Interoperability Challenges and Approaches

OpenAIRE - factsheet

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in EuropeProgramme: FP7 – Research InfrastructuresStarting date: December 1, 2009Duration: 36 monthsBudget: 4.1 Million38 partners covering all European member-states– To be reached at www.openaire.eu

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Partners

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University of Athens (coordinator)

University of Goettingen Library (scientific coordinator)

CNR-ISTI (technical coordinator)

University of Bielefeld

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

CERN

SURF

ICM – University of Warsaw

University of Minho

University of Gent Library

eIFL

Technical University Denmark

Scientific CommunitiesHealth (Life Sciences)

– EMBL-EBI

Environment

– World Data Center for Climate

– Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Information & Communication Science

– Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)

Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

– Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Liaison Offices

Liaison Offices

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European Helpdesk

Promote FP7-pilot and ERC OA guidelinesNational Open Access Liaison Offices (27 countries)Provide OA “toolkits” for

– Researchers– Institutions

Setup 24/7 portal for deposit, search of OA publicationsLiaison with

– Other European OA initiatives– Publishers– CRIS systems

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Supporting repository e-Infrastructure

OpenAIRE portal built on D-NETAccess to scientific publications

– Search, browse– Visualization tools

Deposition of articles– Setup repository for “homeless” pubs (INVENIO)– Harvest OA publications from existing repositories

Provide monitoring tools for– Document/depositing statistics– Usage statistics from repository infrastructure

Interoperation with other infrastructures OpenAIRE Project Overview6

OpenAIRE in a nutshell

OpenAIRE overall

overview:

functionalities

and domains

served

OpenAIRE overall

overview:

functionalities

and domains

served

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Research data management

Explore the requirements, practices, incentives, workflows, data models, and technologies to deposit, access, and otherwise manipulate research datasetsProduce feasibility studies to show researchers the benefit for depositingWork with four (4) scientific communities

– Health (Life Sciences)– Environment– Information & Communication Science– Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

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CRIS vs. IR

CRISManagement research context– research input/output relations– stakeholders, environments

Bibliographic metadata, authors

Enumerated lists, controlled vocabularies, ontologies

Managed by institution research administration

Interoperability w/ other admin systems “well understood”

IRManagement of research content– research output– scientific results, creators

Bibliographic metadata, authors

Full-text indexing, persistent ids for content (URN, UDI, …), content statistics, usage rights

Managed by institution libraries

Interoperability w/ other research infrastructures “active area of work”

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CERIF Data Model

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CRIS and IR

Overlapping data, stakeholders, org units involved

Danger of duplication effort

First integration efforts [DRIVER-II Technology Watch Report]– TCD portals in Ireland– Narcis in the Netherlands– DDF-MXD format in Danemark

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OpenAIRE Interoperability

Publications – Projects – Primary Data

Treated as independent w/ distinct– Origins, Life cycles, Target groups

OpenAIRE: create relations among them

Life in separate systems, cohesive semantics in OpenAIRE

Relations through mappings

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OpenAIRE Data Model 0.1

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Authors

Projects

manifestations

participants

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rticles

authorships

Authorships

fundedBy

Data Sources

Files

Manifestations

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Organizations

Articles

OpenAIRE Controlled Vocs

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NationalitiesAuthors

CountriesOrganizations

LicenseKindsArticles

Languages

DataSourceTypologiesDataSources

FP7SubjectsProjects_FP7subjectsProjects

nationality license_kind

language

country_of_origin typology

OpenAIRE Interoperability

Common data model (CERIF-inspired, CERIF subset)CRIS-related data ingested by European Participant Portal ++ (& orgs’ CRISs)IR-related data harvested from individual reps based on the DRIVER infrastructurePrimary data under investigationEnhancement of D-Net software [DRIVER]Specs in “by the end of May”

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