A mash-up of a Japanese Open Repository and a Researcher CV Platform

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) has led a Japanese institutional repository project since 2014 and, developing homegrown repository software named WEKO as a module for the content management system NetCommons (NC). Recently, NII and Japan Science and Technology Agency started a researcher collaboration platform named Read and Researchmap (R&R) based on the NC framework. One of the major functions of R&R is to serve as an electronic CV system for researchers. In addition to automatic archival of articles, a variety of content such as presentation files and lecture notes are being deposited in R&R. In order to enhance the system’s metadata handling, reuse of code, and interoperability, we decided to implement WEKO as a back-end for the R&R content management system. The system works as a comprehensive self-archiving repository in Japan.