Check repository compliance with OpenAIRE

The OpenAIRE Metadata Validator is a service that checks a repository's compliance with OpenAIRE, for repository managers, by validating it against the OpenAIRE guidelines.

  • For
    Providers | Provider Managers | Resource Managers
  • TRL
    9 - actual system proven in operational environment
  • Access Type
    Virtual
  • Access Mode
    Free
  • Owned by
    OpenAIRE
  • Provided by
    OpenAIRE
  • Funded by
    The framework programme for research and innovation (H2020)
  • Terms of use

The OpenAIRE Metadata Validator service is used by content providers who wish to register their content to OpenAIRE and allows them to verify that it is compliant with the OpenAIRE guidelines. The service also checks the quality of implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol. Content providers can use the service after logging into OpenAIRE PROVIDE. If validation succeeds the provider is eligible to register and join the OpenAIRE infrastructure. The providers' content will be regularly aggregated to contribute to the OpenAIRE Graph. OpenAIRE allows for registration of institutional and thematic repositories registered in OpenDOAR, research data repositories registered in re3data, individual e-Journals, CRIS, aggregators and publishers. The OpenAIRE Metadata Validator service is realised with configurable software that allows users with administrative rights to customize the validation rules to be applied. This feature makes it easier to adapt the service when the OpenAIRE guidelines are updated and to offer similar services, possibly with different rules and configurations, to third-parties.


Benefits

Verify compliance
Supports repository managers to verify that their content complies with the interoperability standards set by OpenAIRE
Increased interoperability
Enables the adoption of common standards
Broader visibility
Allows content to be accessed globally via OpenAIRE
Qualitative quick automatic process
Performs checks of big (meta)data and spots any errors quickly
Synchronized feedback
Provides verbose results of the validation and points to invalid records functioning as a feedback mechanism for content providers

Features

Agile data compatibility assessment

Supports multiple guidelines improving content quality and spectrum

Configurations

It supports the addition of new rules and modification of existing ones

User friendly

Is accessed via an online user friendly web interface within OpenAIRE PROVIDE service

Automations

Validates content and quality of implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol in a scheduled way

Transparency & History of information

Users can view the history of validations and the status of harvesting

Used in

  • Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Developing a national interoperable project catalogue in Croatia
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    OpenAIRE APIs and Open Science Management
  • University of Belgrade
    University of Belgrade
    Enhancing research outputs in Serbia
  • Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Enriching metadata records with funding information using the OpenAIRE API

Related services

OpenAIRE PROVIDE
One-stop-shop for sharing, improving, and enriching your content

OpenAIRE PROVIDE is the scholarly gateway that receives content registration requests and provides guidance for content providers by viewing a personalised, user-friendly dashboard that shows the necessary steps and status of the services to complete the process.

OpenAIRE Broker
Metadata enrichment of scholarly records

OpenAIRE Broker is a service that allows content providers to complete and enrich metadata of their registered scholarly works with information from the OpenAIRE Graph. It is a notification service which effectively fills your content with up-to-date information that you or your researchers may be missing, and which enables you to showcase the openness, FAIRness, usage, and links to other records.

OpenAIRE Graph
An intelligent gateway to scholarly communication

The OpenAIRE Graph is a collection of interlinked research objects that aggregates metadata records from more than 70K scholarly communication sources from all over the world for researchers, service providers, research managers and policy makers, by following a participatory approach.

Use Cases

  • Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Developing a national interoperable project catalogue in Croatia
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    OpenAIRE APIs and Open Science Management
  • University of Belgrade
    University of Belgrade
    Enhancing research outputs in Serbia
  • Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Enriching metadata records with funding information using the OpenAIRE API
OpenAIRE Service Catalogue receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under OpenAIRE-Advance (No. 777541) and OpenAIRE Nexus (No. 101017452)