March 2018

1. OpenAIRE-Connect: Services for Open Science
Leo Mack, Open Science Interoperability Senior Analyst

2. Contents
1. Background & Motivation
2. Project overview
3. Service outputs
4. Pilots
5. Benefits
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3. Background
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4. Motivation
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Research communities
Lack of culture, incentives, and solutions
for Open Science publishing, e.g.:
- No funding focus on scholarly
communication practices
- Limited Open Science tools and
practices
Repositories
Lack of technical support solutions for
Open Science publishing, e.g.
- No best practices for handling of
software, methods, packages.
- Links between outputs disregarded
- No suitable solutions for the
continuous publishing of outputs
(vs. “frozen” / one-off publishing)
Research infrastructure Scholarly communication
infrastructure
Publishing
Repeat,
Reuse,
Reproduce,
Evaluate

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Motivation
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Literature
Articles, white papers, docs
Research
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Research
data (raw)
Research
software
E-infra, tools &
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Repository
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Package
Reposito
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Research infrastructure Scholarly communication infrastructure
Continuous publishing
Repeat
Reuse
Reproduce
Evaluate

6. Motivation
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Transparent
evaluation of
research outputs
Reproducibility of
research
Publishing of more diverse research artefacts (e.g.
publications, data, software, methods, packages)
Publishing of packages of research artefacts
Publishing up-to-date records of research output
metadata and links between artefacts
Impacts Core service functions

7. Motivation
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Research
communities
Content providers
(publishers, publication
repositories, data
archives)
Facilitate adoption of Open Science principles and
practice via…
…as-a-service publishing
tools for diverse
artefacts.
…as-a-service,
notification based tools
for the communication of
research outputs.
…non-technical
support actions,
e.g. communities
and content
providers,
training,
interoperability
guidelines to
support adoption.

8. Project overview
»Factsheet
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Duration 30 months | January 2017 – June 2019 | Budget ca. €2million
3 technical
partners
• CNR (Italy)
• Athena Research Centre
(Greece)
• ICM / UniWarsaw
(Poland)
5 research
communities
• CNRS (France)
• ICRE8 (Greece)
• IRD (France)
• PIN / Uni Florence (Italy)
• Uni Bremen (Germany)
3 content
provider reps
• CERN (Switzerland)
• University of Minho
(Portugal)
• Jisc (UK)

9. Project overview
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Key objective of the project:
Extending the technological services and networking bridges
(human/social/support) today offered by the OpenAIRE
› Open Science services
– Research community services:
Research Community
Dashboard
– Content provider services:
Content Provider Dashboard
and Catch-All-Broker
› Open Science community
capacities
– Engaging communities and
content providers
– Interoperability guidelines to
facilitate metadata exchange
– Support of OpenAIRE networking
services (NOADs, Helpdesk,
webinars, blog, social)

10. Project approach
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Project overview
Builds on
existing
OpenAIRE
Services
Delivery of
TRL8
services in
M30
Service development
Service operation
Test & refine
User engagement

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Project overview
Catch-All-
Notification Broker
Software
Packages
Research Community
Dashboard
Data
Search, navigate, and
monitor research Impact
Subscription & Notification
Researcher communities
& infrastructures
Content providers
Publications
Data
Projects
Project
communit
y
FunderStream
Produc
t
Publication Data Software
Organizat
ion
source
Publications
Software

12. Service outputs
»Three main outputs of the project
› Research Community Dashboard
› Catch-All-Broker
› Interoperability guidelines
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Service outputs – Research Community Dashboard
Data
Publications
Software
Project
communit
y
FunderStream
Produc
t
Publication
Data Software
Organization
Research communities
can…
Claim products
Claim links
Search &
navigate content
Statistics on
research impact
Deposit products
Additional links automatically
generated based on inferences
OpenAIRE Graph
(deduplicated & enriched)
ResearchCommunityDashboard
Repositories &
RI services
Harvest &
push
metadata

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Service outputs – Catch-All-Broker Service
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Repository A
Repository B
Software
Project
communit
y
FunderStream
Produc
t
Publication
Data Software
Organization
Analyzes
OpenAIRE graph
Sends
notifications to
relevant
subscribers
Additional links automatically
generated based on inferences
OpenAIREGraph
(deduplicated & enriched)
Catch-All-Broker
Harvest &
push
metadata
Notifications e.g.
to repositories

15. »Types of notification events sent by the Catch-All-Broker Service
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Service outputs – Catch-All-Broker Service
Enrichments
• Properties or links
which are not
available in the
records
Additions
• Records which
should be in a
repository, but are
not
Alerts
• Wrong links in
existing entries

16. Service outputs – Interoperability guidelines
»A set of guidelines to support the take up of OpenAIRE-Connect
services, disseminated via appropriate communication, training,
and other support measures.
»Aims:
› Facilitate programmatic exchange of research artefacts across the scholarly
communication infrastructure
› Complete the OpenAIRE guidelines, which define exchange mechanisms for
publications and datasets
› Will be used to push & publish research artefacts within OpenAIRE services
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17. Pilots
»Five research community pilots (March 2018 – June 2019)
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Research
Community
Dashboard
Earth and Environmental Sciences (PANGAEA and ATLAS
community)
Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities (PARTHENOS
research infrastructure)
Neuroinformatics (France Life Imaging national
infrastructure – CNRS)
Fisheries and aquaculture management (BlueBridge &
MARBEC infrastructures)
Environment & Economy (national/EU node of the United
Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Testing

18. Pilots
»General content provider pilot (March 2018 – June 2019)
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Catch-All-
Broker
Service
&
Content
Provider
Dashboard
International representatives of Open Access publishers
eLife, EuropePMC, Frontiers (coordinated by Jisc)
Publication repositories (COAR and OpenAIRE NOADs,
coordinated by University of Minho)
Data archives (ICSUWorld Data Systems/WDS,
coordinated by CERN / Zenodo)
Testing

19. »Interoperability pilot between Catch-All-Broker and Jisc’s
Publications Router
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Pilots
Producers of events
Subscriptions Subscriptions
Consumers of events
subscribe notify subscribe notify
Exchanging
Subscriptions
& channeling
notifications
Unilateral exchange of subscriptions and notifications
from CAB to the Jisc Publications Router.
› Handling of subscription behind the scenes.
› Classification of interoperable notifications to
ensure metadata transfer.
› Paving the way for a general framework of
interoperability for scientific communication
broker service.

20. Benefits
»Benefits for research communities
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Community-oriented Open Science publishing tools
• Scientists can continue using RI services and publishing practices, but can also find support for
publishing/interlinking any kind of outputs.
Collaborative curation of a community-specific scholarly communication information space
• Community information space to share, discover, interlink, and reuse (reproduce) scientific results.
Community-oriented Reporting and Open Science monitoring
• Easier reporting to funders, facilitates development of reward strategies covering all research
outputs.

21. Benefits
»Benefits for content providers / repositories
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Extending repository metadata models to Open Science practices
• Promoting addition of links from/to products of any kind.
Keeping collections up-to-date (via notifications for alerts, enrichments, additions)
• Regular updates to ensure comprehensive and accurate exchange of information: notifications
about links to other outputs, missing properties, missing products, and possible errors in the
metadata.
Fostering notification-based dissemination of knowledge in a federated environment
• Promoting repositories as pro-active and interactive elements of the scholarly communication
infrastructure.

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ThankYou
Leo Mack
Open Science Interoperability Senior Analyst
Digital Futures
e: leo.mack@jisc.ac.uk
t: +44 7458 086305
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