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1st Call for Pilots - GRAPHIA

2026-02-12T07:17:57-05:00

1st Call for Pilots - GRAPHIA

Call for Pilots: Commercial Publishers & Organisations in SSH Are you a commercial publisher or content-driven organisation working in the Social Sciences & Humanities? The GRAPHIA project is inviting industry and commercial partners across the European Research Area to join our pilot programme. We’re looking to collaborate with publishers interested in exploring how an open, interoperable knowledge graph can enhance publishing workflows and products — from improved content discovery and metadata enrichment to interoperability and AI-enabled services. 🔍 Why take part as a pilot partner? Early access to emerging GRAPHIA tools Opportunity to co-design solutions aligned with real publishing needs Increased visibility through the GRAPHIA project Space to experiment with concrete, publisher-driven use cases No prior experience with knowledge graphs is required — just an interest in innovation and practical challenges around SSH content. Find out more here: https://graphia-ssh.eu/call-for-pilots/ Deadline: 5th March

For more information, you can contact Ursula Rabar (ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org)

GRAPHIA Survey: Natural Language with Knowledge Graphs

2025-12-02T10:23:14-05:00

GRAPHIA Survey: Natural Language with Knowledge Graphs

How Do You Interact with Knowledge Graphs? We Want to Hear from You!

The GRAPHIA project team at Abertay University is running a short survey to understand how researchers, especially those in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), work with knowledge graphs when supported by Large Language Models (LLMs).

Your perspective is essential. GRAPHIA is being co-designed with its users, and your input will directly shape future features and interaction styles. We’re particularly interested in how you explore and query research data, whether through natural language tools (like chatbots) or more structured interfaces (like dropdown menus).

Time commitment: ~15 minutes

Who can take part: SSH researchers at any career stage, including those with little or no experience with knowledge graphs or query languages

By participating, you’ll help guide the next phase of GRAPHIA’s co-design process and ensure it continues to grow around real user needs.

Take the survey by 16 January 2026: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BDE0Okrbz-9IWQWOR-AZD28sjB750rx8v_Bo9lTxPDaaOQ/viewform

Thank you for contributing to the future of research data interaction!

Help Build a Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Usage Data Exchange!

2025-03-06T03:57:45-05:00

Help Build a Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Usage Data Exchange!

The OA Book Usage Data Trust is developing its sustainability model, ensuring a community-governed, equitable and trusted exchange of usage data. But for this model to truly serve the needs of the scholarly community, your input is essential.

Why Participate?

Your input will directly influence the development of a transparent and inclusive framework. It will also make sure your perspectives are heard in this collaborative effort.

How You Can Help:

Take this short survey by 28 March: https://forms.gle/z6v3sC8GUHFU5t4s9
Spread the word – Encourage colleagues in publishing, libraries, and other organisations to participate.

Thank you for your thoughts and input!

OA Book Usage Data Trust Draft Participation Model - Community Consultation

2025-02-07T05:08:26-05:00

OA Book Usage Data Trust Draft Participation Model - Community Consultation

The OA Book Usage Data Trust effort https://www.oabookusage.org/ works towards fostering the sharing, aggregation, benchmarking and agreed-upon uses of scholarship usage data across global stakeholders. It does this by facilitating data connector discoverability and data governance for direct usage data connections between OA book hosting organizations that create usage and impact data and the partners and providers they grant data access to.

The effort is currently seeking input on a proposed membership program that evolved from discussions among their Committee members and Trustees after 2023-2024 consultations indicated membership, grants and scalable infrastructure-usage related fees were the most trusted methods of cost-recovery.

Find out more and provide your feedback via this link https://forms.gle/LmUcWfWNuaS4cLQt5 by 7 March!

PALOMERA Conference

2024-10-08T05:34:40-04:00

PALOMERA Conference

Join the PALOMERA conference on 28 October 2024!

PALOMERA is a project that has sought to understand why so few open access funder policies include books, and to provide actionable recommendations to change this. The conference will explore the work the project has undertaken since January 2023, delving into the methodology, setting out its results and offering a deep dive into the recommendations the project is making as it reaches the final phase. There is no fee to register for the conference.

Find out more details and register here: https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/palomera-conference/

Open access book policies: The author’s experience

2024-09-25T02:27:33-04:00

Open access book policies: The author’s experience

As part of the PALOMERA OABN free online events series, on the 2nd of October at 2 PM BST / 3 PM CEST Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University), Arturs Logins (Laval University), Evi Agostini (University of Vienna) and Miloud Belkoniene (University of Zurich) will share the process of publishing their OA books from choosing a publisher to seeing the book shared openly, and whether this was different from their other publishing experiences. The conversation will delve into the advantages and disadvantages of policy mandates from the author’s perspective: what difference did it make to be subject to a policy mandate (or not)? What advice and/or funding was available throughout the process and what were the challenges? What support would they like to have had and what would they do differently next time? And how has the experience of publishing an OA book influenced the authors’ views of open access?

You can register for the event here.

