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Accessibility Metadata: Making accessible content in repositories discoverable
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Ensuring inclusive access to scientific output and barrier-free participation in the scientific process for everyone, accessibility is to be regarded as an important component of Open Science. Providing accessibility of research publications, data, infrastructures and communications remains a challenging task, although accessibility considerations within the open science ecosystem have advanced notably in recent decades. Inclusive publishing has a significant impact on the creation of accessible content. In order for existing accessible (or low-barrier) content to be used effectively, it must be made discoverable for users through accessibility metadata.
The importance of accessibility metadata and the practical approaches to their implementation are gaining increasing international attention. Significant progress can be observed in the publishing landscape in Canada, Italy, France, the USA and other countries. In the case of e-books, accessibility metadata are also crucial for compliance with the European Accessibility Act, which requires that e-books be made discoverable “by providing information through metadata about their accessibility features”. In the library field, a new network – the Accessibility Metadata Network – was established in 2024, highlighting the relevance of the topic. With regard to repositories, this issue still represents a significant gap, despite its recognized importance. By implementing accessibility metadata, the institutional repository of the University of Vienna PHAIDRA is taking a promising new path.
The presentation is intended to raise awareness of accessibility metadata. It clarifies the meaning and functions of accessibility metadata. Next, the presentation gives an overview of various metadata standards and schemas that offer frameworks for tagging accessible resources – such as Schema.org Accessibility Properties for Discoverability Vocabulary, ONIX, MARC21 or IPTC-IIM – along with the options they provide for this purpose and the crosswalks facilitating interoperability. Furthermore, the challenges related to accessibility metadata are addressed. On the one hand, accessibility metadata should be able to describe all relevant accessibility features of an object, requiring detailed and complex information. On the other hand, it is crucial that this information is comprehensible and usable for end users. Moreover, information about a resource\u27s accessibility should be reliably transmitted among all stakeholders and accurately mapped between different metadata standards. In conclusion, the solutions in the PHAIDRA repository and lessons learned are presented
Building a modular scholarly infrastructure like LEGO
No full textA growing number of funders, institutions, and academics are advocating for sustainable, transparent, and trusted open scholarly infrastructures. While significant progress has been made in journal publishing, other essential research outputs, such as preprints, data, and software, still lack recognition and support, despite being integral to scholarly communication.
This poster presents a modular vision for scholarly publishing infrastructure, inspired by both the distinct stages of the publishing process and the familiar LEGO brick metaphor. By developing interoperable components such as peer review systems, hosting platforms, metadata services, citation identifiers and persistent identifiers, we can create an infrastructure that is robust, user-centric, and future-ready.
For non-profit university presses like TU Delft OPEN Publishing, this approach offers a strategic opportunity to reduce costs, ensure sustainability, advance open science, and strengthen collaboration with funders and institutions. Initiatives such as the NWO (Dutch Research Council) Research Infrastructure call and the Netherlands University Presses (NUP) collaboration demonstrate that many of the essential building blocks are already in place.
The true innovation, therefore, is not (only) in building new tools from scratch, but also in effectively connecting the ones we already have in a modular, open, and sustainable way. This poster invites academics, publishers, funders, and infrastructure builders to co-create an interoperable scholarly ecosystem that brings all the pieces together.
Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Frederique Belliard will not be able to come to the Munin Conference to present her poster
A Funder-Driven Registered Report Initiative Compared with Standard Applications: A Study on Research Quality
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Background and aim: Registered report (RR) is a research publishing format designed to prevent reporting bias and promote open science by conducting peer review of a research project prior to data collection. The process requires a detailed description of the method and study design, which receives peer review at a journal before data collection. If accepted, an in-principle acceptance is received, which means that the same journal commits to publishing a Stage 2 manuscript, including results, provided the authors follow the Stage 1 protocol. The Foundation Dam, a Norwegian health-research funder promoting open science, works actively to test initiatives encouraging scientific transparency and replicability. The foundation, therefore, implemented a two-year initiative during the 2024-2025 research grant calls with an incentive for applicants to publish their research as an RR. Since RR has only emerged over recent years, gaining more knowledge regarding the characteristics of research projects that choose this format is essential to improve current RR models. Moreover, previous research comparing peer reviews of RRs with standard publications (SA) has revealed that RRs are scored higher in research quality. Still, it is unclear whether this difference is observable at the grant application stage. This study aims to (1) compare the characteristics of projects opting for RR versus SA publication formats, and (2) assess whether grant applications planning to publish as an RR receive higher peer review scores for research quality than those pursuing SA.
