Social sciences and humanities research infrastructure)](https://operas-eu.org/category/operas-ri/),
+the coordinator of
+[TRIPLE (Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked interdisciplinary Exploration)](https://operas-eu.org/triple/),
+is to focus on a part of the
+[SSHOC (Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud)](https://sshopencloud.eu/)
+vocabulary roadmap and to collect from a broader community both insights and
+feedback about a methodology for the alignment of controlled vocabularies in
+many languages.
+
+| Type                     | Title                                                                                                   | Date             | Link                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Presentation             | RDA Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in Social Sciences and Humanities WG:Vocabularies Management | April, 2025      | [Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in SSH WG:Vocabularies Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU2n0n-ekWk)                                                                                 |
+| Meeting notes            | RDA Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in Social Sciences and Humanities WG Rolling Meeting Notes   | Rolling          | [RDA Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in the SSH WG - Rolling Meeting Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fq9gVe0cHv0uudRtMBqxU9oLld6PwQN_7MkA5HuC41g/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.853c4of2ctvx) |
+| GitHub Repository        | n/a                                                                                                     |                  | n/a                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| RDA page                 |                                                                                                         |                  | [RDA Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in the SSH WG](https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/alignment-of-multilingual-vocabularies-in-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-wg/activity/)                |
+| Case Statement           |                                                                                                         | July-August 2024 | [RDA Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in the SSH WG Case Statement](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k9VLdK9qodZgbFFY_Vbxfqn-O2CMBIZTDDQGhz5v684/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.iwtgf2w2kbok)          |
+| Group's Zotero library   |                                                                                                         |                  | [RDA Alignment SSH Voc WG Zotero library](https://www.zotero.org/groups/5712467/alignment_ssh_voc_rdawg)                                                                                                |
+| Group's Methods document |                                                                                                         |                  | [RDA Alignment SSH Voc WG Methodology, timeline, objectives](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyEnpnBTAIHeJ7Ec8lI6HaGOz5QZTWsmWE_BMWDjdFY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z4ywkbgmooq5)                       |