Introduction to the Cooperation Introduction to the Cooperation between CAS and DRIVERbetween CAS and DRIVER

National Science Library,CAS

Jianxia Ma

Xiaolin Zhang

Zhongming Zhumajx@lzb.ac.cn

DRIVER Confederation Summit

Ghent/Belgium 20th. Oct, 2009

Outline• Background :

– What is CAS – NSL and some of it’s responsibility– NSL’s international cooperation

• CAS IR Grid Current Status and Future • Consideration of OAI metadata harvester system• Why DNET• Requirements• Testing• Future expectations

Background : What is CAS

• Founded on Nov. 1, 1949• Highest academic institution in natural

sciences in China• Most comprehensive R&D center in

natural sciences and high-tech development

• Highest national advisory body in S &T

NSL and some of it’s responsibility• NSL—Library system of CAS• As Knowledge Organizer and Curator of CAS, we have

the responsibility to organize, coordinate and support institutes and researchers to create, organize, preserve and communicate their knowledge outputs, and to organize and to make use of these information as components of CAS’s knowledge assets.

• As knowledge Officer of CAS, we have obligation to provide necessary technical platform, running mechanism and policy instruction for institutes and scientists, in order to promote open access of science and technology information.

NSL’s international cooperation

• As a part of NSL’s twelfth fifth-year strategic plan, we are developing operational international cooperation. This is not only included academic exchange but also included practional cooperation in resource development and service.

• For example, DRIVER, COAR• Safe Places Network (National Library of the Netherlands KB )• LOCKSS (Stanford Univ.)• Our aim is integration into the world, developing

internationalized capacity of service.

CAS IR Grid Current StatusCAS IR Grid Current Status

• In 2007, the CAS Institutional Repository Grid was brought forth

• Each institute establishes its own local repositories as a node of the Grid– NSL constructs a centralized metadata

repository, which could harvest the metadata of academic resources stored in many distributed institutional repositories

– NSL also keeps an integrated search interface for the resources and provides other enriched services

Targets of CAS IR Grid

• providing the organizational and technological framework for a CAS-wide IR infrastructure for research– helping every institutes set up their own IRs to

increase the visibility, and preserve their research outputs

– implementing a harvester-based cross-repository search and browse service to enhance exposure of the CAS’s research output as a whole

– making the GRID ready for becoming building blocks for national or international wide repository infrastructure

Changchun BranchChangchun Branch

Shenyang BranchShenyang Branch

Xinjiang BranchXinjiang Branch

Lanzhou BranchLanzhou Branch

Xian BranchesXian Branches

Chengdu BranchChengdu Branch

Guangzhou BranchGuangzhou Branch

Shanghai BranchShanghai Branch

Nanjing BranchNanjing BranchHefei institutesHefei institutes

University of Science and Technology of China

Kunming BranchKunming Branch

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Institutes in Beijing areaInstitutes in Beijing area

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System Architecture of CAS IR Grid

IR for Inst. Of Phys.

Federated Institutional repository

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“Hub and Spoke “ Model

We have two steps to build our IR Grid

– Step One: Building Institutional Repositories in Institutes

– Step Two: Building the Federated Repository for the whole Academy

Step One: Building Institutional Repositories in Institutes

• Four tasks we have done

– Select the institute and set up examples for other institutes to follow

– Develop IR based on DSpace

– Integrate with the existing system (such as ARP)

– Help the institute plan and implement IR

There are 39 Institutes signed the agreement and 29 Institutes have deployed IR, Some Institutes have already have data.

Step Two: Building the Federated Repository for the whole Academy

• Three tasks need to be done

– Deploy the IRs and Spread the IRs to institutes across the country

– Develop OAI metadata harvester system to harvest metadata from IRs in institutes to NSL center repository

– Develop value-added and augmented services

Some consideration of OAI metadata harvester system

• OCLC open source software OAI Harvester 2.0 are selected to be extended and integrated into DSpace via a way of plugin

• DRIVER’s open-source D-Net toolset are also considered whether it will be a better option for us

Why DNET • Open source

• Open infrastructure

• 2 years experience deployed in DRIVER

• Cooperation between CAS and DRIVER

Requirements(1)

• Stable, robust and flexible function

• Localization/internationalization– Built-in mechanism for supporting

localization/internationalization easily (interface, indexing and searching)

• Support harvesting of a target repository which exposes its metadata with a customized metadata format

Requirements(2)• have a plug-in or add-on based design of

supporting extended development – we may want to provide services as generating

knowledge directories or maps at different granularity level, co-operation networks of institutions or individuals, and other significant semantic enhanced services

• Detailed updated handbook about technical architecture and structure

Testing 1.DNET Foreground:

1)Driver Search interface http://210.77.64.222:8580/uoa-web/ 2)Validator Web Interface: http://210.77.64.222:8480/uoa-validator-web/

2.DNET Background: 1)Repository Manager Interface: http://admin.t.china.driver.research-infrastructures.eu

2)Aggregator Manager Interface http://210.77.64.223:9000/cgi-bin/ASmanager.pl 3.We are looking forward to the stable edition DNET1.2

Future expectations • Investigation of DNET

• As a member of COAR, we hope to get techniques, tools, resources and training support.

• The fees of COAR should take into consideration of the capacity of every member

• NSL hope to take part in the Advisory Board of COAR

• Thank you for your attention!