1. VOA3R
Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: A platform for sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, aquaculture and environment
Introduction: Your input will help to shape the VOA3R platform
Marc Goovaerts , Director
Library Hasselt University

2. Goal Introduction of the VOA3R project and platform
Evaluation of the VOA3R platform as it is now (Beta version).

3. VOA3R
The VOA3R platform integrates existing open access repositories as well as digital libraries, sharing scientific and open access research: creating a single access point to scholarly research in the area of Agriculture , Aquaculture and related sciences..
VOA3R is dedicated to providing a community- oriented platform based on social networking, micro- blogging and social bookmarking.
VOA3R is connected with other European projects: Open Aire, Driver
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4. 4. The VOA3R platform: in development

5. Who are the stakeholders?
Producers
Consumers
External systems
Researchers
Academics
Practitioners
Students
Information Managers
Decision makers
the Industry
and other organisations
but also: the anonymous web surfer
and certainly: Other systems and services!

6. The consumers’ needs Information retrieval Information processing
open access
heterogeneous content
locate, search / semantic search
browse
Information processing
online reading: annotations, bookmarks, reading basket
author’s background & other relevant resource
interactivity: comments, annotations, rating

7. → model the scholarly process
The producers’ needs
Publishing research online
Pre- and post-publish support
Quality control / peer-reviewing
→ model the scholarly process
Make research items more accessible
Support post-publication assessment
Foster post-publication dialogue
Electronic CV
Integration in the research environment

8. The VOA3R platform – Beta version
Evaluate these functionalities and give us feed back (see further) .

9. The VOA3R platform: in development
Containing a Publication Portal with:
> publications. - At the end of the project: > publications
different search and browse options : e.g. keyword cloud – timeline – research typology - …
added value: As a registered user you can comment and annotate a record. All type of extra links are proposed.

10. The VOA3R platform: in development
Social Portal: Research oriented elements
New specific tools supporting the scientific communication:
Models to retrieve and describe the research information in terms of elements of the scientific methods established in their field (variables, techniques, assessment methods, kinds of objects of interest, etc.)
Integration of data from existing social networks
And classical social portal tools:
ratings, public reviews, suggestions
Identity and reputation

11. Main use cases of the VOA3R portal

12. 5. Your comment is valuable
We will evaluate the features of the VOA3R Portal at:
And give comment:
Fill out the form - discussion
estionaire_Validation_Trail_UHasselt
The code will be made available in open source