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Type of site | scientific research, Search Engine in Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Available in | French English Spanish |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | Huma-Num |
| URL | https://isidore.science |
| Commercial | no |
| Launched | 8 December 2009 |
| Current status | active |
ISIDORE is an online platform that allows research and access to human and social sciences digital data. It's a research assistant for humanists researchers over the world.
ISIDORE was created in 2009 by the CNRS, using its "Adonis large equipment" facilities, with a major participation from french companies Antidot, Sword and Mondeca. It is now fully integrated to the Huma-Num research infrastructure [1] for humanities and social sciences. Conceived by the TGE Adonis team following a study on the creation of a portal in humanities and social sciences, the site was started in 2009 and offered [2] in Beta version from 2010. It was implemented by the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) with support from Antidot, Sword and Mondeca between 2010 and 2015. Piloted and operated directly by Huma-Num since 2016, the platform brings together a large number of data producers from around the world: [3] electronic publishing platforms (Cairn.info, Persée, OpenEdition Journals, Érudit, etc. ), digital libraries (Gallica from the BnF, Mazarinum from the bibliothèque Mazarine, bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, bibliothèque inter-universitaire de médecine, etc.), open archives (HAL-SHS, but also theses.fr, TEL, etc.) and a very large number of scientific databases produced in laboratories.
The latest version, extensively redesigned in 2018 with the help of teacher-researchers, [4] offers a connected space forming a vast scientific network. [5]
ISIDORE inspired several projects in the 2010 decade : in May 2019, TGIR Huma-Num and OpenEdition announced the European project TRIPLE [6] which builds on Isidore philosophy [7] and built on the same principles for OPERAS researchers. [8] [9] The Matilda portal follows in the footsteps of Isidore. [10]
In May 2024, Huma-Num IR*, which is developing it, announced a program up to 2030 [11] enabling the development of ISIDORE towards the inclusion of generative AI.
ISIDORE harvests metadata and fulltext documents indexes them as digital data by enriching them with scientific terms and references (like thesaurus, taxonomies, etc.) in 3 languages: French, English and Spanish. It is edited as a web portal, isidore.science, an API and a SPARQL endpoint that allows access to enriched data in RDF. ISIDORE is available also like a WP plugin, called ISIDORE Suggestions. [12]
ISIDORE is one of the digital platforms engaged in the sharing of scientific open data and promote FAIR Data.
It currently contains over 7M documents, from more 10000 collections and sources (digital libraries, journals, academic blogs, open archives, scientific databases, archives, etc.), making it the largest open digital library for humanities and social sciences research.
Isidore harvests metadata according to three open metadata interoperability standards:
Collected metadata is converted to RDF and enriched by IA and semantic processing with terms and vocabulary from scientific thesauri (specialized or general). The full-text documents linked to the metadata are indexed if they are freely accessible. Enhancements resulting from semantic processing are accessible both via the platform's website (search engine functionalities) and via its API to be used by software like Zotero.
ISIDORE associates a large panel of scientific platforms and 'data producers': electronic edition platforms (Cairn.info, Persée, Revues.org, Erudit, etc.), digital libraries: (Gallica of the BnF, Mazarinum of the bibliothèque Mazarine, bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, bibliothèque inter-universitaire de médecine, etc.) open archives (HAL-SHS (Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société), theses.fr, Thèses en Ligne TEL, etc.) as well as a large number of other scientific databases maintained by French and foreign laboratories.
The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable.
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was an informal organization, in the circle around the colleagues Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson and Simeon Warner, to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalogue information (metadata). The group got together in the late late 1990s and was active for around twenty years. OAI coordinated in particular three specification activities: OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE and ResourceSync. All along the group worked towards building a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content to allow people harvest metadata. Such sets of metadata are since then harvested to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.
Electronic publishing includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. It also includes the editing of books, journals, and magazines to be posted on a screen.
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A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; they also fit within the URI system. They are widely used to identify academic, professional, and government information, such as journal articles, research reports, data sets, and official publications.
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
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Dryad is an international open-access repository of research data, especially data underlying scientific and medical publications. Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. The scientific, educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to provide the infrastructure for and promote the re-use of scholarly research data.
An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. Data repositories are the cornerstone for FAIR data practices and are used expeditiously within the scientific community.
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) is a French organization of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) devoted to the development of the open access repositories HAL, TEL and MediHal, the web platform Episciences and the web platform Sciencesconf. It is involved in the international open access movement.
E-corpus was a collective heritage digital platform founded in 2009 in France by the Centre de Conservation du Livre. Its name is sometimes written in lowercase: e-corpus. It went offline in September 2016.
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