Wednesday–24 April 2024
18:30–20:00 Poster Session with Drinks & Finger Food
Poster Session
1. Jonni Karlsson and Miki Kallio: Developing a Beginner’s Guide for Citizen Scientists
Our poster presents a beginner’s guide that contains the basic information package intended for citizen scientists and the development process that led to it. The guide has been drafted by the ‘Citizen Science Support and Services’ working group that operates in the national ‘Open Science and Research Coordination’ in Finland. The beginner’s guide highlights the diverse roles, motives, and ways to get involved in citizen science while going through the basics of CS in an accessible and practical manner. The aim of the beginner’s guide is to fill some of the gaps of often researcher-oriented citizen science materials and form a national toolkit that is also locally applicable. The guide headlines the following themes: What is citizen science?
Why to participate in citizen science? Who can be a citizen scientist? How to get involved? The beginner’s guide was created by a WG of 20 members from Finnish universities, learned societies and other research and academic institutions. Open science is promoted in Finland through a national coordination model in which the entire research community participates in developing national goals, co-creating policies and recommendations, and coordinating policy implementation. ‘Citizen Science Support and Services’ WG, operating within the expert panel ‘Culture of Open Scholarship’ aims to examine how to further support implementing the National Recommendation for Citizen Science (2022) by developing services, guidelines, and other practical means of action. The CC-BY licensed beginner’s guide developed by the WG is designed for the use of higher education institutions, schools, local communities as well as public and scientific libraries to serve as a practical tool for engagement and collaboration aiming to raise awareness about citizen science with a community-centered approach. The poster gives an overview of the contents of the beginner’s guide and describes its creation process as an example of research community participation in the national ‘Open Science and Research Coordination’ in Finland.
Authors
Jonni Karlsson
Jonni Karlsson is a senior planning officer at the Secretariat for the National Open Science and Research Coordination in the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). Secretary for the ‘Culture of Open Scholarship’ expert panel and several working groups including ‘Citizen Science Support and Services’, ‘Funding Open Science’ and ‘Open Science for Learned Societies’. Editor for http://www.openscience.fi.
Miki Kallio
Dr. Miki Kallio works as a Science Policy Adviser at the University of Oulu. He is the chairperson of Finland’s national Expert panel in Culture of Open Scholarship and the chairperson of the national Citizen Science Support and Service working group.
2. Carol Delmazo, Alessia Smaniotto: VERA – Virtual Ecosystem for Research Activation / Supporting Participatory Research
A space for co-creation that provides a set of tools to discover potential partners, to define and co-design the activities, to co-create new knowledge and solutions, and to deliver them to society.
VERA is an online collaboration platform where a diverse set of actors can build social science and humanities research projects together. It’s a virtual gathering place for professionals and practitioners of all kinds and researchers. It’s a place where projects can be dreamed and built, where collaborations can take place, and where links to funding can be found.
Author
Carol Delmazo
Carol serves as a Service Marketing and Community Outreach Officer at the OPERAS AISBL. She focuses on promoting and marketing OPERAS services, contributing to its visibility and growth, as well as integrating communication, user outreach, and training strategies in a variety of European projects. Before joining OPERAS, she worked for five years as the Science Communicator and Manager for ReSEED, an SSH research project based at the University of Coimbra and funded by the European Research Council. She has also been trained as a trainer in Open Science and Responsible Research Innovation by the Fit4RRI project. In addition, she has twelve years of experience as a journalist for TV and websites and holds a master’s degree in New Media and Web Practices from NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH/NOVA – Lisbon, Portugal).
Alessia Smaniotto
Alessia develops citizen science projects and services for the OPERAS community. She is trained in philosophy, journalism and sociology in Italy and France and she holds a PhD in Philosophy of Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her doctoral research focused on journalism as a form of knowledge. Her work for OpenEdition focuses on scientific communication and collaboration between research in the SSH. She coordinated the PLACES project, granted by the French Ministry of Culture, focused on the collaboration between researchers and journalists, and is managing the COESO project, funded by the European Commission, to further upgrade the OPERAS Research for Society Service. Before joining OpenEdition, Alessia worked as a journalist.
3. Sonya Betz, Jessica Clark, Jeanette Hatherill and Jessica Lange: Creating a Canadian Library Publishing Community to Support Scholar-led Publishing
Canada has a strong tradition of scholar-led publishing, with the majority of Canadian scholarly journals publishing independently of commercial publishers. This is made possible via a varied support network such as Canadian library publishers and Coalition Publica (as national, open infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing). Library publishers from over 40 academic libraries provide publishing or hosting services to more than 800 scholar- and student-led publications. However, until recently, practitioners in this space have had no formal organization to engage with their issues or to represent them to the wider Canadian scholarly communications community. This poster will outline the development of a Community Engagement Team to support Canadian library publishing. In the fall of 2023, a working group initiated by Canadian members of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) recommended a multifaceted approach to supporting the Canadian library publishing community after consultation with scholarly communications stakeholders. Initiatives recommended by the working group included striking a formal partnership between LPC and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and the establishment of a library publishing Community Engagement Team in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Coalition Publica, through its main partners Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project, is supporting the Canadian scholar-led journal community by developing and coordinating an open and sustainable national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing. Library publishers are an important part of this national infrastructure, and Coalition Publica is an active participant in the new Community Engagement Team. This poster will illustrate how Coalition Publica and the Canadian Community Engagement Team collaborate in organizing a national network of library publishers and accelerate community-driven publishing in a national, bilingual context.
Authors
Jeanette Hatherill
Jeanette Hatherill is the Senior Coordinator of Coalition Publica, which supports sustainable open access in Canada by developing a non-commercial, open-source national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research. Prior to her work with Coalition Publica, she worked for 10 years at the University of Ottawa Library in Ottawa, Canada, as a scholarly communication librarian supporting open access initiatives, including the library’s journal publishing services, the institutional repository, and managing the University’s financial support for open access.
Sonya Betz
Sonya Betz is the Head of Open Publishing and Digitization Services at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, which supports more than 60 diamond Open Access journals through its non-commercial, scholar-led publishing program. Sonya has worked in academic libraries for more than 15 years and is deeply interested in seeking ways to promote and sustain not-for-profit approaches to scholarly publishing and open access. She has served with the Library Publishing Coalition in a number of roles and is currently a member of the Board. She’s also the Chair of the Public Knowledge Project’s Members Committee and sits on the Advisory Board of the Irish Open Access Publishers.
Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark is Senior Coordinator, Open Access Development at Érudit. Most recently, she was the Project Coordinator of Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project to advance research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. While her current work focuses on journal publishing, her background is in scholarly book publishing, with previous positions at the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) and the University of Ottawa Press. Open Access has been a common aspect of all her professional work to date.
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange is the Associate Dean for Library Technology (interim) and formerly the Coordinator, Scholarly Communications at McGill Library. In her previous role, she provided scholarly communications services to the campus community, including oversight of the library’s OJS publishing service and open-access repository. She currently oversees the direction of the library’s technology unit including web services, application development, integrated library systems, as well as digital collections and digitization.
