Open Access from Digital Library Viewpoint

Berlin 7 ConferenceSayeed ChoudhuryDecember 4, 2009

In and Out of Scope

• Johns Hopkins University Projects• Perspective of Digital Library Community• Funded by National Science Foundation, but

NOT speaking on behalf of NSF• Two NSF funded projects that are distinct

from each other• Possible connections between open data and

open publications

NSF Funded Projects

• The Data Conservancy – One of two initial awards through NSF’s DataNet program, which has goal of building data curation infrastructure

• A feasibility study exploring policy, technical and business requirements for an open access repository of NSF funded research

• NSF is not funding JHU to build an open access repository

Data Model using OAI-ORE

Community Needs

• The digital library community needs to know about appropriate policies and business models that balance stakeholder needs

• Bernard Schutz’s insightful idea about the “killer app” that requires open access – what are such applications within your domain or discipline? Across disciplines?

Acknowledgements

Office of Cyberinfrastructure DataNet Award #0830976

Office of Cyberinfrastructure EAGER Award #1005333

Tim DiLauro and David Reynolds (OAI-ORE slide)

Bernard Schutz (Open access killer app idea)