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Magdalena Wnuk Innovations in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) are increasingly driven by digital developments and the need to advance technologies within their disciplines. At the same time, they retain distinctive characteristics, such as critical reflection, epistemic diversity, and a reliance on long-term, in-depth engagement with their audiences . As a result, innovation models … Continue reading OPERAS Innovation Lab framework for shaping innovation in SSH and beyond
Patryk Hubar-Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz Perliński Research evaluation in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) still struggles to capture many forms of societal impact. Standard metrics such as citation counts, journal impact factors, and h-indices work best in fields where influence travels through formal, indexed publication channels. In SSH, however, the most consequential forms of impact often … Continue reading IMeTo: A Scalable AI Workflow for Documenting SSH Research Impact
In the coming months, the GRAPHIA project invites SSH researchers to explore Knowledge Graphs through a short and engaging webinar series. While knowledge graphs may seem complex from a technological perspective, they can offer surprising simplicity for users—opening the door to new connections, fresh insights, and unexpected discoveries. In short, they’re well worth a try. … Continue reading All you need to know to begin with Knowledge Graphs: GRAPHIA introduces a new webinar series
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
