Invenio as a platform to implement the SCOAP3 Repository

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

Invenio Interest Group Presentations

In the context of the SCOAP3 project, the SCOAP3 Repository had to be set up in order to aggregate in a central place all the SCOAP3 publications from 10 different journals in high energy physics. This has been accomplished by agreeing with publishers how data should reach the Repository (formats, packaging, transport protocols), how metadata has to be normalized, and how this data is finally made available to the user. It will be presented how the Invenio Digital Library has been adapted in order to meet the requirements of SCOAP3 (namely, rather than being oriented to researchers, the repository has to be an administrative tool, and a gateway towards other services), how core modules of Invenio (OAIRepository, BibCheck, BibFormat, BibTasklet) made it possible to adapt to the several specificities of each publisher, and how, by carefully designing workflows, it has been possible to implement an agile and quick development that allowed us to respect the tight deadlines of the project.