UC4/US6 Collect & present usage information of resources

[pvgenuchten]

User story

As a coordinator of a soil carbon monitoring network,

I want to be able to get an overview of projects and products that are enabled by the data and information produced by my monitoring network. With open data publications it is often difficult to get a good overview of who is using your data and what products and result are they creating. You often have to rely on mouth to mouth to get this information or follow up scientific publications in detail. Systems requesting information from users to access the data/results such as JRC throw up what can perceived to be an unnecessary barrier, run into GDPR issues and are not able to capture data that is shared further by users.

So that I can justify the expenses and the need for future funding to management and funding authorities.

Critical success factor:

This US relies on other US that cover the ingestion of the relevant metadata about projects, datasets and knowledge this US needs to connect to.

Extended user story description:

I am monitoring network coordinator/data manager, who works at government agency/research institute, which focuses on soil monitoring in Flanders, Belgium in the role of scientist/data manager, my educational level is university (soil scientist, engineer, ….). My main target group are researchers and policy advisors who work in all land use types. I do/don’t have a soil science background. My digital expertise encompasses office programs. I usually use portals google and web of science to find information or data. I want to be able to connect datasets, projects and knowledge (papers, reports, …) that use data and knowledge produced by my monitoring network to my monitoring network.

• [ ] I need to get an overview of scientific papers that use results from my monitoring networks.
• [ ] I need to get an overview of products and datasets that use results from my monitoring networks.
• [ ] I want to be able to easily connect from the main entry on my monitoring network to the entries that rely on data and results from my monitoring network.

For example this could be achieved by having a section in the entry with URL’s linking to other sections.

• Some categorisation could be useful
  • Data
  • Report
  • Paper
  • ….
• I need to be able to determine some statistics form the connections that can be made
  • Statistics:
    • Number of datasets
    • Number of papers
    • Number of reports
      • Type of the reports
        • Building further on the results
        • Evaluation of the network
        • Methodological study
        • Applied research
        • Fundamental research
          • Number of and type of Stakeholders
          • Creators of the product
          • Targeted by the product
          • Impact factor of scientific results
          • Open data/open access/FAIR adherence of linkend entries
          • Data quality of the product
          • Themes and domains of the derived products
          • Type and organisations that use the results (scientific, government, business, land managers, citizens, international, …)
          • Nationality
          • Area covered (region of monitoring network, …)
          • …
  • This can be provided in multiple ways
    • Part or all of these statistics can be calculated in the platform itself and shown as additional information with the entry for the monitoring network
    • A download functionality or API that allows me to pull the necessary metadata to be able to calculate those statistics

Business reason:

This will allow me to more effectively justify expense and continued investment in my monitoring network to the funding authority. It will better allow me to visualise the impact the network has and have hard figures on the usage. I will be able to reduce the time that needs to be spend to get this information or justify the spending through other means (consultancy, extensive networking, …). ….

Acceptance criteria:

• [ ] I have an overview of at least four key statics on products using data and results from my monitoring network (numbers of products, impact, data quality fairness, …) or I can pull the necessary data from the repository that allows me to create those key statistics.

[pvgenuchten]

meeting 28-2-2024:

• Linkage between academic articles and used datasets in that research are available via citations on the article. OpenAire offers some linkage between datasets and articles (as added by the article writers). But the article itself may offer additional citations to dataset linkage.
• The frontend should offer some filtering/dashboard mechanism to display results of linked items to a certain dataset
• A user login mechanism is not needed
• Nice to have: Soilwise may derive dataset to knowledge linkages from context

[dluts]

Extend with information about how results can be shown (API-access is must have and GUI is should have).

Extend with functionality on storing the queries/results (is it needed?) + a notification system (signal when a new linked paper pops up?)

Both for DOI and non-DOI (but with other uuid) content.

User access management functionality, not really necessary at face value, because information is assumed to be public (metadata) or it is assumed that direct access to private information is not necessary, only after processing and aggregation by the SoilWise platform.

Potential new user story on requesting users to add linkages when providing metadata to SoilWise (a new independent functionality from providing metadata or an extension of existing functionality).