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