CO-OPERAS: an Implementation Network for SSH fairification

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Defining discovery:is Google Scholar a discovery platform? An essay on the need for a new approach to scholarly discovery

This essay discusses the concept of discovery, intended as content discovery, and defines it in the new context of Open Science, with a focus on Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Starting from the example of Google Scholar, the authors show that this well established service does not address the current needs, practices, and variety of discovery. Alternatives in terms of technical choices, features, and governance, do however exist, offering richer and more open discovery. The paper presents in particular the implementations and research work of the H2020 project TRIPLE (Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration). Dedicated to the building of a discovery platform for the SSH, the project is meant to address the specificities and evolution of discovery in this field. Prevailing scholarly resource platforms like Google Scholar limit discovery by focussing only on publications, and favouring through their algorithm well-cited papers, English content, and discipline-specific resources. A limitation in the context of cross-disciplinary and collaborative Open Science, such a service more specifically hinders discovery in the SSH. Characterized by a fragmented landscape, a variety of languages, data types, and outputs, research in the SSH requires services that fully exploit discovery potentialities. Moreover, a survey conducted within the TRIPLE project showed that most SSH researchers use Google Scholar as their starting point, and that they recognise the lack of control they have with this system. Beyond the extension of features and content, transparency is the other important criterion for the building of an Open Infrastructure actually serving the research community. In light of this, we present in some detail the GoTriple platform, which exploits today's technological potential and incorporates the best known functionalities in order to unveil more and innovative scholarly outputs and lead to international and interdisciplinary research project collaborations

Addendum: Dumouchel, S., et al. GOTRIPLE: A User-Centric Process to Develop a Discovery Platform. Information 2020, 11, 563

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GOTRIPLE:a user-centric process to develop a discovery platform

Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research is divided across a wide array of disciplines, sub-disciplines and languages. While this specialization makes it possible to investigate the extensive variety of SSH topics, it also leads to a fragmentation that prevents SSH research from reaching its full potential. The TRIPLE project brings answers to these issues by developing an innovative discovery platform for SSH data, researchers’ projects and profiles. Having started in October 2019, the project has already three main achievements that are presented in this paper: (1) the definition of main features of the GOTRIPLE platform; (2) its interoperability; (3) its multilingual, multicultural and interdisciplinary vocation. These results have been achieved thanks to different methodologies such as a co-design process, market analysis and benchmarking, monitoring and co-building. These preliminary results highlight the need for respecting diversity of practices and communities through coordination and harmonization

Activities of the members - Brigitte Ouvry-Vial and Jiri Travniczek

Brigitte Ouvry-Vial and Jiri Travniczek attended the Ist Working Groups meeting of Cost Action E-READ (www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/Actions/IS1404) in Ljubjlana, Slovenia, April 8-10 2015. Focused on digital and contemporary reading processes, this action mainly gathers scholars in Information and Media Studies, Technology, Neurosciences, experimental Psychology, Sociology with so far, except for a few SHARP members,  limited interest or expertise in historical perspectives on reading practi..

Upcoming exhibition "How we read: a sensory history of books for Blind People"

We’re delighted to invite you to our upcoming exhibition, “How We Read: A Sensory History of Books for Blind People”: http://www.howweread.co.uk/ This will be a free exhibition exploring the history of assistive technologies that have been designed to help blind people read. From raised print to talking books and optophones, a fascinating array of historic artefacts will be on display from museums and other centres dedicated to preserving the heritage of blindness. There will also be a serie..

Séminaire #EPHN2017 – CR de la séance du 23 juin, Laurent Gautier: « Twitter en campagne politique »

La dernière séance du séminaire #EPHN2017, le 23 juin, a été consacrée à un objet d’études typiquement « DH », qui intrigue particulièrement : Twitter. Laurent Gautier a proposé une étude passionnante des tweets politiques de Twitter qui a particulièrement illustré les nouveaux usages éditoriaux du texte numérique. Après avoir rappelé que le numérique, qui fait émerger de nouveaux usages, implique également la création de nouveaux projets de recherche, Laurent Gautier a longuement présenté sa..

