PCSS Joins the OPERAS Consortium

The work carried out within individual institutions affiliated with the Consortium addresses the needs of researchers, universities, libraries, publishers, research funding institutions, and science policy makers. Since 2017, OPERAS members have completed several dozen projects funded by pan-European and national grant competitions.

PSNC, as the operator of the PIONIER Network and coordinator of numerous projects in the field of digital humanities and cultural heritage, will support the Consortium’s activities through data discovery platforms and services that support scientific communication, digital repositories and open access platforms, research data infrastructures and digital data protection, among others.

The Poznań Center’s support for OPERAS can also rely on activities within the DARIAH infrastructure. These include:

a) collecting and sharing data in accordance with FAIR principles,

b) contextualizing data,

c) interactive data processing and exploration,

d) spatiotemporal visualizations, digital reconstructions, etc.

The expertise and infrastructure resources of PSNC also create opportunities for the exchange of information between researchers in the social sciences and humanities through the creation of tools for knowledge generation, community building, or the consolidation of the infrastructure base. Among the most important of those activities are:

a) generating tools for creating repositories, libraries, and other digital platforms used for the efficient collection and long-term storage of data (e.g., the DInGO software package),

b) the national aggregator of data on culture and science (FBC),

c) dedicated tools for various fields of the humanities,

d) cooperation on a literary studies database,

e) cooperation in the field of scientific information tools and the dissemination of literary knowledge.

— Joining OPERAS is a significant step in PSNC’s efforts to develop research infrastructures in the field of social sciences and humanities. We are delighted to be able to closely cooperate with OPERAS-EU and actively participate in what the working groups do. Supporting scientific communication is an important element of our long-standing activities, related to both cultural heritage and digital humanities – said Tomasz Parkoła, Head of the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department at PSNC.