We would like to remember the first TRIPLE International Conference and look back the many contributions from speakers, panelists and moderators and the lively discussions with the audience. Read the full report here:

What role do the social sciences and humanities (SSH) play in the discussion about open research in Europe? Which considerations do we take into account when choosing business models for open science projects? Can a hackathon help answer SSH-specific questions (such as the challenges in creating a multilingual vocabulary for a discovery service)? Does crowdfunding work in SSH projects? How does the GoTriple discovery platform fit into the ecosystem of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)?

These are just some of the questions addressed during the 1st TRIPLE International Conference “Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities” hosted online by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) on 22–24 November 2021. The event also provided a unique opportunity to launch the beta version of the GoTriple platform and to discuss its functionalities with the SSH community.

We thank over 140 participants – researchers, university and library staff, publishers, science journalists, SMEs, public authorities and policy makers – for joining us! Throughout the conference, the TRIPLE Twitter account was on fire: Tweets reached an audience of over 10,000 people! It shows that the TRIPLE project addresses some hot topics within the social sciences and humanities.

The conference was opened by an introduction to the goals and vision of the OPERAS Research Infrastructure. Maciej Maryl and Marta Błaszczyńska (IBL PAN/OPERAS-PL, Poland) and Larissa Saar and Pattrick Piel (Max Weber Stiftung/OPERAS-GER, Germany) then presented the newly launched national nodes. The national initiatives will share information about recent developments in the OPERAS Research Infrastructure with local stakeholders and SSH communities. 

One of the key topics of Sabina Leonelli’s (University of Exeter) keynote speech were ethical issues surrounding open research data. Although she started off from the COVID pandemic and the implications for sharing large medical datasets containing vulnerable data, her major concerns are also valid for SSH research: Is it ethical to collect data from vulnerable populations and communities and use them for the benefit of other, mostly privileged societies? How to create and implement a global standard for collecting, storing and sharing highly relevant data so that they can be reused by researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds and research organisations? How to convince SSH communities to participate in a global network of researchers sharing their datasets in accordance with the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship?

The next session, moderated by Emilie Blotière (Huma-Num, France), was devoted to the GoTriple platform, developed by the TRIPLE project. In short demos, TRIPLE partners showcased basic functionalities, such as browsing and filtering the multilingual dataset of resources ingested from major European aggregators. 

In the first Session of the next day of the conference, participants learned about the GoTriple hackathon, which had taken place on 8–10 and 15–16 November. The aim of this virtual event had been to assess and improve coverage of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in the GoTriple vocabulary by using existing subject headings systems that are already in use for the organisation of publications in social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines. Participants were software programmers and researchers with a dedicated interest in vocabularies, programming librarians, non-IT specialists and professionals managing repositories.

The organisers of the hackathon, Iraklis Katsaloulis (EKT, Greece) and Cezary Rosiński (IBL PAN, Poland), together with some of the hackathon participants from the Greek, Polish and Portuguese-German teams, presented the results of the event. They also addressed the main challenges of the hackathon format in the SSH community.

In Session 2 of Day 2, conference participants were given the opportunity to discuss crowdfunding in research contexts. Alizé Averasano from the Swiss crowdfunding platform wemakeit gave some food for thought when sharing examples of crowdfunding in science. Mariannig Le Bechec (Univ. Lyon 1, France) and Luigi di Pace (Univ. Milano-Biccoca, Italy) presented success stories and challenges of crowdfunding teams working for universities. The audience also learned about crowdfunding in science from the European Commission’s perspective, thanks to the contribution by Michael Arentoft (EC’s Open Science Unit, Belgium).

The participants’ discussion brought up a number of questions, such as: How can SSH research be made more “sexy”’ for a broader audience, or: Is it really necessary to make it more “sexy” in order to receive crowdfunding? – “No,” was Alizé Averasano’s answer, “the key to success is communication about your project”. Other questions were: How can we touch people’s emotions with often non-emotional research topics? What are the ways to learn new communication strategies for crowdfunding? The discussion was moderated by Stefano da Paoli and Paula Forbes from Abertay University (UK).

Day 3 of the TRIPLE International Conference offered two panel sessions. The first one, titled “Business & Open Science – Contrast or Complement?”, was moderated by Gert Breitfuss and Leonie Disch from Know-Center. The panelists presented and discussed different types of business models that work best for Open Science projects, with a focus on sustainability. Gert Breitfuss first presented the work around developing a business model for the GoTriple platform, which included an analysis of 26 existing platforms and services and their business models.

