• Information management challenges

• INIS concept and operation

• Thesaurus as KOS

• Nuclear information preservation

Nuclear Informatio

n to Knowledg

e: INIS

Zaven HakopovIAEA

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Information management challenges

• Growth rate for science

Research output

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“The role of conference proceedings, open access archives and publications published on the net is increasing, especially in scientific fields with high growth rates…” [Scientometrics, Volume 84, Issue 3, 10.1007/s11192-010-0202-z]

“…researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers.” [“How open science helps researchers succeed”,eLife,2016;10.7554/eLife.16800]

• Open access to publications – open science

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Information management challenges

Information

Technology

• Servers all-around

• Blooming “document retrieval systems”

• Features concourse

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Information management challenges

• Repositories in KM• The ontologies or thesauri as

Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS’s)

• Open access repositories as KM tools [http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LM-03-2014-0038]

Knowledge managemen

t perspective

“Because knowledge organization systems are mechanisms for organizing information, they are at the heart of every library, museum, and archive.” [Council on Library and Information Resources]

Because knowledge organization systems are mechanisms for organizing information, they are at the heart of every information management system!

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Information management challenges

• Availability and open access to information resources

• Information mix, media types, explicit and tacit knowledge

• Utilize modern technologies and practices and use variety of sources to enrich the information system

• Importance of instrumental applications of information systems, i.e. in KM as KOS

Action plan

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aggregate, streamline

leverage the overlap

offer useful features

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Acquire, process, preserve and share information on nuclear

Established in 1970, active today and going strong

130 Member States and 24 international organizations

Input: decentralized, institutional, automatic

International Nuclear Information System:INIS

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INIS Roles and Functions

• identification, indexing, storage, discovery and long-term preservation

Digital repository

• IAEA institutional repositoryIn-house service

• Knowledge Organization System• Controlled vocabulary

INIS Thesaurus as a KOS

• Exposure of research output• Accessibility of content

Access and Outreach

• Improve information services; e-Learning

• Assist with establishment of repositories

Capacity building,

information services

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Repository• Almost 4 million

bibliographic records with abstracts

• Annual input of over 100,000 records

• Quality checks, trusted sources

• About 1.3 million documents (many full-text) available primarily from INIS, including IAEA documents

INIS operation

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86.4 % Conventional Literature 80.8 % Journal articles 5.6 % Books

13.6 % Non-Conventional Literature (NCL) 3.4 % Reports 10.2 % Miscellaneous

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Thesaurus as KOS

• A knowledge organization tool for information retrieval

• Over 30 000 descriptors and growing

• Multilingual: Arabic - Chinese - English - French - German - Russian – Spanish – Japanese

• Maintained by subject specialists

• Advisory group: COP• Legacy format: interface

with other KOS’s• Migrate to SKOS-XL;

semantic web technology context

Information organization

Atomic, Molecular & Condensed Matter

Physics11%

Chemistry 7%

Economic, Legal & Social

2%Elementary Par-

ticle Physics4%

Engineering & Instrumentation

10%

Environmental & Earth Science

5%Fusion Research

& Technology2%Isotopes

1%

Life & Sciences18%

Non-Nuclear Energy 1%

Nuclear Fuel Cycle & Ra-

dioactive Waste2%

Nuclear Mate-rials14%

Nuclear Physics15%

Nuclear Power & Safety7%

Safeguards1%

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Exposure and access

Outreach

• Quick and advanced search• Free and open access• Indexed by Google Scholar; other

partners• High exposure

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Preservation of nuclear information• Long-term• Open access• Regular downloads• Top positions in

search engines

Digital Repository

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Conclusions

• Created decades ago, proved to be effective for information acquisition, indexing, preservation.

• Accumulation and preservation of explicit knowledge Concept

• INIS KOS an operating model of a subject based knowledge organization system

• To be interoperable with other KOS’s; semantic technologies INIS KOS

• INIS search provides the mechanism for exposure of explicit knowledge – sharing with the world

• connection to KM: information system extends the applicability of KM, being instrumental to it; outreach, education

Access and Outreach

• Role: form, tasks, vision?Repositories in KM

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