| The HALiance project aims at redesigning HAL’s core services and aligning them with recommendations and excellence criteria defined by the Ministry of Higher education and research as part of the National Plan for Open Science and within the framework of international initiatives in favour of open science (COAR, EOSC, cOAlition S). It builds on the renewal of hardware and software infrastructure, and aims to address the international stakes with regard to excellence, technological agility and reinforced interconnection. |
|
 |
The project is divided into 9 workpackages.
WP1 - Hardware infrastructure
- The hardware infrastructure of HAL is able to adapt to a significant increase of the data to store and to treat
- The backup system is redundant
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Installation of the HAProxy ALOHA load balancer
Change of a switch (replaced with an optical switch) Creation of the Solr cluster Installation of a MySQL cluster for future use Technical investigation of a redundant backup solution |
| 2023 | Recruitment of a systems engineer
New NAS storage server Switch to HaProxy to guarantee high availability Improved network performance (installation of optical switches and 10 Gb cards) Preparation of data backup in a second datacentre |
WP2 - Software
- A new application development environment is deployed
- The HAL source code is open and published
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Study of architectures and migration
Creation of a product backlog |
| 2023 | Recruitment of a developer
Start of the application migration project (service) |
WP3 - Metadata extraction and alignment with HAL reference data
- The extraction of named-entities within the pdf files of publications is optimised and automated (Authors, institutions, funders and projects, licences, infrastructures ; Research software and research data Citations)
- The named-entities are automatically aligned with HAL reference data
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Feasibility studies for improved extraction of funding and licensing information from the full text
Definition of specifications for the automatic author affiliation service Exchanges with partners Inria and Science-Miner |
| 2023 | Enrichment of auréHAL with the ROR identifier, in collaboration with the Open Science Barometer (BSO) team
Preliminary study and prototype for the automatic retrieval of funding data from PDF files (partnership with Science-Miner for the development of the Grobid application) Preparation of the redesign of the automatic author affiliation service |
WP4 - Organising and documenting the life cycle of bibliographic metadata imported to HAL
- The source of metadata is documented
- Metadata traceability is documented (metadata life cycle)
- Conflict management rules are defined and implemented
- Synchronization of the imported metadata with those of HAL database
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Definition of specifications (metadata traceability, conflict management rules)
Exchanges with partner IN2P3 |
| 2023 |
The actions in this work package depend on the progress of WP2 |
WP5 - Preprint review and curation
- HAL is automatically notified of a preprint review and updated versions of the preprint
- The different statuses of the preprint are known and displayed (reviewed, recommended, accepted for publication, open peer review, etc.)
- Researchers who deposit preprints in HAL can access to external reviewing services
Actions in this work package are a continuation of the HALOWIN project. This project has been extended to the end of 2023
WP6 - Selective publications' harvesting
- A mechanism identifies the scholarly publications’ full text which can be imported into HAL and feeds HAL
- Tools for deduplication, enrichment and version management are available
- Researchers have web interfaces to validate or not the import of their publications into HAL
- Conference papers on SciencesConf are automatically imported into HAL
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Use of the corpus produced by INIST as part of the CorHAL project
Start-up of implementation of the service Recruitment of a developer |
| 2023 |
Launch of the deposit suggestions service: user interface, monitoring back office, data import workflow in HAL |
WP7 - Link publications - research data
- An automated solution locates and associates to the publication deposited in HAL the identifier and the citation of the associated research data
- A service helps to deposit a research dataset associated with a publication and transfer it to the appropriate data repository
- Interoperability of HAL with Nakala (SHS) and Dataverse repositories (Recherche.data.gouv for ex)
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Exchanges with partner INRAe in the framework of the national repository recherche.data.gouv |
| 2023 | Integration of the COAR Notify protocol into HAL
|
WP8 - Supporting and involve users communities
- Users are associated to the conception of the new services
- Functional and technical documentation is available
- A multi-modal training offer is proposed to the users
- Users are informed of the general progress of the project
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Definition of a communication plan
Definition of an action plan for user engagement |
| 2023 | ROR alignment campaign (WP3)
Gathering user feedback for the new suggestions service (WP6) Drafting of user documentation on the suggestions service Publication of blog posts on the CCSD website |
WP9 - FAIR principles
- A Core Trust Seal certification process is initiated
- FAIR indicators are implemented
Achievements :
| 2022
|
Recruitment of a data steward to take charge of Core Trust Seal certification |
| 2023 | Recruitment of a data steward
Internal audit for CoreTrustSeal certification, gathering of information for report writing Drafting of about.hal.science pages |
Project sheet
| Funding |
Equipment for research P.I.A.3 – ESR/EquipEx+ |
| Project reference | |
| Duration |
5,5 years |
| Investment |
3,4 M€ |
| Project kick-off |
January 2022 |
| Consortiums |
CNRS, Inria, IN2P3, INRAE |
| Partners |
Equipex+ Commons |