This week saw the latest CORE Board of Supporters Meeting take place online. We had 28 attendees from our member institutions and, for the first time, we were also joined by institutions that are working with CORE as a part of the URSN pilot project, funded by SPARC.
The Board of Supporters is an integral component of the CORE governance structure and exists as part of our role as signatories to The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures (POSI).
Figure 1: The CORE governance structure
Professor Petr Knoth hosted the meeting and first introduced a round up of the work that CORE has been doing in the last six months, covering some of the new tools that CORE has released for members including the Rights Retention module, new indexing request capabilities, better email alert tracking and the ability to categorise a repository’s content into ‘sets’ allowing for better management of your content.
Further mention was also given to new documentation developed for repositories, including the CORE Membership documentation, the CORE Data Providers Guide which details how a repository can be best configured for discoverability and indexing, and the new video tutorials that cover many aspects of using the CORE dashboard.
The meeting also detailed the modules that CORE is working with member organisations to develop. We are working to improve the initial version of the RRS module which is now available in the CORE Dashboard, we also had significant interest in two further modules currently under development. The first, called Fresh Finds, is a machine-learning based module that aims to discover papers by authors from an institute where the institute does not yet hold a copy of this paper. This is a common occurrence with large and multi-disciplinary teams devolved over several institutions.
Wireframe layout for CORE Fresh Finds module
The second is a classification tool for matching research papers to the United Nations Sustainable Development goals (SGDs). This is a research project that is funded by the Open University and the eventual aim is to scale this tool so as to make it available for all repositories.
The SDG Classification module.
You can read a full round up of all of the above, and more, in the latest version of the CORE Board of Supporters Newsletter.
If you’d like to work with us on any of the tools discussed here, or if you have ideas that can help your repository that we have not covered, please do get in touch. Your input is extremely valuable and we’d be happy to hear from you.
If you were not able to attend the meeting, there is a recording of the full meeting available.
Until next time….