Donatella CastelliCNR-ISTI

donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it

Context ◦Data e-Infrastructures

Metadata evolution Interoperability

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Managed set of services

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Network management Transparent access to computer and storage

capabilities Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and

Auditing Process management ….

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Transparent access to metadata and document collections, ontologies, thesauri

Metadata aggregation and transformation Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment Provenance and preservation management Search, retrieval and access and visualization Authority files management Shared workspace management ….

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European Repository Infrastructure ◦ 249 research institutional and thematic repositories◦ 33 countries

Major services:◦ Transparent access to metadata collections◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization

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European Commission Open Access Mandate Pilot◦ Articles resulting from EU funded research

should be Open Access

Major services:◦ Transparent access to metadata collections◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization◦ Bibliometric analysis ◦ Project/people performance analysis

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Data Infrastructure on Grid-enabled Technology serving Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resource Management scientific communities

Major services:◦ Transparent access to metadata collections◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization◦ Products generation (from raw data)◦ Compound objects creation

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VREVRE

VRE

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1. Univ. of Pisa Repository2. DSpace technology3. SERRA Univ. Center

Implicit Assumptions1.

oLanguage is ItalianoDept names are knownoClassification by agreed

vocabularyoPolicies are those established

by the Univ.

2. oDspace doc modeloDC metadataoOAI-PMH harvesting protocol

3.oConnected to GARR - GEANT

network

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o Different languageo Different doc policieso Different org policieso Different actors roleso Different quality measureso ……

Implicit assumptionse.g.o Agreed metadata formato Agreed harvesting protocol

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Aggregator

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Aggregator

Different information objects manipulation workflows

Access & processing policies Provenance (i.e. who created an object,

how, where, when and why) Object quality Users and roles

Processes … Organizations Projects …..

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Shared information objects must be equipped with contextual information

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Aggregator

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o Repositories maintain and expose a richer set of metadata

CRIS

Aggregator

or

o Authority data are maintained in specialised repositories

e-Infrastructure service Source of authority information

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Aggregator

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Achieving interoperability in data e-Infrastructures is much complex than originally expected

Complex and rich metadata: quality, policies, provenance, user roles, derivation processes, ….

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The capabilities of the data e-Infrastructures will largely depend on the use of standards

Standard

Mediation

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An important element in facilitating the realization of data e-Infrastructures

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CRIS

Aggregator

CRIS

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