organization of patent as open source software based open access repository item

Organization of Patent as Open Source Software based Open Access Repository Item

By

MOUMITA ASH

ashmoumita@gmail.com

27th Annual Convention of the Society for Information Science & Conference on

Open Access Gateway to Open Innovation

24-26 November,2010

PATENT: a valuable primary information source

PATENT AS A DOCUMENTARY SOURCE

A Patent ensures the inventor to receive the exclusive

right to control exploitation of the invention and to

realize any profits for a specific length of the time, in

exchange for disclosing an invention to the public.

PATENT: a valuable primary information source

As Patents represent extremely valuable intellectual

property right and the Patent policies are varied from

country to country. Accessibility of documents on

different Patent related information become a basic

needs for the researchers and related communities

because patents provide information on the general

utility of the invention and information about the

practical application of the invention in industry.

INFORMATION CYCLE & PATENT

In traditional pattern of information flow, knowledge

organization pattern and communication channels cannot

fulfill today’s demand when more and more information

specialists have an increasing need to search the full text

appears to be further away than ever before. Though the

application of web technology based information retrieval

system has brought a significant change to the access of the

patented knowledge.

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

Now emergence of the concept of Open Access Repository has created a great opportunity to archive the patent documents in digital format and organize the information for public access without any barrier of time, place. Among 1178 open access repositories of the world, 33 repositories include patent as repository item to open their research literature to the world wide and contribute to the knowledge economy.

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

According to Directory of Open Access Repository (Open DOAR) survey, among forty two (42) Open Access Indian Repositories, six (6) Indian institutions- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, National Chemical Laboratory, University of Delhi, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science (IISC) have included patent as ‘repository item’. Institution like IISC provide full text patent document with relevant metadata.

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

Why Open Source Software as platform?

From the beginning, Digital Repositories have been developed mainly on Open Source Software platform, which is consistent with its philosophical backbone. According to Directory of Open Access Repository (Open DOAR) survey (updated on 24th November, 2010), more than 60% open access repositories have been developed on Open Source Software platform.

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

Why Open Source Software as platform?

Three of the most popular IR software platforms are DSpace, ePrints and Fedora are FOSS(Free and Open Source Software). Not only Free, Freedom is the key of its popularity and acceptance.

Patent as Open Access Repository Item

Why Open Source Software as platform?

Open Source Repository Software like Dspace, ePrint provide content management facilities to archive patent documents in open access repository maintaining international standards, bypassing the financial, licensing and customization hazards.

How to Adjust ‘Patent’ as Repository Item

Customize Metadata Schema Submission form designing Indexing and Information Retrieval License Customization Policy Declaration Designing Knowledge Organization

Structure

Customize Metadata Schema

a case study on DSpace

DSpace use Qualified Dublin Core as default metadata schema as metadata format.

To overcome the problem of insufficient metadata fields to adjust patent documents within Dspace, a metadata structure can be designed.

Customize Metadata Schema

By using 'Administrator Tools' and

'Metadata Schema Registry' the

necessary changes are done to

make the schema usable for patent

documents.

Metadata Registry as Administrator tool to adjust Dublin Core and other

Add New Metadata Field

Customize Metadata for Patent Documents in DspaceTable:Customize Metadata for Patent Documents in Dspace

Field Repeatable Required

Inventor(s) Yes No

Title No Yes

Alternative Title No No

Country of Publication Yes No

County of Publication Code No No

Application Number No Yes

Patent Number No Yes

Application Date/Filling Date No No

Issue Date Yes No

Publication Date Yes No

Assignee No No

Type No No

Language No Yes

Customize Metadata for Patent Documents in DspaceTable:Customize Metadata for Patent Documents in Dspace

Field Repeatable Required

Subject Keywords Yes No

Abstract No No

Sponsors No No

Description No No

format No No

right No No

Submission Form Designing

Providing metadata to describe patent item according to customize metadata structure within Dublin Core metadata schema by changing ‘Metadata Registry’ (following Table ), the submission form has been designed.

To design the particular submission form for a particular collection (may be for a particular document type) the necessary changes have done in input-forms.xml file by following methods.

Information Retrieval

Different information retrieval tools and techniques are used in repository software. Meta tag specific different Searching, browsing facilities are for patents in open source software based open access repositories.

Customize Metadata Tags

Customize Metadata Tags

Licensing Issues

The license can be designed for open archiving of patent documents. It is distinctly declared that the problems will be solved on the basis of national and international patent and intellectual property right acts.

Customize License for submitting patent documents Example on DSpace platform

Policy Declaration

The basic objectives and copyright policy of the patent repository can be declared through software provided different templates to aware users about knowledge organization pattern and IPR policies.

Designing Knowledge Organization Structure

Knowledge organization pattern structure are varied with repository platforms. DSpace provide hierarchical community, sub- community, collection pattern. Separate community can be created for Patent or patents can be submitted as collection of other communities.

In future, it will be hoped large number of open access repositories will include patents as knowledge item with relevant metadata and information retrieval tools so that patented knowledge will be opened for all.

Conclusion

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