OpenAIRE aims to create an integrated scientific information system by linking data from various sources like literature repositories, funding information, organizations, and datasets. It provides services like validation, cleaning, linking, and analyzing this diverse data. OpenAIRE also reports on and monitors access to research outputs for various stakeholders. It seeks to foster collaboration and interoperability between CRIS systems, repositories, and other related initiatives through aligning standards and technologies.

1. Towards the realisation of a European
Research Information Infrastructure
The OpenAIRE view
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Athens, 8-10 November,2016
@openaire_eu
Natalia Manola
Athena Research and Innovation Centre

2. Fosters the social and
technical to facilitate the shift
of scholarly communication
towards making science open
and reproducible
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3. It’s all about openness
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OA is here to stay.
Policies and practices
hand in hand for a
sustainable OA Service provision
at all levels
for all stakeholders
Policy alignment
& advising

4. Who we are
• In 24x7 operation since Dec
2010
• OpenAIRE
• OpenAIREplus
• OpenAIRE2020
• A legal entity in 2017
• Consortium of 50 partners
• Institutional, national and
international perspectives on OA
policies & e-Infrastructures
Open Access experts
• Building efficient e-Infra technologies
• State of the art technologies (big
data, linked data)
Information & Computer
Science experts
• Legal &policy recommendations
Legal experts
• Best practices for data
• Linking to data infrastructures
Data communities
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers
Routing
Archives
Guidelines
CERIF compliant

6. Integrated Scientific Information System
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17.3 mi unique publications
760+ validated data providers
500K publications linked to
projects from 12 funders
28 K datasets linked to
publications or funders
3.5K links to software
repositories
33K organizations
Organization
s
Projects
AuthorsDatasets
Publications
Data
Providers
OpenAIRE-Connect
From January 2017
Software Facilities Methods
Research
Communities
Facilities
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Moving to
Open Science

7. It’s all about people
• Local support for Europe’s diverse research landscape
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Human support network
• 33 expert nodes all over
Europe to helping with:
• Open Science training &
support
• OA policy alignment
• Technical assistance
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8. World-wide alignment &
synergies
Interoperability alignment, sharing
technologies & services
• La Refencia: Latin America repository
network
• JAIRO – Japanese Institutional
Repositories Online
• REMERI – Mexican Network of Institutional
Repositories
• World Data Service – 70 data repositories
around
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9. our services
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers
Routing
Archives
Guidelines

11. 1 2 3Guidelines for
Literature
Repository
managers
Guidelines for Data
Archive Managers
Guidelines for CRIS
- CERIF-XML
Guidelines
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12. For CRIS
• Goal - empower CRIS at institution and
national level
• Challenge - Interoperability
• Common vocabularies
• Common representation of funding
information
• Common identifier schemes
• People (authors, research managers)
• Publications and Data Ids
• Organization ids
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13. validating
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
Routing
Archives
Guidelines
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers

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16. Data source validation
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17. reporting
& monitoring
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
Routing
Archives
Guidelines
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers

19. Reporting & monitoring at various levels
• Funders
• Institutions
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All funding data
available via
OpenAIRE’s APIs
Cleaned and
provided in a
uniform way

20. Reporting & monitoring at various levels
• Funders
• Institutions
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All funding data
available via
OpenAIRE’s APIs
Cleaned and
povided in a uniform
way

21. Project level – Automatically export results
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Project’s web site
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22. Project level – Automatically export results
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Project’s web site
EC front-end system
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23. …to the EC's participant portal
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EC back-end reporting
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24. Monitor across funders
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25. Monitor across funders
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At the project and funding scheme level
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26. Monitor across funders
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At the project and funding scheme level
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27. Data used in policy
implementation
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28. An example: Ex-post FP7
Evaluation
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-146_en.htm
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29. analyzing
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
Routing
Archives
Guidelines
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers

31. Text and data mining with
domain specific knowledge
Interactive visualization for
drill-down information
…
In depth analytics services
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Trends in
science
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32. Text and data mining with
domain specific knowledge
Interactive visualization for
drill-down information
…
In depth analytics services
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Trends in
science
Correlations of funding
programmes
Within a funder, or
across countries
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33. exchanging info
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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
ations
Projects
Authors
Dataset
s
Publicat
ions
Data
Provider
s
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
Routing
Archives
Guidelines
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers

35. OpenAIRE broker sketch
OpenAIRE
Notification Broker
OpenAIRE Information Space
Graph
(deduplication, Inference, Aggregation)
…Subscriptions
Potential
Notifications
subscribe
notifyrepository
admin
OpenAIRE Data
Sources
Identifying “events” relevant to
repositories
(enrichments & additions)
Sending
events
Delivered
Notifications
Event (potential notification):
• Message
• Topic
• TargetRepository
• Trust
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36. Subscriptions
• Subscribe to the service to
receive notifications about
• Topics: enrichment.[more |
new].X or addition.Y
• How to be notified: RSS feed,
email, APIs, etc.
• When to be notified: instantly,
every K days
• Criteria on record fields
(predicate)
• Test subscription by searching
the collection of potential
notifications
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Notifications
• Notify repositories in different ways
• OpenAIRE recommended repository
APIs for metadata ingestion (e.g.
SWORD project); software modules for
known platforms will be considered (e.g.
DSpace, Eprints)
• email to the repository managers
• RSS feeds
• Avoid redundant notifications by
keeping a history of delivered
notifications
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37. The Challenge
• Enrichment is straightforward
• Harvesting from a data provider and return to the data provider
its records if they have been “enriched” by deduplication and/or
inference
• Addition is less obvious
• Based on relationships, in turn identified by inference
algorithms
• Must be augmented with notion of “trust” to enable “tuning”
options in order to reduce false positive notifications
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38. Standards for brokers
Working with similar
initiatives (Jisc, SHARE-
US) on the definition of
recommendations to
enable information
exchange between a
network of Scholarly
Communication Broker
Services
Producers of events
Subscriptions Subscriptions Subscriptions
Consumers of events
subscribe notify subscribe notify subscribe notify
Exchanging
Subscriptions
& channeling
notifications
Exchanging
Subscriptions
& channeling
notifications
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39. next steps - collaborations
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40. Interoperability
• Vocabularies
• CERIF semantic vocabulary, COAR vocabulary
• Identifier schemes
• People (authors, research managers)
• Publications and Data ids
• Organization ids
• …
• Common representation of funding information
• Protocols (beyond OAI-PMH)
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41. Collaborations
• Start a dialogue with funding organizations
• Awareness, advocacy, training on existing tools
• Discuss interoperability and openness
• Research entity identification systems
• Work with similar initiatives (CrossRef, THOR, …)
• National CRIS’s as a national gateway to OpenAIRE (and reversly)
• Hubs of information where
• Engage the repository and CRIS platforms
• Open platforms, open protocols
• Community, SMEs
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Open to new ideas, new collaborations

42. www.openaire.eu
@openaire_eu
facebook.com/groups/openaire
linkedin.com/groups/OpenAIRE-3893548
Thank you!
natalia@di.uoa.gr
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