Kurt De Belder Chief Division of Electronic Services University Library Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Open Archives: context and initiatives in the

Kurt De Belder

Chief Division of Electronic Services

University Library

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)

Open Archives:

context and initiatives in the Netherlands

Making Connections - Open Archives - April 10, 2003

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OAI ideology OAI pragmatics OAI issues ARNO - Academic Research Netherlands Online DARE - Digital Academic Repositories How does it all fit together? Questions

Overview presentation


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“the goal of the OAi is to contribute in a concrete manner to the transformation of scholarly communication”

“promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions”

“as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication”

“genuine building blocks of a transformed scholarly communication model”

OAI ideology


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Roots in the pre-print (scholarly) community & the library community

Increase visibility of scientific output. Improve speed and reach of scholarly

communication. Improvement of knowledge infrastructure. Social responsibility: improve access to scientific

information.

OAI ideology


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Position in international knowledge/info economy. Existing model is too expensive (‘serials crisis’) ,

too slow, and excludes users of scientific information.

Putting pressure on the existing model. Development of a new model. Different relationship with publisher.

OAI ideology

OAI is not alone: SPARC (Europe), BioMed Central, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Highwire Press, …


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OAI also quite pragmatic

Supports interoperability between repositories/ archives

Infrastructure costs are low

OAI pragmatics


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Acceptance costs

FunctionalityASCII

HTML

XML

SGML

Z39..50

MARC

AACR2

OAI

OAI pragmatics


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Infrastructure costs are low Types of interoperability

federation: organisations conform services to strict specifications for operability.harvesting: flexible organisation, adoption of basic set of rules for operability.gathering: no cooperation, minimal level of operability.

OAI pragmatics


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Infrastructure costs are low Types of interoperability

federation: organisations conform services to strict specifications for operability.harvesting: flexible organisation, adoption of basic set of rules for operability.gathering: no cooperation, minimal level of operability.

OAI pragmatics


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Gathering

Federation

Harvesting

OAI pragmatics

Acceptance costs

Functionality


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Infrastructure costs are low Types of interoperability Separation of data provider and service provider

OAI: high on ideology and high on pragmatics = powerful combination

OAI pragmatics


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Quality of services = Quality of metadata.

Institutional repositories don’t have to be an alternative to disciplinary repositories.

Long term funding, organisational commitment, long term preservation.

OAI issues


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Project funded by SURF/IWI (Innovation Scientific Information) & started in September 2000

Project partners: Tilburg University, Twente University, University of Amsterdam

Aim: Development of OAI compliant institutional

repository (data). Available Open Source: Tilburg U Demonstrator search interface Implementing repository METIS-ARNO connection

ARNO - Academic Research Netherlands Online


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Features:

OAI compliant DB storing metadata + an application for

maintaining data; document store for documents Aware of 3 groups: contributors, administrators,

service providers Internal metadata can be defined and Dublin Core is

supported Permanent links Creation of multiple archives, sets, ...

Contact: Thomas Place (Tilburg U: [email protected])

ARNO - Academic Research Netherlands Online


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Participants: All (13) Dutch universities National Library (KB)

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Funds: 5.9 M € (2 M € from government)

Project period: 2003 - 2006

DARE - Digital Academic Repositories


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Goals:

Modernising management of scientific information by putting an infrastructure in place and providing advanced services for the digital recording,

accessing, storage and distribution of Dutch academic output.



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Institutional repositories:

Distributed network Local responsibility and maintenance Interoperability International standards OAI compliant

Contain: Dissertations, grey literature, articles, data sets, ...



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Services:

Search facilities Linking services Peer review processes Relation with learning environments Management information ...

Value-added services by multiple service providers

Separation of data providers and service providers



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2003 tender for project proposals:

Focus on: infrastructure stimulating participation by researchers and

scientists

Funding: 325 K € (funds 50% of project costs)

Submitted proposals: 12

Decisions about funding made/announced:May/June 2003



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University of Amsterdam (UvA) proposal based on our experience with among others the Exact Sciences Pre-Print Server (Béta Preprint Server):

Difficult to convince scientists Vital to embed the process in the organisation It must be easy Ideology is not sufficient: there must be something

in it for the scientist



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UvA proposal: University Scientific Archive

Create 2 separate steps in the process: 1. submission into the archive - 2. make the document available for external use

Make the metadata immediately available Make life easy: input of metadata via METIS Create services for scientists based on the

metadata (and the document): ‘My publications’ lists; linking services; ‘notify a colleague’; printing on demand service for dissertations; …



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UvA proposal: University Scientific Archive

Develop and implement university-wide policy Work on changing culture: full-service for 100

selected researchers (retrospective input of metadata and publications, obtain permissions from journals/publishers)


Aside: Linking services (OpenURL)


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Example: University Library, University of Amsterdam

Fits extremely well within Digital Library concept & infrastructure: distributed, integration layer, based on open international standards (Z39.50, SRU, OpenURL, MARC, Dublin Core, XML, … , OAI)

Digital Production Centre for the creation electronic publications

Member of SPARC Europe, BioMed Central

How does it fit together?


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MM ed/publication site

Portals

Text DBImage DBE-dictionaries

E-journalsMetadata DB

Institutional repository

Content Management

System



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Contributions to ZoologyMens en MaatschappijTijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek

Portrait CollectionSocial Health PostersMap CollectionDutch-Latin dictionaryVoltaire ElectroniqueEnglish Prose Drama

Bible in Dutch Culture

NOW

Portals

Metadata DB

E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional

repository

Content Management

System

MetaLib/SFX

ARNO




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Summer 2003Metadataharvester Metadataserver

Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System




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End of 2003 Now: product selection

Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System




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Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System


Harvesting of OAI metadata

UvA harvester



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Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System


Creation of overlay e-journals



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Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System


Creation of high value electronic publications



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Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System


Selection for subject publication site



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Portals

Metadata DB


repository

Content Management

System


Subject portal: integrated searching & diglib services



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Thank you for your attention!

Any questions?

[email protected]


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Links:

University Library UvA: http://www.uba.uva.nl/ARNO project: http://www.uba.uva.nl/arnoARNO server UvA: http://www.arno.uva.nl/Digital Library UvA: http://digital.uba.uva.nl/Digital Production Centre UvA & access to (most) DPC products:

http://www.uba.uva.nl/digital_production_centre/

http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno








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