 with us, so let's start this community call. Many thanks for joining, we will wait to see if more people join, but as you saw from the previous comment from Briana, so we were free to join, to put questions, to comment, so we always have a topic in the discussion in these community calls, but we have always our specific moments that you can address your questions or even collect your feedback regarding the different services from open air, specifically targeting content providers, so repository managers, key system managers, journal editors, etc, so let's start with this community call, so today the focus will be on the open air users counts service, to have a more detailed presentation about this service, now that we can say that, so all the main features from this service are in production, in a stable and scalable way, so we thought that it was important to present it to you, and also the upcoming plans for the development of this service, but we would like also just to dedicate three or four minutes also to a new project, open air nexus project, that will in fact manage some of the open air services and integrate these services in the European open science cloud, so I will do this brief presentation about open air nexus project, and then my colleague Dimitris Piracos from the Athena Research Center that is the manager of user statistics service in open air nexus will detail to you this service, in our presentations where you can put your questions but at the end we have a specific moment, about some novelties usually we always have this slide in the beginning of our calls just to highlight some things from the let's say the recent developments and the different services under the umbrella of provide, open air provide, so just two highlights from the services, the ones related with the users counts Dimitris will detail it, but for you to be aware that we finally have all the graphs from the user statistics updated in production and not only in the explore service but also in the provide dashboard, but Dimitris will detail that, about the broker service, if you remember we did a presentation one month ago and you can also watch the recordings presenting the service that was developed specifically for this space and this space cruise solutions in order to integrate the broker events in the, in automatically in those platforms in repositories or cruise systems using this space cruise or this space software and we presented in that call the developments that we are doing regarding a broker public API so the information is completely available already, I think quite well documented so Andrea is already my colleague Andrea Vieira that is also in charge of these community calls is already sharing the link we also sent out in the newsletter in the last two days an article about this so if you want to use be aware that we have this public API of course so it can be easily managed and integrated based on the implementation presented one one month ago related to this space cruise and in this space seven when released but but it can be also implemented in different software platforms so be aware of that and then in check and do whatever you want you can contact us in order to to get more support but this is quite important and then we just want to highlight also I as already mentioned be aware that we do we do every month the community call so if you think that there are some topics that you may revisit or see see the recordings as I am mentioning the previous call you can see the recordings usually we put it available in YouTube in the open air YouTube channel and they are the links are in this page of the provide community calls and also the same if you want to know more about open air nexus we did a public launch event last month and all the recordings and slides are available in this in this link that we will also put in the chat be aware of that because I will just now do a really brief introduction just for you to be aware that and some of the services and specifically those services that we are mentioning here today from from bro from the the provide dashboard the broker the validator and also the statistics are under development and the and the integration in the osc within the the duration of open air nexus project so open air nexus project it's a new project it's an horizon 2020 project that they've started early this year it's a 30 months project basically it's focused on on the on the integration of some of the open air services in a usk and the type of services that we are integrating in us can deliver in the services via us are organized in three portfolios published monitoring discover and the different services that we have are a part of the publish or the monitor or the discovery portfolio it's important to say that the majority of the services that we are talking about are those that are being developed and improve it over the last years in open air 2020 or in open air advance but we are also connecting with additional with additional services you can see links here like api sciences or open citations that that were not developed by open air in the last years but now we have a connection and we will integrate in the open air services ecosystem and then the usual suspects that you are aware of our graph provide the zinodal monitor connect are those that already developed and now we are making this onboarding process in usk via the development of this project this project is is is one of the five projects that are part of of the projects that contribute to this onboarding process of usk so there are other projects also developed by other institutions or infrastructures research infrastructure in europe like agi or others that are also that have developed also projects under the same call in 07 to deliver this process of integration so open air nexus is one of those services okay just two more slides just for you to understand i think it's this community calls our community so you are part of the community i think it's always good to share with you share with you so the open air nexus have a normal structure with a work package related with the coordination and one with dissemination but i just want to highlight because here you