ScholeXplorer integration

[ceteri]

Integrate with the ScholeXplorer API:

• http://scholexplorer.openaire.eu/

... especially for looking up datasets <=> publication links

[ceteri]

OpenAIRE is one of the better projects overall in this area of scholarly infrastructure. Their ScholeXplorer integration with the Scholix standard allows for metadata exchange across other discovery services -- providing a central point for a range of powerful discover serves.

Also, the ScholeXplorer service can show which datasets are links to particular articles.

For initial integration, the priorities are to implement our main:

• full_text_search()
• title_search()
• publication_lookup()

Be sure to include the dataset links to publications when available.

Following that, we can explore other possible ways to leverage ScholeXplorer, for example in a later stage of Rich Context, being able to "expand" the knowledge graph from a selected point: what other articles are similar/related to some set of known articles?

[lobodemonte]

API: http://api.scholexplorer.openaire.eu/v2/ui/

As previously discussed,

The ScholeXplorer API isn't suitable to implement all 3 functions as it lacks the functionality needed to do so, and the maintainers don't have a plan to add it anytime soon.

However I was suggested by the maintainer (Sandro La Bruzzo) to exploit "other services like Crossref https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc to retrieve the DOI of the publication starting from a text search, and then...ask [the] to Scholexplorer [API] if there is some link related.

Also, every 6 months ScholeXplore dumps their data into Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/3541646#.XjKXtnX0njg and also DOIBoost https://zenodo.org/record/3559699#.XjKXzHX0njg that includes all the publications that have a DOI.

[ceteri]

Thank you very much for the detailed summary and contacting Sandro.

We had started some integration with Crossref, and that would definitely help to be expanded.

[lobodemonte]

Adding an example of how the ScholeXplorer API could be used:
Ex: http://api.scholexplorer.openaire.eu/v2/Links?targetPid=10.17848%2Fwp15-242&targetPidType=doi
This call is asking for data referencing/connected to DOI 10.17848/wp15-242
This call returned DOI 10.1186/s12877-019-1173-4 as using the searched DOI. Manually checking we can see that the returned DOI is using the searched DOI in its references.