Investigate exchanging information with Pure

[ctwhome]

Based on a weekly discussion point: We want to see if we need 

• We get these questions quite a lot. 
• We should prioritize it. 
• What kind of information could we have? If there is an API we could use, open data that we can use. We could start cooperating with them, contact somewhere from Elsevier.

[jmaassen]

Many of the PURE installations also offer a OAI-PMH interface. Here are a few example:

Groningen: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&set=publications%3Aall&metadataPrefix=nl_didl

UvA: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=nl_didl

AMC: https://pure.amc.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&set=publications%3Aall&metadataPrefix=nl_didl

Tilburg: https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&set=publications%3Aall&metadataPrefix=nl_didl

The nice thing about OIA-PMH is that it's independent of the implementation, so institutes not using PURE also use the same interface.

[ewan-escience]

There seems to be no open API from PURE, except OAI-PMH, but those don't seem to have a way to filter for software. And even if there would be, it is the question if the metadata is complete enough to fill a software page on the RSD. I propose that we close this issue until we get a workable example.

[ewan-escience]

My fellow from the VU Amsterdam said he is trying to scrape the Pure instance from the VU in order to find research software. He also confirmed there is no software category and he scrapes the API by trying to find Git URLs in the full text.

[ewan-escience]

We included that importing information from Pure is not possible in the near future.

We could look into Pure importing data from the RSD, by e.g. exposing a suitable API or by letting Pure import from OpenAIRE. Once we get a concrete usecase, we will continue this investigation.