The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge

IST-2001-33127

The new role of The new role of professional professional

organisations in the organisations in the management of management of

scientific knowledgescientific knowledge

Žiga Turk, Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Bob Martens, Etial Petrinja

presentation at CIB W79 conference, Aarhus, June 2002.

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IST-2001-33127

April 24, 2023

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction

What this talk is about?What this talk is about?the SciX projectthe SciX projectwhat SciX can do for youwhat SciX can do for youwhat you can do for SciXwhat you can do for SciX

introduction


Current situationCurrent situationdo researchdo researchwrite paper for freewrite paper for freereview for freereview for freeedit journal for freeedit journal for freegive away the copy-right for freegive away the copy-right for free

buy the results of the above buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal)(subscribe to journal)

as-is


Who else is adding valueWho else is adding valuepublisherpublisher

printing, subscriptions, distributionlibrarylibrary

archivingcatalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI)catalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI)

cataloguing, indexing, citation counting

professional organisationprofessional organisationhanded the journal over to the publisher in the early 1900sendorses a journal

as-is


Who is the userWho is the userresearchersresearchers

as readers (?)who thought of it first (?)

general publicgeneral publiccan they afford it (???)

research evaluation research evaluation administrations (!)administrations (!)

as-is


ResultResultinelastic marketinelastic marketperiodicals crisisperiodicals crisisfewer subscribers, costlier fewer subscribers, costlier journalsjournals

package dealspackage dealsUniversity/country licenses readers have less control over subscriptions

as-is


Exemplars of free modelsExemplars of free modelse-journals and archivese-journals and archives

Los AlamosCiteSeerOpen Archives

free softwarefree softwareGNU/GPLOpen SourcePerl Artistic License

free standardsfree standardsInternet RFCs

examples


BaselinesBaselinesthe 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 CAD4000 papers with abstracts1000 with full texts800+ registered users

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

W78’96 and W78’2000W78’96 and W78’2000web based organisation

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SciX projectSciX projectIST-2001-33127IST-2001-33127, KAIII, KAIIIEU funding €1.000.000EU funding €1.000.000200 person months200 person monthsProject durationProject duration

1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004Partners: 7Partners: 7Deliverables: 20Deliverables: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen sourceWeb: Web: www.www.SciXSciX..netnet

SciX project

http://www.scix.net/





PartnersPartnersacademicacademic

LjubljanaHankenSalfordVienna

e-businesse-businessIndra

professionalprofessionalIBRI, FGGI

SciX project


Partners (cont.)Partners (cont.)SciX project


What are we doingWhat are we doingprocess modelling of the as-is process modelling of the as-is processprocesssuggestion of the to-be processsuggestion of the to-be processstudy of the barriers to changestudy of the barriers to change

system analysis and designsystem analysis and designinteroperabilityinformation modelsstandards compliancemachine learning, clustering

SciX project


Tangible results – Tangible results – demonstratorsdemonstrators

e-journal infrastructuree-journal infrastructurepreprints, PhD theses archivepreprints, PhD theses archivebibliographic indexbibliographic indexcontent wrappingcontent wrapping

as rentable infrastructureas rentable infrastructureand/or open source codeand/or open source code

SciX project


Related work in Related work in construction informaticsconstruction informatics

ontology of constructionontology of constructionwhat is construction informaticswhat are the objects of study, how to structure the fieldautomatic clustering/classificationICCI project – http://icci.vtt.fi/

interoperabilityinteroperabilityDublin coreOpen archives standardsTopic mapsWSDL“semantic” web

SciX project

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/

http://icci.vtt.fi/


Past role of CIBPast role of CIBmember organisationsmember organisationsexperts in these organisationsexperts in these organisationsnames and addressesnames and addressesget them together from time to get them together from time to time, workshops, conferencestime, workshops, conferencesdistribute newslettersdistribute newsletters

CIB W78


What has changed?What has changed?today – people found on the Internet, today – people found on the Internet, groups established ad hocgroups established ad hoceasy to get sm@rt people together, new easy to get sm@rt people together, new tracks of conferences …tracks of conferences …the difference is inthe difference is in

past track recordprestige

where is it?where is it?buriedgrey literature

CIB W78


What SciX can do for W78What SciX can do for W78W78 digital archive … all W78 digital archive … all proceedings in electronic formproceedings in electronic formsearchablesearchablefriendly to general and specialised friendly to general and specialised search enginessearch engines

CIB W78


What W78 can do to helpWhat W78 can do to helpprovide content in digital formatprovide content in digital format

50% of the costs is digitalisation (UMICH)80% in the case of CUMINCAD

fund digital archivefund digital archivehow much?how much?

ECPPM 2002 … E100 per paper SciX should provide an answer (estimate E5-10 per paper)

W78 bylawsW78 bylawsfree, electronic availability of paperssupport digital archive through conference feesunify format of the papers

CIB W78


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