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

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.

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).

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 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.

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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).
 

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

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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