The TRIPLE team is proud to announce: At the Digital Humanities Awards 2022, GoTriple was voted second in the “Best DH Tools or Suite of Tools” category. Have a look at the complete list here.

Are you interested in helping with the initial testing of the Beta version of the GoTriple platform?  We currently offer different ways to do just that!

The TRIPLE project has partnered with another European H2020 project called ReachOut to recruit early testers.

ReachOut, the beta-testing campaign platform for research projects, is able to offer a 30 Euro reward for up to 24 participants for the testing of the Beta version of GoTriple via their website.  Participants will be entered into a draw if more than this number fully complete the test. Testing will take less than an hour with a short questionnaire to complete at the end to tell us what you think of the platform so far and what should be improved.  To start the testing, please use this link: https://www.reachout-project.eu/view/Main/#TRIPLE_anc.

The Beta version of GoTriple is an initial release of some of the planned features of GoTriple. More features of GoTriple are still to come, such as the user profiles and relevant discovery dashboards. So stay in touch to find out more on https://project.gotriple.eu/ . We will likely run another testing session before Christmas, as soon as additional features are released.  

We are also looking for some participants for the qualitative testing phase and for the definition of the governance of GoTriple. For any questions about the ReachOut testing campaign or to participate in the qualitative research, please get in touch with p.forbes@abertay.ac.uk or s.depaoli@abertay.ac.uk and subscribe to the TRIPLE Community Mailing List.

Another, very simple way to give feedback on GoTriple is to click on the “bug button” on the platform website and complete a short form:

Get involved and give us your opinion on how we can make GoTriple better!!

The TRIPLE project proudly launches the
Beta Release of the GoTriple platform,
available for exploration at gotriple.eu.

Download this press release text as a PDF

What is GoTriple?

GoTriple is an innovative multilingual discovery platform for the social sciences and humanities (SSH). It provides one of the central access points for discovering and reusing research artefacts that are relevant to the wide variety of disciplines under the umbrella domain of SSH: Publications and research data, project descriptions and researcher profiles are automatically imported from aggregators and source providers, semantically enriched and linked in GoTriple.

The platform enables users to:

• discover and reuse open scholarly SSH resources in nine European languages (Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish), which are currently scattered across local and discipline-specific repositories;
• find and connect with other researchers and projects across disciplinary, cultural and language boundaries;
• make use of innovative tools and services to support research, visualisation of search results, web annotation, personalised recommendations and social networking;
• explore new ways of funding research such as crowdfunding.

Watch this short video that showcases the GoTriple platform:

GoTriple is developed as part of TRIPLE, a project financed under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme with approx. 5.6 million Euros for a duration of 42 months (2019–2023). It will be the Discovery Service of OPERAS, the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area, and it is designed to be integrated into and thus to enrich the services of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) for the SSH communities.

What to expect in this Beta Release?

With already more than 6 million items ingested (currently publications), the first prototype of the GoTriple platform is now ready for exploration!

GoTriple currently allows multilingual searches, which means that you can find publications in a specific language by using keywords in one of the nine languages supported by the platform.

Other available features in the Beta Release are: searching for publications and authors, filtering the results by type of publication author, year and discipline, as well as accessing the original page of the document to download available items.

You can also get an early glimpse of some of the innovative services of the platform, namely:

• the Visual Discovery System, which enables you to get an instant overview of your search results and to analyse research trends,
• a first version of the Recommender System, which currently provides users with personalised recommendations on publications related to their search queries.

How can I get involved?

GoTriple will be open for usability testing before the end of the year, and all members of the SSH community will then be warmly invited to review the platform and provide feedback.

If you would like to be informed about opportunities to become a GoTriple tester, join the TRIPLE User Community and subscribe to the TRIPLE Community Mailing List.

What are the next steps?

The Beta+ Release, expected to be launched in March 2022, will have a more stable front and back end, allowing searches for datasets, research projects and researcher profiles on top of publications. GoTriple will also offer more features related to the innovative services of the platform, such as the Annotation System, the Trust Building System and the Crowdfunding Platform.

In the coming months, we will be publishing further updates on the platform specification, the plans for content ingestion and the innovative services. Stay tuned!

