Poster Archives - OPEN REPOSITORIES 2021, June 7-10.

Advancing Hyku project: Year two project update

This poster is part of the Open Repositories 2021 Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 7-10. 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:

Ellen Ramsey, Brian Hole and Ilkay Holt

Poster description:

Join a Year Two project update for the Advancing Hyku collaborative project, which aims to support the growth of green open access through institutional repositories. The deliverables of the project are to introduce significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community’s Hyku platform. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The project began October 2019 and is scheduled to conclude with a rollout of the Advanced Hyku platform community-wide after February 2022. https://advancinghyku.io/

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About the authors:

Ellen Catz Ramsey (Presenting author) is Acting Director for Scholarly Communications at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, VA, and Principle Investigator for the Advancing Hyku Project funded by Arcadia. She received her MLIS from Florida State University and her M.Ed. from the University of Virginia, and works to make scholarly content generated by and for the academic community openly accessible.

Brian Hole is the CEO of Ubiquity Press. He founded Ubiquity Press out of frustration with the options provided by legacy publishers and platforms for open access and open science. The Ubiquity platform is a SaaS offering for university presses and libraries that offers repositories as well as full support for open access publishing. A customer charter and community governance guarantee that all products will remain open source and open access. Prior to Ubiquity Brian held positions at Business Objects, Elsevier and the British Library. He holds a PhD in archaeology from University College London.

Ilkay Holt is Repositories and Community Engagement Lead at the British Library and is one of the project managers for Advancing Hyku. She has been working in the field of open repositories in a number of different roles which include the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the OpenAIRE project. She has also coordinated training programs at FAO of the UN in farm data management, providing capacity development activities in the context of access to information, open principles, open licensing, and promoting the use of open infrastructure.

“Precedented”: Public Health, Open Access Infrastructure, and Interrogating Power in Repository Debates

Authors:

Kate Dohe and Michael Scott

Poster description:

In January 2020, researchers released the initial DNA sequence for the COVID-19 virus on Twitter, bypassing both traditional publication models and institutional open infrastructure in the interest of expediency. The
global pandemic has drawn open scientific publishing into the spotlight in the mainstream American press over the past year, and citizens outside the Western research community are gaining new exposure to longstanding scholarly communications debates about public health and open science. Unlike many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, this is not “unprecedented”–freely accessible health information was also the impetus for the open access movement in Latin America years ahead of comparable efforts in the United States, and it continues with great success today. However, discussions of these platforms in USbased publications have centered on questions of prestige and functionality, rather than reach and stability- concepts that are rooted in imperialist, English-first thinking. This poster will highlight the early history of open access repositories in Latin America, their focus on regionally-produced scientific research rather than institutional efforts, the current state of these projects, and apply a critical lens to Western discourse about these projects and their impact.

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About the authors:

Michael Scott (Presenting author) is an Associate Editor/Librarian at the Hispanic American Periodicals Index, UCLA, although he works from home in Pittsburgh. He has worked as a catalog librarian at Vanderbilt and Yale Universities, and in Latin Americanist collection development and reference services at Georgetown University. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Latin American and Iberian literatures from the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kate Dohe is the Manager of the Digital Programs & Initiatives department in the University of Maryland Libraries. Kate’s team oversees day-to-day activities related to digital repository management, digital preservation, research data services, and electronic publishing. Select publications include “Care, Code, and Digital Libraries: Embracing Critical Practice in Digital Library Communities” (In the Library with the Lead Pipe), and “Linked Data, Unlinked Communities” (Lady Science).

Understanding IR Impact: What Do Users Do With Our Content?

Authors:

Wendy Walker

Poster description:

Like many institutions, the University of Montana’s institutional strategy includes a focus on the impact of faculty and student work. It is relatively easy to use quantitative data such as download counts, location information, and citations to help demonstrate the IR’s reach and impact; however, there are limits to using these numbers⁵, especially when attempting to understand impact outside an academic context. Could knowing more about how or why users use IR content address our own curiosity, help us understand the IR’s impact more completely, and help us contextualize and describe its impact more effectively than we can by reporting quantitative data alone? In April 2018 we added a link to the cover pages that are included with most of the downloadable items in our IR. The link directs users to a form where they can tell us how access to the IR item benefitted them. To date, we have received just over 200 responses. While we now know more about the wide range of uses of our IR content, we are still determining if/how to utilize this information to help demonstrate impact. Our initial evaluation has raised a host of new, useful questions that will inform next steps.