4. Sy Holsinger, Suzanne Dumouchel and Luca De Santis: GoTriple: Multilingual Discovery Platform for SSH
GoTriple is an innovative multilingual discovery platform for the social sciences and humanities (SSH). It provides one of the central access points for discovering and reusing research artefacts that are relevant to the wide variety of disciplines under the umbrella domain of SSH: publications and research data, project descriptions and researcher profiles are automatically imported from aggregators and source providers, semantically enriched and linked in GoTriple. The platform enables users to: discover and reuse open scholarly SSH resources, which are currently scattered across local and discipline-specific repositories in multiple European languages; find and connect with other researchers and projects across disciplinary, cultural and language boundaries; make use of innovative tools and services to support research, visualisation of search results, web annotation, personalised recommendations and social networking; explore new ways of funding research such as crowdfunding. As far as the multilingual support in GoTriple is concerned, currently, the platform: provides automatic classification of content upon ingestion in 11 languages, namely: Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian; uses for the Automatic annotation the TRIPLE Vocabulary which provides a hierarchical set of over 3.300 SSH-related concepts in these 12 languages: Croatian, Dutch (partial), English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian; presents its user interface localised in various languages, including English, Italian and French.
GoTriple was inspired by the Isidore search engine developed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is the Discovery Service of OPERAS, the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area, and it is one of the services of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), specifically devoted to the SSH communities. GoTriple is the main outcome of the European Research project TRIPLE (Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration). TRIPLE has been funded under the Horizon 2020 framework and run from October 2019 until March 2023. This presentation will focus on the latest updates to the platform and future plans while aiming to engage the audience for feedback and suggestions on how the platform can improve and better serve its users.
Authors
Luca De Santis
Luca De Santis is the R&D Director at Net7 Srl, a system integration company based in Pisa, Italy. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry.
Throughout his career, Luca has been involved in numerous research initiatives. In particular, Luca is the technical leader of the team that developed the Pathfinder platform. He was also the technical coordinator in the last year of the TRIPLE project, leading the development of the GoTriple multilingual discovery platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (https://gotriple.eu), another OPERAS service. Finally, he is leading the team for the development of the VERA platform (https://vera.operas-eu.org/), an OPERAS service dedicated to Collaborative Research and Citizen Science in SSH. When not managing projects, commercial or of research nature alike, he likes to deepen his knowledge in the fields of Semantic Web & Linked Data, Natural Language Processing, Industry 4.0 and Software Architectures.
He has a penchant for noisy music, the French language and wine tasting (not necessarily French…).
Sy Holsinger
Sy Holsinger is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) employed by OPERAS AISBL. In the role of CTO, he is in charge of the technical vision and service strategy, coordinating the teams behind the solutions and aligning with the overall organisational strategy to ensure the delivery, sustainability, efficiency, and effectiveness of the OPERAS portfolio of services. Previous to OPERAS, Sy spent more than fifteen years in EU-funded projects related to the development and implementation of e-infrastructures for research and innovation, as well as leading commercial exploitation. In addition, he is a certified expert, trainer and auditor (ISO 19011) in both FitSM (Service Management) and ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security) standards, and he volunteers as Co-chair of ITEMO (IT Education Management Organization) to evolve the FitSM standard. Sy studied Business Communications and Management in the U.S.
Suzanne Dumouchel
Suzanne develops and supports OPERAS partnerships strategy. She holds a PhD in French Literature. Working at the Department of Open Research Data at CNRS as Head of International Cooperation, she has been the scientific coordinator of TRIPLE project (www.gotriple.eu) which developed the Gotriple platform. Director of the EOSC Association, Suzanne is deeply involved in the Open Science initiative, from two perspectives: SSH and infrastructures.
5. Cezary Rosiński and Tomasz Umerle: Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Research through Training and Open Science
This poster aims to highlight the significant results and methodologies achieved in WP7 of the forthcoming ATRIUM project. In particular, it focuses on promoting interdisciplinary research through training and open science initiatives. Key Elements: Skills and Gaps → Assessing skills essential for the arts and humanities community and identifying gaps in transfer; Networking workshops → Facilitate workshops and training sessions to connect end-user researchers with service and data providers; Structured learning → Transform training materials into online course curricula and organize formal and informal sessions; Maximize impact → Improve research outcomes by implementing a peer-review assessment framework for the humanities and expanding impact through external engagement. Workflow for Interdisciplinary Research. Interdisciplinary research integrates knowledge, methods, and theories. The ATRIUM project will not only assess the skills required to actively use the services provided by Research Infrastructures, but also provide training materials developed as part of the ATRIUM Curriculum. The evaluation process will involve a combination of methods: desk research, surveys, workshops, and direct feedback. Cross-disciplinarity needs the ATRIUM Bridge to exchange information, knowledge, and technologies more widely. An inclusive space for closer interaction between researchers and service providers is essential. The goal of the ATRIUM Researcher Forum is to ensure a better understanding of the needs of researchers and to help track the reuse of services and data. The goal of the ATRIUM Mutual Learning Exercises is to address (meta)data interoperability challenges through knowledge sharing. The training objectives of the project are aligned with the objectives of the OPERAS strategy and will be addressed through a comprehensive set of courses designed for the academic community. The ATRIUM curriculum will maximize the potential of the project’s datasets, workflows, and services to be used in educational settings in order to increase the quality and impact of arts and humanities research in Europe.
Authors
Cezary Rosiński
Cezary Rosiński, PhD, is an assistant professor, information, documentation, and data specialist at the Department of Current Bibliography and a member of the Computations
lab at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. A literary scholar
and Python programmer. Co-author of the “Polish Literary Bibliography”. The main areas of
research interest are space in contemporary literature, Bibliographic Data Science and Linked Open Data.
Tomasz Umerle
Tomasz Umerle, PhD is an assistant professor and leader of the Computations lab. Deputy director of the Department of Current Bibliography at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the Centre, he is responsible for R&D activities and coordinating research infrastructure development. Currently, he is engaged in the DARIAH-PL project as the coordinator of the Laboratory for supervised semantic discovery. He is chairing the “Bibliographical Data” Working Group at the DARIAH-ERIC consortium. Interested in cultural and scientific metadata, primarily bibliographical and documentation of literary culture, he is also involved in preparations for the OPERAS Innovation Lab.
