EquipeX HALiance
HALiance aims to rework HAL’s core services and to match the recommandations and excellence criteria defined by the French higher education and research organisations through the National Plan for Open Science within the scope of international initiatives for Open Science (COAR, EOSC, cOAlition S). It rests upon the renewal of both the hardware and the software.
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Equipment for research P.I.A.3 – ESR/EquipEx+ |
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| Durée du projet |
5,5 years |
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| Investment |
3,4 M€ |
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| Duration |
January 2022 |
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| Consortium |
CNRS, Inria, IN2P3, INRAE |
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| Partners |
Equipex+ Commons |
EOSC Data Commons
The project aims to enhance and speed up data lifecycle management by providing innovative EOSC Exchange services. These services support the discovery, analysis, deposition, preservation, sharing, use, and reuse of research data within a European data and computing continuum. The project involves 12 national repositories of cross-institute and cross-border pan-European relevance in the future EOSC federation.
Objectives for HAL :
- Enhance the discoverability of HAL metadata and its richness;
- Improve the FAIRness of HAL metadata;
- Ensure the pairing of publications in HAL with datasets;
- Make HAL accessible via the EOSC Matchmaker API
| Funding |
EC Horizon Europe |
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| Project kick-off |
2025 |
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| End of project |
2028 |
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| Investment |
CCSD : 87 496 € |
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| Coordination for HAL | Yannick Barborini |
Assigning DOIs to French electronic doctoral theses
The project involves assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), which are permanent international identifiers, to all French doctoral theses that are electronic by nature.
ABES assigns DOIs to theses in the national repository, both retrospectively and to new theses defended and processed from 2025 onwards. This applies regardless of whether the document is published on the theses.fr or HAL-Theses platforms. The CCSD assigns DOIs to alternative versions of theses that authors may deposit elsewhere on the HAL platform. The metadata associated with each DOI explicitly links the different versions of the document.
| Funding |
National fund for open science |
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| Project kick-off |
2024 |
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| End of project |
2028 |
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| Investment |
CCSD : 19 850 € |
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| Coordination for HAL |
Yannick Barborini |
GAMA Project (Automatic generation of controlled metadata for scientific audiovisual content)
GAMA is a tool that can suggest standardised metadata for academic videos and podcasts, such as keywords and authors associated with repositories. Thanks to this interoperable metadata, ESR’s audiovisual resources will be able to integrate into an open ecosystem.
| Funding |
Fond national pour la science ouverte |
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| Kick-off project |
2026 |
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| End of project |
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| Financement |
CCSD : |
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| Coordination for HAL |
Yannick Barborini |
Softwares and open science policies
| Project kick-off |
September 2024 |
| Partnership |
Software Heritage |
| Project coordination |
Hélène Bégnis (CCSD) and Sabrina Granger (SWH) |
Programme
- 25 September: Launch webinar to identify the key issues for libraries and presentation of the programme.
- 9-11 October: ADBU Congress, stand 32.
- 12 December: “Open Science Talks” webinar about software preservation: how to raise awareness and mobilise decision-making bodies, and what type of partnerships to develop? The webinar will also provide an opportunity to hear from institutions that have included a “Software” component in their strategy.
HAL and Software Heritage bring together their expertise in the service of open science: HAL ensures the durability and dissemination of research results, while Software Heritages is dedicated to safeguarding and identifying software. These services help to promote more transparent, reproducible and collaborative research.
HAL's new webdesign
| Project kick-off |
January 2019 |
| Project leaders |
Yannick Barborini, Isabelle Guay |
| Contractor |
design agency Atelier Universel |
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 |
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The first phase focuses on the researcher’s user experience, comprising the creation of an account, the deposit form, and the overall clickstream from the homepage to the deposit form. |
This phase focuses on administration pages: portal administration, collection management, user management, deletion of ducplicates, check of deposits. For this user sprint, a sample group made up of HAL users with various profiles and administration rights was created and individual interviews were conducted. Monitoring group: N. Alarcon (Casuhal), V. de Lavenne (ADBU), A. Raymond-Denise (EPRIST) |
Methodology
- Diagnosis Sprint
Examining things as they are from all sides, indentifying the critical points for the user, and offering work leads. - User Sprint
Identifying the needs, stakes and specificities of the users. - Design Sprint
Agile design and revision of HAL and connected services. - Detailed Design
Detailed design of all pages. - Iteration et dialogue with the developers
Handover of the design to developers and monitoring to ensure the quality of the end product.
Planning
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 | |
| Guidance |
January 2019 |
September 2020 |
| User Sprint |
March 2019 |
December 2020 |
| Design |
April 2019 |
April 2021 |
| Detailed Conception |
January 2020 |
September 2021 |
| Integration |
November 2022 |
2023–2024 (integration and evolutions of functionnalities included in the HALiance project) |