Open Access Repository activities @ INFN Roberto Barbera (roberto Open Access Repository activities @ INFN Roberto Barbera (roberto.barbera@ct.infn.it) and Rita Ricceri (rita.ricceri@ct.infn.it) – INFN Catania BoF on Digital Repositories at the eI4Africa Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 3 June 2014

Outline Introductory concepts and driving considerations Current status of developments Summary and conclusions BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 2

Computationally intensive research BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 3

How e-Infrastructures support the Scientific Method Data Infrastructures Open Access Doc. Repos. Data Repos. The Scientific Method (worldwide, cross-domain, collaboration enabler) Semantic-web enrichment of linked data Data preservation HTC/HPC Clusters Grids, Clouds 1st Challenge: «walk» across the knowledge path both ways 4

Interesting consideration 2nd Challenge: make African science/scientists more «visible» BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 5

Our approach Short term (basically, now!) Create a Open Access repository Make it compliant with both official and «de facto» standards Make it easily visible and discoverable Make it well reputed Medium term (within the next 6 months) Use PID/DOI services to tag papers, data, software and VMs where scientific results can be reproduced and extended (agreement to be established soon with the DOI project of the Conference of Italian Univs.) Integrate the repository with local, grid and cloud storage and allow federated authentication Important side activity Open the repository to other organisations in Italy Turn the repository into a template that can be installed by other organisations in develping regions 6

The INFN Open Access Repository (www.openaccessrepository.it) Automatically ingestion in place from: BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 7

Visibility (integrated in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base) BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 8

Visibility and compliance (fully conforming with Open Access Initiative) BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 9

Visibility and compliance (registered as an OpenDOAR data provider) BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 10

Visibility and compliance (registered as an OpenAIRE data provider) Guidelines 3.0 11

Discoverability (included in the CHAIN-REDS Semantic Search Engine) Linked-data search engine Semantic-web enrichment Harvester (running on grid/cloud) Harvester (running on grid/cloud) More than 30 million resources, almost 600 million triples OAI-PMH End-points OAI-PMH Data Repos. OADRs BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 12

Reputation (will appear soon in the Ranking Web of Repositories) http://repositories.webometrics.info/ BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 13

Summary and conclusions Data Infrastructures are becoming an essential component of e- Infrastructures Next years’ grand challenge will be to uniquely correlate scientific papers with data used to write them with applications used to analyse them so to be able to «walk» across the knowledge path both ways Open Access Repositories in Tanzania compliant with the OAI-PMH standard are very welcome to be included in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base and Semantic Search Engine The INFN Open Access Repository can be easily replicated at all organisations willing to create one to increase the visibility of their research and their researchers If you are interested in collaborating and sharing ideas with us, feel free to contact us at librarian@openaccessrepository.it Interest already gotten from 12 people BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 14

Thank you ! BoF on Digital Repositories @ the eI4Africa Workshop - 3 June 2014 15