6. Lorena Caliman and Delfim Leão: OPERAS Portuguese National Node, by the University of Coimbra (UC)
Being an OPERAS Executive Assembly member means, among other things, having the opportunity to develop an OPERAS national node. The University of Coimbra leads the Portuguese node, which gathers stakeholders from the Portuguese publishing landscape and Research Performing Organisations. The Portuguese national node has developed activities focused on Open Access publishing practices in Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2021, we promoted a workshop to discuss publishing stances and the Diamond situation with members from OPERAS and publishers from the Portuguese and Ibero-American landscape. The node has also actively presented and promoted OPERAS services in the local context. Between 2021 and 2022, the node provided workshops and presentations about OPERAS discovery service, GoTriple. The service, which aims at researchers, journalists, policymakers, librarians, and civil society at large, brings together more than 12 million documents, 20 thousand projects, and 13 million researcher profiles to facilitate collaboration in the SSH in the whole European Research Area. The University of Coimbra is a member of the GoTriple committee and, as the Portuguese national node leader, will continue to promote and engage the platform in the national context. Aligned with the Multilingualism Special Interest Group, the node has put together efforts to develop and prototype a machine-translation-supported service for researchers, which will contribute to promoting multilingualism at the national and European levels. The service will be available to all OPERAS members and the research community at large. The OPERAS Portuguese national node aims to bring together more stakeholders in the national publishing landscape to further develop activities targeted to the publishing area, promoting Open Access publishing best practices and advancing cooperation. Currently, it is also directly involved in the development of Open Science Communities at the local level. The node intends to grow in the regional landscape in the future, associating Ibero-american actors to promote cultural exchange and boost engagement.
Authors
Lorena Caliman
Lorena Caliman is a journalist and holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (FACOM/UFBA). She is a PhD student in Communication Sciences at the University of Coimbra (UC). Lorena collaborates in Open Science projects integrated by the University of Coimbra in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities. She works in the production and dissemination of Open Science content at the same university (uc.pt/openscience).
Delfim Leão
Delfim Leão is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and a researcher at the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies, University of Coimbra. He was Director of Coimbra University Press (2011-2021), Vice-Rector for Culture, Communication and Open Science at Coimbra University (since 2019) and Member of the UNESCO Open Science Advisory Committee. He is a member of the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) and a member of the Executive Assembly of OPERAS (ESFRI infrastructure), participating in European projects such as OPERAS-P, TRIPLE, OPERAS-PLUS, PALOMERA. He is also an appointed member of the Scientific Council of the CNRS – Sciences Humaines & Sociales (2023-2028).
7. Laure Barbot and Magdalena Wnuk: Collaborating in the SSH Open Marketplace
The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) – marketplace.sshopencloud.eu – is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. The institutional context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) on which the SSH Open Marketplace has been built and is sustained – via the SSH Open Cluster – allows for a stable maintenance environment. Developed to be complementary to the GoTriple platform powered by OPERAS, the SSH Open Marketplace presents and contextualises content types not covered by GoTriple, both portals offering a complete discovery environment for Social Scientists and Humanities researchers. This poster will present how the SSH Open Marketplace can provide insights into the use of tools, methods and standards in Social Sciences and Humanities and how it can increase serendipity in the discovery of new methods and standards by interlinking the resources and describing workflows. The audience of the OPERAS Conference can bring their own ideas and discuss them with the SSH Open Marketplace representatives and will be invited to contribute to the creation of new or enrichment of existing records guided by the members of the SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board presenting the poster during the event.
Authors
Magdalena Wnuk
Magdalena Wnuk, PhD, Head of the Open Humanities Section in the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CHC IBL PAN). Academic researcher and policy analyst. She defended her thesis concerning the long-term adaptation of the 1980s. Polish migrants in Austria, Sweden and Italy. Her research projects are interdisciplinary and combine methods of cultural anthropology, sociology and history.
Laure Barbot
8. Maciej Maryl and Gabriela Manista: Scoping the Landscape of Open-Access Monographs in the ERA. Methodological Considerations
One of the main objectives of the 2-years project PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) funded by Horizon Europe is to investigate the landscape of Open Access (OA) policies regarding academic books and provide access to relevant documentation via the Knowledge Base. The project’s first phase focused on collecting different types of data, both qualitative and quantitative. During ten months, the research team gathered documents pertinent to Open Access policies and strategies from 39 ERA countries, surveyed the key stakeholders (around 500 completed responses), and conducted over 40 in-depth interviews. Various materials on policies: policy documents, grey literature, research articles, reports, and outputs of other projects, as well as transcripts from interviews, were gathered by researchers from 16 partner organizations. This process would not be possible without design thinking methods that have helped to organize activities, orient them towards a specific goal and keep track of progress. The poster aims to present the effective data collection process, from drafting the methodology to ready-to-analysis, in an international research environment. It emphasizes existing project management methodologies that prove useful in research. This methodology could be replicated in similar landscape analyses and further work with the European scholarly communication community.
Authors
Maciej Maryl
Maciej Maryl, PhD, is an assistant professor and the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CHC IBL PAN). He cooperates with OPERAS as an Executive Assembly member and the leader of OPERAS Innovation Lab. He chairs the ALLEA E-humanities Working Group and co-chairs the DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory. He participates in committees important for digital humanities infrastructures as a member of the SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, DARIAH-PL Steering Board, Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) Advisory Board, and Digital Repository Ireland Advisory Board. He leads PALOMERA Work Package 2, which is dedicated to data collection.
Gabriela Manista
Gabriela Manista, MA, CHC Coordinator, lawyer, PhD student at the Faculty of Information Journalism and Bibliology, University of Warsaw, researcher of new media in cultural institutions. Graduate of the Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship project management postgraduate programme at Sorbonne University, created for 30 early career researchers from four European universities.
9. Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou and Sona Arasteh: The DIAMAS Common Access Point: a Suite of Tools and Resources to Support Institutional Open Access Publishing
In the transition towards open access, institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation, varying service quality, limited visibility, and sustainability. DIAMAS will facilitate the establishment of an aligned and sustainable OA scholarly communication ecosystem in the European Research Area. By supporting Institutional Publishers and Service Providers (IPSPs) DIAMAS helps to improve the efficiency and quality of institutional publishing. To this end, DIAMAS will design the Common Access Point (CAP), a virtual portal with resources and tools enabling the wider implementation of common standards and best practices across the OA publishing landscape. The Common Access Point will be realised as an infrastructure of interoperable components bringing together the main DIAMAS outputs (guidelines, toolkits, training materials) and providing links to external resources. Additionally, the CAP will facilitate the creation of a community of practice by developing a registry of Institutional Publishers and Service Providers and a knowledge exchange hub. The development of the CAP reflects the project’s commitment to openness and collaboration, as all DIAMAS partners and the project’s targeted stakeholders will be actively engaged in the conceptual design. Moreover, the portal will be based on open-source solutions and an extensible/open-end architecture, enabling the future integration of multilingual resources and additional components. The Common Access Point will lay the foundation for the future Diamond OA Publishing Capacity Hub – a virtual network of national and/or regional nodes supporting the research community towards the adoption of OA as a standard publication practice.
Authors
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou holds a PhD in social anthropology. He has contributed to EU-funded projects on the development of Research Infrastructures. Currently, he is involved in the DIAMAS and Skills4EOSC projects as an OPERAS Open Science Project Officer.
Sona Arasteh
Sona Arasteh has worked as a researcher and editor at the Department for Philology at the University of Münster for several years, where she wrote her PhD thesis on German literature of the 19th century. As of today, she is the communication officer for CRAFT OA on behalf of the Max Weber Foundation and an Open Science Project Officer for OPERAS, working on the DIAMAS project.
