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Identifying and extracting authors' Rights Retention Statements from full text academic articles

Many research performing institutes are adopting Rights Retention strategies to help their authors maintain copyright ownership of their work, whilst also enabling broader access and compliance with funder mandates such as Plan S. The implementation of a Rights Retention Strategy offers numerous advantages, including open access assurance, copyright retention, scholarly use regulation, enhanced dissemination, equity promotion, and facilitation of text and data mining. However, the manual incorporation of appropriate rights retention statements into article metadata is labour-intensive and time-consuming. To address this challenge, CORE has co-designed, with repository managers, a machine learning module to automatically identify and extract rights retention statements from full-text articles, streamlining the encoding of this information within article metadata. The integration of CORE services with repository software and the expansion of data extraction capabilities are crucial steps toward promoting a more accessible, transparent and interconnected scholarly ecosystem.

Authority to Entities: A DSpace 7 migration case study

DSpace 7 introduced the concept of entities and relationships which provide a way for the repository to represent many concepts in open access publishing. One of the most obvious use cases of this new framework is a way of representing the relationships between people (authors, editors, project managers) and works like publications and projects. If you are migrating from a previous version of DSpace, you might already have authority control in place.In 2023, The Library Code GmbH completed a large migration of a DSpace 6 institutional research repository to DSpace 7. A large part of this work involved the conversion of nearly 40,000 authority-controlled metadata values to entities and relationships, where institutional authors would now be represented by a Person entity with relationships to Publication and Project entities. This presentation will have a technical view on entities, relationships and data migration. We will share our experience using entities and relationships in DSpace 7. We will discuss the technical approach taken, its benefits and challenges and share the lessons learned during this project. We hope to help demystify one of DSpace's largest new features by presenting how we achieved this large migration.

ptsefton.com :: Open Repositories 2024 Trip Report: Göteborg

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Emerging Themes and Priority Areas for the Repository Community: Outcomes of the COAR Meetings

June 6 & 7, 2024 The overarching topic of this year’s meeting was “anticipating the repository of the future”. COAR’s vision has always been that the real power of a repository lies in its abil…