REDI+: Toward an Ecuadorian Research Repository based in CRIS

REDI+ is the Ecuadorian project of CEDIA for setting up and operate the national information of Science, Technology, and Innovation. It is an open standards-based platform, specifically as a central aggregator of open access repositories of Ecuador. The main goal of this project is to develop an open, interoperable, and integrated national platform that provides information of publications, researchers, patents, events, services, and general results of science and technology, and innovation. Besides, the platform allows providing value-added services for access to enriched data and aggregated information to improve decision-making at different levels, local, institutional, and in the private sector. The vision is to have an information ecosystem of research, technology, and innovation in Ecuador to provide value, accessibility, and development for all people.

The project REDI+ started in 2021 and we are working with a basic metadata model based on "Common European Research Information Format" CERIF and a Linked Data platform based on FAIR principles, and Plan S in the Open Science line. On this hand, we are collaborating with different NRESs around the world to reuse technologies and define infrastructures and metadata guidelines to provide Ecuadorian institutions at first a platform to manage the actors and resources around the research ecosystem.