10. Aricia Bassinet, Basile Bayoux, Véronique Cohoner, Françoise Gouzi, Jean-Luc De Ochandiano, Bernard Pochet, Armelle Thomas and Anabel Vazquez: SPOC QUERO – Editorial Quality Search Engine Optimisation and Tools
The poster will present the content of the SPOC QUERO (for Editorial Quality Search Engine Optimisation and Tools). The SPOC was born out of an initiative by Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University (France) in 2018. It aims to professionalise scientific journal editors by providing them with an innovative, open and certified training programme in editorial quality. Since its launch, it has trained 200 people. The SPOC is being developed within the framework of the Repères network of French scientific journal incubators in collaboration with the Médici French network of publishing professionals and the Mir@bel network for reporting and access to French-language HSS journals. The three partners are helping to update the content and run the training programme. The training seeks to develop professional practices and promote the acquisition of skills by reaching specific audiences: university presses, journal editors and editorial teams (all disciplines), and information support professionals at national and international levels in the French-speaking world. Designed to lead to accreditation, it is intended to promote the independence and technical sustainability of journals and help consolidate university presses. The SPOC offers a learning path devoted to good practices in journal publishing through seven modules alternating learning methods (videos, texts, flashcards, etc) and punctuated by tests and evaluation: 1. vocabulary and players in the open public scientific publishing environment, 2. legal framework for creating and distributing a scientific journal, 3. editorial monitoring of a journal, 4. international editorial quality standards (DOAJ and Latindex), 5. structuring metadata and contents, 6. structured publishing tools, 7. referencing and visibility via various information systems. A new module on the links between publication and data is currently under construction. Two training sessions are organised each year. Learners can follow the course on their own for 6 weeks, lasting around 10 hours. Hosted on a public platform, the SPOC is distributed under a CC BY-NC licence. It can be fully reused by other institutions and has been adapted for local uses. A project of the Repères network plans to translate the educational content into English to open up the training to a wider audience and enable the internationalisation of the training in connection with OPERAS and the DIAMAS project.
Authors:
Aricia Bassinet
Aricia Bassinet is responsible for the journal publishing support service at the Documentation Department of Université de Lorraine (France). She assists researchers with the scientific publication of diamond journals and the opening up of research data. She is involved in the French network of publishing platforms Repères and works on the national open science monitor project. She has little experience in international cooperation through her work on the communication of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). ORCID
Basile Bayoux
Basile Bayoux began his career in basic research before moving on to publishing and editing. He is an editor and graphic designer at Prairial, the Lyon Saint-Étienne publishing centre. He coordinates the Repères network of incubators and platforms for publishing open scientific journals. As co-founder of a publishing house devoted to music, he is an entrepreneur and has built up a rich network of players in the world of books and culture.
Véronique Cohoner
Véronique Cohoner is a research engineer at the CNRS. She is in charge of the electronic publishing and open access publishing unit at MSH Ange-Guépin, and the regional coordinator for the Western France journals cluster in Nantes. She has been involved in open science for over 20 years, and is currently working to support Diamond open access journals. As member of Repères and Médici, she is involved in several working groups.
Françoise Gouzi
Françoise Gouzi is an Information Officer “détachée” from the French Ministry of Research. She is working as Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU. She is responsible for fostering and implementing Open Science practices across the DARIAH network. She contributes to the design and implementation of open science policy statements, guidelines and services related to the open dissemination of research results in the humanities.
Jean-Luc De Ochandiano
Jean-Luc De Ochandiano is head librarian and manager of Prairial, the Lyon Saint-Étienne publishing hub that offers a platform for the distribution of journals in the humanities and social sciences, as well as support for journal editorial teams. He is also a member of the ” Open scientific publishing” working group within the Comité pour la science ouverte and a member of the Repères steering committee, which federates 17 diamond open-access scientific journal platforms in France and Belgium.
Bernard Pochet
Bernard Pochet is a French-speaking Belgian. He is a psycho-pedagogue, with a postgraduate diploma in information and documentation science and a doctorate in science. He was director of an applied sciences library (agronomic sciences) for 24 years, and is now in charge of the Open Science unit at the University of Liège Library. He is also co-director of university press of liège at Gembloux, publication director for two international journals (Biotechnol. Agron. Agron. Soc. Environ. and Tropicultura), manager of the PoPuPS portal (Diamant Open Access journal publishing platform) and manager of e-publish (platform for open access book publishing) at the Université de Liège.
Armelle Thomas
Armelle Thomas is a research engineer at the CNRS, in charge of documentary engineering for open access publications at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Dijon (CNRS, uB). She contributed to the creation of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté publishing hub (PEPSO-BFC) and the development of its distribution platform “PREO”, for which she is responsible for referencing scientific journals. She was also involved in the creation of the Repères network (2018), and since 2016 has co-led the Mir@bel network, which provides a knowledge base dedicated to the online access to journals.
Anabel Vazquez
After working for many years as a research librarian, Anabel Vazquez is now an editor at the CNRS. She works for two anthropology and ethnography journals. She is a co-header of the steering committee of Médici (the french network of public publishing professionals) and co-leads the Spoc Quéro working group.
11. Alessandro Bertozzi and Maria Laura Abbamonte: From Words to Search: GoTriple’s AI ChatBot for Efficient Research Engagement
This presentation introduces an approach to simplify access through the overwhelming volume of GoTriple papers, developing an AI ChatBot.
The project’s core objective is to provide comprehensive AI support to researchers as they embark on new research tasks, offering a two-fold solution.
Firstly, users can initiate general queries with the AI ChatBot, which searches for an answer within the full text of the publications available in GoTriple. This allows users to gain a preliminary, holistic, document-based understanding of the topic they are addressing on the platform. This initial interaction would act as an ice-breaker on a subject, allowing the researcher to get a general idea of what is being discussed and whether concretely there are, at the present time, any publications contained in GoTriple that might be right for him. Secondly, by providing the documentary source from which the unstructured answer was generated, it would allow the searcher to directly access the referenced document to check its content. This feature empowers researchers to delve deeper into papers if they deem it necessary, encouraging in-depth exploration of the content and finer details through the GoTriple platform. This approach would not only provide faster access to the information source but also guide researchers toward targeted, purposeful engagement and with a different approach through the GoTriple platform. Researchers are prompted to explore articles only when the AI ChatBot’s responses align with their research objectives or, possibly, they could refine their original query to be directed to content of more specific interest. This, in a sense, would minimize the time spent in reading many abstracts that, although they may seem interesting at first glance, turn out in the second instance to be not strictly relevant to the use case. Finally, through the identification of reasoned evaluation methods, we will present a method for verifying the quality of the responses obtained and the relevance to the documents surveyed. Conceived in this manner, the AI ChatBot would be able to provide the final researcher a quick response on the content of the research topic and quick reference to resources in the platform, increasing the navigability and the usability of GoTriple environment.
Authors
Alessandro Bertozzi
Alessandro Bertozzi is a software developer at Net7. His university career began in the humanities, landing in the field of Digital Humanities at the Bologna DHDK master’s program. He has been working in the last year on the ontology and formalization of GoTriple vocabularies and ontologies from interoperability and Linked Open Data perspective. His interests span the fields of history and computer science, especially everything related to the data lifecycle.
