Codename: Discovery

[Ly0n]

Today @andrew and I discussed the creation of a new service. Using the OpenAlex API, we plan to analyse new Open Access papers for the keywords derived from OST. This will allow us to discover new open source software and data repositories. We discussed a newsfeed service that informs about new open source software and data published in sustainability and climate related topics. Here are some critical TODOs that we discussed:

• Extracting Text from PDF Files Using OCR: We need to parse the content of open access papers efficiently and accurately to extract URLs from GitHub, Zenodo, Gitlab, Git..
• We need to integrate the Zenodo API for further metadata.
• Analyse and increase rate limits for OpenAlex.
• A cool name for the service.
• Some marketing slides.
• A new namespace to develop this project.
• A cool front end.
• Further sponsors besides me.
• Based on the current ~300 filtered keywords, we need to analyse how many Open Access articles are published on average per day.

[Ly0n]

Thanks for the great meeting today @andrew. Here the "milestones" we agreed on:

1. Create list of "Topics" already created by OpenAlex that match the OST Keywords. @Ly0n
2. Create a simple feed of new open access papers discovered based on the OpenAlex Topics. @andrew
3. Parse PDFs using GROBID to find relevant data and software repositories from various services.
4. Create another feed that just shows new datasets and software repositories. @andrew
5. Estimate services cost to process all papers released per day in a single day.
6. Create a Front End with great UX.