Ubiquity (part of Paradigm Publishing Services)
About the organisation
Ubiquity is an open-access-only publisher dedicated to making research accessible to all. With a strong historical focus and deep expertise in the SSH, they provide a full-stack publishing platform for journals, books, and data. Their mission is to support sustainable open research through fair pricing and high-quality editorial standards, ensuring that scholarly communication in the SSH disciplines reaches a global audience without barriers.
What challenges can the GRAPHIA project help solve?
The primary challenge they face is the “siloing” of high-quality SSH research and the inherent limitations of traditional keyword-based discovery. However, beyond their own internal visibility, they see GRAPHIA as a critical tool for solving the broader navigation challenges faced by the SSH community. Researchers are currently overwhelmed by fragmented data sources and “flat” metadata that fails to capture the nuanced, interdisciplinary links essential to humanities research. GRAPHIA can provide the community with better, semantically-linked data that helps researchers navigate vast amounts of content more intuitively.
By transforming content from isolated documents into an interconnected knowledge web, the project will help scholars find the precise information they need, discover unexpected connections across disciplines, and spend less time on manual literature synthesis and more on high-level analysis.
What is the proposed use case?
The creation of a publicly available Knowledge Graph of SSH content published by Ubiquity. By integrating their content into the GRAPHIA ecosystem, they aim to provide researchers with a visual and semantic interface to explore their archives. Furthermore, they are highly interested in exploring how AI applications—specifically those built on the LLM4SSH—can be used to generate automated summaries, identify emerging research trends, and provide “intelligent” cross-references between articles and external archival sources.
What type of SSH data or content are involved?
As a publisher and data provider, Ubiquity intends to contribute comprehensive article metadata along with full-text content for their SSH journals and books. This includes structured bibliographic data, citations, and the underlying text, which will be used to enrich the GRAPHIA graph and provide a robust dataset for the development of AI-driven discovery services.
What technical aspect would be used?
They are particularly keen to see and test examples of AI applications and LLM services being developed within GRAPHIA. Their goal is to understand how these tools can upgrade their existing discovery services, making them more interactive and semantically aware. They are also interested in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a means to allow external AI agents to interact with their enriched content graph.