Four leading laboratories in the High-Energy Physics (HEP) field are collaborating to roll-out the next-generation scientific information portal: INSPIRE. The goal of this project is to replace the popular 40 year-old SPIRES database. INSPIRE already provides access to about 1 million records and includes services such as fulltext search, automatic keyword assignment, inges- tion and automatic display of LaTeX, citation analysis, automatic author disam- biguation, metadata harvesting, extraction of figures from fulltext and search in figure captions. In order to achieve high quality metadata both automatic processing and manual curation are needed. The different tools available in the system use modern web technologies to provide the curators of the maximum efficiency, while dealing with the MARC standard format. The project is under heavy development in order to provide new features including semantic analy- sis, crowdsourcing of metadata curation, user tagging, recommender systems, integration of OAIS standards and innovative metrics.
['J. M. Montull']
INSPIRE: Managing Metadata in a Global Digital Library for High-Energy Physics