will see work package three four five and six they are really related with the the core activities of this project so the core activity is the integration with usk to provide virtual access to these services and this is what we are going to develop in the open air nexus and then we have a specific work package for for each components of the portfolio one virtual access to publish portfolio the one related with monitor portfolio and discovery portfolio and then another slide just for you to understand what are the services that are under these portfolios that we are talking about and here i like to also that for the different portfolios we are also targeting different stakeholders and adding stakeholders to this ecosystem of services from usk and specifically the open air ecosystem and so publish we are you are aware of the nodo amnesia and arcos that were developed within open air advance and open air 2020 and now epic sciences that we will also integrate it and linking to to our infrastructure under monitor we we talk about of course the the the uses counts service that the meters will present also the open observatory that is something that uh were really finalized over the last period of open air advance and we will make it publicly also uh but then we we are talking about the monitor service for funders and for research institutions or for or for research infrastructures but i think you are aware of the monitor service for funders uh and then the also um services like open citations on open apcs will be uh part are part of this monitor portfolio the other uh it's the one that where provide is uh integrated is the discover so where we have the the community's gateway so the connect the open air connect service the open air explore is the our discovery service and the open air provide uh development that will be under this umbrella of discover and the end here of course we focus on different services but the the focus will be on the validator on the broker the statistics that are part of provide our our service itself integrated in the in the monitor so and uh and what is important to say is that all the features that we have in open air provide so the validation the registration process as bianna already asked if so i registered new repositories if we are going to be able to reply yes we are we are going after Easter and the the enrichment's based it on the on the broker the the major based it on the users counts and then the collection monitoring the notifications and all the improvements that we want to do in the the monitor collection the collection monitoring also on the notifications integrating also with the with other kinds of alerts so we'll be developed within the the coming two two years in open air nexus to what is the main objective is just to to to have provide as a gateway to the european open science cloud so it's important to highlight that open air nexus is doing this work for different services of open air one of the services is open air provide and here the the idea is that provide the can play a can can play a key role here on the development of european open science cloud integrating the different content providers of open air also in the a osc scientific product catalog we will not be the only way to integrate content but we are a gateway that are already that are mature enough to contribute to this to this process so it's a clear gateway uh and they're in production already and having your content your data source is registered invalidated in open air part of open air provide via open air provide you can be part of european open science cloud and integrate the osc scientific product catalog that will benefit from the research graph of open air okay i think this is the message that i want to highlight and that we have presented in the in the open air nexus launch that if you are interested you know more i invite you to check some recordings i know that we always have in our list of in our to do the least several recordings to watch but if you are interested in in in no more about nexus be aware that we have that information that can i can also reply to your to your questions if needed uh if you have questions you can put it in the chat and try to reply but at the end uh we can we can address those those questions so now i invite the mithis pierakos to to to present to the community all the recent developments and the features from from the user statistic service that we have in production so and thank you for your your availability the images thank you for the introduction let me share my screen yeah okay um i'm the mithis pierakos from i work for a finna reset center i'd like to welcome you on the open air 13th community call um the subject of this community call is the open air usage counts service which is a user statistic service of open air research graph during the call we will present another service the ways that you can participate the benefit that you can receive from using the service and some future enhancements that will be available uh soon uh in our uh service so uh another view the users count service what is the service that is about uh the users count service simply collects uh raw users data or user statistics reports for um open air content providers for for open air research graph products and from the distributed network of open air content providers and this is realized using open standards and protocols and the outcome of this service is the generation of reliable consolidated and comparable use of metrics which are compatible with a countercode of practice standard um some indicators that show the performance of the service which is now in a very stable uh phase um so for until for until March 2021 we have collected statistics information for 3.5 million research products from two content providers and all this information has been manifested in 110 million views and 400 million downloads um let's see how the service is functioning inside open air infrastructure so in one end we have the open air uh content providers like institutional depositors aggregator that archives software depositors etc that provide content to open air infrastructure and to this corner a number of functions