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 Crowdfunding Survey is aimed at the general public, and anybody above 18 years of age is invited to complete it. We are interested in people’s attitudes towards the funding of science in general and about crowdfunding in particular. Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the internet.

Well-known crowdfunding platforms include kickstarter, Indiegogo or gofundme. The TRIPLE projects plans to develop a crowdfunding platform specifically to support research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). By taking part in this survey, you help us take decisions as to how this tool will be shaped.

The questionnaire contains 15 questions, and it should take no longer than approximately 10  minutes to complete. It is available in eight languages:

• English: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=en
• French: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=fr
• German: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=de
• Greek: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=el
• Italian: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=it
• Polish: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=pl
• Portuguese: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=pt
• Spanish: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=766456&lang=es

Thank you for taking part!

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

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:

We’re looking for you!

• Are you a researcher (PhD level or higher) in one of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines?
• Would you like to contribute to the development of a highly innovative discovery solution at European level?
• Are you somewhat familiar with data harvesting processes?
• Are you keen to share your expertise in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment?
• Are you interested in expanding your scientific network in the area of Open Science?

Then consider becoming a member of the TRIPLE Advisory Board! The TRIPLE consortium is currently looking for European SSH experts who would like to join this newly established body.

TRIPLE project

The TRIPLE project was launched on 7 October 2019 and is funded under the European Commission program INFRAEOSC-02-2019 “Prototyping new innovative services” until 2023. 

The consortium consists of 19 partners from 13 European countries; the TRIPLE team comprises about 90 members of staff who work in one or more of the eight work packages.

GOTRIPLE platform

At the heart of the project is the development of the GOTRIPLE platform, an innovative multilingual and multicultural discovery solution for the social sciences and humanities. It will be one of the dedicated services of OPERAS, the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area.

A first prototype of GOTRIPLE is planned to be released in autumn 2021. 

Based on the Isidore search engine developed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the GOTRIPLE will provide a single access point for users (researchers, institutions such as universities and libraries, but also enterprises and the media)

• to discover and reuse open scholarly SSH resources in nine European languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, Polish, Italian), i.e. research data and publications, which are currently scattered across local repositories;
• to find and connect with other researchers and projects across disciplinary and language boundaries;
• to make use of innovative tools to support research (e.g. visualisation, annotation, trust building and recommender system);
• to discover new ways of funding research (e.g. crowdfunding).

The core of the GOTRIPLE platform will be mainly a “pipeline” where data are ingested, classified, enriched and categorised so they can be easily found and retrieved by the users. 

After a year of preparatory work, we are now starting the actual development of the platform, but we are facing several scientific-technical issues. The main challenge we are currently dealing with is how to ensure the findability across the nine different languages and all SSH disciplines.

Role of the Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is meant to be a flexible and rather informal group of experts that is going to work in an open, agile format. Your contribution would not be on a regular basis but mainly upon request from the TRIPLE Work Package Leaders Team. It will, for instance, involve answering specific questions via email, taking part in short surveys or attending (online) meetings to discuss and decide on current issues.

For instance, we would like 

1. to know, based on your knowledge and experience, whether the categories developed by the MORESS project are the best (albeit not perfect) ones to categorise the SSH disciplines.
2. to get your opinion on the current TRIPLE data model and whether it fits your discipline’s needs.
3. to assess the TRIPLE thesaurus, currently under construction, and the selection of scientific concepts per discipline as well as their translation in the different languages.

At the beginning of your work in this body, we would of course share more details about the TRIPLE project and the current stage of the platform development.

For you, the Advisory Board provides an excellent opportunity to develop collaborations and to be identified as an official contributor to the TRIPLE project. For us, it is an opportunity to exchange with future users and to develop something truly relevant for the SSH community.

We expect to have this body established in November 2020.

Please note that the work is voluntary and cannot be compensated.

Interested?

If you are interested in being part of this adventure and ready to join the Advisory Board, please contact the TRIPLE project coordinator, Suzanne Dumouchel, at Suzanne.Dumouchel[at]huma-num.fr.

TRIPLE has launched a User Research Survey that will help to tailor the services and tools of the project’s innovative multilingual and multicultural discovery platform to the needs of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) community.

Click here to access the Survey: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=819254&lang=en or scan the QR Code below:

The questionnaire is targeted at SSH researchers and academics at any stage of their careers – from Master student to full professor – who are currently working in a European country.

We are curious to find out what exactly you need and prefer as a potential future user of the TRIPLE platform. In particular, we would like to know more about your work practices relating to digital technologies. This includes information on your

• use of tools for discovery used to explore, find, access and reuse material such as literature, data, projects, researchers’ profiles etc. that they would need for their own research work
• use of tools for the management and retrieval of material 
• use of tools for conducting research (including data collection and annotation)
• use of tools for networking with colleagues or other stakeholders
• digital literacy and general discovery practices
• hardware devices used in the research cycle

The survey is open until 30 June 2020. It is in English, and it should not take more than 10 to 15 minutes to answer the 21 questions. Click here to access the Survey: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=819254&lang=en 

The results of the User Research Survey will be published in the “Report on User Needs” in November 2020.

Your data will be collected and stored in a fully anonymised form and will only be accessible to the project research team. You can find more information on how your data will be handled in the consent form on the second page of the Survey.

Should you encounter any technical difficulties, or should you require further information about the Survey, please contact Dr Stefano De Paoli (s.depaoli@abertay.ac.uk) or Dr Paula Forbes (p.forbes@abertay.ac.uk). 

Thank you for your cooperation and time!