Fingerprinting is a term for indexing content in order to produce a list of words, or ‘concepts’, which summarise the key subject areas.
This is an example of the fingerprinting in Pure and EBR. Here, “fossil record”, “vertebrate” etc are concepts.
Those at the top of the list have the highest weighting.
You can find fingerprinting on the following:
A dozen specialised thesauri have been loaded into Pure and the concepts are created from them.
The highest weighted fingerprint appears at the top of the list and the ‘donut’ image and font size shows the weighting. The weighting is calculated according to the relevance and frequency that the concept is mentioned.
Fingerprints are not generated for every record. If, for example, a publication does not have an abstract, there will be no Fingerprint. Equally, there is a minimum 20% weighted rank threshold for any concept, and if it falls below this, the concept will not appear.
You can choose to turn Fingerprints on or off within your personal profile and outputs; or remove specific concepts if you do not think they accurately reflect your content. Projects and prizes fingerprints cannot be edited.
To edit your profile or publication fingerprint, select "edit profile" or open output record and then choose ‘Fingerprints’ from the left hand menu. Here you can turn off an entire fingerprint group, using the "On/Off" toggle:
Or you can hover over an individual concept, where you’ll see a ‘remove’ option:
Don't forget to select "Save".
There is a further in-depth explanation of fingerprinting available. If you have further questions, please contact pure-support@bristol.ac.uk