are applied like the duplication harvesting mining talent etc in order to produce um uh what is called the open air uh research graph the main entity of an open air research graph is the open air uh research product which could be uh publication the research data software a fund the project etc so what the users count service does is simply counts the usage of these um uh research products and by usage we mean the number of items this is the number of uh this uh the number of times this product has been viewed or the number of times the product has been downloaded and how are we how are we doing this we have um two approaches in order to achieve this and the first approach is called the push approach is presented in the top of the side of the graph so the the push approach collects uh anonymized raw users activity from content providers like repositories guys journals or repositories or the journals and this is achieved by deploying a set of um patches plugins uh or a generic tracker in the in the content provider side that records usage activity in real time this usage activity is a transfer to our analytics platform which is made which is based on open source matomo analytics platform and then from there information is transferred and is aggregated using our metadata index in our user statistics uh database so this is the first approach with the push approach and the second and the second approach is called uh pull is depicted the bottom of the graph um using this approach we gather consolidated statistics reports from uh aggregation services for example iris uk using uh uh protocols uh like sushila these reports are following the standard counter code of practice so we gather these reports we again we aggregate them and we process them and we store it in our user statistics database and from there the user statistics are deployed either in the open errors uh portal for example explore provide or new users counts service portal or um they are available for retrieval using an api endpoint that also follows the sushila protocol in order to use uh user scouts you have first uh you have to register in the provide the platform and uh if you perform all these registration tasks you can view we start collecting information and then you can view the statistics in open infrastructures like provide explore uh uh portals or the new service port of the users counts dot open air dot u and of course you can get counter reports by sushila and the di following the by using the endpoint that is described in the in the slide so in order to register and for the service first of all you have to register via provide you have to register your your data source either it's a literature repository or a data repository or it's an applicator and uh after register the the data source you can you have the option to enable the users count service and on your side you have to download the tracking code for your repository platform you have to configure the tracking code according to the instructions that are provided and finally you have to deploy the tracking code in in the in the platform from our side as soon as all these tasks are completed we will validate the installation of the tracking code and inform the repository manager that everything is okay and we have started uh collecting the information so when you enable this service the users count service you will receive more detailed information on how to configure the software the the links for the software and how you can configure it for example what kind of which id you should put in the in the in the practice and an authentication token etc so as soon as you have completed all the registration and we have started collecting all this information and what are the benefits of using this service we consider the user statistics a measure of of scholar impact we provide indicators that that complement other traditional and alternative biometric indicators that in order to provide a comprehensive and most importantly a most recent most recent view of the impact of academic resources just to mention that for some research products like um uh for example uh data sets or or software user statistics is the only available indicator um you have a metadata duplications a duplication enables accumulation of users for the same research outputs and i will provide a more concrete example later and of course users can provide all the required standardization since it follows the countercode of practice directives who can benefit from the service authors institutions open science platforms funders uh and other stakeholders and all these can find uh replies to questions like which funder has the biggest engagement in europe or give me the evolution of the popularity of the publications or or data of the project within a period of time for example within the last five years so if you have the service you can have for your repository for your content for data source in provides you can have information like the total number of views and the total number of downloads that can be collected you can see the evolution the monthly evolution of the users activity for your repository or you can use um you can ask for a particular countercode of practice release for reports like the article report the item report etc and so if you decide to to get a user statistics for that follows the countercode of practice you can select for example day one report you can specify the parameters for example the date the date range that you require for the reports and you will get a list of of users activities of your statistics for your repository in we will provide sooner a way to download this this information from the provider interface the similar information is also available in explore for example for the repository the repository that we presented in the previous slide we have this similar information available in explore in explore we have also apart from uh information in the repository level we have also information in the item level increases the data the duplication that i mentioned before for example for this publication we have we can see that we have accumulated information from two different repositories and for example for this item