Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, Vol. 1, No 1, (2011), 178p-178p
Abstract:
Directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which
implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE
infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the
associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System,
OpenAIREplus will “develop an open access, participatory infrastructure for
scientific information”. It will significantly expand its base of harvested
publications to also include all OA publications indexed by the DRIVER
infrastructure (more than 270 validated institutional repositories) and any other
repository containing “peer-reviewed literature” that complies with certain
standards. It will also generically harvest and index the metadata of scientific
datasets in selected diverse OA thematic data repositories. It will support the
concept of linked publications by deploying novel services for “linking peer-
reviewed literature and associated data sets and collections”, from link
discovery based on diverse forms of mining (textual, usage, etc.), to storage,
visual representation, and on-line exploration. It will offer both user-level
services to experts and “non-scientists” alike as well as programming interfaces
for “providers of value-added services” to build applications on its content.
Deposited articles and data will be openly accessible through an enhanced
version of the OpenAIRE portal, together with any available relevant
information on associated project funding and usage statistics. OpenAIREplus
will retain its European footprint, engaging people and scientific repositories in
almost all 27 EU member states and beyond. The technical work will be
complemented by a suite of studies and associated research efforts that will
partly proceed in collaboration with “different European initiatives” and
investigate issues of “intellectual property rights, efficient financing models,
and standards”.