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Come and say hello! 👋 The EOSC Scholarly Commons Node is in Florence for the #EOSCSymposium2026! EOSC Association OPERAS and @openaire.bsky.social are joining forces to bring scholarly communication into the EOSC Federation, with 15 open services covering the whole research cycle.

I'm at the CLARIN & DARIAH UK Annual Event today with my @operaseu.bsky.social hat on Looking forward to learning more about other research infrastructures & understanding how we can collaborate to support #AHSS research 👉 universityofbrighton.github.io/2026clariahuk/ Photo: F. Beccari, Unsplash

[EVENT] Meet the UK members: why we joined OPERAS! Find out more about @operaseu.bsky.social including the practical benefits of membership & the opportunities it creates for strategic collaboration, advocacy and support 🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/meet-... Photo: Absolutvision, Unsplash 1/2

📬 The latest OPERAS Newsletter is out! The 3rd edition of 2026 brings updates from across the OPERAS community, events, projects, services and National Nodes. 👉 Discover what's happening: https://mailchi.mp/operas-eu.org/operas-newsletter-03 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess

We are pleased to welcome Archimede Informatica as a new Ordinary Member of OPERAS! 🎉 Read more: 👉 https://operas.hypotheses.org/10717

The OPERAS Strategic Plan 2026–2028 is now available on Zenodo.🙌 The OPERAS Strategic Plan 2026–2028 is out. Adopted by the General Assembly in January 2026, it sets out seven core objectives. Read the full plan on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/23039686

🎉 Welcome to OPERAS, KNAW! We are delighted to welcome the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to the OPERAS community! Read more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10731 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #FAIRData

Cogent and Data Science Toolbox are new updates from #GoTriple, developed under the #FASCA project! Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4iN8dA6Ql8&t=6s

Within the AEGIS-OA project, the community is invited to contribute to the adaptation of the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) to the specific context of OA books. 📝 Share your input by 18 October 2026 #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #OABooks #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #AEGISOA

#NewCoreMember Welcome to the Executive Assembly, KU Leuven! After joining OPERAS as an Ordinary Member in 2025, we are pleased to announce that KU Leuven has become a Core Member of OPERAS and will take up a seat on the OPERAS Executive Assembly. Read more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10669

📢 We are hiring! OPERAS is looking for a Project Management Officer to support the daily implementation and management of our portfolio of EU-funded projects. Read more: https://operas-eu.org/call-for-operas-project-management-officer/ #ProjectManagement #EUProjects #OpenScience #SSH

As part of the EU-funded AEGIS-OA project, feedback is being gathered to adapt the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) to the specific context of OA books. If you work with Diamond OA books, your experience can help ensure that the adapted standard reflects the needs and diversity of the community.

During #PeerReviewWeek 2026, @doabooks.bsky.social is highlighting how transparency can strengthen confidence in #OABooks through #PRISM, available in the OPERAS service catalogue. Follow them throughout the week to learn more about PRISM!

#NewCoreMember Welcome, Érudit! Érudit joins OPERAS as a Core Member, bringing Canada into the network and becoming the first non-European organisation on the Executive Assembly. Together with @pkp.sfu.ca , it strengthens Canadian participation in OPERAS. Learn more: operas.hypotheses.org/10601

GoTriple has reached a new milestone: more than 30 million documents are now available on the platform! This reflects the continued growth of GoTriple as a discovery platform for SHH research across the world. For more details, follow the GoTriple release notes: https://gotriple.eu/releasenotes

The GoTriple Knowledge Graph is now live, becoming the first fully implemented node of GRAPHIA’s federated SSH Knowledge Graph. And this is just the beginning! From fragmentation towards federation. Read more: graphia-ssh.eu/news-blog/gr...

Another example of how GRAPHIA is exploring the potential of knowledge graphs for scholarly communication. The Ubiquity use case, part of Paradigm Publishing Services, how connecting scholarly metadata can make research more discoverable and reusable. Read more: graphia-ssh.eu/industry-hub...

Through the GRAPHIA project, our Core Member OAPEN Foundation is investigating how a Knowledge Graph can connect OA book metadata with the wider ecosystem. The goal is to strengthen how scholarly books are discovered, linked, analysed, and understood across the research landscape. Read more below:

@graphiaproject.bsky.social and @lumen-eu.bsky.social are joining forces this September 🚀 From 14–18 September 2026, both projects will come together for a week of collaboration with sessions dedicated to LUMIS and the EOSC Innovation Centre. 👉 Register for the livestream: ow.ly/hPoV50ZBt2Z

If you have already explored our 2025 Annual Report, take a closer look at our impact through the OPERAS Impact Monitoring Dashboard: https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/90b8234b-460b-4b7b-9974-232fec6953f4 The read the Annual Report is also available: https://zenodo.org/records/21410046

📢 Call for new international experts to join OPERAS' Scientific Advisory Committee members 📅 Deadline: 13 September 2026, midnight CEST Read about it here: https://operas-eu.org/call-for-operas-scientific-advisory-committee-members/

How can we turn fragmented information into connected intelligence? Through GRAPHIA, Sigma Squared is exploring how knowledge graphs and AI can bring structured and unstructured information together, creating more transparent and actionable insights. Read more: graphia-ssh.eu/industry-hub...