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About the author:

Wendy Walker, Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Montana (UM), manages and provides services that help UM faculty, students, and staff share and manage their research and creative scholarship. In addition to managing the institutional repository, she leads OER efforts, offers support for research data management, and oversees digitized collections.

Interoperability and Distributed Collaboration in InvenioRDM

Authors:

Sara Gonzales, Matthew Carson, Guillaume Viger, Kristi Holmes, Lars Holm Nielsen

Poster description:

CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) has collaborated for the past 2 years with a widely distributed international community on the development of InvenioRDM, an extensible turn-key repository
solution. Differing metadata standards utilized for description and access across the globe have led to fertile discussions among team regarding the base data model to employ and field-specific controlled vocabularies. As discussions evinced the need to consider increasing stakeholder needs and requirements, it became clear that a dedicated group was needed to support systematic recording and discussion of partner requirements in order to reach decisions on the data model that could have a positive impact on all
adopters. A metadata interest group was formed, with membership open to all project stakeholders, and regular meetings set to discuss user needs, field-by-field. Discussions in this group have helped to reduce the boundaries between distributed stakeholders and bolster the repository community as a whole through a joint, democratic effort open to all, including technical and non-technical participants.

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Sara Gonzales (Presenting Author) is a Data Librarian at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She develops and delivers training in data management and data cleaning to clinical researchers, support staff and students at the Feinberg School of Medicine. She has developed and delivered data-related classes and workshops through the Galter Library DataLab, a data-focused consultation and training core. She chairs the Galter Library’s Digital Initiatives Working Group (DIWG), charged with executing and communicating digital improvements implemented across the library and related university systems. In addition she serves as the Community Manager of the international InvenioRDM repository software development project and Assistant Director of the National Evaluation Center of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Discovery after migration: How to achieve up to 285% more downloads

Authors:

Taylor Mudd

Poster description:

Institutions are often apprehensive when moving their repository to a new repository system, as this will affect hundreds of thousands of records collected over decades and the discoverability of their institution’s
research. This poster will present statistics on item usage and discovery after repository migration, using data from an external independent repository monitoring service to show an increase in usage of up to 250% and explain how this can be achieved.

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About the author:

Taylor Mudd is the lead developer for the Haplo Repository – an open source repository solution provided by Haplo, a division of Cayuse. After graduating from the University of Southampton in 2019 he joined Haplo Services (now Haplo, a division of Cayuse) and is now responsible for all core development for their repository solution.

Interoperability intersection: Partnerships in Open Science infrastructure

Authors:

Eric Olson

Poster description:

Enabling interoperability throughout the research lifecycle often aligns with or is a key component of the missions of open source tool providers. Even before the introduction of the FAIR framework, open source tools and infrastructure have emphasized opportunities to connect the systems and
workflows that researchers rely on so that research communication can be faster, more efficient, and more secure. OSF, like many of our friends in the open science infrastructure space, is strengthened both as a technical tool and as a ‘community of communities’ by integrations with other platforms and services. In this poster we will describe our product philosophy that emphasizes interoperability and meeting researchers where they are, while also discussing our experiences with partnership building across outstanding organizations and providers in research. We will also visualize current and upcoming integrations that strengthen both OSF and partner tools while also making it much easier for researchers to manage and collaborate across the research data, planning, and outcomes.

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Eric Olson has spent more than six years guiding research infrastructure community building, policy, development, and adoption. He spent two years at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, which develops Zotero, Omeka, and more, as well as three years at ORCID before joining COS to lead OSF product and sustainability initiatives. Eric has advanced degrees in science communication and has experience in communication, media effects, and historical research.

