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The 18th Conference is planned to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2023.

We want to reaffirm our plan to hold an Open Repositories conference in

Thank you –

Sarah Shreeves, Chair ORSC

sshreeves@arizona.edu

 

Claire Knowles, Vice Chair ORSC

c.knowles1@leeds.ac.uk

 

 

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:

Marié Roux

Poster description:

Stellenbosch University has implemented an integration with ORCID in 2016. By connecting clients’ ORCID IDs to their Stellenbosch University identities also store access to clients’ ORCID IDs, for the University to use in future integrations with ORCID, such as the institutional repository, SUNScholar.

The poster gives an overview of how the integration was set up. It will also give an overview of the numbers of clients who have connected their ORCID IDs to the integration, sorted by faculty and client category. A comparison between how many ORCID IDs exist at the different institutions of the South African ORCID Consortium is also included. Marketing holds a key to the success of the integration and therefore a summary and examples of marketing activities are listed. Lastly the poster addresses all the challenges which come with this project, for example effective communication across campus, software developments and other marketing strategies.

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About the presenter:

Marié Roux is a Manager for Research Impact Services at Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service. She is also responsible for the coordination of the research related workshops for researchers and postgraduate students as part of the #SmartResearcher workshops series. Research Impact services at Stellenbosch University include bibliometrics, unique author identifiers and to make researchers aware of how to increase their impact.

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:

Kiflom Michael Kahsay

Poster description:

A huge part of Eritrean Archival collections date back to the colonial time and armed struggle. All research outputs, records, reports, theses and other work is still not automated and captured. Instead, a huge amount is produced in  physical paper and forgotten in shelves far from the reach for scholars. Hence, this poster is expected to share the know-hows on how such complex data production can become a reality as an Open Repository and contribute to the democratization of knowledge to the citizens of the country.

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About the presenter:

Kiflom Michael Kahsay is the President of LIAE and Director of Rora-DL.

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:

Sadik Shahadu, Greg Mcverry 

Poster description:

Many students are unable to finish their first degrees due to the high cost of higher education in Ghana. Many universities in Ghana lacks access to rich online educational materials to provide an alternative learning module for students who can not afford the standard university education.

This poster focuses on how we are using IndieWeb building blocks to help students and educators to create Open Educational resources. Our program provides free personal websites to students and educators to curate and create OERs on their own websites, the community then write or remix these resources to develop collections of community-approved OER.

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About the presenter:

Sadik Shahadu is an inspiring open leader who works to build open educational practices in Ghana. He is the co-founder of Global Open Initiative, a Ghanaian non-profit organization working to promote open data, open access, and the use of open educational resources (OER) across Africa. He is a researcher, a Wikipedian, and a Mozilla Open Leaders X fellow.

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:

Adam Vials Moore, Hilda Muchando, Monica Duke, Balviar Notay,  Christopher Brown, Alice Meadows, Josh Brown

Poster description:

The information landscape for infrastructure that captures and exposes scholarly communications and the associated individuals, organisations and connected entities has developed over the last several years. A set of persistent identifiers (PIDs) allow participants and their interactions and connections to be consistently captured and passed around within the infrastructure. In this paper we look at some of the recent identifiers, policies and communities that are working to bring about a connected web of open and accessible scholarly information to enable high quality science.

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About the presenter:

Dr Adam Vials Moore currently works for Jisc as the UK ORCID senior community engagement and technical lead, as part of the team supporting the personal persistent identifier and broader work across PIDs. His background ranges from research into bioinformatics, affective adaptive e-learning and hypertext to supporting institutional infrastructure including Open Access outputs via CRIS and repositories.

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:

Maria Esteva, Sharon Strover, Soyoung Park, Christopher Rossbach, John Thywissen

Poster description:

Open datasets are at the core of countless AI applications. However, the complexities involved in large data aggregations, transformations, distribution and reuse, and the limited capacity to validate ethical implications embedded in routine data practices, make it difficult to track and prevent breaches. Recognizing that data and the systems that manage it are not neutral but entangled in a chain of decisions, organizational priorities, technical conditions, and social norms, we investigate how ethical data management can be a point of departure for designing and evaluating AI applications. Our research suggests an array of issues and decision-making instances that touch ethics data management at each lifecycle stage. The findings can inform open repositories’ policies and curation practices towards ethical open data for use in responsible AI. In this poster we describe our research methods using the case of natural hazards data.

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About the presenter:

Sharon Strover is a Professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin.  She also direct the Technology & Information Policy Center.  Her research and teaching focus on communication technologies and their policy implications.

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:

Philip Ndhlovu, Notice Pasipamire

Poster description:

There is a dearth of empirical evidence in Africa to support the assertion that IRs have made research output easily accessible, visible and citable as acknowledged by some scholars. The study assessed the extent to which archived content is cited by publications indexed in Scopus. Five IRs in Zimbabwean state universities were analysed. Scopus cited references search facility was used to mine for documents citing IR content from 2014 to 2018. Results from Scopus searches were exported into text files then transported to excel workbooks for filtering and analysis. The impact of an IR was analysed from two perspectives; cited and citing documents characteristics. Results show that on average 8.6 documents per year were cited for all IRs combined within the 5 year period selected for the study. The most cited document types were thesis and dissertations followed by research articles. The University of Zimbabwe IR was found to be the most influential, with 34 citers affiliated in 12 countries. A new measure of IR research impact based on Scopus was put forward.

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About the presenter:

Phillip Ndhlovu is the Institutional Repository Librarian as well as the Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Commerce at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He holds B.Sc (HONS) and M.Sc. degrees in Library and Information Science.

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:

Tiago Martins da Costa Ferreira, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster presents the results of some statistics with regarding to DSpace community in Brazil, its evolution through time and future strategies. Brazil occupies, until this date, the third position on the number of DSpace repository installations worldwide and the user community has recently improved collaboration through forums and promotion of a series of webinars.

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About the presenter:

Tiago Martins da Costa Ferreira is currently the Director of NEKI IT. He  graduated in Computer Systems, working in the market as a specialist and tech consultant in digital repositories for more than 15 years and since 2018 occupies the role of Coordinator of the Braziilian DSpace User Group.

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:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster shows a methodology on how to select and filter documents from open-access digital repositories. Using search expressions, queries were made inside oasisbr, using the terms selected in two different languages. The number of documents recovered by each term is listed. After that, a saturation curve is generated, so one can see how much each terms recovers of ‘noise’ or ‘silence’, with regard to its generic nature or rather a specific one. After the documents are selected, a csv file is generated to be uploaded to a thematic digital library, that may use DSpace as a platform.

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About the presenter:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho is a Junior Researcher at IBICT.

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:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster presents a method to extract trending topics from searches performed on Institutional Repositories, Digital Libraries and Scientific Journals. It used the data collected from Google Analytics running over two Brazilian open science research portals: oasisbr and BDTD. The data were analyzed using the R language operating over the set of most viewed records in the months in 2018 and 2019, resulting in interesting visualizations about tendencies and hot topics on oasisbr and BDTD, in the searches performed in these two years.

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About the Presenter:

Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo is the Coordinator of the Laboratory of Methodologies of Treatment and Dissemination of Information (COLAB), at IBICT.