1. Open Access Repository activities @ INFN Roberto Barbera (roberto
Open Access Repository INFN Roberto Barbera and Rita Ricceri – INFN Catania
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2. Outline Introductory concepts and driving considerations
Current status of developments
Summary and conclusions
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3. Computationally intensive research
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4. 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

5. Interesting consideration
2nd Challenge: make African science/scientists more «visible»
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6. 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

7. The INFN Open Access Repository (www.openaccessrepository.it)
Automatically ingestion in place from:
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8. Visibility (integrated in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base)
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9. Visibility and compliance (fully conforming with Open Access Initiative)
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10. Visibility and compliance (registered as an OpenDOAR data provider)
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11. Visibility and compliance (registered as an OpenAIRE data provider)
Guidelines 3.0 11

12. 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
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13. Reputation (will appear soon in the Ranking Web of Repositories)
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14. 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
Interest already gotten from 12 people
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15. Thank you !
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