SANDIMS: South African National Geophysical Data and Instrumentation Management System

Authors:

Kate Niemantinga and Pierre Cilliers

Poster description:

The archiving and dissemination of geophysical research data collected over Southern Africa, Antarctic research base (SANAE IV) and at the South African high latitude observatories on Marion Island and Gough Island, has until recently been fragmented and inaccessible to international researchers. At the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) in Hermanus we have implemented a scientific data portal called the South African National Geophysical Data and Instrumentation Management System (SANDIMS) which for the first time makes the geophysical data collected and used by SANSA available through a single data portal. Our aim is that the system will meet national and international obligations and expectations, as well as raise the standard of South African research. The system’s unique database will contain high-quality data from areas in space that, potentially, could supply information for unanswered scientific questions and enhance scientific development. The paper will share insights from various topics including Data Policies, Licensing, Data Discovery and showcase tools for researchers and practitioners.

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Kate Niemantinga (Presenting author), the Data Acquisition Practitioner at the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency since 2015 is responsible for the data produced by the South African remote sensing instrumentation network. A senior SQL developer and data analyst with two decades of experience.

Dr. Pierre Cilliers is a retired Professor of Electronic Engineering, employed on a part-time contract at SANSA since 1 April 2018. Since 2004 he was employed as a research physicist at the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency, previously known as the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory (HMO). During 2016 he was the Project Coordinator for the development of the SANDIMS data portal. At the time of his retirement from SANSA at the end of 2017, he was the group leader for research on Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) at SANSA Space Science, and the PI for a collaborative research project with Italy on monitoring space weather impacts on the ionosphere in Antarctica by means of ionospheric scintillation receivers. He has supervised several postgraduate students at SANSA and has produced more than 30 peer-reviewed publications since joining the HMO in 2002.

Changes and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response on Arca

Authors:

Martins da Costa Ferreira, Tiago; Fernandes de Queiroz, Claudete; Danielli de Araujo, Luciana; Belchior Rodrigues, Raphael; de Almeida Freyre, Éder; Gonçalves do Nascimento, Andréa; José Moreira Silva, Angelo; Barreto Malheiro Pereira, Catarina; da Silva, Rita de Cassia; Simonini Ferreira, Leonardo

Poster description:

This work presents the changes and impacts on Arca1 – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s2 (Fiocruz) Institutional Repository, of the COVID-19 response, which has been terrorizing the world. Due to the recognition from the World Health Organization, the importance of the scientific research of the Institution and the technological progress related to vaccines development, supplies and innovative treatments have become crucial. In this epidemiological scenario, including scientific documents and research material of this Institution related to COVID-19 on Arca was deemed critical and of large relevance. It is important to note that the changes, adaptations and focused efforts for the pandemic response, especially with the reduced issuing time, are intended to increase visibility, promote health with public goods and provide access to the knowledge produced by Fiocruz to the whole society.

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Geodisy: New geospatial data discovery for Canadian research data

Authors:

Eugene Barsky; Mark Goodwin and Paul Dante

Poster description:

With the rapid proliferation of research data, it is vital to create innovative tools for data discovery and access. This is the goal of Portage’s Geodisy project, an open-source spatial discovery tool for Canadian interdisciplinary open research data. Geodisy provides a map-based search available alongside the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), a
national discovery layer indexing over 70 Canadian open repositories. Geodisy is intended for users with diverse experience levels and subject interests and is designed to be accessible for those without GIS knowledge. Data and metadata are extracted from the native repositories and are discoverable based on their location, and individual geospatial files are previewed as visual overlays. For any research that relates to geospatial location, this tool provides a new and useful form of visual discovery

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Eugene Barsky is the Head of Research Commons at UBC. Eugene is the past Chair of the national Portage Data Discovery Expert Group, participates in building the Canadian Federated Research Data Repository service (FRDR), and collaborates with Research Data Canada (RDC) and the European Union (OpenAIRE). Eugene is the lead Principal Investigator for the national Geodisy project, previously funded by CANARIE, and now integrated with FRDR and funded by NDRIO. His recent peer recognition included the American Society for Engineering Education and Special Library Association awards. He published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers and presented at more than 70 conferences. Eugene is an adjunct professor at the iSchool at UBC, teaching the course in research data management, and is one of the founders of the Pacific Northwest data curators group.