Next, Niels Stern talked about OAPEN, a foundation that operates the OAPEN Library and and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), two platforms that provide open access to scholarly publications. Another platform, CORE, and the service’s sustainability paths, was presented by founder and Head Petr Knoth.

Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe and representative of The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), raised questions on ethical considerations regarding which aspects of a project could be offered as a paid service, and which user groups could be charged. For instance, CORE differentiates between those who plan to monetise data acquired from the CORE services and institutions or researchers who use data for non-commercial purposes. All panelists concluded that no matter what, long-term funding is critical to sustain the service after the conclusion of a project. 

Final recommendations from the panel for projects developing services were:

• Put the user in the centre – bring the community on board during the process of building the service and put an emphasis on usability
• Raise awareness, ask about the needs of the community to ensure their engagement and support after the project is finished
• Use success stories from users to showcase the benefits of the service
• Listen to the community, but also trust your own expertise, vision and determination while developing the service
• Be a visionary and think ahead but be realistic on what you can develop and deliver
• Think about, right from the start of a project, which aspects could be monetised and who would need to pay for these services and data
• Decide on the governance and type of organisation behind a service or platform

The last session was titled “GoTriple in the EOSC Ecosystem” and was moderated by Francesca di Donato from CNR. Panelists were Daan Broeder (CLARIN/SSHOC), Elena Giglia (OPERAS), Laure Barbot (DARIAH/SSHOC), Carsten Thiel (CESSDA) and Klaas Wierenga (GÉANT and EOSC Future).

The moderator posed several questions that the panelist then answered one by one, after shortly presenting their organisations’ relationship with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). One focus of the ensuing discussions were the existing and potential future connections between their infrastructures and services (e.g. the SSH Open Marketplace developed by the SSHOC project) and the GoTriple platform, and what is needed to intensify collaborative efforts towards a shared goal, i.e. to strengthen the SSH component in the EOSC.

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Go to the event web page to find the complete programme and list of speakers, panelists and moderators.

Slides and recordings of the event will soon be available on Zenodo (OPERAS Community) and the TRIPLE YouTube channel.

The 3-day conference was the first international event of this kind in the TRIPLE project. The 2nd TRIPLE International Conference conference will be held in early 2023. Stay tuned!

We invite programmers, librarians and researchers with programming skills, repository managers and non-IT specialists who work with managing vocabularies to the first GoTriple Hackathon to improve the coverage of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in the vocabulary of the discovery platform GoTriple. Participants will collaboratively work on finding solutions to the problem of mapping between vocabularies in the nine European languages that are represented in the TRIPLE Project (Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish) and the LCSH.

The virtual event, which is organised by TRIPLE partner EKT, takes place on 8–10 and 15–16 November 2021, and there is a preparatory meeting on 3 November (1pm to 3pm CET).

Download the Open Call here:

For more information about the Hackathon, go to the event web page: https://project.gotriple.eu/gotriple-hackathon-2021/ – register today and join a #GoTripleHackathon team!

The first TRIPLE International Conference takes place as a virtual event from 22 to 24 November 2021.

We would like to bring together members from the Open Science and social sciences and humanities (SSH) communities (researchers, university and library staff) as well as other TRIPLE stakeholders such as publishers, science journalists, SMEs, public authorities and policy makers. We aim to create a productive space for discussing the impact, benefits and challenges of discovery services for the social sciences and humanities in the European research ecosystem.

Topics include…

• the TRIPLE project within OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities
• the concept of “openness” in the social sciences and humanities (SSH)
• the nascent GoTriple platform, the innovative multilingual and multicultural discovery solution for the SSH
• creating an SSH vocabulary
• crowdfunding in science
• business models for Open Science
• the role of SSH in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

Check out the programme on the TRIPLE Conference page. The three-day discussions will take place in two time slots in the afternoons. All session times are Central European Time (CET). Registration opens within the next few weeks.

TRIPLE’s first virtual ThatCamp, “Discovering Discovery: Envision your ideal research ecosystem for exploring research resources” on 11 May 2021 drew in over 50 participants from 15 different European countries (see the map below). Affiliated with libraries, universities, research institutions, government agencies, publishing companies, and private firms across Europe, the participants engaged in the typical peer-to-peer session format of ThatCamps to jointly “create, build, write, hack, and solve problems” (https://thatcamp.org/about/index.html).