CR séance "De l'antiquité au numérique, et vice-versa", Anne Vial-Logeay

Le 19 mai, pour l’avant-dernière séance de l’année du séminaire, nous avons eu le plaisir d’écouter Anne-Vial Logeay venue nous parler de Pline l’Ancien dans une perspective contemporaine. Comme l’indique son titre, notre invitée a organisé sa présentation en deux temps. Elle a montré dans un va-et-vient comment Pline peut apporter une autre compréhension des spécificités de l’écriture numérique et en même temps comment le numérique, en termes de techniques, mais aussi par certains concepts e..

The EOSC as a knowledge marketplace: the example of ISIDORE: A virtuous data circle for users and providers

International audienceWe would like to draw the benefits of ISIDORE integration into the EOSC which could be, as a suggestion, a knowledge marketplace. ISIDORE, developed by TGIR Huma-Num (CNRS) in France, impulses a virtuous research circle for SSH researchers. This service collects, enriches and provides unified access to digital documents and data from the humanities and social sciences in the whole Europe. ISIDORE harvests structured and unstructured data: bibliographical records, metadata, integral text from digital publications, corpus, databases and scientifical news accessible on the web.Once harvested, those informations are enriched and standardized in different languages, by crossing with referentials (vocabulary lists, thesaurus) produced either by the scientific community, either by research institutions. Those enrichments allow to link the data between each other.Launched in 2009, more than 5800 sources are already harvested, for a total of more than 5 millions documentsThe re-exposure of the enriched metadata follows, in turn, the principles of Web of data (RDF) claimed by the movement of provision of public data as data.gov (USA) and data.gov.uk (UK). Thanks to this feature, ISIDORE is different from a simple search engine : it offers to the whole community to enrich constantly its own data.Otherwise, SSH publications are numerous : researchers don’t have main revues as in other fields and it exists several small revues. That means, it is very difficult for researchers to find information and publications or to make them more visible. ISIDORE is the only tool in Europe able to crawl all the sources. So it is very important to scale it to European researchers, by integrating it in the EOSC. We consider the EOSC as a knowledge marketplace, which will share and spread tools and good practices from the whole European Research Area. It needs common policy, interoperability, easy access. In this perspective, the marketplace could contain a public part open for every researcher and public institution and a market perspective to let companies use our tools and data. By doing that, sustainability of the EOSC is ensured. We envision three levels: _ a storage one (interoperability of computing centres)_ a services one (the marketplace) _ a communication and training one (an appstore). This third aspect builds the “knowledge marketplace”: the ability to use research data, research tools, so to develop and increase knowledge, but also the ability to share knowledge, to comment those tools, to create some communities around each (or more) ones. Bridges between researchers and citizens which strenghten the notion of “knowledge” is very important.The EOSC offers digital solutions by containing a collection of software, tools, services, datasets, publication repositories and learning & training material and will establish visibility for them. Our conception of EOSC is highly linked to the needs of the SSH researchers to be able both to find resources and make them visible and to establish links with the civil society, and ISIDORE answers to the same objectives

Open research assessment: switching from quantitative to qualitative practices

<p>The need to work on the quality of open scientific metadata is no longer up for discussion. Everyone is aware of this, both for data sharing and as part of the Open Science policy. It is also true in terms of the evolution of research evaluation practices. We need to promote new ways of doing research, by proposing alternative models to impact factors and the quantitative approach. Open scientific metadata plays a decisive role here. But here again, we could be stuck with the quantitative approach. We need to go further and work on the link between metadata, in particular around knowledge graphs. Creating links means giving meaning, and in so doing, we are moving towards a qualitative approach to research evaluation practices. My presentation aims to explore this aspect by also considering the role of vocabularies and ontologies used in metadata schemas and in establishing the link between data and metadata.</p&gt