Mark Goodwin. As the Metadata Coordinator for the Geodisy project, Mark works alongside Portage’s Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) team to provide expertise for the creation, management, and presentation of metadata for geospatial discovery. He is the Co-Chair of Portage’s Dataverse North Metadata Working Group, which establishes metadata best practices for Canadian researchers using Dataverse. Mark is passionate about improving access to information and is excited to help enhance the discoverability of research data in Canada.

Paul Dante actively creates an open-source data pipeline to help researchers find and access geospatial and quasi-geospatial data. Tying together existing components with a custom-written Java middleware that cleans and enhances existing metadata, this project will help make Canadian research data more easily accessible.

The Scholarship of the Ohio State University: Open for all

Authors:

Maureen Walsh

Poster description:

The Ohio State University Libraries promotes innovative research and creative expression and curates and preserves information essential for scholarship and learning. Making the research and scholarship of Ohio
State’s faculty, staff, and students openly available allows us to live our land grant mission – sharing knowledge and culture with the people of Ohio, the nation, and the world. This poster will discuss current developments with The Ohio State University Libraries’ “Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy” strategic initiative. It will highlight Ohio State’s Open Access agreements, the ongoing development of partnerships across campus and with our consortia and peers, early outcomes of our faculty, scholarly society, and publisher engagements, and thoughts towards future opportunities and challenges.

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Maureen Walsh is an Associate Professor and the Scholarly Sharing Strategist for The Ohio State University Libraries. She heads the Scholarly Sharing Program Area in University Libraries which includes Copyright Services and Publishing and Repository Services. Maureen is the current Vice-Chair of the DSpace Leadership and Steering Groups and the Chair of the DSpace Community Advisory Team. She also represents the Big Ten Academic Alliance on the arXiv Member Advisory Board.

Repository Re(volution): AgEcon search goes global

Authors:

Linda Eells and Julie Kelly

Poster description:

The AgEcon Search repository began as a way to leverage the Internet to provide a small-scale solution to a local problem. Launched in 1995 on a “home grown” platform, AgEcon Search has migrated to new
software three times and has grown into an unusually successful disciplinary repository. A small database with 50 papers from the Midwestern United States now hosts 155,000 documents in 15 languages, from 340 organizations in 50 countries on six continents. This growth has occurred with a tiny staff and at an extremely low cost due to an efficient operating model that relies on our member communities to upload
much of their own content. All of the papers in AgEcon Search are associated with an organization such as an academic department, research institute, professional society, or government agency that provides peer
review of some sort, an arrangement that guarantees quality at minimal cost.

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About the authors:

Linda Eells has been a librarian at the University of Minnesota since 2003, providing research and instruction services and co-coordinating the AgEcon Search disciplinary repository. Her research interests include open access publishing models and repository development and management. She holds a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a M.S. in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Julie Kelly (Presenting author) is a science librarian at the University of Minnesota, serving as co-coordinator of AgEcon Search, a disciplinary repository, as well as acting as library liaison for ecology and horticulture. She holds a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a M.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Her research interests include historic data and grey literature.

Atrium Repository: diffusion of cardiology specialized knowledge

Authors:

Francijane Oliveira da Conceição; Cyntia Mendes Aguiar; Jorge Juan Zavaleta Gavidia; Cristiane da Cruz Lamas; Renato Cerceau

Poster description:

The Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia (INC), a public tertiary referral cardiology centre located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aims to structure and organize all available institutional data into one single space that is easily accessible to its workers and also to the wider scientific community and
the general public. At present, these data are dispersed in different sources, with little accessibility and low safety. International experience suggests the most adequate way to preserve the institutional memory and to diffuse knowledge is through a structure called a repository. Technological tools make the creation of a repository easier nowadays. Our Project aims to structure the ATRIUM, INC’s institutional repository. The ATRIUM will store all relevant institutional data and allow members of the public safe and timely access to it.

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Francijane Oliveira da Conceição is a Librarian, with a MSc in Information Science (Fiocruz). She works at the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia

Cyntia Mendes Aguiar is a Librarian, with a MSc in Information Science (Fiocruz). She works at the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia.

