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.
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.
Supports multiple guidelines improving content quality and spectrum
It supports the addition of new rules and modification of existing ones
Is accessed via an online user friendly web interface within OpenAIRE PROVIDE service
Validates content and quality of implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol in a scheduled way
Users can view the history of validations and the status of harvesting
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 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.
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.