Project Overview

We helped the University of Göttingen (Germany) communicate 'Hirmeos', a research project funded within Horizon 2020 (the EU Research and Innovation programme). The project aims to encourage a greater circulation of knowledge production in the Social Sciences and Humanities, integrating scholarly Open Access Monographs into the European Open Science framework.

HIRMEOS integrates five existing digital publishing platforms: Oapen (Netherlands), Open Edition (France), Univerlag, University of Göttingen (Germany), Ubiquity Press (Uk), E-publishing EKT (Greece).

Challenges

The challenge was (1) to briefly introduce the current scenario of the Open Access way of publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2) give a clear textual, and visual overview of new digital services and tools on five academic publishing platforms across Europe, and (3) explain tech concepts such as discoverability, annotation, entities recognition service, identification and certification of the peer-reviewing process.

Output

We explored concepts, issues, and business models of Open Access publishing. This gave us the foundation to ideate an explanatory animation and implement an interactive framework (FrameTrail) to provide more context and depth to the information.

The animation introduces the conceptual, economic and technical barriers of the transition to Open Acces, and tells how the new technologies of Hirmeos will help integrate Open Access Monographs into the European Open Science framework.

Team

Project and Writing

Daniela Berto: Project Concept and Coordination

Daniela Berto, Lisa Cadamuro, Andrea Bertino (SUB Göttingen): Script Writing

Victoria Gosling: English Editing and Proofreading

Design and Animation

Alpaca (Daniele De Rosa, Giulia Bonora): Design Concept, Storyboard and Illustrations

Marco Bagni & Daniele Arcuri: Animation Direction

Voice Narration, Music and Sound Design

Chantal Busse: Voice Narration

Julian Terbuyken: Music and Sound Design: Julian Terbuyken

FrameTrail - interactive video framework

Joscha Jäger: Consultancy and set-up coding support