Jorge Juan Zavaleta Gavidia is a Postdoctoral Researcher fellow in Machine Learning methods to Fake News in heath. He has a PhD in Engineering and Computer Systems (Artificial Intelligence area) from the PESC/COPPE of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ – Brazil). He also has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Informatics Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS – Brazil). Graduation in Mathematics and Bachelor of Physical Sciences and Mathematics from the National University of Trujillo (UNT-Perú). His research is mainly on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science with applications in Education, Heath, and Meteorology.

Cristiane da Cruz Lamas is an infectious diseases physician, currently a member of the Professional Master Course in Cardiovascular Diseases and Head of the Teaching Division in Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. She also works in Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, where she is a mentor to medical residents and postgraduate students from overseas. She is a senior lecturer in Infectious Diseases at Unigranrio University. Her main interests are infection and teaching.

Renato Cerceau (Presenting author) is a senior researcher, epidemiologist and physician. Currently, he is a member of the Professional Master Course in Cardiovascular Diseases and PostDoc in Telemedicine and Health at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. His main interests are data science and health applied computing.

Introduce Impact-Pathways in a CRIS – support societal impact orientation in research projects and funding processes

Authors:

Birge Wolf; Doris Lange; Thorsten Michaelis; Andrea Moser; Stefanie John; Andreas Abecker; Lucia Hahne; Stefan Lossow; Andrea Bollini; Giuseppe Digilio; Susanna Mornati

Poster description:

Societal challenges require research contributions to solve them. Accordingly, societal impact assessment is an object of increasing interest in publicly funded research. Some countries have build elaborated national systems, applied on the level of research institutions. The approach of the SynSICRIS project (Synergies for Societal Impact in Current Research Information Systems) focuses on societal impact creation and assessment in research projects. Therefore, a repository/CRIS system is being built with additional entities related to societal impact and functionalities to record the information during funding processes. Our system is built upon the open source software DSpace-CRIS. The additional entities include process-oriented indicators that represent an increase in the likelihood of societal
impact. The additional functionalities, allow planning, documenting and structuring contributions of a project to societal impact via interfaces to build impact pathways and working plans. The development built on a synthesis of existing approaches, participatory requirements analysis and agile software development. Using such a system at the funding body enables to assess information related to societal impact without additional documentation burden for researchers, allows to manage sensitive project information and supports the dissemination, reusing and sharing of outputs and information tailored to actors in practice and society.

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Birge Wolf studied agricultural sciences at the University of Kassel with an interdisciplinary focus including social sciences and the design of participatory processes. Since several years, she has been working on the topic of monitoring and evaluating contributions of agricultural research to societal impact. Currently, she is coordinating the SynSICRIS (https://synsicris.de).

Zenodo spam detection based on neural networks

Authors:

Pablo Panero; A Ioannidis; JB Gonzalez

Poster description:

Nobody wants to get something unwanted, like spam. The increase of spam content has become a problem in our digital era, and therefore it also affects digital repositories. Hosting spam can have an impact on a service, i.e. the actual hardware costs of storing it, getting skewed usage statistics, including distribution of material that violates copyright, and, most importantly, serving undesired content to users. Zenodo is a generalist research repository fostering open science practices. As the barrier for submissions is low, it is an easy target for spam. The repository’s staff has spent many hours manually detecting spam content, a process now assisted by an automated spam classification system, which still does not produce satisfactory results. Improvements of this classifier were based on an in-depth study of Zenodo’s data, a descriptive analysis, and feature extraction to corroborate expert knowledge gathered over years by Zenodo’s staff, as well as on a literature review of related topics such as spam classification in emails. Several types of neural network models were tested, displaying promising results for future integration. However, as the false positive rate is still unacceptable, Random Forest classifiers still prevail over neural network models.

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About the authors:

Pablo Panero (Presenting author) works at CERN as a software engineer for Zenodo, an open data service for the long tail of science. Pablo has been working on the Invenio framework for several years, most recently as a core developer of the new InvenioRDM. Previously, Pablo has been the lead developer of CERN Search, the Invenio based enterprise search solution.

Alex Ioannidis works at CERN’s IT department and is currently responsible for Zenodo, an open data service for the long tail of science. Alexandros has many years of experience as a software engineer, having led the design and operation of many production-level commercial and open-source software systems. He is also a core maintainer of the open-source Invenio framework for digital repositories. He has worked on promoting Software as a first-class citizen in the scientific research world.

