Current projects

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.

Funding	Equipment for research P.I.A.3 – ESR/EquipEx+
Project reference	21-ESRE-0047
Duration	5,5 years
Investment	3,4 M€
Project kick-off	January 2022
Consortiums	CNRS, Inria, IN2P3, INRAE
Partners	Equipex+ Commons (OpenEdition, Metopes, Huma-Num)

HALOWIN

HALOWIN project aims to improve HAL interoperability with preprints reviewing services by developing a technical framework that enables the automatic sharing of documents, metadata and notifications. The project rests upon two services: a publishing platform (Episciences) and a recommandation platform (Peer Community In).

Funding	Fond national pour la Science ouverte
Duration	24 months
Project kick-off	March 2021
Partnership	Peer Community In
Project leader	Raphaël Tournoy

OpenAIRE Nexus

OpenAIRE Nexus project aims to make Episciences a cornerstone of the EOSC portfolio and onboard it in the set of services of the european cloud, by interfacing it with other OpenAIRE-Nexus services.

Funding	European project, OpenAIRE-Nexus, Scholarly communication services for the EOSC (INFRAEOSC-07-2020) – Increasing the service offer of the EOSC Portal (a3) services supporting scholarly communication and open access
Duration	30 months
Project kick-off	January 2021
Partnership	OpenAIRE
Project leader	Raphaël Tournoy

Description

Interconnecting Episciences with Zenodo: a researchers will be able to submit a preprint in Zenodo to an Episciences journal;
Interfacing with other services: statistics system of OpenAIRE, OpenCitations, Scholexplorer and OpenAIRE PROVIDE;
Making the authentification system used by EOSC available to Episciences users.

HAL's new webdesign

The project aims to make the user experience on HAL easier. It consists in redesigning HAL interfaces in order to improve the global user experience.

Project kick-off	January 2019
Project leaders	Yannick Barborini, Isabelle Guay
Contractor	design agency Atelier Universel

The project consists of two phases:

Phase 1	Phase 2
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 involved a sample group made up of researchers and lecturers from various scientific fields.	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)

Phase 1

Phase 2

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 involved a sample group made up of researchers and lecturers from various scientific fields.

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

For each phase:

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	Q4 2021	2023–2024 (integration and evolutions of functionnalities included in the HALiance project)