Month: May 2020

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session taking place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments in this week.

Author:

Tom Mosterd

Poster description:

There is a growing interest in making academic books Open Access (OA) with the number of OA books increasing each year along with the introduction of additional funder mandates. However limited awareness amongst authors as well as a lack of understanding and common misconceptions about licensing and quality, for barriers in the transition to OA for books.

Within the context of open scholarship this calls for an open resource that is easy to use, kept up-to-date and relevant for authors and research support worldwide.  This has resulted in the concept of an Open Access Books Toolkit.

(Click on the image below to view and again to enlarge)

 

About the presenter:

Tom Mosterd is the Community Manager for the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN. He is responsible for communication plans, for managing the SCOSS fundraising campaign for both DOAB and OAPEN as well as several community-oriented projects, including the OA Books Toolkit.

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Yann Mahé, Carolina Sanchez, Manuel Guzman

Poster description:

Apart from making research outputs visible and accessible, open repositories nowadays face another major challenge. The large amount of data generated by research institutions and the necessity to control, manage, and well-structure them, remains one of the most important goals to ensure that this data is not only collected but also has a meaningful use.

After the release of the new open source repository Polaris OS in March 2018, MyScienceWork has embedded and developed several Text & Data Mining technologies (TDM) and algorithms to enable the solution to convert raw data into suitable information. Data extraction, automatic topic classification, analytics amongst others, is made possible thanks to these technologies.

The presentation will demonstrate how the integration of Text and Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence into Polaris OS responds to different institutional repository stakeholders’ needs.

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Yann Mahé, Carolina Sanchez, Manuel Guzman

Poster description:

In March 2018, MyScienceWork released Polaris OS, a new open source solution which seeks to find appropriate solutions for major challenges of open repositories. Before developing the Polaris OS platform, we examined existing open repositories and noticed that all of them required high programming skills to setup and greater expertise for customization.

By choosing to develop a “No Code” solution (Polaris OS), MyScienceWork decided to make open repositories setup and modification easier, with little to no programming skills required. Our poster will present all the benefits of setting up a “No Code” solution for institutional repositories through the example of Polaris OS.

(Click on the image below to view and again to enlarge)

About the presenter:

Carolina Sanchez holds a Bachelor degree in Law and Political Sciences. She worked as a paralegal within an international law firm before she decided to join ICEX-CECO Business School in Madrid to complete her studies with a MBA in International Management. After graduating, she worked as an International Trade consultant within the Spanish Embassy to Morocco. Following this, she joined a high tech company in Mexico City as a Business Development Manager. She came back to Europe by joining MyScienceWork’s team to bring her international commercial experience in developing business.

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Author:

Jordan PIŠČANC

Poster description:

Friuli-Venezia Giulia “Regional Scientific System” includes three Public Universities that started a common project (UnityFVG) in 2014 for integration and exposition of their Research “entities”. The UnityFVG Research Portal is based on DSpace-CRIS solution and uses CERIF-XML over OAI-PMH for harvesting the main entities (Researchers, Organizations, Publications) from the Institutional DSpaceCRIS systems, also exploiting their REST interface to enrich data exposed on the Portal. In 2018 we started harvesting other entities (Research Groups, Public Engagement Events, Journals, Conferences, Datasets) and linking them to Researcher Profiles, developing a special interface to search and view Researchers’ “skills”. All this data is collected and linked together using persistent identifiers like DOI, Handle, ORCID. The use of PIDs provides an effective response to a major challenge of the project: to collect plenty of information from different sources and to match it in unique entities/items without ambiguities or duplicates, representing the research life-cycle.

(Page through the slides below and click on the full screen window)

About the presenter:

Jordan PIŠČANC graduated in Electronic Engineering and with a Master degree in “Privacy & Security ICT in PA”.  He has been working at the University of Trieste since 1998, currently at the Information Technology Services for Knowledge Transfer. IR/CRIS IT Manager of the Institutional Repositories for more than 10 years. He participated in the pilot project for harvesting PhD theses of National Libraries and developed the DSpace plugin for the NBN:IT project. He has been actively contributing to the activities of the DSpace community with interventions at various conferences (OpenRepositories, OAI, euroCRIS). His research interests focus is the Open Archive and the DSpace-CRIS/GLAM infrastructures. He follows with great interest the topics related to OpenScience and is a member of IOSSG and was also member of the DSpace Leadership Group in 2018. 

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session taking place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments in this week.

Authors:

R. Barbera, R. Bruno, M. Fargetta,  R. Rotondo, A. Anagnostou, S. J. E. Taylor

Poster description:

For Open Science to become a common practice its enabling technologies must demonstrate to be useful and easy to use. Building and executing software on distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs), with input data related to Open Access publications and coming from FAIR repositories, should hence be as easy as surfing the web.

