UNESCO Repository for Connecting Local and International Content

CLIC

http://www.unescore-clic.org

WSIS+10, Paris, 27 February 2013

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The “Management of Social Transformations” (MOST) Programme

Background and mission• Established in 1994, an Intergovernmental Science Programme with the

mandate to “Promote the development and use of social science knowledge that contributes to better understanding and management of social transformations”

Activities• Co-producing knowledge: Thematic research-policy networks on selected

priority themes. • IGC 2011: “Social Inclusion”; “Global Environmental Change”• Shaping: Framework Agreement with ISSC, World Social Science Fora and

thematic World Social Science Reports; Research Competitions, Summer Schools, UNESCO Chairs/UNITWIN alliances; based on ICT support!

• Debating: Regional and Subregional Fora of Ministers of Social Development, including academia, civil society, business

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Comparability FrameworkAn innovative methodology allows for a multidimensional representation of social transformation issues

by crossing two analysis grids; and exploiting their intersection:

1. Template for informing on Policy Dimensions Abstract: Issues&Context, assumptions, recommendations

Policies, programmes, projects and actors involvedResearch resultsRecommendations (including operational aspects)Bibliography, Indicators, News…

2. Content Domains and Issues (Policy-sensitive criteria)Content-dependent, dedicated thematic knowledge models with

hierarchy of concepts = ONTOLOGIES

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Search criteria

Select Briefs

Extract content

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Content Base Development, up to 2009

Knowledge for Higher Education and Research Policy

Human-rights-based approaches to poverty eradication

Human-rights-based approaches to violence against women

Prevention of Youth Violence

Regional Integration Studies (with UNU-CRIS)

Research-Policy Linkages

Continuous content development – Open call for contribution

Online peer review based on UNESCO Networks

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• Objectives– Develop software for supporting event-based activities (e.g.

conferences, research competitions, thematic journal issues, training seminars; and: MOST MINISTERIAL FORA)

– Organize documents associated with the event– Support typical roles (e.g. content provider, content reader,

regional administrator etc.) in their activities, to assert quality on the basis of peer review

– Use semantic similarity to interlink documents within the event– Use semantic similarity to interlink documents across UNESCO

and its partners events– Use semantic similarity to interlink event documents event with

documents already published in Open Access repositories

• Supported roles– UNESCO Administrator– Regional Administrator– Content Editor– Content Reviewer– Content Provider

– Content User

Authenticated

Unauthenticated

• Explanation of potentially ambiguous terms:

– UNESCO Administrator is a person responsible for managing the event (not necessarily UNESCO staff). An authorized partner who is in charge of the event.

– Events can be further subdivided into smaller parts based on geographical regions, thematic areas. Executive role for organizing the event within the region has the Regional Administrator.

CLIC Control Flow

CLIC Document Flow

• CLIC Project outcomes to date:– Requirement specification carried out in collaboration with

UNESCO– Web domain registration (unescore-clic.org)– System design – Interface design– Support for all roles implemented and document flow

implemented– Integration with Open Access repositories: calculating

semantic similarity within the event documents and between the event documents and the documents from Open Access repositories.

• Implemented CLIC functionalities– Setting up the event by UNESCO Administrator– Allocation of roles within the event– User registration (request and authorization)– Assignment of documents to editors– Assignment of documents to reviewers– Email management within the CLIC system– Document submission– Review management– Document browsing– Enabling/disabling CLIC users

• Implemented CLIC functionalities… continued– Support for multiple events in parallel:

(conferences, literature reviews, thematic collections..)

– Text extraction and conversion of pdf document– Indexing documents– Search– CLIC repository compliance with the Open Access

standards (OAI-PMH) – Calculation of semantic similarity

• Connecting CLIC documents with Open Access repositories– Currently CLIC is interlinked with all UK Open

Access repositories, CORE– 142 OA repositories– Analyzing full text of documents– Links calculated using semantic similarity

Growth of Open Access repositories

… bottom part of the same page

… LSE Online

… University of Leeds

CORE Applications

CORE Mobile – A native Android application, which can be used on both mobile and tablet devices. The application allows search and navigation across related papers stored in OA repositories and downloading full-text articles on the mobile device.

1.3 M records80,000 documents

Situation on 15 January 2012 – CLIC “receives”

Integration with Open Access repositories

Future?

Future: Within 2013/14, CORE will interlink documents from many international Open Access journals (DOAJ) and the content provided by the European Library (DiggiCORE)

• Benefits of the CLIC solution– Systematic methodology for organized events– Lower effort required– Organizing events more economical– Running virtual events– Grounding event documents by integration with existing

scientific publications– Interlinking with many more documents (journals, European

Library) … at no extra cost– If CLIC content is interlinked as another OA repository, mass

dissemination via OA initiative?– Access to CLIC content using mobile technology

• Open questions-Automatic translation– Document versioning, upload of new versions before

the submission deadline– Content licensing– Creative Commons

• Attribution• Derivative• Share alike• Combinations or none of the above

– Support before the conference in the CLIC start-up phase (help desk?)

• Sustainability … future questions– Technical– Content– Economical

Thank you!