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Susanne Dobratz, 26. March 2002, Rome, EU/NSF all Projects Concertation Meeting

IST- 2001-320015

Susanne Dobratz

Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

Electronic Publishing Group

University Library / Computing Centre

[email protected]


Contents

Who is OA Forum for?

Focus on issues and work done

1st OA Forum workshop: “Creating an Open Archives forum in Europe”


Partners

European Union Information Society Technologies (IST) programm

Accompanying measure Project start October, 1st, 2001 (2 years) Partners:

– UKOLN, University of Bath– IEI-CNR, Pisa– Computing Centre of Humboldt-University, Berlin

http://www.oaforum.org


Background

UKOLN– various projects contexts of metadata and

interoperability, cross searching– Renardus, Schemas, DESIRE

I.E.I-CNR Pisa– CYCLADES project, DELOS– develop services on top of OAI specification

Computing Centre of Humboldt-University– Dissertation Online, NDLTD– DINI Workshops on OAI


... Ask and answer questions

... yet another OAI implementation project? It is a clustering activity

Communities, new communities IST projects National initiatives

It is a dissimination activity Share experiences on OA in general Investigation of usage: different paradigms Wide availability: globally Share developments: e.g. enable developing

countries to get access to scientific and cultural heritage information


Participants…implementors of Open Archives

Cultural heritage institutions

Research organisations Public library sector Community organisations Publishers Commercial sector Educational sector

As service providers E-print archives Aggregators Added value services

As data providers Established metadata

repositories New data providers

Communities, New Communities


Benefits of a “Forum”

Is a tool to reach communities What is happening in Europe raise awareness on and discuss main issues

– Common terminology on digital repositories– Metadata / fulltext harvesting models– Users and communities needs– Advanced services

Make (European) projects ready for action– Develop possible solutions– Establish business models


Project objectives

Provide focus for dissemination Encourage collaborative development of

software Support European liaison with OAI Exchange information

….. build community of interest


Open Archives Forum

Forum for exchange of experience about all aspects of an Open Archive approach, including …


Explore business models

Data providers co-operating to build network of service providers

Metadata ‘exchange’ between data and service providers

Provision of added value services (metadata enhancement, auto classification, addition of OpenURLs)


Issues of ownership

IPR and copyright impact on authors and publishers

Ownership of metadata sharing metadata, metadata exchange and

commercial agreement

Long term digital sustainability digital resources, scholarly communication,

metadata


Deployment of OAI technical framework

Integration with other existing technologiesRSS, Z39.50,

Is unqualified Dublin Core sufficiently rich?

Database management issues– Currency and update– Scaleability– De-duplication


Supporting Services

Reaching agreements between data providers on – Metadata schemas– Approach to partitioning archives– Common harvesting agreements– Quality issues

Added value services– Metadata enhancement– Software components (personalisation,

OpenURL resolvers) Software suppliers

– Archive management– Protocol gateways


What have we done so far ...?

Web based information source– Glossary

– Databases

– Overview on European OAI implementations

Started Expert Reviews on particular issues

Ready to launch an email discussion list for non-technical OAI issues

Planned 1st Workshop

Established a liason with OAI


OAI Implementations in Europe

Registered Data Provider (DP) Service Provider (SP)

Sweden: 1 DP (Uppsala Univ)

Italy: 2 SP (Cyclades, TORII)

Belorussia: 1 DP (State Univ. Belorusia)

France: DP (CCSD, Theses in Math, CNRS Physics)

Netherlands: Elsevier Math. preprints


OAI Implementations in Europe

Switzerland: CERN

Austria: 1 DP (Vienna, Univ. of Economics)

UK: DP/SP (Cogprints,Formations:Media studies, Univ. Nottingham, RDN, Edinburgh, Glasgow)

Germany:9 DP/ SP (DINI, PhysNet, Document Servers, BSZ Baden Württemberg)


OA Forum database

Projects Services Tools Organisations Contacts

More info than available at OAI

Will be launched in preparation of the 1st workshop


You Are Invited to PISA!

13./14. May, 2002 at IEI-CNR

“Creating a European Forum on Open Archives Activities”

Your contributions are welcome!!

Please register within the next 2 weeks! Booking deadline: 19. April


Topics for Pisa

Communities

What communities can benefit from the open archive approach?

Do incentives, technical and organizational challenges, etc. differ in different communities?

Which communities are already implementing the Open Archive Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol or other solutions?

What kinds of services are emerging?


Topics for Pisa

Definition of the key vocabulary

Can we agree on basic terminology? What are the main concepts that are used in the

open archive everyday activity? Do these concepts differ for different

communities? Are the definitions of these concepts clear? Can we jointly build a glossary.


Topics for Pisa

Organizational Issues

What lessons about organizational issues, both barriers to adoption and positive factors, can we learn from early adopters?

Which are the business models adopted? Are there issues related to subject-based archives

as opposed to institutional-based archives? Can organizations reach consensus on metadata

formats?


Topics for Pisa

Building services in an open archive environment

What lessons have been learned by early-adopters of the open archives approach in the context of service provision?

Do we need application profiles? Openess versus specificity: Can we extend

openness to services? How can this be supported?

Which kind of organizational and technical infrastructures are needed to facilitate this development?


URLs

Open Archives Initiative www.openarchives.org OAI Open Meeting, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/oai/ Cliff Lynch, Metadata harvesting and the Open Archives

Initiative, ARL Bimonthly Report, No 217 www.arl.org/newsltr/217/ Michael Day, E-print Services and Long-term Access to

the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue28/metadata/intro.html

John MacColl Developing an agenda for institutional e-print archives

www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue29/open-archives/intro.html


Thank You!

Please contribute!–Information about your projects–Your implementation and usage experience

http://www.oaforum.org

–Leona Carpenter–Donatella Castelli –Susanne Dobratz

susanne dobratz, 26. march 2002, rome, eu/nsf all projects concertation meeting ist- 2001-320015...

Documents

metadata slide

oai slide

europe slide

new communities slide

european projects ready

addition of openurls

oai exchange information

metadata schemas approach