VIPER - The Visual Project Explorer 1.0
The Visual Project Explorer (VIPER) is a unique open science application created by Open Knowledge Maps that provides visual overviews of research projects indexed by OpenAIRE. It enables funders, institutions and researchers to systematically explore a project’s output, and to understand its impact in different areas. VIPER exploits a unique property of OpenAIRE data: the link between projects and publications and datasets.
To realize VIPER, we have adapted and extended Head Start. New features include:
- A metrics component to enrich publication metadata with metrics from different sources. This is accompanied by a scaling functionality that rescales the map according to a given metric to enable a multi-faceted view on project outputs.
- An automatization component to automatically update project maps in certain intervals or when new resources have been added.
- An embed functionality to enable the inclusion of VIPER on external websites and in dashboards.
VIPER also comes with a dedicated search interface for selecting projects for visualization as an example.