The research and scholarly publishing environments are changing rapidly and there is an increasing expectation that research findings will be shared openly, both among funders and policy makers, and the wider research and public community. Institutional research repositories and scholarly platforms play a critical role in supporting these open research practices by capturing, preserving, and disseminating the research and scholarly outputs produced by institutions, but the current processes to support researchers and librarians in doing so are still fairly manual and time consuming.

This presentation will describe the outputs of a project to address this issue by integrating one of the most widely used, open repository platforms, DSpace, with OpenAlex, a free and open catalogue of the world’s scholarly research system. Using OpenAlex’s open API (Application Programming Interface), this integration allows for the quick import of relevant research and scholarly (meta)data into DSpace repositories, which will in turn help institutions improve the quality and completeness of their research records and will streamline researcher publication and reporting workflows by providing accurate information in automated ways. Moreover, this solution will contribute to increasing and enhancing the availability of open and accurate information about research outputs in the wider scholarly ecosystem.

Since 2017, 4Science has been working on implementing support for IIIF in DSpace to provide a better user experience in enjoying images, especially in the cultural heritage domain. To achieve this goal, a dedicated add-on has been implemented, easily integrated with a set of external Image Servers, such as Cantaloupe or Digilib. To enrich the content related to the digital cultural heritage managed within DSpace, we are now implementing workflows aimed at saving IIIF annotations created with Mirador and at relating them with all the information provided by metadata, fulltexts and entities. The proposed paper illustrates such workflows and how to relate annotations to each other and to other entities structured at data model level, in order to integrate them in the repository knowledge base.