Maria Laura Abbamonte
Maria Laura Abbamonte is a student pursuing a master’s degree in Big Data Analytics & AI for Society at the University of Pisa. A foundation in philosophy and formal logic has enriched her academic background. She is currently engaged in an exciting internship at Net7, which is providing her with valuable hands-on experience. Her interests range from formal logic and natural language logic to the application of natural language processing techniques.
12. Fotis Mystakopoulos, Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, Karla Avanco and Arnaud Gingold: Pathways for Sustainable Open Science: Outputs and Synergies Across DIAMAS, Skills4EOSC and GraspOS
Through its participation in DIAMAS, Skills4EOSC and GraspOS, OPERAS contributes to the development of a community-driven scholarly communication ecosystem with Open Science principles at its core. This poster will demonstrate the relationships between the components of each project and how they interact to enable sustainable change in the OS landscape. We present the 5 pathways the projects commonly address: Mentality Change, Community Building, Skills and Competencies, Infrastructure Support, and Research Assessment Evolution. These pathways complement each other, and each project contributes to different outputs. DIAMAS will focus on community-driven and collaborative publishing models and provide support to the Community of Publishers and Service Providers; moreover, it will develop online training materials and design the Common Access Point, a virtual knowledge exchange hub. Skills4EOSC addresses Researchers, Policy Makers and Scholarly Communication Professionals with key messages on why OS practices are necessary and tailor-made learning pathways that will guide the training and professionalisation of future OS practitioners. It will also establish a network of Competence Centres supporting training activities beyond the project’s timeframe. Finally, GraspOS is working in parallel to establish new ways of delivering research assessment through better monitoring of OS practices. By creating new pathways to accessing data for a variety of research outputs and new indicators, GraspOS is providing opportunities for embedding new practices in the Responsible Research Assessment movement. Key Outputs of the project include OS protocols for Research Assessment in SSH and the Open Science Assessment Framework. All of OPERAS’s efforts will be filtered through its pilot on the SSH thematic area.
Authors
Fotis Mystakopoulos
As a Project Policy Officer, Fotis is involved in EU-funded projects such as Skills4EOSC and GraspOS, projects that are implementing the most recent Open Science practices, including FAIR-by-design training materials, shaping the research assessment reform to account for Open Science practices, and creating a network of Competence Centres where professionals and researchers could grow their skills. In 2021, Fotis completed his MSc in Information Science, focusing on Plan S and its impact on scholarly communications from a UK perspective. While still an advocate for Open Access for scientific publications, he is also an EOSC FAIR Champion for the FAIR Impact project, promoting the adoption and implementation of FAIR practices.
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou holds a PhD in social anthropology. He has contributed to EU-funded projects on the development of Research Infrastructures. Currently, he is involved in the DIAMAS and Skills4EOSC projects as an OPERAS Open Science Project Officer.
Karla Avanco
Karla Avanço is the community manager of OPERAS. With a PhD in languages and linguistics and more than 10 years of experience in education and training, she reoriented to scholarly communication. Currently she works with the diffusion and adoption of Open Sciences and Open Access practices, especially the development of the OA diamond model. She has experience in linguistics, training, scientific translation, and academic publication. She is based at OpenEdition in Marseille, France.
Arnaud Gingold
Arnaud ensures data consistency and the application of the FAIR principles throughout OPERAS. With a dual background in linguistics and digital resources management, he started working in university ibraries and was a digital curator for a CNRS Open Archive. He joined OPERAS in 2016 as a Technical Coordinator for the related HIRMEOS project and is based at OpenEdition in Marseille, France. Arnaud is also project manager for CO-OPERAS.
13. Bruno Silva and Nelson Ferreira: Design Components Architecture to Support a Collaborative Translation Platform: Results from Task 5.5 of OPERAS Plus
This poster intends to outline the features and functionalities of a translation service platform for scholarly production, driven by the community. The platform aims to provide a collaborative environment for researchers and professionals to translate and edit scientific documents in multiple languages. The main features of the pilot developed from the design study will be presented (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.8289218).
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Bruno Silva
Bruno Silva is a lead frontend developer at UCFramework, a University of Coimbra company. Responsible for the mobile app UC One and the creation and maintenance of multiple web apps at the University of Coimbra. Fluent in Portuguese, English and French. Technical skills span a broad range of technologies such as PHP, NodeJS, VueJS, Javascript, and blockchain-related programming with Ethereum and Solidity.
Nelson H. S. Ferreira
Nelson H. S. Ferreira is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Coimbra and has been studying and publishing within the scope of Open Science Infrastructures, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean regions’ popular culture, languages and social history and ancient thought. Recently his research has been dedicated to the anthropological impact of the economic dependence of agricultural production in Sumerian and Roman cultures, to the history of science, to Knowledge management and to Knowledge Transfer from academy to society. He has a PhD in ‘Classical Studies’ (University of Coimbra) and in ‘Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies’ (University of Barcelona).
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14. Sandra Guigonis: The COMMONS Project: Linking Data and Publication
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Sandra Guigonis
15. Luca De Santis and Lorenzo Armando: Pathfinder – The OPERAS’ Publishing Service Portal
Pathfinder (https://pathfinder.operas-eu.org/) is an OPERAS service that aims to help editors and editorial managers find publishing services that they can use to perform their editorial tasks on open-access publications (journals, books, editions and other research outputs,…) in social sciences and humanities. It consists of a web-based catalogue where scholarly communication services are presented, mainly those managed by OPERAS members but possibly by other providers as well. While editors and editorial managers are the main target users of the platform, authors can also use Pathfinder to receive suggestions for publishing the results of their research. The current platform has been developed within the OPERAS-PLUS research project and was released in August 2023. While this is the first publicly accessible version of the Pathfinder, an initial prototype of this service had been developed in the past during the OPERAS-P research project, which ended in June 2021. This former experience helped to better definPae the requirements and expectations that led to shaping the current version of the platform. Its web back office has been designed to simplify the process of entering and updating data. It offers a complete classification system for service types whose categories have been selected as a result of a collaborative effort with other OPERAS partners. Users can seamlessly search for services and service providers using a user-friendly interface: results can be further filtered through a faceted interface. Services and service providers are presented in detail, ensuring users have all of the necessary information at their fingertips. Additionally, a user can quickly click on the suggested searches curated by the editorial team, while a search wizard helps users in specifying the right conditions to find what they are looking for. Users can register in Pathfinder through the OPERAS ID service to have access to advanced features. For example, registered users can create personalized lists of services, referred to as “Kits”, which can be shared with collaborators. Also, to foster collaboration and communication among the Pathfinder community of users, a dedicated space on the OPERAS Mattermost chat platform has been activated. This space encourages the exchange of suggestions, enhancing the overall experience for everyone involved. While the main development of the platform has been concluded, data entry and curation of services and service providers will continue until the end of the OPERAS-PLUS project. Synergies with other OPERAS projects (with DIAMAS in particular) have been considered in order to enrich the quality and dimension of the Pathfinder’s catalogue.
