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Networking and aggregating projects across Italy, Europe and Latin America for the benefit of public health

Paola De Castro Istituto Superiore di Sanità

1Workshop CRIS, CERIF and institutional

repositories. Rome, 10-11 May 2010

THIS IS NOT A TECHNICAL PRESENTATION

No metadata schema, protocols or data modelsbut hints on how to make them work!

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Networking

A key word in a global society

Communication and understanding Technical, financial, political aspects Experience of networking project

for OA in Europe and Latin America

Pre-requisite for networking

Share common goals Guarantee free access to information

for all Regardless of geographical,

cultural, technological, institutional and legal barriers

Find joint solutions

Framework: health information

Access to health information is essential and strategic at national and

global level directly affects population and the

entire community Researchers, physicians, patients and

the general public e.g. Disease outbreaks, environmental

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Concepts

Information value for individuals and institutions at stake(use, career, revenue)

The 5 W in the information chainWho, What, Why, When, Where

Background

Publishing Unit at ISS(National Institute of Health in Italy)900 researchers – 1800 publications per year

Priviledged observatory (contacts with authors, editors, publishers, librarians, informatoin scientists, administrators, general public)

Long experience with training and support for authors

Production and diffusion of publications (institutional and others)

Development of a thematic repository (DSpace ISS) 28.000 items

4.400 full-text

The OA policy of the ISS.A strategy of involvement

Technological infrastructure as a pre-requisite Involvement of administrators Meeting in Liegi in Oct. 2007, ISS Policy Jan

The ISS policy for OA (mandate) is taken as an example for many research institutions in Italy and Europe

Policy is not enough Continuous INVOLVEMENT of all stakeholders is

the key Hard work

LESSONS LEARNT

Technologies (protocols, standards, metadata, etc.) are a necessary

BUT NOT sufficient condition to provide change

The human factor (HF) deeply affects the functioning of any (technological) systemThe Treaty of Lisbon (2007) of the EU, stresses the value of the human being as center of all actions to be taken for the development of a common policy

Consideration of the socio-cultural background is fundamental for the most appropriate application of existing technologies

The same applies to the policies or other mandatory actions in favour of OA

How do we convince authors?

Talk and support Provide examples

- Show how to increase their attractiveness and academic fitness

- Provide statistics (citations, download, etc.)

The modern researcher and the peacock's tailD. Whiteman, Lancet 2007

How do we promote change?

Connecting people at different levels Working together for common goals The example of NECOBELAC project

www.necobelac.eu

NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe

and Latin American Caribbean countries

to spread know-how in:

is a three years project (2009 – 2012) funded by the EU to develop a

public healthand health-related disciplines

All stakeholders in scientific communication

NECOBELAC

TARGET

scientific writing open access publishing

12RIBDA 2009 Innovación en el Acceso Abierto a la Información Agrícola y Ambiental – Lima 27-29 Octubre 2009

Europe-Latin AmericaFP7 collaborations: 102 3 Science in Society (NECOBELAC) 9 International Cooperation 17 Health 13 Infomation Communication Technologies 6 Infrastructures 7 Socio-economic sciences and humanities and many others

How many things in common? Welcome CRIS-CEFIF!

NECOBELAC STRATEGY Bi-directional approach EU-LAC Involving people and institutions

Creation of a network Training course for trainers

Selection (trainers will replicate courses) Learning from the others (experts)

Use of online resources (topic maps)

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NECOBELAC network

Partners NECOBELAC

Participants in the training program for trainers (T1)

Public health institutionseditors, librarians, authors, information specialistsEuropa –Latin America and Caribe

Courses will be replicated at local level, thus further developing the net

NECOBELAC 2-level TRAINING

TRAINING 1 (T1) Participants are

experts scientific writing open access

Plenary discussions Working groups

Role of future trainers in NECOBELAC T2

TRAINING 2 (T2) Participants are not experts

scientific writing open access

Ad hoc training programs Local requirements Technical issues Socio-cultural-economic issues

Competence and flexibility

First Training course for trainers Sao Paolo April

2010 30 participants from

LAC public health institutions

Teachers NECOBELAC partners

and local experts

Major feedback Provide support to

use existing technologies

Topic maps as a training tools across national borders

Topic maps use the semantic web to represent online resources and their associations

TOPICS represent concepts (people, objects, modules)

ASSOCIATIONS represent relationship among concepts

OCCURRENCES represent information sources

Topic maps allow the best use of technologies according to different scenarios

Attributes of topic mapsAccording to Ontopia Project, editor of the topic maps, contents should be Modular Extensible Flexible Portable Reusable

http://code.google.com/p/ontopia/

It is a perfect solution for NECOBELAC training strategy

NECOBELAC Topic map created for Scientific publication

Topic map created for Open access vs public health

In systesis

Networking is essential in our society to make information (documents/data) available for all to avoid duplications of work to share and grow

Technologies help to create the network and share data

A legal framework is necessary to make technologies work

The human factor always plays a basic role to make the best use of existing technologies and policies!

Thank you

paola.decastro@iss.it

NECOBELAC - www.necobelac.eu

info@necobelac.eu

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