this item has been downloaded and viewing two different repositories this information apart from showing this interface is also accumulated in use of counterportals you will provide more generic results for the service for example you can have you can see how many repositories how many users how many downloads have been collected worldwide we also have the option to to select information for a particular country not only from europe but also for countries like around the world for example for as a dns since we have since we are collecting uh users activity from la referencia aggregator and then you can also see monthly views monthly views and downloads evolution for the last for this year for the last three years in the last five years all this information provided the usage counts uh portal and we are also planning to add more advanced analytics for example the number of downloads for its funder or the number of downloads that are related to a particular topic for example in this slide we present the topics that are for that follow the archive classification scheme you can also retrieve um statistics user statistics using our apis endpoints we if you go to the users counts service you will report that you will find a link to the endpoints and you can get reports that follow the countercode of practice release four and these reports are available in producing results in json format so you can retrieve information and process it in your site um the final and for me the most important development is the release of the counter code of practice the counter code of practice release five reports which are available in our beta system for testing you can visit this site and check the the available reports for example you can see the the status of the service this is one of the reports that are offered by countercode that are offered by countercode of practice release five you can see the levels that are participating in the usage count count service you can see the reports list that are available for example we have the platform master report the platform users reported platform item report all these reports are following the erectives the erective of countercode of practice release five and finally we are offering the counter data sets report which is the the report that is recommended by the rta data usage metrics working group for um for reporting uh users activity for data sets so just to recap and close this short presentation uh usage count sets provide standards for your statistics exchange for almost all type of content providers and platforms it complies to countercode of practice for reliable and comparable reports i mentioned that we are collecting um anonymized uh usage activity so we are following gbdr guidelines we offer global coverage recover uh uh repositories not only from europe but uh from uh other uh countries like uh south america we support analysis by apis and um visualizations and if you need further information you please visit users accounts of an entity you and you will find uh information about the architecture the apis and the analytics that we are offering so thank you uh and uh if you have any questions please let me know thank you the matrix um yes the idea was to to do this um short uh overview i think it was uh quite good and quite clear don't think you for that um so if you have questions please put your questions uh i can see yes um i didn't ask are stats only accumulated from different sources or can be this aggregated from for single sources i don't think i understand exactly what since the stats are for each for each source i think it's good so the the users statistics service alexander in in in provided so they are um they are um for each source you can have the all the the views and the downloads for each source um of course the we have generic numbers uh we have also generic numbers in explore we have public information in explore in the discovery service but we have um specific the possibility to um request for specific reports in the in the provide dashboard for each of the the sources of for each repository or each service yes if i understood well yes yeah in in provide you can have um statistics for individual data sources and in explore you can have accumulated uh uh statistics on the item level for example i don't know if if i have uh replied yes all our ip's are anonymized this is a a question from ariel and all our ip's are anonymized and they are anonymized that the at this platform side we do not anonymize it after we receive this information that is the user's records and then all these boards are filtered out using the countercode of practice set of uh of robots that are available that are updated to uh continue yeah thank you for your questions alexander and cardiel we also have one question in the in the local talk it's a big question about the crease okay can you ask the question and andre it's a big question it's about crease systems um can you read it yes let me see how i can resume it oh it's a big question it's just show the screen okay let's see we can reply also the okay thank you pablo yeah the you can you can jump in pablo if you want and and and enable your audio if you want to ask a question yeah i'm i'm happy to thank you um so yeah it's a very long question of all of you for us i'm happy to join this kind of monthly uh open app provider course this is the first time i ever managed to make it i see quite a number of uh um yeah close colleagues and friends um this is a question about crease systems um ask uh certified providers for open app we have an increasing number of them listed in this url i have posted on on the google dog uh it's a better yes um web page within the explorer environment for open app it contains 515 or so different crisis system from a eurochrist perspective we're closely working with uh andreas chatnets team arts university of billyfields in order to kind of identify suitable crease systems harvest their feeds and validate them um it is a kind of test uh environment yet because we are you know in production functionalities not yet available i think on the provides website for open app but my question is to what extent uh crease systems are envisioned