ThatCamp stands for “The Humanities And Technology Camp”. It is a so-called unconference: an open, agile and spontaneous meeting where participants learn and work together by engaging in group discussions, co-working sessions or other forms of collaborative work.

Suzanne Dumouchel (Huma-Num), the TRIPLE project and scientific coordinator, opened up the event introducing the TRIPLE project and encouraging participants to share their knowledge openly. Next, Stefanie Pohle (Max Weber Stiftung), the TRIPLE project communication officer, briefed the group on the basics of a ThatCamp format and the goals of the event: to promote interdisciplinary discussion, to uncover “discovery” needs and challenges faced by researchers and other stakeholder groups, and: to have fun at this collaborative event.

After a short warm-up that doubled as an introduction to each other and to the ThatCamp’s Miro board (an online “whiteboard” used to collect ideas, jot down notes, and share session takeaways), participants collaboratively planned the programme, pitching their ideas for the sessions and casting their votes for the most engaging topics. Even in the weeks before the event, they had brainstormed on topics important to them and had posted them on the virtual whiteboard.

The day of the ThatCamp was divided into two main session time slots, with four sessions held simultaneously in both the late morning and the afternoon. 11 participants pitched a session topic and the following eight were voted into the schedule:

In the last hour of the event, Irena Vipavc Brvar (CESSDA/UL-ADP) guided the session leaders to present their results to the entire group. With a dedicated five minutes per presentation, each presenter was only able to scratch the surface of what they covered in their hour and half long discussion. Below you can find some bullet points from each group that we captured during the event. The Miro whiteboards from each session have been preserved and published in an Open Access format on Zenodo (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4769438 ). 

Morning session with 4 topics

Group 1. How to disseminate and make Digital Scholarship discoverable: Experiences, ideas and proposals in order to have new forms of scholarship, based on electronic publishing, more discoverable in the infosphere

Session leader: Federico Meschini, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at Tuscia University, Italy

✓  Scholars are engaged in creating new forms of digital scholarship but guidance is needed to lead them to good results
✓ Many perspectives and resources 
✓  Researchers are still attached to the pdf, often also because they are requested to do so
✓  The need of technical guidance in terms of standards/interoperability 
✓  Evaluation systems acts as a limitation to innovation and cultural change among researchers  

Group 2. Difficulties in discovery: What are your annoyances? Vent them here

Session leader: Paula Forbes, Researcher at Abertay University, Scotland

Several questions with possible solutions were given:
✓  How do we use the results of the search? History/ Outputs
✓  How do we manage the conflict between focussed search and serendipitous discovery? Recommender systems 
✓ How can we overcome the use of so many different terms? Multidisciplinarity / languages
✓ How to find tools that enable the analysis of our discoveries? Marketplace of free tools
✓ Especially difficult is when there is the lack of Open Access (or no labelling that it’s not OA) and when users don’t have control

Group 3. What are the obstacles and challenges in offering a discovery service for a library and do they apply to a (hypothetical) Open Access discovery service?

Session leader: Julika Mimkes, Subject specialist for chemistry and physics at State and university library (SUB) Göttingen, Germany

✓  Discovery system as a part of a library service used for discoverability of open access resources has many challenges: organizational, resources, technology and user interaction
✓  Important to think about users and resources such as preprints and how to handle them within the collection

Group 4. Overcoming the discoverability crisis

Session leaders: Peter Kraker, Chairman of Open Knowledge Maps, and Michela Vignoli, Community Manager of Open Knowledge Maps, Austria

✓  Think of sustainability of Open Infras: funding and what could be done to support the funding more, and explain clearly the benefits/advantages for institutions 
✓  New solution ideas: suggestion to enable searching multiformat contents (not only pdfs!), advanced analysis/knowledge extraction tools (combination with Artificial Intelligence AI)
✓  Important to socialize the systems: notification through social media/networks; collaborative ways to edit results

Afternoon session with 4 topics

Group 1. Ideas to improve peer reviews in scientific documents

Session leader: Soumya Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing at TU Darmstadt, Germany

✓  Main issues: lack of resources; blind review is not so effective, lack of communication between reviewers; open review is not effective, sometimes biases affect quality review process 
✓  Quality of reviewers and reviews tend to be affected by motivation
✓  Great demand for fast publishing; hyperproduction of papers, not much time for quality reviews
✓  Possible solution is a focus group of researchers and reviewers to discuss problems with the review process in general and TRIPLE is seen as a perfect mediator of that

Group 2. What is the meaning of “discovery” in the different languages?