📢 Με μεγάλη συμμετοχή από την ερευνητική κοινότητα πραγματοποιήθηκε το 1ο #webinar της νέας σειράς του #EKTgr για την ευρωπαϊκή υποδομή @operaseu.bsky.social με θέμα την ενίσχυση της Ανοικτής Ακαδημαϊκής Επικοινωνίας 📅 Η σειρά συνεχίζεται με 4 ακόμη webinars Βίντεο-παρουσιάσεις: ekt.gr/el/news/31414

Great to see the achievements of #OPERAS in black and white (and colour!) in the Annual Report 2025 A fantastic year of growth, collaboration and progress towards a more open and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem PS. Check out the focus on #OPERASUK on p. 42 👀 #ERIC #NationalNodes

📢 Voices of #OPERASUK is a blog series spotlighting the UK based members of @operaseu.bsky.social Each feature introduces a member via the same five quick questions! Find out more about @abertayuni.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social via research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

GRAPHIA presents a use case with PAP, Poland's national news agency: exploring how knowledge graphs and AI can enrich news content — connecting people, places, organisations, events, and publications in meaningful, transparent ways. 📖 graphia-ssh.eu/industry-hub...

The Polish Press Agency (PAP) use case in GRAPHIA explores how knowledge graphs can connect news with people, organisations, places, and events: making information easier to discover, verify, and understand. Read the full use case here: graphia-ssh.eu/indus... #GRAPHIA #Journalism #KnowledgeGraphs

In #GRAPHIA, Persée's second use case shows how semantic enrichment and #KnowledgeGraphs can transform digitised SSH collections into connected, AI-ready research resources, while keeping provenance and interoperability at their core. 📖 graphia-ssh.eu/industry-hub/persee-uar-3602-use-case-2/

Catch up with this post from our senior editor and outreach coordinator @alittleroad.bsky.social on our membership of @operaseu.bsky.social and the potential of the new OPERAS UK Node to support engagement with the wider European network 👇

#NewMember I We are glad to welcome the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community! 🎉 Read more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10436 Welcome to the OPERAS community! 🤝

The Persée use case in GRAPHIA made it easier to connect millions of pages of SSH research that have been digitised with knowledge graph technologies, unlocking their full value for researchers and educators.

Discover how Odoma’s GraphChat is making SSH knowledge graphs more accessible through AI and natural language 👇

We are happy to share that our Annual Report 2025 has been published on Zenodo! Read the OPERAS Annual Report 2025 to discover the projects, services, programmes, and communities that shaped the year: https://zenodo.org/records/21410046.

How can young learners move beyond surface-level AI summaries and engage with trustworthy research? Through GRAPHIA’s use case with MTF Labs and the Open Minds STEAM platform, knowledge graphs can help connect curiosity, education, and evidence-based innovation.

Knowledge graphs, AI and FAIR data can play a key role in making SSH research more connected! Great to see @graphiaproject.bsky.social and metaphacts GmbH exploring this potential through the GRAPHIA Industry Hub.

A new post on the OPERAS blog reflects on the workshop "From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books", during the OPERAS Conference 2026 in Warsaw. Read the full reflection: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10354 #OPERAS #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OAbooks

#OPERASNewsletter | The 2nd OPERAS Newsletter of 2026 is out! Explore the latest news, resources, recordings, and opportunities from our community. Read the newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/operas-eu.org/operas-newsletter-02-2026

Learn with @graphiaproject.bsky.social how Open Access publishing can help research reach both academic communities and wider society.

We're pleased to welcome "TALOS Lab in AI4SSH" of the University of Crete as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community. Based at the Faculty of Letters, TALOS is an interdisciplinary laboratory dedicated to AI for the SSH. Welcome to the OPERAS, TALOS! Read more: bit.ly/talos-operas

The Infobip use case within GRAPHIA’s Industry Hub demonstrates how research infrastructures can foster practical, cross-sector innovation by connecting SSH, AI, and knowledge technologies.

📢 Open Research Europe (ORE) has launched an open call for applications and nominations to its new Scientific Advisory Board, which will guide the platform’s governance, strategic development, and scientific integrity. 🗓️ Applications are open until 10.07.26. Read more: operas.hypotheses.org/10247

The collaboration between Genius Loci and @graphiaproject.bsky.social shows how combining geospatial intelligence, AI, and research in the SSH can open up new possibilities for analysing, connecting, and making sense of geographically referenced information. Learn more: lnkd.in/ekzamvXU

#CallForProposals #OPERAS #EDCH | OPERAS is seeking an EU-based external Contractor to support technical developments across the European Diamond Capacity Hub platforms. Read the full announcement: https://operas-eu.org/edch-request-for-proposals/

Great initiative by @graphiaproject.bsky.social, showing how SSH research, knowledge graphs and AI can connect academic knowledge with practical innovation across sectors!

#OPERAS2026SCIROS | Across workshops, keynote speeches, panels, and posters, the OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference brought our community together in Warsaw. Thank you to everyone who joined us in Warsaw and online! Read more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10006 Photos by: Daniel Gaszewski

Are you a publisher? Join the “Thoth 1.0” webinar on 3 June and discover what’s new.

OPERAS and OpenAIRE have been recognised as part of the second wave of candidate nodes joining the European Open Science Cloud Federation through the EOSC Scholarly Commons Node 🌍📚 Read more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/10042 #OpenScience #EOSC #OPERAS #OpenAccess

📢 OASPA2026 programme update Join the webinar this September in Croatia to help shape the future of open access. Early Bird registration is open until 30 June. Programme: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa... Registration: www.tickettailor.com/events/oaspa... Sponsorship: www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

Within the GRAPHIA project, GoTriple is evolving into an interoperable knowledge graph supporting AI-powered discovery and stronger cross-domain connections. Read more: https://graphia-ssh.eu/news-blog/graphias-ssh-federated-knowledge-graph-the-role-of-gotriple/