TRIPLE Deliverable: D5.1 Report on Third-Party Applications Integration

This document presents the activities performed in the task T5.1 of the TRIPLE project until month M24. T5.1 focuses on the integration of third-party applications in the GoTriple Discovery Platform. Several tasks have been performed in this regard in the period under consideration.

To start with, a significant effort was devoted to analyse the integration of a Crowdfunding service for SSH researchers. We recognise in fact that such a tool can constitute an agile and an effective opportunity to find financial sources for a particular kind of research activities, e.g. small projects, which can be accomplished with limited investments but need quick timings to be performed successfully.

This integration has been analysed in full, not only analysing the possible implementation scenarios but especially by taking in considerations all the organizational aspects, including governance, financial, legal and fiscal issues, made even more complicated in an international context as those of the GoTriple platform.

Two specific assignments have been given to external partners: one to WelcomEurope, for the analysis of all the possible issues to consider when operating a platform dedicated to financing SSH research projects; another to Wemakeit, the company which will operate the TRIPLE Crowdfunding service until the end of the project.

The work in T5.1 didn’t stop here: through user research, other third-party tools to integrate in GoTriple have been identified, namely: a metrics service, to obtain data about the impact of a publication; a translation service, to guarantee that every content published in GoTriple has always a description in English. Finally, the integration of widely used bookmarking tools, that allow users to manage bibliographic references of publications, will be also pursued: a supplement of analysis will be done in the following months to identify the possible integration scenarios and to select the actual tools to support in GoTriple.

The integration with third-party apps is therefore an ongoing process: the presentation of the final scenario will be provided at month M40, in the updated release of this deliverable.