Sharing and connecting research information: the use of OAI-PMH, authority control and quality checks within the Brocade CRIS solution

Abstract

Following the presentation at the CRIS2018 conference Umeå of a lightweight Brocade-based CRIS system for the University of Antwerp, http://hdl.handle.net/11366/677, this concept has been extended over a few years. The repository and CRIS module have been re-engineered outside the boundaries of a library management software (Brocade). To achieve this we created a new concept that we baptized with the name GNOI, which stands for Generic Namespace Object identifier. Within this framework it is possible to create new entities in a highly configurable way. At the moment we have created GNOI systems for projects, funders, contracts, infrastructure, organizations and addresses. By highly configurable we mean that it's easy to extend the metadata model for all GNOI bases entities. A first analysis of required metadata for GNOIs was based on the available business rules to ingest research information to the Flemish Research portal FRIS at https://researchportal.be/en. As a result every entity can be described according to this rules and metadata checks are added to alert administrators that mandated information is missing. If the object descriptions meet a certain level of quality they can be ingested to FRIS.