For more detailed information visit the TRIPLE project website at project.gotriple.eu.

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Contacts: 

Suzanne Dumouchel (Huma-Num), TRIPLE Project Coordinator, suzanne.dumouchel@huma-num.fr

Stefanie Pohle (Max Weber Stiftung), TRIPLE Communication Officer, pohle@maxweberstiftung.de

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!

Your opinion is needed! Which tools would you like to have available on the GOTRIPLE platform?

We would like to hear opinions from reserachers in the social sciences and humanities fields (future GOTRIPLE users) about what kind of services we could integrate in the platform. This will help us plan for the future and make sure that the users will find the services that they need the most in GOTRIPLE.

TRIPLE is a European H2020 project that launched on 7 October 2019. At the heart of the project is the development of the GOTRIPLE platform, an innovative multilingual and multicultural discovery solution for social sciences and humanities. GOTRIPLE will provide a single access point that allows researchers in social sciences and humanities to explore, find, access and reuse materials such as literature, data, projects and researcher profiles at the European scale. Also GOTRIPLE will be integrated with specific “innovative services”, namely a Recommender System, the Trust Building System for selected users interactions, an interactive Visualisation search interface, a web Annotation Tool and a Crowdfunding platform.

Please let us know what you think by using this anonymous feedback questionnaire:

https://forms.gle/rUUkvuUGptjZcxzs9

It will just take 2 minutes of your time and it is your opportunity to help shape GOTRIPLE. The survey will remain open for 3 weeks.

Thank you for taking part!

For specific questions regarding the methodology of the survey, please contact Dr. Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University (s.depaoli[at]abertay.ac.uk).

The TRIPLE consortium is glad to announce a collaboration with the European Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) eTranslation.

As part of the European Union’s Digital Single Market strategy, a variety of different Digital Service Infrastructures, also called “Building Blocks”, are funded by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme.

eTranslation is one of these Building Blocks. It is “… an automated translation tool available to translate text excerpts or complete documents. It is also a Building Block you can integrate into your digital systems, if you need to embed them with translation capabilities.” (https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eTranslation).

The European Commission (EC) has also started to look into addressing the language barriers in the area of scientific publications. The European Parliament Resolution of 11 September 2018 on language equality in the digital age (2018/2028(INI)), in particular Recommendation § 33, urges “the Commission to seek solutions to ensure that scientific knowledge is made available in languages other than English”.

The future multilingual GOTRIPLE platform takes up the challenge of making research data from the social sciences and humanities (SSH) available in 9 languages (Croatian, French, English, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish). In view of the upcoming Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) and a possible opening of the eTranslation API to academic users, the TRIPLE project is among the first to be involved in a pilot testing of that API for the scientific domain.

(featured image: Pixabay CC0)

The crowdfunding platform is one of the innovative services we plan to integrate with the discovery platform GOTRIPLE. The crowdfunding tool will help researchers finance their projects, thanks to the support of non-academic actors. Projects funded by this service can be considered as “pre-projects” before applying for national or European grants, or as “smaller projects” that do not necessarily need to apply for larger grants but still have a deep impact on societies.

We are now looking for a company who is interested in developing implementing such a crowdfunding tool. The successful applicant will respond within the framework of the TRIPLE project and will work mainly with Huma-Num (CNRS) but also with some of the other TRIPLE project European partners. The main tasks will include:

• Provide a European crowdfunding platform for SSH research projects from a technical point of view, connected via API to the GOTRIPLE platform and some of its innovative services
• Support researchers when submitting first projects
• Subcontract payments and tax credit management at the European level

The Call for Tender is open until 17 May 2021. The task will be launched in June 2021.

Download the Call for Tender document (in French and English) with further information on the task and all relevant application details here: TRIPLE Crowdfunding Platform_Call for Tender.pdf

Link to the platform to submit your tender (only available in French): CNRS – PUMA: Platforme des Marchés adaptés

At the end of October, we had issued a call for European experts from the social sciences and humanities (SSH) who would like to join the newly established TRIPLE Advisory Board (TAB). Many thanks to the twelve scholars who have volunteered to become part of the TRIPLE project and help us reach our objective to develop the innovative multilingual and multicultural discovery service GOTRIPLE.