Session leader: Francesca Di Donato, Open Science researcher at ILC-CNR, Italy

✓  Different languages have the same problem – there is no appropriate translation which covers the complexity of the meaning of the term ‘discovery’
✓  Many languages cannot translate the term literally, but offer and explanation and describe it in order not to diminish the meaning of the word “discovery”
✓  Main difference between discovery platform (curated contents coming from trusted sources) and search/browsing platforms
✓  The concept of discovery platform is linked to recommendation systems + concept of finding something new related to discovery
✓  The concept of ‘discovery’ implies the concept of innovation

Group 3. If you had a complete discovery portal for SSH research outcomes, how would you like to use it? What functionality would you like to find?

Session leader: Alessia Bardi, OpenAIRE and Researcher at the Institute of Information Science and technologies at the Italian National Research Council

✓  Although most of the people start their search from Google, Google is just an entry point, and once you enter the source if you find relevant functionalities you stay in the repository 
✓  The importance of the links between different types of research products. Wanted functionalities: ORCID, DOI, open access status, access rights attached to a specific resource
✓  Usefulness of searching for research outcomes based on the funding projects/project initiatives after the project is finished
✓  Researchers in SSH are not only interested in one scientific product, but trends and solutions adopted by other domains might be reused as well (this will save money and other resources)

Group 4. What do I have to keep in mind as a researcher when it comes to thinking of discovery systems? Optimising keywords, just this? https://dkblog.hypotheses.org/

Session leader: Michael Kaiser, Department Head perspectivia.net, Libraries, IT, Max Weber Stiftung, Germany

✓ Organizational and cultural aspects. Scholarly blogs can help because scholars are in charge
✓ Importance of having liaison person between libraries, scholars (close contact + exchange needs) and research software developers
✓ Organization of joined workshops for different groups
✓ Blogging scholars are aware of metadata and their meaning but may not be aware of standards, i. e. keywords that use standard categories  
✓ Scholars in general should learn skills in digital literacy

Most session leaders conveyed a similar conclusion that the TRIPLE project can act as a platform for exchanging ideas. They suggested more events like the TRIPLE ThatCamp to further develop ideas from the group discussions. 

Stefanie Pohle wrapped up the event with a huge thank you to all participants and the whole ThatCamp team and invited everyone to join the next TRIPLE ThatCamp that is planned for early 2022. 

Stay updated on TRIPLE events on our events page and by signing up for the OPERAS Newsletter!

The 1st TRIPLE ThatCamp is happening on 11 May 2021: “Discovering Discovery: Envision your ideal ecosystem for exploring research resources”.  It’s a free, 1-day, online “unconference” for Open Science enthusiasts from all disciplines and professions to share concepts, strategies and resources for discovering research and getting research discovered.  Participants will brainstorm together, identify roadblocks, raise concerns and dream up solutions on a peer-to-peer level. 

ThatCamp stands for “The Humanities And Technology Camp”. It is a so-called unconference based on the BarCamp concept: an open, agile and spontaneous meeting where participants learn and work together by engaging in group discussions, co-working sessions or other forms of collaborative work. People engage with each other to “create, build, write, hack, and solve problems” (https://thatcamp.org/about/index.html). The event will be hosted using Zoom for video conferencing and Miro, a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool.

The session time slots are planned out, but session topics and formats are defined by the participants. Whether you are currently working on a project, article or talk, and would like others to join writing a draft paper collaboratively, or have a story to share on which you’d like to hear other participants’ opinions, or like to put a problem up for discussion and look for solutions together – whatever it is, everyone is invited to submit a suggestion. At the beginning of the event, those willing to lead a session will be asked to pitch their idea (30-60 seconds, depending on the number of suggestions), and participants will then vote on the topics that will actually find their way onto the agenda.

You can already add your ideas to our virtual Miro whiteboard (you’ll get a link to the board when you sign up) to jumpstart the process.

The number of participants is limited, so we would advise you to register early. The event will be held in English, it’s free and open to all those interested in Open Science and the notion of “discovery”.

Learn more about the event and register here no later than 10th of May.

Questions? Contact us at triple@operas-eu.org.

