JINR DOCUMENT SERVER: Current Status and Future Plans

I. Filozova1, S. Kuniaev2, G. Musulmanbekov1, R. Semenov1, G. Shestakova1, P. Ustenko2, T.Zaikina1

1Laboratory of Information Technologies, JINR, Dubna2Automated Management Information Systems Department

Nowadays various institutions and universities around the world create their own repositories, depositing there  scientific and educational documents making them open for  the world community. The annual growth of the numbers of repositories and deposited in them records are observed according to statistics given by the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR – http://roar.eprints.org). Today there are 2559 repositories created in the frameworks Open Archive Initiatives (OAI) [1]. It contain about 21 millions records. Open Access (OA) in science is a way to collect, preserve the intellectual output of scientific organization and disseminate it over the world. This is the aim of the OA-repository of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Jinr Document Server (JDS) which started its functionality in 2009 [2, 3].

JDS functionality, supported by the CDS Invenio software, covers all the aspects of modern digital library management. JDS is integrated into the global network of repositories ROAR. The content of JDS is composed of the following objects:

1. The research and scientific documents: publications issued in co-authorship with JINR researchers; documents that describe all the essential stages of the JINR activity.

2. Tutorials, educational media-materials.3. Documents providing informational support for scientific

and technological researches in JINR.The objects stored in JDS are grouped into collections that organized in the two trees (Figure 1.)

Collection ‘INDICOSEARCH’ is intended for searching in the administrative data base ADMIN, composing various events like committees, lectures, reports, meetings, conferences etc.

Figure 1. JDS Collections in basic (Narrow by) and subject (Focus by) trees.

JDS: Filling and UpdateWe use various methods of filling and updating the

JDS content of the publications of JINR authors: automatic data collection (harvesting) from arXiv.org and CERN Document Server (CDS), other OAI – compliant archives; semi-automatic collection of documents from retrieval databases SPIRES, ADS, MathSciNet.

A little earlier the Personal INformation (PIN) data base has been developed in JINR where research workers deposit their personal information in. With the aim not to force the authors to deposit their manuscripts and publications twice (in PIN and JDS) we set the communication channel to import data from PIN to JDS. It delivers PIN data in MARCXML format which are then uploaded into JDS. Preprints issued by JINR Publishing department are uploaded into JDS without author’s participation. Authors can (by their desire) deposit their manuscripts and publications in JDS in the ‘self-archiving’ or by proxy mode.

Future plans:•Development and realization of the reverse channel delivering documents from JDS to PIN;•Continue of the visualization  of search results, statistics and monitoring;•Research of the JDS scientific social network;•Research of the semantic relations between JDS objects.

References:[1] Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org.[2] I.A.Filozova, V.V.Korenkov, G.Musulmanbekov. Towards Open Access Publishing at JINR. – Proccedings of XXII International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics and Computing (NEC`2009), Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 7-14, 2009. – Dubna: JINR, 2010. – p.124-128 - (JINR ; E10,11-2010-22 ).[3] V.F. Borisovsky a.o. On Open Access Archive for publications of JINR staff members//V.F. Borisovsky ,V.V. Korenkov,S.V. Kuniaev, G. Musulmanbekov, E.G. Nikonov, I.A. Filozova. – Proccedings of XI Russian Conference RCDL'2009, Petrozavodsk, Russia, Sept.17-21, 2009. – Petrozavodsk: Karelia Scientific Center of Russian Academy Science, 2009. – p. 451-458. (in russian)

Developed user interface of JDS provides a wide range of information services: search and navigation, creation of groups by interest saving the searched results, personal and group bookshelves, deposit of manuscripts and arrangement the discussions on them, sending out notices and messages.

Visualization of Search and Navigation :The design and usage of visual interfaces to digital libraries is becoming an active and challenging field of information visualization. Two visual prototypes were developed by Prefuse software tools on the part of real JDS data. The tree-map method is applied to display the collection of JDS documents by the subject (Figure. 2). This visualization created with the usage of the threaded tree allows one to explore the repository content by subjects. Usage of the radial graph method demonstrates relationship between authors and coauthors of publications (Figure.3). 

Figure 2. Visualization of JDS Resources: Tree Map Method

Figure 3. Visualization of JDS Resources: Radial Graph Method