Role of the Advisory Board

In accordance with our project philosophy to directly and actively involve the future user community in the development and design process, the TRIPLE Advisory Board (TAB) will provide strategic direction and support. The focus of our work with the TAB will be on specific technical issues such as the use of the MORESS categories to classify SSH disciplines, the TRIPLE data model and the thesaurus.

The TAB is meant to be a flexible, dynamic and rather informal group of experts that is going to work in an open, agile format. The contributions will be upon request from the TRIPLE Work Package Leaders Team and depend on the members’ availability and specific expertise with regard to their discipline and/or language(s). In this regard, the role of the TAB will be a bit different from traditional advisory or scientific committees.

The TAB members will also use opportunities to spread the word about TRIPLE within their own scientific and/or regional community in order to find potential beta testers of the future platform GOTRIPLE to gather their feedback on the design, the functionalities, usability aspects and their overall user experience. Upon completion of the project, the TAB member may also act as mentors for other users. 

Members

The TRIPLE Advisory Board (TAB) is currently comprised of twelve members working in seven different European countries (Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Cyprus, Austria). Their disciplinary backgrounds include philosophy, history and art history, information science, archaeology, philology, linguistics, sociology, digital humanities.

List of members in alphabetical order:

• Amelia Sanz, Complutense  University of Madrid
• Angelo Mario Del Grosso, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” (ILC-CNR)
• Anne Klammt, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris
• Cristina Freitas, University of Coimbra
• Elea Gimenez, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
• Enrico Pasini, Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (ILIESI-CNR) and University of Turin
• Francesca Frontini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” (ILC-CNR) and from 2021 part of CLARIN Board of Directors
• Francesca Morselli, DARIAH-EU/DANS
• Georgios Artopoulos, The Cyprus Institute
• Markus Hadler, Graz University
• Maria Manuel Borges, University of Coimbra
• Riccardo Pozzo, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Although the inaugural meeting of the TAB members with the TRIPLE team will not take place until January 2021, some members have offered to start working on specific tasks immediately. Great to have such a dynamic and pro-active pool of experts! We’re very much looking forward to collaborating with them.

We are currently looking for Europe-based researchers from social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines to support our user research for the development of the GOTRIPLE discovery platform.

Our project, TRIPLE, deals with social sciences and humanities (SSH) research, and our goal is to build a digital platform that supports the discoverability of research publications and data as well as contacts. The SSH research fields are divided across a wide array of disciplines and languages. While this specialisation is definitely important in these research fields, it also leads to a fragmentation that prevents SSH research from reaching its full potential. Use and reuse of SSH research is low, interdisciplinary collaboration possibilities are often missed, and as a result, the societal impact is limited. TRIPLE seeks to address these issues: It enables researchers and other stakeholders to discover and reuse SSH data, but also to find other researchers and projects across disciplinary and language boundaries.

Why do we need you?

We are in the process of conducting co-design workshops and interviews with SSH researchers. Co-design is a collaborative approach to the development of a specific product, in our case the GOTRIPLE platform: Instead of conceptualising and creating the product solely based on our team’s experience, ideas and expectations, we actively involve researchers and other relevant stakeholders in the process.

The co-design sessions will help us understand the needs of future GOTRIPLE users so we can design a user-friendly platform that will make your life as a researcher easier!

What do we want you to do?

You will participate in an online co-design session, either a workshop with 2-3 other participants or a one-on-one interview. The tools we use are Microsoft Teams for communication and Miro, which is an interactive virtual whiteboard tool. We will provide access to both. The sessions will be recorded.

We anticipate that the sessions will last between 45 and 90 minutes.

Our aim is to find out how you go about your daily professional work as a researcher, including which digital discovery tools you typically use throughout the research cycle.

The next opportunity to take part is a codesign workshop on 9 December, 11:00-12:30 CET, on the topic of the recommender system, one of the innovative services of the GOTRIPLE platform.

Interviews will be arranged at a mutually convenient time (approx. 60 minutes).

Get in touch!

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you are interested in contributing to the TRIPLE project! All you need to do is to send an email to Paula Forbes from Abertay University at p.forbes[at]abertay.ac.uk.

You can check out the consent form that we would ask you to sign here:

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