Annif / Finto AI as a Service
University of Jyväskylä / The JYX Repository
The Finto AI/Annif API service is already being used in the JYX repository of the University of Jyväskylä, where it is used to assist the subject indexing of Master's theses. Students uploading their thesis get suggestions for subjects, which they can then select and modify. The final subjects are confirmed by a librarian.
University of Vaasa / The Osuva Repository
Annif / Finto AI is being piloted at the Osuva repository of the University of Vaasa. Osuva is one of the the repositories maintained by the National Library of Finland's Repository Services. The pilot started in the spring of 2020. The workflow is similar to the one in Jyväskylä: Users upload their thesis and get suggestions for subjects. The user is then able to choose the best suggestions and add their own if necessary.
Kirjavälitys Oy
Kirjavälitys Oy is using the API service for generating metadata about upcoming book titles on the basis of available marketing and presentation texts. Kirjavälitys offers logistic, wholesale and digital services for Finnish bookshops and web shops, libraries and schools, domestic publishers, printing houses and outsourced logistics service clients. As books can be pre-ordered online, metadata about upcoming book is useful to ensure they can be discovered.
Annif as an Independent Installation
The Dissemin sevice uses Annif. Through the Dissem.in web page researchers and authors of scientific papers can check whether or not their publication is open access. Dissemin can also suggest open access platforms for the publication. It also helps in the upload process: here it offers the user suggestions that Annif gives based on the HAL classification to work with.
Annif has been tested and used with quite some interest both in Finland and abroad. Feel free to join the email list / Google group annif-users - a forum for the groving number of people and organizations interested in Annif and automatic subject indexing!
