Achenbach Kelly, Błaszczyńska Marta, De Paoli Stefano, Di Donato Francesca, Dumouchel Suzanne, Forbes Paula, Kraker Peter, Vignoli Michela
Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Bonn, 53173, Germany.
Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 00-330, Poland.
Open Res Eur. 2022 Jun 7;2:28. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.14318.2. eCollection 2022.
This essay discusses the concept of discovery, intended as content discovery, and defines it in the new context of Open Science, with a focus on Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Starting from the example of Google Scholar, the authors show that this well established service does not address the current needs, practices, and variety of discovery. Alternatives in terms of technical choices, features, and governance, do however exist, offering richer and more open discovery. The paper presents in particular the implementations and research work of the H2020 project TRIPLE (Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration). Dedicated to the building of a discovery platform for the SSH, the project is meant to address the specificities and evolution of discovery in this field. Prevailing scholarly resource platforms like Google Scholar limit discovery by focussing only on publications, and favouring through their algorithm well-cited papers, English content, and discipline-specific resources. A limitation in the context of cross-disciplinary and collaborative Open Science, such a service more specifically hinders discovery in the SSH. Characterized by a fragmented landscape, a variety of languages, data types, and outputs, research in the SSH requires services that fully exploit discovery potentialities. Moreover, a survey conducted within the TRIPLE project showed that most SSH researchers use Google Scholar as their starting point, and that they recognise the lack of control they have with this system. Beyond the extension of features and content, transparency is the other important criterion for the building of an Open Infrastructure actually serving the research community. In light of this, we present in some detail the GoTriple platform, which exploits today's technological potential and incorporates the best known functionalities in order to unveil more and innovative scholarly outputs and lead to international and interdisciplinary research project collaborations.
本文讨论了作为内容发现的发现概念，并在开放科学的新背景下对其进行定义，重点关注社会科学和人文科学（SSH）。作者从谷歌学术的例子出发，表明这项成熟的服务无法满足当前发现的需求、实践和多样性。然而，在技术选择、功能和治理方面存在替代方案，可提供更丰富、更开放的发现。本文特别介绍了H2020项目TRIPLE（通过创新实践促进跨学科关联探索实现研究转型）的实施情况和研究工作。该项目致力于为社会科学和人文科学构建一个发现平台，旨在解决该领域发现的特殊性和发展问题。像谷歌学术这样占主导地位的学术资源平台仅专注于出版物来限制发现，并通过其算法偏袒被大量引用的论文、英文内容和特定学科资源。在跨学科和协作的开放科学背景下，这样的服务更具体地阻碍了社会科学和人文科学领域的发现。社会科学和人文科学研究的特点是领域分散、语言多样、数据类型和产出各异，需要能充分挖掘发现潜力的服务。此外，TRIPLE项目内进行的一项调查显示，大多数社会科学和人文科学研究人员将谷歌学术作为起点，并且他们认识到对该系统缺乏控制权。除了功能和内容的扩展，透明度是构建真正服务于研究社区的开放基础设施的另一个重要标准。有鉴于此，我们详细介绍了GoTriple平台，该平台利用当今的技术潜力并整合最知名的功能，以揭示更多创新的学术成果，并促成国际和跨学科研究项目合作。
