[Profile picture of Ruben Verborgh]

Ruben Verborgh

Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data

Patrick Hochstenbach, Ruben Verborgh, and Herbert Van de Sompel

Scholars rely on a vast network of databases containing peer and non-peer reviewed artifacts to conduct their research. In their quest for information, filtering out what to read or not, they rely on heuristics to access the trustworthiness of the artifacts. Life-cycle information could be used to create better assessments, but this information is spread over many networks, hidden in web pages, or not made available at all. We propose a decentralized communication system in which nodes in a network use a messaging protocol to inform each other about important life-cycle events. This presentation introduces the Event Notifications messaging protocol to orchestrate life-cycle events or exchange information about them. We present how this protocol is implemented in the COAR Notify project connecting institutional repositories with peer-review and overlay journal services. The protocol does not only provide interoperable layer for life-cycle event, but it also provides the technology for a decentralized scholarly communication system in line with COAR’s Next Generation Repository report. In a next phase of Event Notifications, a persistent layer of life-cycle information in the form of Event Logs will be investigated. Using Event Notifications and Event Logs a transparent, interoperable sharing of linkages between research outputs can be achieved.

full text BibTeX other citation formats

Published in 2024 in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories.

Keywords:

Read this article online

Cite this article in your work

Cite this article easily using its BibTeX entry: 

@inproceedings{hochstenbach_or_2024,
  author = {Hochstenbach, Patrick and Verborgh, Ruben and Van de Sompel, Herbert},
  title = {Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories},
  year = 2024,
  month = jun,
  url = {https://zenodo.org/records/12579289},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.12579289},
}

Alternatively, pick a reference of your choice below:

ACM
Patrick Hochstenbach, Ruben Verborgh, and Herbert Van de Sompel. 2024. Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories.
APA
Hochstenbach, P., Verborgh, R., & Van de Sompel, H. (2024, June). Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories.
IEEE
P. Hochstenbach, R. Verborgh, and H. Van de Sompel, “Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data,” in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, 2024.
LNCS
Hochstenbach, P., Verborgh, R., Van de Sompel, H.: Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories (2024).
MLA
Hochstenbach, Patrick, et al. “Using an Event Notification Network for Transparent Sharing of Artifact Life Cycle Data.” Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, 2024.