José Benito González López leads the CERN section that is in charge of Invenio, the Digital Repository Framework, and several services that are running on top of it: CERN Document Server – CERN’s institutional repository, Zenodo – open data service for the long-tail of science, CERN Open Data Repositories, Digital Memory projects and also backend development of B2Share (EUDAT service). José is also a very experienced open source software developer and project manager with more than 15 years of experience, many of them devoted to the Open Source Project Indico which is the result of a European Project with the same name.

Availability of open government data in the Maghreb countries

Authors:

Elsayed Elsawy; Ahmed Shehata

Poster description:

Recently, many Arab governments have adopted open government data policies, whereby web technologies are harnessed to provide access to government data. The study’s problem lies in the fact that open data practices in the Arab world are relatively recent and are still in their nasal stages, making those practices the subject of constant criticism and evaluation to develop and improve them to be consistent with international practices. Moreover, there is no research carried out to identify the extent of the Maghreb Arab states’ progress in this field. The government open data portals in the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia) are considered the gateway to studying the reality of open data services in those countries. Moreover, through them, it is possible to identify the extent to which government policies have achieved the goals set in this regard. This study explores the current practices used in preserving and sharing data in open data portals in the Maghreb countries and assessing whether its structure and organization of data on these portals are consistent with the goals for which these portals were established. To achieve this, a set of criteria and characteristics that open data portals must meet have been developed and then used as a framework for analysing the structure and organization of data for open data portals in the Maghreb countries. The study sample included three open data portals on the Internet: the Arab Maghreb countries’ portals (Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco). In order to analyse the portals selected in the study sample, a list of 47 criteria was developed. This study’s results are thought to help achieve a better understanding of the current open data practices in the study sample and propose suggestions that would help improve the current initiatives.

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Dr Elsayed Elsawy

Assistant Professor of Documents and Archives at Sultan Qaboos
University (Sultanate of Oman). PhD from Lyon University (France)
2006. Worked at a number of Egyptian and Arab universities (Imam Muhammad bin Saud University in Saudi Arabia, Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman, Tanta University, Al-Azhar University, Mansoura University and Alexandria University in Egypt). Supervised a number of master’s and doctoral dissertations at the universities of Tanta, Al-Azhar (Egypt) and Sultan Qaboos (Oman). Published more than 30 studies in Arabic, French and English languages, in Web 2.0 applications, Cloud computing in records management, Medical records systems, Digitization of documents, Archival metadata, Records management systems, Electronic archives, Modern services for archival institutions, Education with documents.

Dr Ahmed Shehata

Dr. Ahmed Shehata is an assistant professor of Library and Information Science with experience demonstrated in a career spanning over twelve years. He worked in Egypt at Minia University as a lecturer in Library and Information Science Department. Also currently working as an Assistant professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Awarded PhD from Department of Information Studies at Aberystwyth University, the
UK, in 2016. Dr. Ahmed supervised many master’s degree students at Minia University (Egypt) and Sultan Qaboos (Oman). Dr. Ahmed published many scholarly papers in Arabic, and English language in Journals indexed in Clarivate and Scopus. His research interest is mainly focused on Information behaviour, Scholarly communication and Scholarly publishing. Dr Ahmed was awarded the Sharjah 2018 award of library literature.

PeruCRIS: A National Research Information Infrastructure based on DSpace-CRIS

Authors:

Claudia Córdova; Abel Del Carpio; Francisco Talavera; Susanna Mornati; Andrea Bollini; Claudio Cortese; Corrado Lombardi; Alfonso Maza; Ana Puente de la Puebla

Poster description:

PeruCRIS is the Peruvian project for setting up and operating a National Information Network on Science, Technology and Technological Innovation. It is based on open source software and open standards,
especifically as an extension of the already existing network of Peruvian open access repositories. The network is designed to be interoperable with CRIS systems and Open Access Repositories, and also to allow for direct submission into the National central hub (PeruCRIS Platform) from institutions and researchers. PeruCRIS Platform goes beyond mere aggregation, supporting data normalization, enrichment and curation
for collected data, and direct editing in the Directorios. These roles are reserved for Concytec staff, and serve as a means for ensuring data completeness, accuracy and general quality. A particular CERIF profile
and a set of controlled vocabularies are being developed in order to accommodate for particular information needs of national scope. An initial partial release of main directories is scheduled for Q2 2021.