The Reproducibility and Reusability Platform (RRP) precisely addresses this issue. It consists of standard-based components: (i) the FutureGateway Framework for Science Gateways, (ii) the INFN Open Access Repository (OAR), and (iii) the Science Software on Demand (SSOD) service.

(Page through the slides below and click on the full screen window)

About the presenter:

Riccardo Bruno, born in Catania, got his Computer Science master degree in 1999. He is working at the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in the context of computing distributed infrastructures (Grid, Cloud and HPC). He also developed the FutureGateway, a software framework to ease the creation of Science Gateways.

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Sara Gould, Rachael Kotarski, Ellen Ramsey

Poster description:

The British Library launched a Shared Research Repository infrastructure for 6 partner heritage organisations with active research bases, classed as Independent Research Organisations. To meet expectations of Open Access and data sharing, we put expertise into building a multi-tenant research repository, developed by Ubiquity Press, shared across IRO partners. Pathways to long-term preservation and community codebase contributions are ongoing priorities.

The University of Virginia and Ubiquity Press are our partners in the Advancing Hyku project, funded by Arcadia. We’re all partnering to further work with the repository community, representing wider needs within the Advancing Hyku project.

(View the slide below and click on the full screen window)

About the presenter:

Rachael Kotarski is the Head of Research Infrastructure Services at the British Library. After a brief stint developing data and image services with an Open Access publisher, Rachael joined the British Library and has been working on developing data-focussed services for 10 years. The bulk of this time has been delivering DataCite to UK organisations and building the UK community around data citation.

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session taking place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments in this week.

Authors:

Lautaro Matas (LA Referencia), César Olivares (CONCYTEC – Perú), Washington Segundo (IBICT – Brazil), Vanderlino Neto (CNEN – Brazil), Rino Vargas (CONCYTEC – Perú) and Guilhermo Murilo (LA Referencia)

Poster description:

The poster gives a summary of the implementation of a lightweight, easy-to-deploy, read-only alternative for a DSpace usage data collector compatible with Matomo and OpenAire usage statistics infrastructure. It sends usage data from individual repositories to an external regional aggregator by issuing read-only queries to the out-of-the-box DSpace Solr statistics subsystem.

The success of this kind of service depends on installing a collector component in every repository, so one of the main requirements was to provide a user-friendly, non-invasive and reliable deploying process for repository managers. This development is part of LA Referencia´s tasks in OpenAIRE Advance project, aimed to build a pilot on usage data exchange between Latin America and Europe open science infrastructures.

(Click on the image below to view and again to enlarge)

About the presenters:

Lautaro Matas (LA Referencia), César Olivares (CONCYTEC – Perú), Washington Segundo (IBICT – Brazil), Vanderlino Neto (CNEN – Brazil), Rino Vargas (CONCYTEC – Perú) and Guilhermo Murilo (LA Referencia)

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Abdulla, Mohamed Abdulla (PhD); Raheeb Abdul Rahim Jamil (PhD)

Poster description:

The current study aims to investigate the opportunities and challenges facing Sudanese institutional digital repositories in the Sudanese universities. An analysis of digital repositories techniques, including open-source software, metadata, contents, human resources, qualifications, experience and training programs are explored.

(Page through the slides below and click on the full screen window)

About the Presenter:

Dr. Mohamed is a faculty member at the Deanship of Research at the Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. Previously, he was a researcher in the department of Research and Studies at Qatar Foundation for Production and Social Rehabilitation, Assistant Professor of Information and Library Science at Sudan Universities, Collaborate lecturer at Qatar University, Information Specialist, Information Literacy Team Leader and Lead Archivist in Qatar State. Dr. Mohammed has experience in all aspects of the Library & Information sector, 20 years of full-time work experience as a professional in academic libraries and information centers. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Assets Management from Khartoum University in 2009. 

Raheeb Abdul Rahim Jamil (PhD) is based at the Imam Al-Mahdi University.

Although OR2020 is postponed until May 31 – June 3rd 2021, we are happy to invite you to join a series of free virtual meetings on June 1-4, 2020 that will offer a brief update from the repository community and highlight current discussions, innovations and recent advancements. We aim to create space for learning and connection during the week that OR2020 would have run. This will include one or two sessions per day over Zoom for a duration of ~2 hours. Presentations will be recorded and uploaded to Zenodo Open Repositories community and YouTube. Registration is free!  And we will also have a series of conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #OpenRepos2020.

Participants are asked to register for each day and for each workshop they wish to attend. See https://or2020.sun.ac.za/conference-programme for virtual conference programme.