VuFind® Leipzig 2024 Future Discoveries: VuFind® as a solution to patent data aggregation

TALK 6 (ENG)
VuFind® as a solution to patent data aggregation (Ricardo Eito Brun | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Abstract: Academic institutional repositories have become a common tool in most of the universities to give visibility to the scientific and technical production of their staff. Most of the institutional repositories at universities Focus on academic papers and reports, with a limited presence of patents and other intellectual property related documents. On the other side, patents’ data are published by different national and international entities in their own databases. Different initiatives have been developed to publish patents’ metadata and even full text as open data. The cases of the European Patent Office (EPO) and other national agencies are good examples. This presentation explores the possibilities of using VuFind as a discovery tool to search and retrieve data coming from institutional repositories and external patents’ databases. The proposed approach gives researchers the opportunity to identify both papers and patents granted to universities, having a single place to reach different research outputs.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The conference “VuFind® Leipzig 2024. Future Discoveries” (30.09.-01.10.2024) joined two important events in the field of discovery systems in libraries, bringing together experts on an international level. On the one hand the German VuFind®-Anwendertreffen, on the other hand the international VuFind® Summit. Our aim was to shed light on the current state of discovery systems and discuss their future potential with over 80 participants on site and around 160 registrations online - including Demian Katz, the maintainer and lead developer of VuFind®. For more information about the conference, please visit our event page at vufind.org/wik....
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