HiberActive: Pro-Active Archiving of Web References from Scholarly Articles

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

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References in scholarly communication have traditionally pointed to published articles or book chapters. However, today’s scholarly communication increasingly contains links to a wide range of web resources to support the presented research. Examples for such web resources are websites, software, datasets, presentation slides, videos, scientific work- flows, ontologies, and others. Traditional published articles and book chapters are archived in special purpose infrastructure and their content is considered stable. Web resources, on the other hand, are constantly changing and archiving approaches are by far less mature. Ensuring integrity of the scholarly record, therefore, presents a significant challenge for institutional repositories as well as for other types of holdings of scientific manuscripts. The Hiberlink project [1] investigates this challenge. As one exploration of our project work we introduce HiberActive, a distributed solution that repositories can utilize to have references from scholarly articles pro-actively archived in real-time. HiberActive builds on existing technologies and protocols to lower the barrier of adoption. Its distributed character supports our understanding of a shared responsibility between repositories and external parties to improve our chances for an appropriately archived scholarly record. [1] http://www.hiberlink.org/