Scholarly research spans multiple languages, making multilingual metadata crucial for organizing and accessing knowledge across linguistic boundaries. These multilingual metadata already exist and are propagated throughout the scholarly publishing infrastructure, but the extent to which they are correctly recorded, or how they affect metadata quality more broadly, is little understood.
« Scholarly knowledge is created and shared through a wide range of sources — repositories, journals, data platforms, and other scholarly information systems — and in hundreds of languages. Yet, most discovery tools continue to privilege a few dominant languages, leaving large portions of research effectively invisible to global audiences. This…
« The GoTriple Ontology Translation Hackathon is a collaborative initiative focused on reviewing and refining the multilingual structure of the GoTriple ontology. It also serves as a real-world test case for Mondaecus, a collaborative translation platform developed to support scientific multilingualism and collective translation workflows. The activity will…
« Multilingualism is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of inclusive, pluralistic, and sustainable societies, as well as of open and equitable scholarly communication. International frameworks such as UNESCO’s 2003 Recommendation on Multilingualism and the 2021 Recommendation on Open Science, alongside initiatives like the 2019 Helsinki Initiative, have underscored its role in…
« En 2024, la plateforme GoTriple, dédiée à la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, a continué de se consolider, avec de nombreuses améliorations fonctionnelles, techniques et éditoriales. Chaque trimestre a apporté son lot de nouveautés, issues des retours utilisateurs et des priorités identifiées au sein de l’écosystème…
« Une science inclusive, partagée et équitable est un facteur clé de succès dans la réalisation des aspirations de l’Agenda 2063 « L’Afrique que nous voulons ». De même, la recommandation de l’UNESCO sur la science ouverte offre un outil puissant pour atteindre les objectifs de développement durable en ouvrant les…
« Helsinki Initiative organizes 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET a webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with three presentations ranging from researchers’ use of different languages in scholarly work and communication to coverage of publication languages in OpenAlex database. The speakers include Ginevra Peruginelli, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia and Lucía Céspedes. The event…
« À l’occasion de la rencontre scientifique « Une Babel des sciences ? Traductions et sciences ouvertes » organisée le 2 octobre par l’Académie des sciences, Claire Giry, Présidente-directrice générale de l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), souligne l’importance d’instaurer une véritable politique de diversité linguistique dans la communication scientifique et rappelle le…
« Since the Helsinki Initiative in 2019, language diversity and multilingualism have become key concerns in scholarly communication. (…)
This report presents an overview of the four exploratory studies conducted as part of the Translations and Open Science project in order to lay the foundations of a technology-aided collaborative translation…
« Several organizations and initiatives have recently called for more support of multilingualism in research to promote epistemic plurality and raise awareness of the adverse effects of an anglocentric research ecosystem. But this support for and practice of multilingualism and linguistic diversity cannot happen in a digital or technological vacuum. Open…