to become a truly relevant uh source of metadata for the open air research graph in areas like funded projects where where crease systems are collecting a lot of information quite comprehensive information about all kinds of projects possibly beyond the kind of project information gathering that is taking place uh through the NOAA network with regard to major national funders so you can find all sorts of projects in there uh kind of privately funded small organizations uh i mean i was once discussing with nasalia how wonderful it would be if open air could provide a bit of a wider snapshot of where the funding is coming from for projects crisis might uh enable a way to get in to get in this snapshot the other area where crease systems could be relevant for the open air research graph is research datasets specifically in the domain of the usk because many institutions among them my own one uh the university of crosslading last year are keeping their research datasets in their crease systems and because these are not data repositories they tend not to be registered in uh directories like 3d data uh effectively for a dataset aggregation like open app if we managed to get uh the input from crease systems into uh the open air research graph beyond publications and into these other areas like research datasets or funded projects um services like uh the open air broker for enriching repository records could become far more effective i would expect because you would have all these metadata that are otherwise upset from the current aggregation so this is a question about what the plans may be for integrating the input from uh crease systems into the open air research graph so that we can use this information to promote uh registration and uh validation of crease systems with the open air provides uh base yeah thank you then many thanks paul for your question and for your for being part of this community calls also um which is good uh one previews previews i can i can if andreas then want to to head something but i can just uh give some some highlights for this for this for this talk with you um one important thing is that okay for sure crease systems are part of open air and we want them to be part of of open air uh we uh also as a result of the collaboration with you and the or crease uh so we also want to have an alternative um directory for the registration of crease systems and uh in fact we we we took already the decision about that having three um your directory as the alternative source and this is the first step i think which is important uh what we really need to do is to put this in production in the in the workflow of registration of crease systems and this is something that we really want to do with as soon as possible and we have already started to with the first steps for that uh it's important to say that in in in some of the provide the management team meetings that we have be weekly we have already discussed that we should have one call one of the upcoming calls dedicated only to crease systems but we want to have that when we want when we release the registration workflow in in in in provider because then we formally can say that please be part of this directory to be part of open air and follow this step um and we want to have that so be aware that we will have a call dedicated and for sure you will be invited also to say some words so the first the first reply from my side is that okay let's put in place this formal way to integrate crease systems in open air having a proper workflow in an alternative directory that will be released and then let's formally say to the world we count on crease systems to be part of open air then i think this is the first and the easier answer than the rest is important being part of open air uh is uh so which means that you can you you can register crease system providing metadata from publications or data without being registered in in in the re3 data so we need them to solve that that part but we are we are in fact doing that in open air for other reasons but so you have this issue of crease systems that also have data and we have the same for other repositories that are becoming institutional repositories that are becoming hybrid repositories and where we can have software publications, thesis and and data so we have the same issue and we need we want to avoid having the like two registrations processes to have the same repositories providing publications literature and providing data so we will have the same situation for crease we need to solve it but we are going to solve it but having the workflow for registration we have the first the first step to solve this issue solved let's say um what is missing from my reply ah project information funder project information yes crease systems are will be quite important to enrich our information from from funders from projects etc and and having your registry following the guidelines we will also do the first step to improve our our our our graph based on your input to what concerns project information and I think this is quite important and even organization also information etc that is will be also helpful to improve our our research graph so for this I don't have a clear reply for the project information the way that we are going to collecting to enrich our graph to collect is easy to follow guidelines we will collect the metadata but then use that information also to enrich our our graphing to populate our let's say alternative sources of information for projects that we now on have based on me on the data that we receive from funders okay it's it's it's we need we need to to work on that but for sure uh we will we will solve because this is important so the information that we are going to collect from you are you happy with my reply or not feel free to to ask or to to ask for more information this is what we can say and I think it's important if we I really want to have my idea and I'm pushing for that is to have a call dedicated to Cree system one of these calls dedicated to Cree systems in the first semester it will be difficult to have in May but in June if possible we should have it which means that we should have by the first Wednesday