TRIPLE will organise a total of three ThatCamps over the course of the project (2019-2023), bringing together people who have an interest in Open Science in the social sciences and humanities (SSH): researchers, universities and other research institutions, publishers, libraries and Open Access repositories, but also non-academic groups such as IT experts, public authorities and policy makers, media, SMEs, NGOs and citizens. Each TRIPLE ThatCamp will address a specific overarching theme which relates, for instance, to Digital Humanities, discovery technologies, scientific communication, societal impact of research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) or internationalisation of research.

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On 30 March 2021, the TRIPLE Open Science Training Series start with in event co-organised with CLARIN ERIC, one of the TRIPLE consortium members: the “CLARIN Café on the Rights of Data Subjects in Language Resources“.

It is the task of Work package 6 “Open Science and EOSC Integration” to organise and deliver specific training events dedicated to Open Science related topics. The events of these series were originally targeted at TRIPLE project team members only, in order to ensure they all have competencies in Open Science practices and workflows. However, it has been decided to open the events to the whole SSH community.

In order to strengthen TRIPLE’s connections and collaborations with other projects, initiatives and Research Infrastructures, some events are co-organised.

Click here to find an overview of all upcoming Open Science training events.

From 16-19 November, you can find out more about the TRIPLE project and the GOTRIPLE platform by visiting the “Realising the European Open Science Cloud” joint event by the SSHOC, EOSC and FREYA projects. Participation at this event is free – register here: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/events/realising-european-open-science-cloud/eosc-projects-expo.

TRIPLE booth at the “EOSC Projects EXPO”

Come and visit our booth “The SSH discovery platform GOTRIPLE: A future EOSC service” at the “EOSC Projects EXPO” in the virtual exhibition hall.

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At the following times, TRIPLE staff will be available for a chat:

• Mon, 16 Nov.: 9:30-11:00 (Hum-Num, project management)
• Mon, 16 Nov.: 11:00-11:30 (ILC/CNR, Open Science and EOSC integration)
• Mon, 16 Nov.: 11:30-12:30 (Hum-Num, project management)
• Mon, 16 Nov. .: 12:30-14:30 (Abertay University, co-design & user research)
• Tue, 17 Nov.: 9:30-12:30 (Net7, TRIPLE platform development and innovative services)
• Wed, 18 Nov.: 9:30-12:30 (Net7, TRIPLE platform development and innovative services)
• Wed, 18 Nov.: 12:30-14:30 (ILC/CNR, Open Science and EOSC integration)
• Thu, 19 Nov.: 9:30-12:30 (MWS, communication)

TRIPLE-SSHOC Workshop

On 17 November, 14:00 – 15:30 CET, there will be a joint workshop organised by TRIPLE and SSHOC, “Exploring the SSH data landscape: thematic discovery portals in the EOSC”, chaired by Laure Barbot and Yoann Moranville from TRIPLE partner DARIAH.

This workshop is an opportunity to connect two discovery portals for social sciences and humanities resources that are developed in the EOSC context via the SSHOC and the TRIPLE projects: the SSH Open Marketplace and the GOTRIPLE platform. During this event, we will investigate synergies and collaborations and talk about how to avoid data silos. The main objectives of this workshop are to:

• Address the way GOTRIPLE and the SSH Open Marketplace are dealing with SSH data, especially with datasets and publications
• Involve people from the technical teams of both projects to explore the ways we could envision to connect the two platforms
• Share expertise

Two intense and dynamic half days of virtual meetings have come to a close. From the 19 consortium partners, 57 participants gathered to present ongoing work and next steps. Challenges and how to meet these were also addressed.

The TRIPLE project coordinator, Suzanne Dumouchel, opened the Consortium Meeting by welcoming all participants. The rest of the first day was then dedicated to updates from the eight work packages. The highlight was definitely the videos of the offices and staff from partners in work package 5!

The agenda of the second day included the presentation of the results of a survey among the consortium members and two breakout sessions. One group discussed the TRIPLE Data Management Plan while the other group explored synergies between TRIPLE and other projects such as Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC).

The TRIPLE project officially kicked off in Paris on Wednesday, 4 December 2019!

Public Event

The kick-off event, hosted by OPERAS and Huma-Num in the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris-Nord), lasted for three days and was a huge success: More than 60 people – project partners and representatives of French and European research infrastructures, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) as well as of government authorities – attended the public project presentation, despite the general strike that made transportation difficult in Paris at the time.