Authors
Luca De Santis
Luca De Santis is the R&D Director at Net7 Srl, a system integration company based in Pisa, Italy. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry.
Throughout his career, Luca has been involved in numerous research initiatives. In particular, Luca is the technical leader of the team that developed the Pathfinder platform. He was also the technical coordinator in the last year of the TRIPLE project, leading the development of the GoTriple multilingual discovery platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (https://gotriple.eu), another OPERAS service. Finally, he is leading the team for the development of the VERA platform (https://vera.operas-eu.org/), an OPERAS service dedicated to Collaborative Research and Citizen Science in SSH. When not managing projects, commercial or of research nature alike, he likes to deepen his knowledge in the fields of Semantic Web & Linked Data, Natural Language Processing, Industry 4.0 and Software Architectures.
He has a penchant for noisy music, the French language and wine tasting (not necessarily French…).
Lorenzo Armando
Lorenzo Armando has been an entrepreneurial figure in the publishing industry since the late 1980s. With a degree in Classical Literature from the University of Turin, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of literary and academic publications in Italy. Lorenzo is the owner of Lexis Compagnia Editoriale in Torino Srl, of which he currently serves as the sole administrator.
He is also the editorial Director for renowned publishing houses such as Rosenberg & Sellier, Celid, and Accademia University Press, and he is deputy chairman of the Italian Publishers Association (Associazione Italiana Editori).
He has been involved in several research projects, most notably OPERAS-P, where the first version of the Pathfinder has been implemented, and OPERAS-PLUS, in which his deep experience of the publishing world helped define the requirements of the platform. He is also leading the editorial team in charge of curating the content of the Pathfinder.
16. Elea Giménez-Toledo: ES CIENCIA. An Interdisciplinary Platform on Spanish in Science for Boosting Multilingualism
ES CIENCIA is a research platform created by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in 2019 to work on Spanish as a language of scientific communication. It develops interdisciplinary research projects in inter-institutional and international collaboration, both with Latin America and Europe. ES CIENCIA involves researchers and technical specialists in Academic Publishing, Terminology, Information& Library Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and Translation.
The apparent oxymoron in the title is intended to draw attention to the fact that work on a particular language in science, and in the context of open science, contributes to the development of a multilingual scientific communication system. In fact, the platform is based on the values of multilingualism in science. ES CIENCIA has promoted the adhesion of the CSIC to the Helsinki Initiative on multilingualism in science communication, the participation of Spain in OPERAS, and has participated in the document on scientific publications read to the Ibero-American Ministers of Science, Technology and Innovation (2022) to highlight the value of the languages of the region in the transfer of research results to society.
This poster will show the different levels at which ES CIENCIA works, the disciplines involved, the transfer of results and the interaction with institutions working in science, language and book policies. The main research projects will also be presented: TeresIA. Artificial and natural intelligence-based project on terminology in Spanish, Cartography of the IberoAmerican academic book publishing, Scholarly Publishers Indicators. Information and indicators about book publishing, Academic book publishing in Spain: Digital transformation, Open access books in Spain (within the OPERAS project PALOMERA.Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area), Name Entity Recognition in academic books in Spanish.
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Elea Giménez-Toledo
Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 2006. PhD in Library and Information Science (University Carlos III de Madrid). She is head of ILIA: Research Team on Scholarly Book, Principal Investigator of the project Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI) and coordinator of ES CIENCIA Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform, an institutional project by CSIC on Spanish as a language of scientific communication. Co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS. She was the Director of the Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council between 2020 and 2022. She has also been part of the CSIC Advisory Commission for Humanities and Social Sciences issues (2018-2023). She is commissioner of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) for Ibero-American scientific communication issues and a member of the scientific committee of Fundación Lilly. Her research is now focused on multilingualism in scholarly communication, terminology and academic book publishing. She is now conducting the Cartography of the Iberoamerican academic publishing, a research project with the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC) and the Association of Latin American and Caribbean University Presses (EULAC). She is also leading the project TERESIA. Portal for access to TERminologies in Spain and Artificial Intelligence services, which is about to start after receiving the approval of the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence within the framework of the PERTE New Economy of the language (Next Generation EU funds).
17. Margo Bargheer, Tobias Buck, Ursula Arning, Markus Putnings, Dagmar Schobert and Barbara Ziegler: Seven Reasons Why Institutional Publishing Services Are Indispensable for Open Access
In our poster, we make the following seven statements about why institutional publishing services have been indispensable science communication services worth funding for more than twenty years now!
1. Technical and conceptual innovations are our daily business.
2. We set and use standards regarding quality, metadata and open science.
3. We build networks nationally and internationally, institutionally and in projects.
4. We make research results visible, as publishing is a core task of academic institutions and their libraries.
5. We anticipate what researchers need; the needs of the scientific community are at the centre of our actions.
6. We act fairly and in partnership through science-friendly contracts and user-friendly licenses.
7. We make researchers’ diamonds sparkle, we were and are the change towards Diamond OA.
We would like feedback on our statements. As a working group for German-speaking university presses and institutional publishing services, we want to highlight the importance of local publication services and discuss ideas for better recognition and support. Excellent services deserve adequate funding!
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Margo Bargheer
Margo Bargheer is a trained graphic designer and holds a master’s degree in social anthropology and media studies. She is head of the electronic publishing team at Göttingen University Library, which takes care of Göttingen University Press, the university’s journal platform and repositories. The team is involved in several projects around open access such as CRAFT-OA, PALOMERA, DIAMAS and the German information platform open-access.network. Margo serves on the sounding board of the German Association of Institutional Publishing Services, the AG Universitätsverlage, is chair of the Association of European University Presses and serves as an expert on several international working groups.
Tobias Buck
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Ursula Arning
Markus Putnings
Dagmar Schobert
Barbara Ziegler
18. Franjo Pehar, Mate Juric and Nikolina Peša Pavlović: Empowering User Engagement: UCQ-FRAME’s Role in User-Centred Design at OPERAS
This proposal presents a poster presentation with a focus on the development and significance of the Common Framework Defining the Methodology for Achieving User-Centred Quality Objectives (UCQ-FRAME). The UCQ-FRAME serves as a methodological framework at the core of the OPERAS-PLUS project, particularly within Work Package 6 (WP6). Its purpose is to enhance user-centred design (UCD) practices within open scholarly communication, with a specific emphasis on the social sciences and humanities. The landscape of open scholarly communication has evolved significantly, placing a greater emphasis on inclusivity, diversity, and user engagement. OPERAS-PLUS recognized the shifting needs of users and initiated the development of the UCQ-FRAME to elevate user experiences within its services. Part A of the framework lays the groundwork for User-Centred Design (UCD) processes by aligning them with ISO 9241 standards and integrating the ResearchOps framework. It offers an iterative design cycle equipped with tailored methods and tools to facilitate standardized processes and systematic evaluation of user experience maturity. This section underscores the importance of dedicated UX teams, comprehensive user research, and inclusive participant recruitment. Part B complements the framework by providing a curated list of methods and tools drawn from existing OPERAS projects, services, and relevant literature. These resources empower project teams to adapt and implement UCD practices, ensuring the delivery of high-quality user experiences while accommodating specific project requirements. The UCQ-FRAME is a dynamic framework that actively considers user and other stakeholder input and feedback, ensuring the framework’s continued relevance and practicality. This poster presentation introduces the UCQ-FRAME to the broader community, highlighting its role in promoting user-centred design principles and advancing user engagement within this domain. Attendees are invited to engage in constructive discussions about the framework’s development, application, and potential implications for the future of open scholarly communication. The insights and feedback gathered from this presentation will be valuable as the UCQ-FRAME continues to evolve, contributing to the enhancement of OPERAS on its path to becoming operational as an ERIC.
