In summary, the formulated plan and implementation included the following major groups of functionalities:
✅ Updates and improvements to the current structure of the Migration Research Hub
These functionalities mainly aim to update the current features of the Hub as well as add support functionalities for future developments.
🔄 Re-running data import scripts and updating the database
The hub is based on metadata brought from many external sources (Clarivate – Web of Science, CrossRef, Unpaywall, other specific sources). In the past two years, these integrations have not been run regularly. This activity involves running the scripts and indexing a new batch of information so that the hub becomes "up-to-date."
🔗 Integration with the ETHMIG platform (https://registry.ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/)
The EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minorities) Survey Registry is a unique platform dedicated to collecting, organizing, and disseminating information about surveys and research targeting ethnic minorities and migrants. The data published regularly on this platform is of interest to the Migration Research Hub, as this hub synthesizes and promotes a variety of relevant resources for migration research.
🔗 Integration with the ORCID platform
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a global non-profit platform that provides a unique digital identifier for researchers and contributors across all academic and professional fields. This identifier helps resolve name ambiguity issues and increases the visibility and recognition of academic work. Researchers with ORCID accounts define relevant data about their academic activity on this platform. The integration between MRH and ORCID involves extracting relevant information for researchers who have accounts in the migration expert database (https://migrationresearch.com/experts) and also have ORCID accounts.
📧 Automated communication
This group of functionalities was inspired by other reputable platforms in the academic field (Google Scholar, PhilPapers, etc.) and concerns the creation of an automated system for notifying experts with accounts in the Migration Research Hub about new resources added to the database, taking into account several criteria:
- Resources potentially attributable to each expert
- Resources of interest to each expert, based on their associations with specific branches of the taxonomy at the core of the hub (https://migrationresearch.com/taxonomies)
All these functionalities have been implemented by youngminds (in relation with other partners of the project).
