On 1 October 2025, researchers and innovators from the LUMEN and GRAPHIA projects gathered for a hybrid workshop “Mapping Cross-Project Functionalities – Towards a Service-Based Innovation Model” in Zagreb and online, exploring how shared technologies and approaches could strengthen collaboration across the social sciences and humanities (SSH). The workshop was designed as a strategic space … Continue reading Mapping Cross-Project Functionalities: When Innovation Meets Collaboration
Genius Loci & GRAPHIA: Giving Shape to the Question “Where?”
Author: Gwydyon Marchelli In a world saturated with data, one question remains surprisingly difficult to answer with precision: Where? Documents, archives, and databases often lack spatial context. Genius Loci aims to bridge this gap. As a spatial intelligence company, our mission is to transform fragmented, often inaccessible data into clear, geolocated insights about the built … Continue reading Genius Loci & GRAPHIA: Giving Shape to the Question “Where?”
Join Us in Shaping the Future of the OPERAS Innovation Lab – Online Event in June
We are excited to invite you to a collaborative online event on June 26, 10:00 AM CEST, to discuss the action plan for the OPERAS Innovation Lab, a key initiative supporting innovation in open scholarly communication within the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). In November 2024, we published Guidelines on Publishing and Evaluating Innovative Outputs in Social … Continue reading Join Us in Shaping the Future of the OPERAS Innovation Lab – Online Event in June
Innovation Workshop: Shaping the Future of Research & Innovation
The OPERAS Innovation Lab is excited to participate in the Innovation Workshop, a dynamic hybrid event on March 25, 2025, from 14:00 to 1:00 CET at the DH Lab, C²DH, University of Luxembourg. This hybrid event, part of the SCIROS project—Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities—aims to … Continue reading Innovation Workshop: Shaping the Future of Research & Innovation
Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment
Key Insights from the OPERAS Innovation Lab Workshop in Zadar (OPERAS Conference, April 2024) Authors and contributors: Magdalena Wnuk, Maciej Maryl, Elena Sokolova, Françoise Gouzi, Ronald Snijder, Tomasz Umerle Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Frank Manista In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, innovators in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) often grapple with fundamental questions: How … Continue reading Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment
Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Authors: Kaan Yildirim, Kelly AchenbachReviewers: Karla Avanço, Alessia Smaniotto On October 19-21, 2023, in Paris, 200+ participants/attendees will gather to discuss Citizen Science and Participatory Research, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities and participatory approaches to research funding, at the Connect.Collaborate.Create. conference. Participants from a variety of interconnected domains will meet there—funders, policy … Continue reading Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Open!) Peer review – an overview
Author: Jadranka Stojanovski, University of Zadar, Croatia [email protected] Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Maciej Maryl Introduction Open science initiatives have gained significant traction in Europe since 2014, spearheaded by the European Commission's efforts to develop guidelines and recommendations and implement open science practices. In recent years, UNESCO has joined these initiatives, expanding its global influence by adopting … Continue reading (Open!) Peer review – an overview
Call for contributions: Open Consultations on innovative outputs in the Humanities
Working with digital outputs in the humanities? Consider contributing to the ALLEA E-Humanities draft recommendations. The ALLEA E-Humanities Working Group launched open consultations concerning draft recommendations on recognising digital scholarly outputs in the humanities. The goal is to gather broad feedback from active humanities researchers and institutions in order to tailor the recommendations to the … Continue reading Call for contributions: Open Consultations on innovative outputs in the Humanities
The growing world of open access books
Today’s topic is open access books, using this opportunity to introduce activities of the OPERAS Special Interest Groups (OA Business Models, Open Access Books Network) and projects (OPERAS-P, COPIM, Open Book Futures, PALOMERA) related to book publishing and the recently published ‘Collaborative models for OA book publishers’ white paper by the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Special Interest Group.