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Repositories and Publishers: AgEcon Search forging new relationships

Authors:

Linda Eells and Julie Kelly

Poster description:

Many repositories do not work with publishers on a regular basis but that is not true for AgEcon Search, the subject repository in agricultural and applied economics. With journal articles as the most common document type and over 40 professional societies among the 340 groups that contribute material, we have formed a number of different relationships with publishers. The most common is that AgEcon Search hosts material initially created and made available by a small (often professional society) publisher. In one uniquely beneficial case, we receive and upload pdfs of each individual article from a large commercial publisher after an embargo period. In an opposite, negative situation, we were asked by a publisher to
remove years of articles after a society moved to a large commercial publisher and all older material was placed behind the publisher’s paywall. In recent, new collaborations, we assist publishers with creating DOIs, and are negotiating to serve as the pre-print server for one society journal that contracts with a commercial publisher. We encourage other repositories to consider how they might work together with publishers to make research materials more widely available, including institutional repositories whose
faculty serve on national or international society journal editorial boards.

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Bepress to DSpace in PJs: Migrating two open repositories from home

Authors:

Julia Corrice; Chloe McLaren; Jim Del Rosso; Gail Steinhart

Poster description:

In 2019, Cornell University Library (CUL) made the decision to migrate multiple institutional repositories from bepress into eCommons, its locally supported DSpace instance. When migration project planning began in February of 2020, we could not have anticipated the impact the COVID-19 pandemic would soon have on our work. We’ll share some background–how Cornell ended up with multiple institutional repositories and our rationale for consolidation, and then describe the work itself, with particular focus on the challenges and approaches we used to successfully complete this project during a pandemic, with all staff making an abrupt and unplanned transition to working remotely.

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Julia Corrice (Presenting author): Julia Corrice is the Metadata Operations Librarian at Cornell University Library, where she focuses on metadata maintenance activities, primarily the integration of metadata between systems and extending relationships between resources. Before joining Cornell, she worked as the Digital Services Librarian for the South Central Regional Library Council, a member of the Empire State Library Network. She received her MLIS in 2012 from Syracuse University with a CAS in Digital Libraries.

Chloe McLaren: Chloe McLaren is the Metadata Projects Librarian at Cornell University Library. She currently works broadly in the institutional repository and manages the library’s streaming video platform. Before becoming a librarian, she worked as a projectionist. She received her MLIS in 2010 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A Recommendation System for an Open Archive

Authors:

Gulce Bal Bozkurt and Gozde Boztepe Karatas

Poster description:

In this study, we developed a recommender system for OpenMETU which is the open archive of Middle East Technical University. Our system recommends items by using a content-based approach. In the content-based approach, the properties of items are vital due to the recommendations are based on them. Our recommendation system is based on the author, abstract, title, and subject similarity. To calculate these similarities, first of all, we extract features of each item by using natural language processing algorithms such as TF-IDF and Universal sentence encoder. We use cosine distance to measure the similarity between two items. Later, we give different weights to each of the similarities to calculate the overall score. Our system recommends the most similar 5 items to the visitor who visits an item in our archive.

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DataCORE – Grappling With Big Files and Big Problems

Authors:

James Halliday and Brian Keese

Poster description:

DataCORE is a brand new Samvera-based repository at Indiana University focusing exclusively on research data. This poster will show how the system works, including detailing how data flows in and out and some of the challenges they overcame in implementing it. The changing landscape of handling large data and how to move it around has necessitated some updates to their workflows.

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About the authors:

James Halliday (Presenting author) is the Head of Repository Technology for Indiana University Libraries in Bloomington. Prior to this role, he has worked as a developer for Indiana University Libraries since 2001.

Brian Keese is a senior software engineer for Indiana University Libraries. He works on various projects in the Scholarly Communications department. Prior to this role, Brian worked for several years as a developer for the Avalon project.