OPERAS Research Infrastructure

New #JobOffer: OPERAS is looking for a Finance Officer to support the Finance and Administration team. The Finance Officer’s responsibilities include handling the financial day-to-day operations, controls, and reporting. The role also involves coordinating the accounting and ensuring records systems are maintained in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Check out the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e9ZSaDSP #JobOffer #OPERAS #AISBL #FinanceOfficer

Register for the webinar on designing FAIR learning materials. Co-organised by ATRIUM: Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts & Humanities and Skills4EOSC! Learn more: #OpenScholComm

Discover how the VERA platform is making it easier for citizen scientists to connect, organize, and fund their research. In the latest Open Knowledge article,"How the VERA Platform Helps Citizen Scientists Collaborate," Carol Delmazo and Alessia Smaniotto highlight a real-world example from Lisbon, where researchers, activists, policymakers, and local residents joined forces to study the impact of mass tourism on their community. The VERA platform—co-designed with citizen science practitioners—helps users: ✅ Discover and join SSH citizen science projects ✅ Connect with potential research partners ✅ Manage projects with tailored tools ✅ Find funding opportunities With support from the OPERAS Research Infrastructure, VERA continues to evolve based on community feedback, bridging digital and physical spaces, including libraries, to support knowledge-sharing and collaboration. 👓 Read the full article and sign up for the Katina News Roundup here: https://lnkd.in/eGzs_ZDm #CitizenScience #OpenKnowledge #VERAPlatform #ResearchCollaboration #SSH #KatinaMagazine #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #ResearchSharing #Tech #AcademicLibraries #Libraries #Librarians #InformationSharing #Research #Information #Science #KnowledgeSharing #CharlestonHub Tony Zanders Jill Emery Curtis Brundy Leah Hinds Elizabeth Weiss

The OPERAS #InnovationLab welcomes your contributions! We warmly invite innovators in the Social Sciences and Humanities to share their projects with the OPERAS Innovation Lab Observatory blog. We are seeking thoughtful posts that describe the challenges your project addresses, the solutions you are developing, and the impact these innovations can have on scholarly communication. Thanks to your engagement, the OPERAS Innovation Lab will efficiently design its tools and methods so that projects such as yours gain adequate support. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eKPiPfu2 #SSH #ScholComm

#GraspOS: One week left to go before the next webinar on the Peer Exchange Platform for Narrative-style CVs. Join the GraspOS team online, on 11 February 11h to 12h30 CET and learn more about narrative CVs, their potential in reshaping research culture, and how this qualitative approach to academic assessment aligns with initiatives such as #DORA and #CoARA to enable a broader evaluation of contributions, including Open Science practices and mentorship. Registration is still open ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dheCucjj #ResearchAssessment  #OpenScience

Another project #KickedOff this week: the #GRAPHIA project, which aims to build the first comprehensive SSH Knowledge Graph that integrates currently disconnected data into a single entry point, leveraging existing infrastructure and data resources. GRAPHIA aspires to significantly improve SSH data visualisation and analysis capacities, pioneer advanced AI solutions tailored for SSH and develop re-usable, cutting-edge digital tools. OPERAS is the coordinator of the GRAPHIA project, leading two work packages and one task. Stay tuned for updates!

💡 This week, a new project has kicked off: the #LUMEN project! Officially titled "Linked User-driven Multidisciplinary Exploration Network," LUMEN is a pioneering initiative aimed at transforming cross-domain collaboration and discovery processes across various scientific fields, including Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Earth System sciences, and Molecular Dynamics. By leveraging the #GoTriple platform, renowned for its service to the #SSH community, LUMEN seeks to enhance interoperability across scientific domains, fostering a more integrated approach to research and innovation. As a partner in the project, OPERAS contributes with tasks related to research and co-design, exploitation and sustainability of the platforms, communication and dissemination. Stay tuned for upcoming news on the LUMEN project, website and social media to be announced soon. #OpenResearch #OpenCollaboration

Discover the right tool to find the open infrastructure best suiting your needs with the latest post on the OPERAS #InnovationLab Observatory: InfraFinder. Authors: Emmy Tsang, Chrys Wu (Infra Finder) Reviewers: Elena Sokolova, Tomasz Umerle Read the publication here: https://lnkd.in/dhxwbVVV #SSH #Innovation

It's a wrap up with a goodbye (and we'll miss it!) to the #PALOMERA project. Check out this blog post prepared by the Open Access Books Network (OABN) and published as well on the OPERAS blog, featuring the PALOMERA final webinar, project resources and outputs, and a special series of videos from partners. Go to the blog post here: https://lnkd.in/e7EbsXt6 #OpenAccess #OABooks

New Press Release: European Diamond Capacity Hub Launched to Strengthen Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe. Read more on the OPERAS blog: https://lnkd.in/eV9VMPvW #DiamondOA #EDCH