Driving open research with AI

Our final talk on Open Research Week is from the team at COnnecting REpositories (CORE), a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University.

CORE’s mission is to index all research worldwide and deliver unrestricted access for all. In doing so, we enrich scholarly data using state-of-the-art text and data mining technologies to aid discoverability and we enable others to develop new tools and use cases on top of the CORE platform.

CORE team

Professor Petr Knoth (left) and Dr David Pride (right)

About this session

Prof Petr Knoth and Dr David Pride will share three recent open research projects of the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) group. These are: 

1. The CORE-GPT, a question-answering service that utilises academic literature collected by CORE to produce generated answers together with their scholarly references. The services uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver trustworthy answers together with provenance information; 
2. SDG-Classify, a novel AI model for multi-label classification of research papers based on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), along with its integration into the CORE Dashboard, helping Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to better understand how the content held in their repository contributes to SDGs; and 
3. SoFAIR, a two-year international project funded in the CHISTERA Open Research Data call which addresses the lack of reproducibility of research studies and insufficient credit given to those developing research software. SoFAIR will extend the capabilities of widely used open scholarly infrastructures, CORE and Software Heritage, operated by the consortium partners, delivering and deploying an effective solution for the management of the research software lifecycle, including:

• ML-assisted identification of research software assets from within the manuscripts of scholarly papers,
• validation of the identified assets by authors in repositories,
• registration of software assets with PIDs and their archival in Software Heritage. 

The talk will also provide a short introduction to CORE, which provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is, to our knowledge, also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures (POSI). 

Presenters

Professor Petr Knoth, Founder of CORE

Dr David Pride, Research Associate, CORE

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