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On 1 October 2025, researchers and innovators from the LUMEN and GRAPHIA projects gathered for a hybrid workshop “Mapping Cross-Project Functionalities – Towards a Service-Based Innovation Model” in Zagreb and online, exploring how shared technologies and approaches could strengthen collaboration across the social sciences and humanities (SSH). The workshop was designed as a strategic space … Continue reading Mapping Cross-Project Functionalities: When Innovation Meets Collaboration
Towards a Service-Based Innovation Model 📍 Zagreb, 1 October 2025 How do we make sure that research infrastructures don’t just live in their own bubbles, but actually talk to each other? How can platforms built for discovery, knowledge graphs, and innovative services come together to spark something greater than the sum of their parts? On … Continue reading Mapping Cross-Project Functionalities – an OPERAS Innovation Lab workshop for LUMEN x GRAPHIA
Author: Gwydyon Marchelli In a world saturated with data, one question remains surprisingly difficult to answer with precision: Where? Documents, archives, and databases often lack spatial context. Genius Loci aims to bridge this gap. As a spatial intelligence company, our mission is to transform fragmented, often inaccessible data into clear, geolocated insights about the built … Continue reading Genius Loci & GRAPHIA: Giving Shape to the Question “Where?”
Authors: Mike Bryant, Frank Uiterwaal Reviewer: Maciej Maryl The heterogeneity and multilinguality of data sources pose a significant challenge to researchers across many fields in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). This blog post discusses this challenge in the context of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and describes an approach to classifying textual metadata … Continue reading The EHRI Use-Case for GRAPHIA: LLM-assisted Information Discovery for Heterogeneous Multilingual Data
Author: Maciej Maryl “Everything becomes structurally more complex, to become functionally simpler,” wrote the philosopher Vilém Flusser in his visionary work questioning the very future of writing. Thus, he saw a world where new technologies – more complex and faster “quills” – would functionally revolutionise how we inscribe thought, moving us beyond the linear constraints … Continue reading From Quills to Keyboards and Beyond – Insights into Innovation in Scholarly Writing
Authors: Alex Fawzi, Stefano De Paoli As researchers at Abertay University, we’ve long recognised the power of qualitative inquiry. Methods like Thematic Analysis (TA) allow us to uncover rich, nuanced patterns in human experience from interviews and texts. At the same time, we’re also keenly aware of one of its biggest challenges: the sheer amount … Continue reading Introducing TALLMesh, Our Tool for AI-Powered Thematic Analysis
At this year’s DH Benelux 2025 in Amsterdam, the OPERAS Innovation Lab presented its latest work on building a practical and inclusive framework for evaluating innovative research outputs in the social sciences and Humanities (SSH). Developed in collaboration with DARIAH-EU and based on international research assessment principles (such as DORA and CoARA), the framework is … Continue reading Lab’s Framework for innovative SSH research outputs presented at DH Benelux in Amsterdam
We are excited to invite you to a collaborative online event on June 26, 10:00 AM CEST, to discuss the action plan for the OPERAS Innovation Lab, a key initiative supporting innovation in open scholarly communication within the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). In November 2024, we published Guidelines on Publishing and Evaluating Innovative Outputs in Social … Continue reading Join Us in Shaping the Future of the OPERAS Innovation Lab – Online Event in June
In the upcoming months, the OPERAS Innovation Lab will observe projects and use cases developed by various stakeholders collaborating in a Horizon Europe-funded project running from January 2025 to December 2027. The GRAPHIA consortium (Knowledge Graphs, AI Services and Next Generation Instrumentation for R&D in Social Sciences and Humanities) aims to build the first comprehensive … Continue reading Introducing GRAPHIA use cases
In a recent episode of the Big Open Science Podcast, our team had the opportunity to share insights into how the Lab contributes to the evolution of open science practices across Europe. The episode, hosted by Gabriela Manista and recorded during a study visit to the University of Luxembourg (read more here), features our colleagues … Continue reading Lab in the Big Open Science Podcast!