Method: The sample consists of all applicants for research grants at Foundation Dam, a health research funder in Norway, from 2023 to 2025 (N=1170). Experts in their fields evaluate all applications. Using a hierarchical multilevel linear regression model, the study will compare Excellence (quality of research methods and innovativeness of research) and Implementation (quality of the research group, project organization, and governance) assessment scores of RR applications with SA. The applications from the 2023 research call (SA n=350) will be compared with those from the 2024 and 2025 research calls (RR n=143, SA n=677) to assess the overall effect of implementing the RR initiative on assessment scores. Intraclass correlation coefficients will be calculated to evaluate how much of the assessment score variance is due to differences in scoring between reviewers. In addition, correlation analyses will be performed to explore the potential association between evaluation scores, the confidence level of reviewers, and the agreement level between reviewers. Descriptive characteristics of research method, study design, and health research classification system categories will be presented by application group (RR or SA) and research call (2023 or 2024/2025)
Cold Seeps Extreme24 Expedition Report
No full textThe Cold Seeps Extreme24 Expedition was the second leg of two expeditions, which form part of the University of Tromsø’s Extreme 24 project.
The expedition focused on cold seeps sites characterised by methane emissions in several localities in the Barents Sea. The expedition is a research initiative (PI G. Panieri) hosted by the Department of Geosciences, part of the Faculty of Science and Technology at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, situated in Tromsø, and involved partners from different research institutes and universities around the world and used the REV Ocean Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Aurora.
The expedition has been developed by leveraging the extensive knowledge gained from two significant projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council: CAGE (Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate) and AKMA (Advancing Knowledge of Methane in the Arctic), both hosted at the Department of Geosciences at UiT. These projects have provided fundamental understandings to define the objectives and methodologies used during the EXTREME24 expedition, aiming to broaden our understanding of Arctic extreme environments
Cruise report HHUMTKT25: Tromsø - Kirkenes - Tromsø, April 16-21, 2025.
No full textR/V Helmer Hanssen is a multipurpose research vessel owned by UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The cruise ‘HHUMTKT25’ was organized and executed by The Arctic University Museum of Norway (units ‘UM’ and ‘UMAK’ at UiT). The six participating projects in this cruise were (1) Scalidophora of Norway, (2) Microfauna and macrofauna in Northern Norway, (3) Reconstruction of past ecosystems using sedimentary ancient DNA, (4) ArKoBi studying the population connectivity of Arctica islandica in Northern Norway, (5) DragonNest studying population genetics and distribution patterns of Kinorhyncha in the Arctic region and (6) NUDIST studying biogeography and taxonomy of nudibranchs in northern Norway and the Arctic. Projects (1) ‘Scalidophora of Norway’ and (5) DragonNest aimed at sampling scalidophoran fauna in Northern Norway, primarily the phylum Kinorhyncha, using a box corer. Projects (2), (4) and (6) relied on a triangular dredge to obtain specimens, and project (3) utilized a gravity corer to capture a 5-m long sediment core. The cruise leader was Andreas Altenburger (UiT)
National Diamond Open Access funding models
No full textHow can Diamond Open Access be funded? Three different approaches are presented in this conversation. The Finnish Federation of Learned Societies (TSV) hosts a platform with more than 150 learned society journals. For the last couple of years, they have been distributing funds specifically to cover the operating costs of under-financed Diamond journals. The grantees are required to not make any profit in addition to the governmental funds they get through TSV. In Canada, the centralized dissemination platform Érudit showcases more than 250 active, non-commercial scholarly journals. Thanks to government funding of scholarly journals, a thriving library publishing sector, and Érudit\u27s own coordinated funding scheme, the majority of Canadian journals are by now Diamond. In the Netherlands, a special fund for flipping journals to Diamond Open Access has just closed its first call. The fund is designed to help medium to large size journals transition away from a commercial business model. The three interlocutors each have prominent roles in these funding schemes. Together they reflect upon the future of academic publishing and how the present landscape might look when viewed 150 years from now.
Recording made April 8, 2025. First published online: May 28, 2025
Hollow pursuits: Desire, therapy, and \u27play\u27 on Star Trek: The Next Generation\u27s holodeck
No full textIn so many ways the vision of the future imagined in the Star Trek universe seems painfully distant. Perhaps, the closest the show has come to anticipating the world as it is today, however, can be found in its depiction of the holodeck as the crew’s primary space for leisure. This article focuses on episode 21, season 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Hollow Pursuits’, in which we meet Reginald Barclay, a nervous engineer who becomes addicted to the ship’s virtual reality simulator. Taking its cue from Janet Murray’s book, Hamlet on the Holodeck, writing on the Enterprise’s leisure technology has tended to explore the holodeck’s role as a theatrical story-telling device. However, in ‘Hollow Pursuits’, I argue, Barclay’s use of the software resonates far more with its closest comparator today: virtual reality videogaming. For Barclay the holodeck blurs the line between the virtual world and reality in ways that make other crew members uncomfortable. In doing so, as this paper demonstrates, it also reveals flaws in The Next Generation’s utopia particularly in relation to desire, addiction, therapy, and ‘play’
Reduplication of the non-finite form called the verb genitive in North Saami
No full textDán artihkkala ulbmilin lea gieđahallat fenomena, mas guokte ideanttalaš vearbagenetiivva leat cealkagis maŋŋálagaid, nugo boađi boađi ja bosu bosu. Gohčodan dan reduplikatiiva vearbagenetiivan. Dán rádjái reduplikatiiva vearbagenetiiva lea unnán dutkojuvvon, nuba dán artihkkala ulbmilin lea buktit ovdan álgogeahčastaga dasa, manin semantihkalaččat ja morfologalaččat seamma vearbagenetiivahápmi geavahuvvo guktii maŋŋálagaid ja mii lea ráhkadusa syntávssalaš funkšuvdna. Dutkanmateriálan leat čáppagirjjálašvuođa girjjit, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta ja Norgga Sámedikki sámi teakstačoakkáldat (SIKOR), Suoma arkiivvaid jearahallanmateriála (KOTUS, SKA ja TKU) ja interneahtas vižžon materiála. Čoggojuvvon materiála lea analyserejuvvon semantihkalaččat, morfologalaččat ja syntávssalaččat. Dasa lassin reduplikatiiva vearbagenetiivva frekveansa lea iskojuvvon ja čilgejuvvon.
