| Explore the world of French Research and Innovation with scanR | |
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| Project details | scanR is a web application to help characterise public structures (research units of all types, public institutions) and private structures (companies) involved in research and innovation in France. scanR also helps to identify the the direction of the work of researchers active in France since the early 1990s. scanR combines structured data under an open licence (publications and theses, participation in collaborative research projects, spin-offs, patents, etc.) and open information extracted directly from the websites of research and innovation players. This information comes from around 13 different sources (theses.fr, the open science barometer HAL, European Commission, INPI, ANR, European Patent Office, etc.) and is obtained by webscraping, pdf-mining or using APIs. The resources are then identified and linked together, in particular using AI methods, and then enriched. A feedback loop has been set to improve the quality of the data produced. It allows for requesting data corrections from the scanR site. An engine based on ElasticSearch allows you to search for themes, structures or authors. Finally, it is now possible to visually display interactions between different structures or themes using a network analysis. |
| Players | Statistical Service of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (SIES) |
| Project results | The scanR project has been in production since 2016 and records around 50,000 monthly visits. - The project provides files by structure and authors presenting their organisation, activity, areas of research and source of funding. - It also offers a search engine on research structures, authors, funding, publications and patents in France. - It also provides tools for analysing results including graph visualisations. The project also provides several APIs to retrieve data and data. |
| Project products and documentation | scanR is available at scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr. This site includes : - the documentation to access the four APIs available ; - the various data sources used for the project. Methodology and technical details : - Detailed technical presentation of scanR scanR - Explore public data on French research and innovation euroCRIS conference, November 2024; - Mapping scientific communities at scale |
| Project code | - The code is available on GitHub https://github.com/dataesr/scanr-ui |
