VOA3R Meeting @ FAO, Rome15 May 2013Ghirardi Nicola Ciotoli FabioInformation and Knowledge Management DepartmentCINECA Interuniversity Consortium
Voa3r.cineca.it Content population report
CINECA Data Process
● Harvesting
● Transforming
● Enhancing
● Transforming
● Dissemination
Content population
Actually over 26000 records available
Content enhancement
Automatic Tagging makes possible describe the meaning of a records using tags machine readable.● Automatic Tagging system: Agrotagger
○ Local deploy to speed up process○ Italian Language not supported (yet)
● Tags in numbers:○ contents tagged 6970 (out of about 26000)
Content enhancement
● Quality of tags (% of accurate tags)
Affiliation
The system was designed in order to be scalable to further contents/Universities ● Each new content published in a U-GOV
Research Repository is automatically available in the VOA3R platform.
● The system is designed to automatically provide to VOA3R the whole Agriculture repertoire of the Universities that adopt OA policies.
Affiliation
● The resolution of the full text of the research contents points dynamically to the Institutional Repository of the University (or equivalent services) providing at the same time a cool URL
● Metadata licence issue: no licence was chooses in the project when universities signed the memorandum -> only signed memorandum of understanding for now
Affiliation in numbers
Target universities -> 14Universities involved in promotion phase -> 14Universities involved in Voa3r project:
● Università di Messina● Università di Napoli "Federico II"● Università di Roma "Sapienza"● Università di Verona
Pendings request -> 5
Affiliation & Portal feedback
After trials that involved university "experts", feedbacks collected were:● Make it clear the data providers are the
universities○ In order to make it possible records now are group
by universitySets○ CINECA work has been done and some of the
requested changes will be visible in the next portal updated.
● Usage Statistics on provided contents (for research evaluation)○ No feedback