In the early afternoon, government representative David Fiala from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), gave the opening speech, followed by some introductory words by Lionel Maurel, from the French National Institute of Human and Social Sciences (INSHS) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Adeline Joffres (Huma-Num), then talked about the Huma-Num infrastructure and their work for Open Science and Digital Humanities in Europe.

Next, Suzanne Dumouchel, coordinator of TRIPLE and co-coordinator of OPERAS, presented the TRIPLE project, highlighting its goals and envisaged outputs, benefits and challenges. She also gave an update on the current developments of EOSC, the European Open Science Cloud, and how TRIPLE can be integrated into this large cross-national and cross-disciplinary virtual network of organisations and infrastructures, whose aim is “to build a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe” (https://www.eosc-portal.eu/about/eosc).

After the coffee break, Lionel Maurel provided a brief overview of Open Science in France, and how the National Open Science Plan, issued in July 2018, has been implemented to date.

Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition), co-coordinator of OPERAS, then presented TRIPLE as a core service of the European research infrastructure OPERAS and explained what TRIPLE can offer as an innovator in research in comparison to existing discovery platforms. Pierre vividly demonstrated TRIPLE’s advantages by using research on the concept of “femicide” as an example: Currently, a researcher would need to conduct independent searches on multiple platforms in different languages. The discovery platform TRIPLE, by contrast, provides a single access point for discovering information and resources related to a specific SSH topic, including data, publications, projects and researchers, which will be enriched, annotated and indexed.

The last two talks focused on how TRIPLE is embedded in the broader European research ecosystem. Ivana Ilijasic Versic (CESSDA), talked about the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) project as part of the European research landscape and EOSC.

Elena Giglia (University of Turin), presented the CO-OPERAS implementation network for FAIR data in the social sciences and humanities and its connection with TRIPLE.

The first day of the kick-off event ended with a cocktail buffet in the evening.

TRIPLE-internal Meetings

The public part of the event was framed by project-internal presentations and workshops by the eight work packages (WP) of TRIPLE on Wednesday morning, on the whole day of Thursday and on Friday morning.

On 5 December, the focus of presentations and talks was on the project management of TRIPLE, its governance structures and on the project’s milestones. The event participants then spread out into work package-specific workshops. Later, they also met in mixed groups.

A charming dinner with Provençal flavours in the 18th authentic arrondissement of Paris marked the end of the second day.

TRIPLE project manager Emilie Blotière opened the last day of the TRIPLE Kick-off in Paris, which was dedicated to a wrap up of the meetings and discussions and a presentation on the communication of TRIPLE, given by Judith Schulte from Max Weber Foundation (MWS).

Next Steps

The 18 partners of the TRIPLE consortium are now busy following up on the outcomes of these face-to-face meetings, which are vital in such a complex innovative and long-term project.

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The Kick-Off of the TRIPLE project, funded in the Horizon 2020 framework, takes place on the 4^th of December 2019, at the Maison des Sciences de l’homme Paris-Nord (20 Avenue George Sand, 93210 Saint-Denis) from 2 to 6 pm.

The event, which is hosted by OPERAS and Huma-Num, will be opened by an introduction of David Fiala from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESRI), Lionel Maurel, Scientific Deputy Director (CNRS, INSHS), and a Huma-Num representative. Afterwards, Suzanne Dumouchel, Coordinator of TRIPLE and Co-Coordinator of OPERAS will present TRIPLE with its goals and challenges.

After a coffee break, Pierre Mounier, Deputy Director, Head of the International Department (OpenEdition) and Co-Coordinator of OPERAS, will present TRIPLE as a Core Service of the European Research Infrastructure OPERAS. Ivana Ilijašić Veršić, Chief Operations Officer (CESSDA), will discuss the SSHOC project to present TRIPLE in a broader ecosystem. Elena Giglia, Head of the Open Access Office at the University of Turin (UniTo), will introduce the CO-OPERAS Implementation Network and the connection with TRIPLE. Afterwards, there will be a cocktail buffet (6 to 8 pm).

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Everyone is warmly welcome. Persons and institutions whose work focuses on open science and research data in Europe, including representatives of academic publishers, repositories, journal editorial boards, and research institutions are particularly encouraged to attend.

Kindly confirm your attendance via e-mail to Emilie Blotière (emilie.blotiere[at]huma-num.fr) and Suzanne Dumouchel (suzanne.dumouchel[at]huma-num.fr).

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