The document discusses linking research resources and publications through various initiatives and interoperability challenges. It describes the ICORDI and RDA initiatives which aim to improve interoperability between scientific infrastructures in Europe and North America. An ICORDI prototype was developed to query multiple data sources and link related publications and research resources. However, interoperability remains a key challenge due to the diverse nature of research data infrastructures and repositories.

1. Linking data to publications: lessons
learned from a pilot implementation
Donatella Castelli
CNR‐ISTI
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2. Outline
1. The context: ICORDI & RDA
2. Linking research resources: prototype &
interoperability issues
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3. ICORDI
Objective: “To establish a coordination platform
between Europe and USA to discuss and improve the
interoperability of today’s and tomorrow’s scientific
infrastructures of both continents and to extend this
to the global levels”
Started in September 2012
https://www.icordi.eu/
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4. Merging of multiple Initiatives
ANDS
(Australia)
ICORDI
DWF
(EU)
(US)
RDA
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5. Research Data Alliance
“To facilitate specific, short‐term efforts that
accelerate the sharing and exchange of research data”
Working groups serving as accelerants to data
sharing practice and infrastructure interopeability
Adopted standards
Deployed infrastructure
Adopted policy
Implemented best practice, etc.
http://rd‐alliance.org
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6. The context:
many e‐Infrastructures
(infrastructure for a purpose)
Storage, curation
and preservation
of large amound
of data
Scientific
communication
& assessment
Data sharing and
seemless access to
different
heterogeneous data
repositories
Data analysis &
mining
+ other variants (e.g. particular domain, specific data type, certain geographical region)
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7. The addressed challenge:
e‐Infrastructure ecosystem
Storage, curation
and preservation
of large amound
of data
Data sharing and
seemless access to
different
heterogeneous data
repositories
Scientific
communication &
assessment
Data analysis &
mining
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8. Interoperability is the key issue
Discover resources
Access and understand resources
Use (e.g. analyse, process, deploy, etc.)
resources
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9. OpenAIRE mandate:
e‐Infra for scientific information
Research processes require to retrieve, access and reuse a large variety
of resources often made available from scientists working in different
domains
Article
Working
datasets
Data
projections
on map
Articles on
compleme
ntary
subjects
Documenta
tion
Relevant
experiment
al datasets
Illustrative
graphs
Tools for
analysis
and
modelling
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Observatio
n data

10. “New publications”: relationships
explicitly specified by the author
Structured Publications (e.g.Elsevier
Article of the Future)
Compound Objects (e.g. enhanced
publications, modular articles)
Live articles (e.g. D4Science dynamic
reports)
Experiment‐oriented publication (e.g.
Scientific Publication Package , My‐
Experiment research objects)
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11. OpenAIRE now:
“Automatic” identification of relationships
By metadata
harvesting
Paper
Working
datasets
Data
projections
on map
Articles on
compleme
ntary
subjects
Documenta
tion
Relevant
experiment
al datasets
Illustrative
graphs
Tools for
analysis
and
modelling
Observatio
n data
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12. The ICORDI Prototype
By querying different
data sources/infra
Paper
Working
datasets
Data
projection
s on map
Articles on
compleme
ntary
subjects
Document
ation
Relevant
experimen
tal
datasets
Illustrative
graphs
Tools for
analysis
and
modelling
Observatio
n data
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13. Search in a data source
/aggregator
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14. Results
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15. Selecting the
target data source
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16. Visualization of the result
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17. Working in progress & plans
Configurable criteria
More selective algorithms
Authority Registries in identifying
relationships
of general applicability (e.g. ORCID)
applicable to specific domains/collections (e.g.
Catalogue of Life)
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18. Main Challenge:
Interoperability
Discovery in an open set of data sources/data
infrastructures
Dichotomy between digital
libraries/repositories, data centers & sw
repositories
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19. THANK YOU
donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it
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