INSPIRE: contributions to Invenio from the leading High Energy Physics (HEP) platform

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

Invenio Interest Group Presentations

INSPIRE (http://inspirehep.net/) is an information system for the global High Energy Physics (HEP) community, supported by a collaboration between four major particle physics labs: CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC. INSPIRE is used regularly by around 50,000 HEP scientists worldwide in order to search for publications, references, authors, institutions etc. The system currently holds over 1 million bibliographic records. Since the launch of the INSPIRE website in 2008, the project has contributed several functionalities back to Invenio and these will be the focus of this Interest Group presentation. The first of these is an author disambiguation module that allows INSPIRE to offer its users automatically generated profile pages that aggregate all the research output from one individual. Other components include an automatic reference extractor from PDF that allows INSPIRE to keep citation counts accurate and all the back-office tools that catalogers use to maintain the high-quality metadata that characterizes INSPIRE. Focus will be also given to ongoing developments including migration of INSPIRE to the upcoming version of Invenio, new modules under development, and porting to new technologies such as Flask and Bootstrap.