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Franjo Pehar
Franjo Pehar is associate professor at the University of Zadar’s Department of Information Sciences and head of the Laboratory for Interactive Systems and User Experience (UNIZD UX Lab). His research interests include the history and theory of information science, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, usability, and user experience.
Mate Juric
Mate Juric is assistant professor at the University of Zadar’s Department of Information Sciences. He graduated in psychology and got a PhD in social sciences, in the field of information and communication sciences. His research interests include human information behavior, human-computer interaction, user experience, instructional design, and data analysis.
Nikolina Peša Pavlović
Nikolina Peša Pavlović is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zadar’s Department of Information Sciences and a member of the Laboratory for Interactive Systems and User Experience (UNIZD UX Lab). Her research interests include information behavior in an online environment, human-computer interaction, user-centered design and user experience.
19. Pierre Mounier and Alessia Smaniotto: Hypotheses: A Platform for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Blogs
Hypothesis is designed to be an interactive platform between humanities and social sciences (SSH) researchers and the society at large. Developing the practices of academic blogging, the hypotheses.org platform already offers to SSH researchers the ability to build an open conversation with socio-economic actors, more particularly regarding the societal challenges. Currently, hypotheses.org allows for communication practices in support of a wide range of interactions with the society, from science popularisation (https://sms.hypotheses.org/) to intensively collaborative projects (https://places.hypotheses.org).
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Pierre Mounier
Pierre supports cooperation between OPERAS members and contributes to the strategic roadmap of the infrastructure. He is trained in classics and social anthropology. Affiliated to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Pierre is deputy director of OpenEdition, the French national infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and co-director of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). He publishes regularly on digital humanities and open science, and more generally on the social and political impact of information and communication technologies (ICT).
Alessia Smaniotto
Alessia develops citizen science projects and services for the OPERAS community. She is trained in philosophy, journalism and sociology in Italy and France and she holds a PhD in Philosophy of Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her doctoral research focused on journalism as a form of knowledge. Her work for OpenEdition focuses on scientific communication and collaboration between research in the SSH. She coordinated the PLACES project, granted by the French Ministry of Culture, focused on the collaboration between researchers and journalists, and is managing the COESO project, funded by the European Commission, to further upgrade the OPERAS Research for Society Service. Before joining OpenEdition, Alessia worked as a journalist.
20. Stefano Bolelli Gallevi, Dario Basset and Rossella Filadoro: Statistics for Milano University Press: from Downloads to Usage Data
This presentation is about downloading statistics for Milano University Press. We started providing some context data on our diamond university press project and continued with how we built the webpage https://milanoup.unimi.it/eng/statistics.html using custom scripts to collect and publish the data from our PKP OJS based website (https://riviste.unimi.it), and concluding on future developments, particularly collecting data with OJS APIs, adding data from our OMP based website (htps://libri.unmi.it) and starting to collect usage data
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Stefano Bolelli Gallevi
Dario Basset
Rossella Filadoro
20. Andrea Hacker, Elio Pellin and Dirk Verdicchio: Flexible Support Structure for Scholar-driven Publishing
Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs) can develop flexible service structures for scholar-led publishing to promote bibliodiversity, multilingualism, and discipline-specific publication cultures. Bern Open Publishing (BOP), the Open Access publication service at the University Library of Bern, operates publishing platforms for journals and books that strive towards these goals. BOP’s range of services and tools is designed to meet the different needs of researchers, authors and editors alike. The aim is to offer options for scholard-led publishing at every stage for heterogeneous publishing needs. Bibliodiversity. By providing a flexible structure for scholar-led publishing, BOP promotes discipline-based publishing cultures and bibliodiversity: Scholars can publish journals, video-journals, monographs, edited volumes, document editions, special catalogs or collections of interviews. At Bern Open Publishing, researchers and editors can choose a workflow that matches their resources, technical skills and editorial requirements. The xml-first approach improves dissemination and enables a wider range of bibliodiversity in different formats.
Researchers and editors have a choice of three xml-first workflows: a Pandoc, SciFlow and Marcalyc for journals that we can register in Redalyc.
In addition, editors are free to work with commercial service providers to produce their publication formats.
Printed versions of journals and books are available either through commercial publishers or through a print-on-demand provider based in Switzerland.
Multilingualism. The OJS platform BOP Serials offers English, German, Spanish, French and Italian as standard system languages. Other languages can be added at the request of the researchers. The language of the publications is up to the editors. Certain tools for the xml workflows feature templates that can be tailored to the needs of the researchers. For example, it is possible to create text passages in Hebrew or Farsi.
The OMP platform BOP Books offers German and English as system languages. At the time of writing, BOP Books features publications in German, English and French. AV content. A IIIF server is available for image-heavy publications and allows for high-resolution images to be imported directly into the publications. Our poster gives an overview of BOP’s service structure for researchers that allows them to pursue their publications according to their possibilities and the needs and requirements of their research area.
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Andrea Hacker
Elio Pellin
Dirk Verdicchio
22. Malgorzata Lagisz: What Do Best Paper Awards Have to Do with the Publication Practices?
Research awards provide recognition to outstanding researchers for excellent research (at least that is what they usually claim). But what does “excellent research” mean? Can we tell what the assessors and awarding bodies value from award descriptions? Do they value robust, transparent, and inclusive research? Do they incentivize adherence to core practices of Open Science? And who gets these awards? In this poster, I present the results of a collaborative project evaluating 222 Best Paper awards across disciplines. Notably, this work builds on an earlier project focused on two types of common awards for early career researchers in the fields of ecology and evolution. We found that journals and learned societies administering Best Paper awards publicly provide very little detail about their awards. Award descriptions almost never mention concepts that align with Open Science. Between 2001 and 2022, most individual winners were USA-affiliated, while researchers from the Global South and developing countries were uncommon. Sixty-one percent of individual winners were men. Overall, Best Paper awards miss the global calls for providing greater transparency and equitability in science. We can see them as an untapped opportunity for aligning incentives in the publication process and research recognition with values for greater openness and inclusivity. Including and highlighting Open Science practices in award criteria could raise awareness and act as a direct incentive for researchers to implement such practices in their research. For publishers, it is a chance to both signal and prove the trustworthiness of their publication assessment processes. For the broader public, it could showcase how community-driven action can drive the greater transparency and reliability of scholarly communication.
