The drawbridge to knowledge - Linking scholarly publications and research information in Primo
1. Dominique Ritze - University of Mannheim
Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam
The drawbridge to
knowledge
IGeLU 2013
Berlin
Linking scholarly publications
and research information in Primo
2. Access to scholarly research can be magnificent
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3. Now and then you have to wait a bit for access
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4. Sometimes there is just no way to get there
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5. Importance of connecting scholarly
publications, research information and data
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10. Historical background
Academic libraries support teaching and research
by providing access to 'scholarly information'
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11. Digital era
1 - Back end/administrative
ILS
Acquisitions
Cataloguing
Circulation
CRIS
Projects
Funding
2 - Front end/end user 3 - Research process
OPAC
Discovery
Experiments
Collaboration
Writing
Data
12. Current research information situation
Isolated silos
ILS Discovery CRIS RDM VRE
books
journals
books
articles
books
articles
project
funding
people
organisations
data books
articles
project
data
people
Library systems focus
Research information focusLibrary +
13. Solutions
Integrated back office data and services infrastructure
Long term?
?
books
articles
project
funding
data
people
organisations
14. Solutions
Front end services
Short term
ILS Discovery CRIS RDM VRE
books
journals
books
articles
books
articles
project
funding
people
organisations
data books
articles
project
data
people
16. Primo: discovery of ‘all’ ! scholarly information
http://www.researchobject.org
17. Primo: current situation
Bibliographic metadata formats usually don’t have fields
for research information
In Primo:
Add-ons needed, two approaches:
• Harvesting extra author and publication identifiers
• Text mining + semantic analysis
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18. University of Amsterdam: PrimoResearchLinks
Primo
Central
Primo Local
eJournal
NARCIS
CRISRepositoryALEPH
Background - metadata infrastructure
Website
Personal
pages
19. University of Amsterdam: PrimoResearchLinks
Primo Local
NARCIS
CRISRepository
Background - metadata infrastructure
20. University of Amsterdam: PrimoResearchLinks
Primo Local
NARCIS
Repository
Background - metadata infrastructure
26. University of Amsterdam: PrimoResearchLinks
http://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:uva.nl:555
Publication:
Plain
bibliographic
information
Identical to
original
repository
Identical to
Primo
27. University of Amsterdam: PrimoResearchLinks
http://www.narcis.nl/person/info:eu-repo/dai/nl/070563543
Author:
Lots of extra
information
Expertise
Connections
Projects
Publications
37. As shown in the Eurobarometer1
1 And additional sources or the and
Table 1: population forecast for Germany
(database: version 5)
Mannheim University Library: InFoLiS
Therefore, the data of
from 1990 to 2003 are considered.
Figure 1: Random sample from 2004 to 2010
(source: 2005a)
References to research data
48. Experiences Mannheim
● Metadata of research data and publications rarely
contain links
● Many different reference styles
● References to research data mostly incomplete
● Integration can be very hard, e.g. adapting the
metadata format and performing transformations
● First evaluation result?
49. Experiences Amsterdam
● Local Amsterdam repository and CRIS not optimal
for reuse and linking (yet)
● No references to research datasets, projects in local,
national and global systems (yet)
● Research project information not available
● Library systems in general not equipped for
○ non-bibliographic information
○ processing linked data, RDF
● Primo CAN be used for this, with lots of extra work
50. Pros and Cons (Mannheim)
Pro
● Links can be easily
integrated, e.g. by
using Enrichments
● Integration of
research data to have
only one system
Con
● Fulltexts are needed
to identify references
● Integration very costly
without standardized
interface
51. Pros and Cons (Amsterdam)
Pro
● Identifiers are ready to
use
● Links can be easily
integrated
● Extra information can be
embedded in extra tab
in UI, but with
workarounds
Con
● Identifiers, RDF not
always available in data
sources
● PNX format not suited
for research
information
● Integration very costly
without standardized
interface
52. Recommendations Ex Libris
Primo
• Include non-bibliographic metadata in PNX
o (links section, additional data section, new
research section?)
• Harvest RDF
• Resolve RDF/URIs
o During normalisation (in PNX)
o On the fly (in search result)
• Easily create extra tab with PNX data
• Publish Primo Central index as linked open data
• Primo Central: harvest research information
53. Recommendations Publishers, Aggregators
• Add additional references
• Add additional metadata
o Publication ID
o Author ID
o Research project ID
o Dataset ID
• Publish as Linked Open Data
54. Recommendations Researchers, Authors
• Proper citation of research data, e.g. by using
unique identifiers like DOIs
• Publish and register research data as open as
possible
● Many interesting ideas/projects:
○ OpenScience
○ DataCite
○ OpenAIRE
○ DCC
○ RD-A
○ W3C-ROSC
55. Like a bridge over troubled water
When times get rough
When you’re down and out
I will ease your mind