of June the registration workflow already solved and working with your API from Dries if it is possible we can do the the the call in June okay thank you Pablo okay thank you and then for statistics I don't know if we if we what can we can we do for for for in terms of statistics for Cree systems but we can we can discuss also in that call specifically we I think this call will be also helpful to let's say to discuss all issues from from from the integration of Cree systems in open air regarding metadata but also but if Andreas and Dimitris want to join in to say something more than Andreas do you want to I agree with you regarding that we have that we should have dedicated call to the integration of Cree systems and the fifth your Cree systems from open air regarding the user statistics the d-space Cree's implementation that are at github integrates the user statistics add on from Dimitris so this is in the d-space Cree's part of out of the box let us say so so this integrated and can also directly used in the other cases we should take a closer look with our techniques and tools tool sets that we have could fit these cases or issues thank you thank you one of the things that I missed I was I took a note in the in the in the comments to Pablo question but I think it's also useful for a for all not only for those that are managing Cree systems it's that open areas in contact also with the directories as we have directories as alternative source for registration currently we free data for that the repositories and open door for publications but we are being contact by others and we want to have trees the the directory of Orocreas I don't know if I can mention like this so Pablo you can say and for example fair sharing that also have contact open air so the open air is in contact with these directories also to provide feedback and to work with them in order to to improve the the the processes of ingesting information the improvements are regarding ABI's improvements also to have a kind of common framework of metadata that we can share because open air will be the entry point to the gateway to AOSC and we also want to have the directories following like the same framework that we are following in order to to make this more easier and simple so be aware that we are also working with open door and and and free data and be aware that I know that they are also aware of the the needs of the community and so regarding when we are talking about Cree systems having having data information that set free data is is for sure is aware of that and it is also and I know that they are taking that into consideration in some changes that they are doing that they are presented to us in in a in a meeting that we have recently important to say that regarding this that open air now is is also part of the open door stirring committee and that open door is really a community driven service is becoming a community driven service and so all these directories that are the alternative sources for open air are quite relevant and it's quite important that open air also be in touch with them and the same four trees are the same and breathe it out in the open door okay and we are coming to the end okay thank you bubble to share this because I was talking about the reason three is something new so thank you for sharing the link here so probably already share the link to the directory of Cree systems available which was good and they have also now a way to be integrated and with open air so hopefully we will manage that in the coming the coming months is and presented publicly in a community call that we'll for sure prepare in advance. Dimitris do you want to say something more about the statistics any any must any additional information before we close the call? I'm just replying to Viljana from the University of Belgrade about the Serbian Repositories and regarding the list of Serbian Repositories I have provided the link to the list of all members in our new countercode of practice list five at point but unfortunately the countercode of practice for this particular report does not specify the country so I will send you the list by mail. Okay thank you before we finish just two two informations be aware as I know that every time we organize a call we have new newcomers and sometimes we have more than 60 or 50 participants today we only have a little bit more than 20 but be aware that if you have any issue accessing the provide based on any problem with the login you are not sure about who did the registration etc just contact you can contact the help desk but in order to solve it quickly my colleague Andre will share the mail we always do the same in every call so you can contact him directly and we will solve it quickly if you have any issue with accessing because we are aware that sometimes there are issues because people change from the the ones that did first time the registration in open air so be aware of that my colleague Andre you can contact him and of course join the the community calls also subscribe the newsletter because I mean with the newsletter I think it's good if we if you if you just want to share here the slides so it's good if you also subscribe the newsletter because every every first Monday or Tuesday of the month we send out this newsletter just before the community call with the usually the with the novelties so subscribe the newsletter have all emails that are part of of provide service they receive this but you can also subscribe individually if you want and though the recordings are in them in the provided community calls page so be aware of that you can also look to previous presentations and recordings and slides so many things for your if you don't have any other question or comment I'm going to close the call and many things for joining Dimitris many things for your contribution to this call you are part of the team but it's also also good how it's good to say thanks and thank you all for your questions and the presence here and wait for you in the first Wednesday of May we are going to do another another call so if you have any any any needs any requests so you can contact us via mail or via the the office service many things bye bye