PALOMERA - Help shape the future of OA books!

2024-06-04T03:57:02-04:00

PALOMERA - Help shape the future of OA books!

Survey deadline approaching!

The PALOMERA project has created one of its first resources, the Knowledge Base collecting OA book policy documents across the European Research Area. It aims to help the community as a first step towards a better overview of what documents exist or are available. After months of working on this resource, we would like to know how are you or how would you use it within your organisation.

For that purpose, we have set up a very short survey on this link that should take 10 to 15 minutes. Within it, you can provide your feedback on different potential uses as well as suggest ideas on future OA book policy recommendations the project is planning to deliver over the next few months. The survey also contains a short demonstration (2-minute video) on how the Knowledge Base works. The deadline is the 15th of June. Your input is very important to us to make sure we continue working on our goals while aligned with the community. Help shape the future of OA books!

For any questions, you can contact Ursula Rabar, Project Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.

PALOMERA Knowledge Base - New Resource and Feedback Survey

2024-05-02T03:17:43-04:00

PALOMERA Knowledge Base - New Resource and Feedback Survey

For any questions, you can contact Ursula Rabar, Project Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.

Community Consultation | Online Focus Group — OA Book Usage Data Trust

2024-03-04T04:30:53-05:00

Community Consultation | Online Focus Group — OA Book Usage Data Trust

The OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort is currently exploring and evaluating ways to sustain a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

In this online focus group, you will be able to discuss and consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for the Data Trust.

To accommodate different time zones there will be two time options to choose from:

March 20th at 9.00 AM CET / 8.00 AM UTC / 4.00 AM EDT

March 20th at 3.00 PM CET / 2.00 PM UTC / 10.00 AM EDT

For any questions, contact Ursula Rabar, Community Manager at OAEBUDT (ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org)

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Rulebook Draft Community Consultation

2024-03-01T07:54:44-05:00

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Rulebook Draft Community Consultation

The OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort is piloting the Industry Data Space (IDS) model in scholarly communications, building upon emerging design principles, technical architectures, and standards. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the OAEBUDT is developing ‘Governance Building Blocks' for its IDS, to guide the rules and accountability measures for OAEBUDT participation. To inform the development of model standard contractual clauses, this project is developing an OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principles that generate trust through OAEBUDT participation, usage data management, processing, and provision.

In this community consultation, they invite feedback on the initial OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook drafted to ensure trust in the data exchange facilitated via the OAEBUDT data space.

To access the draft rulebook document, please follow this link.

To provide your feedback, please follow this link.

Please note the rulebook draft will have some sections that will be developed as the project progresses and are therefore placeholders for now.

Written comments can be submitted through the form above until the 7th of March 2024.

Submitted comments will be discussed among the OAEBUDT project team, including advisors and the OAEBUDT community governance. Unattributed submissions will also be published on the project’s Zenodo community. By submitting comments through this form you agree to the publication, sharing and reuse of your comments under a CC0 license or CCBY license.

Contact: For any questions please contact Ursula Rabar, OAEBUDT Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Quality Community Consultation

2023-09-22T07:39:51-04:00

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Quality Community Consultation

Provide your feedback by the 15th of October via this form: https://forms.gle/3yRb7QfcodndHiTW9

About our work: This effort enables the community-governed sharing of quality, interoperable, Open Access (e)Book Usage (OAEBU) data. Our governance abides by Guiding Principles for OA Book Usage Data Services as we develop a data space for public and private organizations that create, combine, and innovate with OA book usage data. Our Board of Trustees is a working board composed of elected Trustees led by an executive committee of board officers. As noted in the data trust’s governance documentation, trustees share responsibility for: strategy and direction setting, fiduciary oversight of project financials and fiscal sponsorship arrangements, and supervision of the effort’s executive director.

Community Consultation Background: Multiple challenges exist for those who would like to share generated OA book usage data with others (data creators), and for those who rely on such data to provide reporting or services analytics (data users). Currently, individual organizations encounter challenges when aggregating OA book usage data to make strategic decisions about their OA publishing and OA programs. They individually manage, compile, and link usage data metrics making it time-consuming. Additionally, they may face resource challenges in adopting COUNTER, instead relying on tools such as Google Analytics that further complicate usage data interoperability. While many deliver audited, trusted usage metrics through COUNTER-compliant reports, aggregating usage metrics across platforms is not common. Finally, some organizations are often unable to provide their raw usage data to competitors due to dynamics that cannot be resolved by trust alone.

Such challenges extend beyond scholarly communications. To address such issues across industries in an interoperable way, European agencies have fostered International Data Spaces (IDS) infrastructure for data sharing through a neutral intermediary that is as open as possible, but as controlled as necessary. The IDS aim is to provide a digital infrastructure to foster the exchange and computation of data among public and private competitors, to generate value through: 1) increased interoperability, 2) trust in secure and transparent exchange, and 3) multiparty data governance through usage controls and community-based accountability measures.

