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. There's a demo video at http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020042219855 that shows how users can upload to the Osuva repository after Annif has been taken to use.
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 publications 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. Also take a look at this describing the use of Annif in an interesting research project
Annif has been tested and used with quite some interest both in Finland and abroad. It has been involved in for example an interesting Dutch research project called Entangled Histories that focuses on early modern ordinances (law texts), take a look at this blog post to find out more! Also, 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!