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Malgorzata Lagisz
Malgorzata Lagisz is a Research Fellow working at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at the University of New South Wales. I am a member of an Inter-Disciplinary Ecology and Evolution Lab (www.i-deel.org) led by Prof. Shinichi Nakagawa. I am a population ecologist and ecotoxicologist by training. Over the years, I expanded my toolbox to include research synthesis, especially meta-analysis and systematic reviews of literature and evidence. I participated in many project-related to research synthesis across disciplines ranging from biology, through biomedicine, to built environment. My work includes method development for evidence synthesis and meta-research. I am actively involved in trying to improve reporting practices in ecology and related fields, as well as the Open Science movement.
23. Brian Hole and Tom Mowlam: Metrics Service
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Brian Hole
Tom Mowlam
24. Mikołaj Leszczuk and Piotr Dziula: Implementation of Software for Searching Similar Illustrations in Scientific Publications
This work introduces an innovative software application that is tailored to search for similar illustrations in scientific publications, addressing a key need in academic research for efficient image comparison and retrieval. The software uses advanced image processing techniques and content-based image retrieval systems, focussing on extracting and comparing distinctive features such as colour, texture, and shape in scientific illustrations. A theoretical foundation is established, outlining the complexities in image processing and retrieval relevant to academic illustration. The development phase is explored, with an emphasis on algorithm selection and methodology adaptation for accurate feature extraction and image comparison. The efficacy of the application is demonstrated through extensive testing on diverse image sets from scientific papers, showcasing its ability to identify identical and near-identical illustrations accurately. The user interface is designed for accessibility, catering to users from various technical backgrounds, making this advanced image retrieval technology readily available to the academic community. The results from practical application tests confirm the high accuracy of the software in image matching, emphasising the effectiveness of the employed techniques. Conclusively, this work marks a significant contribution to the field of image processing in academic research, offering an essential tool for researchers and academicians. Highlights the importance of precise image feature extraction and comparison in building effective image retrieval systems for the scientific literature. The successful implementation and testing of the software underline its potential as an indispensable resource in academic research and information retrieval, promising to streamline the process of finding relevant illustrations in scientific publications.
Mikołaj Leszczuk
Mikołaj Leszczuk, Associate Professor at the AGH University of Kraków, specialises in telecommunications. His contributions to the field include extensive research in digital signal processing, focussing on video quality assessment, multimedia systems, and the development of frameworks for summarising and translating newscasts and reports. The work of Prof. Leszczuk emphasises reproducible research and the accessibility of multilingual information. His projects under CHIST-ERA ‘Access Multilingual Information opinionS’ (AMIS) and other research on no-reference visual metrics underscore his commitment to improving user experiences and content accessibility in languages in digital humanities and scholarly communication.
Piotr Dziula
25. Marina Cortes Aldaz: Dialogue and Reflection within the French Community
The French community of OPERAS is a vital part of the broader European infrastructure OPERAS, focusing on promoting open scholarly communication in the humanities and social sciences. OPERAS France’s main goal is to efficiently distribue information regarding OPERAS projects, updates, and activities among the French academic community.
The presented poster highlights the diversity of OPERAS France’s members and their varied activities. These members represent a multitude of organizations and infrastructures, each bringing a unique and valuable contribution to OPERAS. The poster also explores the specific areas of action of each organization and emphasizes the importance of their collective contribution to OPERAS Europe.
The use of the French language across the website and social media platforms underscores a commitment to transparent and accessible communication with native speakers. This ensures that the information provided remains relevant and easily accessible. Furthermore, this strategy fosters active engagement from members of the French community with OPERAS
The richness of the French community of OPERAS lies in its diversity, both in terms of types of organizations and infrastructures and targeted audiences. Each member brings unique and enriching perspectives, thereby contributing to strengthening OPERAS as a whole. Collaboration and engagement of all members are essential to fostering exchange of ideas and innovation within the European OPERAS community.
The members of the French community include its national node OpenEdition-CNRS; the Association of European University Presses; DARIAH ERIC; Paris Nanterre University; DGLFLF – General Delegation for the French language and languages of France; Huma-Num; Rennes University Presses; TGIR Progedo; Lorraine University; and RFIEA, the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Studies.
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Marina Cortes Aldaz
As the new Community Manager of OPERAS France, she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages with a specialization in international communication, as well as a master’s degree in intercultural mediation. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, she brings to her role a deep understanding of cultural nuances. Although relatively new to the field of open science, she has discovered her passion for the subject and aims to contribute to its international growth.
26. Laura J. Wilkinson and Ronald Snijder Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) – Increasing transparency about peer review for monographs
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27. Sofia Papastamkou: Ranke.2 – Source Criticism in the Digital Age. Scholar-led Publishing of Multilingual Educational Resources for Historians
The rise of digital humanities (DH) in the early 2000s bore with it an inherent tension. On the one hand, humanists need to appropriate and integrate digital technologies in their research and teaching, both processes being subject to digital interferences . On the other hand, the higher education institutions prove(d) slow to adapt their curricula to these needs. In this context, informal networks of scholars stepped in to provide training on an ad hoc basis acting as a sort of “invisible college” for digital humanities (Crymble 2021). This both community-led and open pedagogy (Kirschenbaum 2010, Varin 2013) produced pedagogical outputs now widely known as open educational resources (OER) .
In this proposal, we consider the DH OER as shared resources of communities of practice (Wenger 1991) having a common domain of interest: the appropriation of DH methods in research and teaching in the humanities. Furthermore, we specifically focus on a subdomain, the multilingual OER. In the scholarly literature of DH, the interest is growing for the theoretical implications of multilingualism, especially since 2021 , and often takes an advocate stance . However, multilingualism was already embedded, through praxis, in various initiatives (Spence & Brandao 2021). The same is true for the collaborative production of open educational resources, whether top-down or entirely community-driven .
We specifically focus here on Ranke.2, an editorial project launched in 2018 that publishes lessons on digital source criticism in English, French and German. Its origin is paired with the creation of a digital history interdisciplinary center at the University of Luxembourg. It is both a product of and targets the historians research community. Its multilingual vocation is embedded in the history of Luxembourg, an officially trilingual country (Scagliola 2018). However, it also emanates from the ambition to apply a connected approach to a concept (source criticism) that is embedded in the national scientific traditions of European countries , through the objective to update it and make it fit to the digital – and transnational – age. Finally, one must note that the project involves three languages considered as central in the international system .
We propose to present the project through the angle of several challenges that had to be faced. First, the choice of implementing a multilingual project in a holistic way and not on an ad hoc basis and the role of translation. Second, the choices regarding the architecture and the infrastructure of the project and how they fit its multilingual vocation . Finally, the challenge of conceiving, editing, and publishing lessons in a multilingual perspective. In doing so, we will also engage with the lessons learned and with the fact that several initial choices had to be reconsidered during the evolution of the project. In this sense, we wish to highlight the acts of “repair” that we were able to operate a posteriori on a digital publishing project as well as the ones we eventually had to give up, that we believe can be of interest for the community of scholar-led publication