The Open Access Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) is piloting the Industry Data Space (IDS) model in scholarly communications, building upon emerging design principles, technical architectures, and standards. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the OAEBUDT is developing ‘Governance Building Blocks' for its IDS, to guide the rules and accountability measures for OAEBUDT participation. To inform the development of model standard contractual clauses, this project is developing an OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principles that generate trust through OAEBUDT participation, usage data management, processing, and provision.

You can preview this consultation in full prior to submitting your comments.

Community Consultation | Participant Notice

In this community consultation, we invite feedback on principles drafted to ensure trust in the provided usage data and its quality notification process via the OAEBUDT.

Contact: For any questions please contact Ursula Rabar, OAEBUDT Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Provider Community Consultation

2023-09-04T03:56:46-04:00

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Provider Community Consultation

In this community consultation, the OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort invites feedback on principles drafted to ensure trust in the usage data providers participating in the OAEBUDT.

Written comments can be submitted through this form until September 15, 2023: https://forms.gle/n4nuqp6mqBSkegzV8

Contact: For any questions please contact Ursula Rabar, OAEBUDT Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.

The OA Book Usage Data Trust effort enables the community-governed sharing of quality, interoperable, Open Access (e)Book Usage (OAEBU) data. Our governance abides by Guiding Principles for OA Book Usage Data Services as we develop a data space for public and private organizations that create, combine, and innovate with OA book usage data. Our Board of Trustees is a working board composed of elected Trustees led by an executive committee of board officers. As noted in the data trust’s governance documentation, trustees share responsibility for: strategy and direction setting, fiduciary oversight of project financials and fiscal sponsorship arrangements, and supervision of the effort’s executive director.

The OAEBUDT is piloting the Industry Data Space (IDS) model in scholarly communications, building upon emerging design principles, technical architectures, and standards. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the OAEBUDT is developing ‘Governance Building Blocks' for its IDS, to guide the rules and accountability measures for OAEBUDT participation. To inform the development of model standard contractual clauses, this project is developing an OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principles that generate trust through OAEBUDT participation, usage data management, processing, and provision.

You can preview this consultation in full prior to submitting your comments at https://bit.ly/OAEBUDataProviderConsultationPreview

OPERAS on Twitter: "#PALOMERA project: Publishers & Librarians, share your thoughts on #OpenAccess book funder policies."

2023-05-16T05:19:12-04:00

OPERAS on Twitter: "#PALOMERA project: Publishers & Librarians, share your thoughts on #OpenAccess book funder policies."

Organised by the Open Access Books Network, the PALOMERA series next 2 online events call all publishers and libraries to share their concerns and challenges with OA book funder policies. Sign up for the event that works best for you:

Tuesday 16 May, 3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT: a 90-minute PALOMERA Series engagement session with Publishers. Sign up here https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdeuurj4oHtGSlWk-YCxcq9go37C84LQ4#/registration

Wednesday 17 May, 3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT: a 90-minute PALOMERA Series engagement session with Librarians. Sign up here https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceyhrDgtGNd3yn-IkLsiQp9YO8Q8gkrl#/registration

OPERAS on Twitter: "Engage with PALOMERA on the 28th of March during a panel discussion organised by @oabooksnetwork! Info: https://t.co/wXOc5dJsdQ."

2023-03-17T05:33:56-04:00

OPERAS on Twitter: "Engage with PALOMERA on the 28th of March during a panel discussion organised by @oabooksnetwork! Info: https://t.co/wXOc5dJsdQ."

Join this panel discussion with Q&A to find out more about the recently launched PALOMERA project funded by Horizon Europe as part of their call: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System. The project seeks to understand why so few open access funder policies include books, and to provide actionable recommendations to change this.

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Community Consultations Feb - Mar

2022-05-19T09:04:03-04:00

OA Book Usage Data Trust | Community Consultations Feb - Mar

The OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort that is working under the vision of Community Governed Sharing of Quality, Interoperable, Open Access (OA) Book Usage Data is aiming to launch an international data space to act as a neutral intermediary for the OA book usage data exchange between public and private organisations. They would like to hear feedback from the community on two important development aspects:

1. OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook - Online Web Form Community Consultation

With the support from the community, the OAEBUDT effort has prepared a first draft of the OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principles that generate trust through OAEBUDT participation, usage data management, processing, and provision. As a key component in this process, they would like to hear feedback from the community on the draft to ensure it is developed by listening to all the different perspectives.

You can access the draft and provide your feedback via this form until the 7th of March.

2. Membership and Sustainability Models – Online Focus Groups

To explore and evaluate ways to sustain a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem and to consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for the OAEBUDT, they have organized two online focus groups.

By filling in this form, you can sign up and choose the one that works best for your time zone:

March 20th at 9.00 AM CET / 8.00 AM UTC / 4.00 AM EDT

March 20th at 3.00 PM CET / 2.00 PM UTC / 10.00 AM EDT

For any questions contact Ursula Rabar, Community Manager at OAEBUDT.