Guorahallama váldoboađus lea dat, ahte reduplikatiiva vearbagenetiiva sisttisdoallá semantihkalaččat guokte iešguđetlágán mearkkašumi. Nubbi lea proksimatiiva, mii mearkkaša ahte mii nu lea measta ollašuvvamin, ovdamearkka dihte Čakča lea boađi boađi. Nubbi mearkkašupmi lea fas intensiiva vearbagenitiiva, mii mielddisbuktá ahte mas nu lea ollu intensitehta, ovdamearkka dihte Ánte boahtá bosu bosu. Proksimatiiva vearbagenetiiva lea dutkanmateriálas measta álo ráhkaduvvon vearbbas boahtit > boađi boađi, muhto intensiiva vearbagenetiiva sáhttá leat ráhkaduvvon man beare vearbbas, mii almmuha lihkadeami (doapmat) dahje mentála doaimmaid (bossut). Intensiiva vearbagenetiivva syntávssalaš funkšuvdna lea dábálaččat adverbiála ja muhtumin maid cealkaga áidna vearbaguovddáš, mii doaibmá predikáhta funkšuvnnas. Proksimatiiva vearbagenetiivva syntávssalaš funkšuvdna sáhttá leat predikatiivaadverbiála, deavdda, attribuhtta ja dasa lassin muhtumin cealkaga áidna vearbaguovddáš. Dutkanmateriála reduplikatiiva vearbagenetiivvat leat ráhkaduvvon dušše guovttestávvalvearbbain.The goal of this article is to account for a linguistic phenomenon in North Saami, namely the appearance of two identical verb genitive forms, one right after the other, in a clause, such as boađi boađi ‘just about to come’ and bosu bosu ‘huffing and puffing’. I call this the reduplicated verb genitive. The reduplicated verb genitive in North Saami has until now not received much attention in the scholarly literature, so the goal of this article is to present a preliminary overview, addressing how two verb genitive forms of the same verb that follow one another function semantically and morphologically, and what the syntactic function of the construction is. The research is based on examples from literary works, the SIKOR Saami text corpus belonging to UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian Saami Parliament, Finnish interview archives (KOTUS, SKA and TKU), and the internet. This material was analyzed semantically, morphologically, and syntactically. In addition the frequency of the verb genitive was investigated and determined.
The main finding of this research was that the reduplicated verb genitive in North Saami expresses two different semantic values. The first meaning is proximative, which expresses something that is about to be achieved, as in Čakča lea boađi boađi ‘Autumn is just about to arrive’. The second meaning is the intensive verb genitive, as in Ánte boahtá bosu bosu ‘Ánte is coming huffing and puffing’. In the data the proximative verb genitive is almost always formed from the verb boahtit ‘come’ > boađi boađi ‘just about to come’, whereas the intensive verb genitive can be formed from various verbs that express movement (like doapmat ‘rush’) or sound (like bossut ‘blow, puff’). The syntactic function of the intensive verb genitive is usually as an adverbial modifier of the verb, as a predicative with a copular verb, or as an attribute, and in addition in some clauses it can be the sole verbal core. In the data the reduplicated verb genitive is formed only from bisyllabic verbs
Gáldokritihkalaš ja dutkanetihkalaš gažaldagat sámegielaid báikenammadutkamis: Doavttirlogaldallamat
No full textGáldokritihkalaš ja dutkanetihkalaš gažaldagat sámegielaid báikenammadutkamis
Doavttirlogaldallamat: Taarna Valtonen
Taarna ValtonenLectio praecursoriaOulu universitehtas 29.3.201
Rávdnjevággi og Romssavággi − sommarheimane som gjekk tapt
No full textRávdnjevággi (Finnheia) og Romssavággi (Tromsdalen) er ettertrakta beiteområde for reindrift. Dei frodige dalområa har i fleire hundre år vore dei største buplassane i den samiske tamreindrifta i nord. Dei mange spora i landskapa, munnlege og skriftlege kjelder og eit rikt fotomateriale er en viktig del av Tromsø sin historie som vert synleggjort gjennom utstillinga Rávdnji