IST-2001-33127 Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange - SciX Žiga Turk University of Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected]

IST-2001-33127

Open, self Open, self organising organising

repository for repository for scientific scientific

information information exchange - SciXexchange - SciX

Žiga TurkUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia

[email protected]

presentation at the 1st SciX reviewLuxembourg, Nov. 11, 2002

www.SciX.net

IST-2001-33127

SciX ReviewendSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart

IssuesIssues

why this works at all?why this works at all?not as well as beforeperiodicals crisis

it may work differentlyit may work differentlyInternetdigital publishing

demonstrate alternative ways of demonstrate alternative ways of publishingpublishing

economic, technical, social, psychological issues


ResultsResults

periodicals crisisperiodicals crisis

exploration of new ways of exploration of new ways of publishingpublishing

issuesissueseconomicprofessionalknowledge management


BackgroundBackgroundthe ITcon journal (1996)the ITcon journal (1996)

electronic journal of IT in constructionpublication time 4-5 months500-1000 readers per paper

CUMINCAD (1999)CUMINCAD (1999)cumulative index of CAADthe resource for CAAD community800+ registered users

survey on e-publishing (2000)survey on e-publishing (2000)read electronic, publish on paper; don’t care who reads

W78’96, W78’2000, ECPPM02W78’96, W78’2000, ECPPM02web based conference organisation

interoperability of CAD interoperability of CAD softwaresoftware

1000s data types100s of programes


Project at a glanceProject at a glance

EU funding €1.000.000EU funding €1.000.000

200 person months200 person months

Project durationProject duration1.2.2002 - 31.1.20041.2.2002 - 31.1.2004

Partners: 7Partners: 7

Deliverables: 20Deliverables: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen source

Web: www.SciX.netWeb: www.SciX.net


SciX partners and their SciX partners and their rolesroles

academic: LJU, SHH, TUW, academic: LJU, SHH, TUW, USALUSAL

editors, publishers, service providersbusiness process analysis,advanced technology development

professional: professional: IBRI, FGGIIBRI, FGGIknowledge transfer to practiseprototyping

eBusiness: INDRAeBusiness: INDRAexperience with web publishing and eBusiness


Open, self organising repository Open, self organising repository for scientific information for scientific information exchangeexchange

demonstrate that the Internet enables demonstrate that the Internet enables new business models for the scientific new business models for the scientific publishing process, reengineer that publishing process, reengineer that processprocess

as is modelto be model

enable the scientistsenable the scientistscreate digital archives vs. web pagestime- and cost-efficient access to their peers' work,create an on-line community of authors and readersdisseminate scientific work to non-scientists, like engineers or architects


Work:Work:

propose solid business propose solid business modelsmodels

semi-automating the management semi-automating the management

intelligent, adaptable user intelligent, adaptable user interfaces, interfaces,

wrap scientific content for the wrap scientific content for the practitioner's usepractitioner's use

evaluate solutionevaluate solutions, are they s, are they sustainablesustainable


Focus of SciXFocus of SciX

business process re-engineeringbusiness process re-engineeringflow of informationbarriers to change, flow of values

digital library infrastructuredigital library infrastructureoperated by societies, professionals, back to the roots of publishingfor-rentnon-monolithic, Web services architecture, support many different publishing models with a single toolset

knowledge management and transferknowledge management and transferclustering, machine learningcontent wrapping and syndication


Structure of the SciX Structure of the SciX projectproject

market watch (WP 3,4,5)

state of the art (WP 3,4,5)

inception & elaboration(WP 3,4,5)

implementation(WP 3,4,5)

dissemination,user analysis (WP 1,6)

prototyping (WP 3,4,5)

processmodel as-is (WP1)

feedback

recommendation,new business

models

content (WP2)

workshop,publications

website

running service

on Internet

open-source

software

assessment and evaluation

processmodel to-be (WP1)

we are herewe are here


Structure of the review 1Structure of the review 1

this introdcutionthis introdcution

WP1: process model of publishingWP1: process model of publishing

WP2: how to get content, what we haveWP2: how to get content, what we have

WP3+4: state of the art, architecture of the WP3+4: state of the art, architecture of the pilot softwarepilot software

WP5: wrapper service, technologies and draft WP5: wrapper service, technologies and draft architecturearchitecture

WP6: dissemination – done and plannedWP6: dissemination – done and planned

WP7: assessment and evaluation – strategiesWP7: assessment and evaluation – strategies

WP8: effort, resourcesWP8: effort, resources


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IST-2001-33127 Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange - SciX Žiga Turk University of Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected]