10 min presentation about CORE in Repositories Fringe 2015

1. COnnecting REpositories
CORE
Lucas Anastasiou
lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.uk
3rd August, Edinburgh
http://core.ac.uk
@oacore

2. Mission of CORE
Aggregate all open access content
distributed across different systems
worldwide, enrich this content and
provide access to it through a set of
services …
[http://core.ac.uk/about#mission]

3. Let’s talk numbers

4. What is all about?
● Provides machine-to-machine interface for the development of new services.
● Enables the development of new applications utilising the open access content including those based on text-
mining.
● Provide business intelligence, support quality management and also management reporting for Repository
managers. (Check metadata quality. Check OAI-PMH interface status. Check and validate against specific
standards and how particular fields are populated/used by similar or different organisations. Benchmark for full text
versus metadata).
● Provide business intelligence for standards development for infrastructure providers.
● Working with OpenAIRE to provide OpenAIRE compliant records for UK repositories. (via RIOXX)
● Acts as a cache for federated search via library systems or other national library service providers and support
cross searching

5. Applications
CORE Portal
CORE Mobile
CORE Plugin
CORE API CORE Data Dumps

6. Aggregating
•Metadata download, extraction and cleaning
•Full-text harvesting
•Text extraction
•Language detection
•Extraction of citation references from text
•Identification of related content
•Detection of duplicate items
•Parsing of author names
•Indexing
–Extract text from PDFs
–Language detection
–Citation extraction from text
–Citation link discovery
–Identification of related content
–Detection of duplicate items
–Parsing author’s names
–Authors affiliations discovery
Enriching

7. Dashboard
• One of the direct objectives of
maintaining a (institutional)
repository is visibility and
dissemination
• Unleashing your data to the
web, makes your organisation
research output more visible,
expands your audience
• But you still need some sort of
control

8. Dashboard (2)
Institution main page (profile)
Invitations
Content monitoring

9. Manage record visibility status
Take Up
Take Down

10. Detect issues

11. Dashboard
• Increase collaboration between aggregators and
content providers
• Control over the harvested content
• Broadening your content’s discoverability and visible
Dashboard still in BETA but we welcome volunteer testers

12. Dashboard future
- RIOXX compliance monitor (basic + full RCUK, per repository, per
document level)
- public profile (stats,catalogue), administration space (take up,down)
- integration of IRUS-UK statistics

13. Connecting with other Jisc OA services
Coordinating with other Jisc services to improve
our service functionality
• Send usage statistics to IRUS-UK
• Monitor and CORE will be working with
each other to discuss how they can support
compliance reporting as part of the service
offer.
• working to Publication Router on how to
how we can utilise other services or how
we can facilitate content to other services

14. Thank you !
Questions ?
CORE Contacts:
Lucas Anastasiou lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.uk
Nancy Pontika nancy.pontika@open.ac.uk
Petr Knoth petr.knoth@open.ac.uk
Website: http://core.ac.uk
Twitter: @oacore