One of the OPERAS Innovation Lab’s goals is to collect information about innovative outputs, observe the latest trends, and provide research results on novel methods and formats of scholarly communication. All you need to know about innovation in scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities is here!
- Genius Loci & GRAPHIA: Giving Shape to the Question “Where?”
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 … Continue reading Genius Loci & GRAPHIA: Giving Shape to the Question “Where?” - The EHRI Use-Case for GRAPHIA: LLM-assisted Information Discovery for Heterogeneous Multilingual Data
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 … Continue reading The EHRI Use-Case for GRAPHIA: LLM-assisted Information Discovery for Heterogeneous Multilingual Data - From Quills to Keyboards and Beyond – Insights into Innovation in Scholarly Writing
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 … Continue reading From Quills to Keyboards and Beyond – Insights into Innovation in Scholarly Writing - Introducing TALLMesh, Our Tool for AI-Powered Thematic Analysis
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 … Continue reading Introducing TALLMesh, Our Tool for AI-Powered Thematic Analysis - Join Us in Shaping the Future of the OPERAS Innovation Lab – Online Event in June
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 … Continue reading Join Us in Shaping the Future of the OPERAS Innovation Lab – Online Event in June - Introducing GRAPHIA use cases
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 … Continue reading Introducing GRAPHIA use cases - Lab in the Big Open Science Podcast!
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 … Continue reading Lab in the Big Open Science Podcast! - A New Approach to Evaluating Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities
Author: Françoise Gouzi Reviewers: Carol Delmazo Innovation in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) often defies conventional academic evaluation. Groundbreaking digital tools, dynamic research outputs, and novel methodologies are shaping the future of scholarship—yet, outdated assessment methods fail to … Continue reading A New Approach to Evaluating Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities - TEI Panorama. A platform for digital scholarly editions of Polish literary texts
Author: Agnieszka Szulińska Reviewers: Arnaud Gingold, Sy Holsinger TEI Panorama might seem like another platform in a digital scholar editor’s toolbox. However, its creators focus on assisting editors who wish to enter the digital domain without advanced technological skills. This … Continue reading TEI Panorama. A platform for digital scholarly editions of Polish literary texts - Infra Finder: Discover open infrastructures that meet your needs
Authors: Emmy Tsang, Chrys Wu (Infra Finder) Reviewers: Elena Sokolova, Tomasz Umerle The challenge of finding the right infrastructure solution Open infrastructures — shared systems and resources supporting the creation, sharing, and preservation of research output and knowledge — are … Continue reading Infra Finder: Discover open infrastructures that meet your needs - Enhancing machine-readability in scientific publishing: introducing the JATS XML Converter Service
Authors: Ljiljana Jertec Musap, Draženko Celjak, Petra Čačić, Ivan JelenićUniversity of Zagreb, University Computing Centre SRCE Reviewers: Ronald Snijder, Jadranka Stojanovski Challenges in Open Access Publishing In the evolving landscape of academic publishing, the push towards open access (OA) has … Continue reading Enhancing machine-readability in scientific publishing: introducing the JATS XML Converter Service - Evaluation to foster innovation in RIs in SSH
Author: Davide Emanuele Iannace Reviewers: Françoise Gouzi Evaluation is a key to enlarging the capabilities of the RIs to be innovative actors in their own field. It gives them a key to understand their own kingdom and their reality. Again, … Continue reading Evaluation to foster innovation in RIs in SSH - OPERAS Innovation Lab Observatory welcomes your contributions!
At the OPERAS Innovation Lab we aim at observing, recognising, and supporting innovation in the humanities and social sciences. Search and recognition come before support – therefore we invite innovators and creators to share their projects with the Lab’s team … Continue reading OPERAS Innovation Lab Observatory welcomes your contributions! - Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment
Key Insights from the OPERAS Innovation Lab Workshop in Zadar (OPERAS Conference, April 2024) Authors and contributors: Magdalena Wnuk, Maciej Maryl, Elena Sokolova, Françoise Gouzi, Ronald Snijder, Tomasz Umerle Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Frank Manista In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly … Continue reading Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment - When innovation precedes change
Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena WnukReviewers: Karla Avanço, Françoise Gouzi According to Joseph Schumpeter, innovation is more than just a buzzword—it’s the tangible realization of ideas that leads to fresh or enhanced products, services, and processes. But innovation isn’t a solitary … Continue reading When innovation precedes change - Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication
Author: Magdalena WnukReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger Small, independent projects, tools or services deal with sustainability challenges different from those faced by large research infrastructures. What they lack is a stable, relatively modest funding, that would be sufficient to hire … Continue reading Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication - DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model
Author: Françoise GouziReviewers: Elena Giglia, Sy Holsinger, Tomasz Umerle The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is building an overlay journal, and has chosen Episciences platform for this project (application currently in progress). Episciences is a French public publishing platform provided by one … Continue reading DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model - How to evaluate innovation in the humanities?
Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena Wnuk The OPERAS’ Lab Observatory sheds light on the innovative technological projects aimed at communicating research results in an untraditional way. The discussion over the needs of such projects is both interesting and inspiring, particularly the … Continue reading How to evaluate innovation in the humanities? - Cool tools for open access booksAuthors: Ronald SnijderReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger As you may know, the OAPEN Foundation manages two platforms to distribute open access books and chapters: the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Both platforms have thrived for over a … Continue reading Cool tools for open access books
- Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Authors: Kaan Yildirim, Kelly AchenbachReviewers: Karla Avanço, Alessia Smaniotto On October 19-21, 2023, in Paris, 200+ participants/attendees will gather to discuss Citizen Science and Participatory Research, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities and participatory approaches to research funding, … Continue reading Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities - The sound(s) of open scienceAuthors: Marta Świetlik, Marta BłaszczyńskaReviewers: Sy Holsinger, Frank Manista It’s summertime! Those of us who are enjoying it in the office may be looking for slightly more relaxing activities before the busy September kicks in. There is nothing new in … Continue reading The sound(s) of open science
- (Open!) Peer review – an overview
Author: Jadranka Stojanovski, University of Zadar, Croatia jadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Maciej Maryl Introduction Open science initiatives have gained significant traction in Europe since 2014, spearheaded by the European Commission’s efforts to develop guidelines and recommendations and implement open science … Continue reading (Open!) Peer review – an overview - The growing world of open access books
Today’s topic is open access books, using this opportunity to introduce activities of the OPERAS Special Interest Groups (OA Business Models, Open Access Books Network) and projects (OPERAS-P, COPIM, Open Book Futures, PALOMERA) related to book publishing and the recently published ‘Collaborative models for OA book publishers’ white paper by the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Special Interest Group.
