Kurt De Belder
Chief Division of Electronic Services
University Library
Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)
Open Archives:
context and initiatives in the Netherlands
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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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OAI also quite pragmatic
Supports interoperability between repositories/ archives
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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OAI also quite pragmatic
Supports interoperability between repositories/ archives
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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OAI also quite pragmatic
Supports interoperability between repositories/ archives
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.
DARE - Digital Academic Repositories
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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
DARE - Digital Academic Repositories
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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; …
DARE - Digital Academic Repositories
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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)
DARE - Digital Academic Repositories
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
How does it fit together?
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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
MM ed/publication site
How does it fit together?
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Summer 2003Metadataharvester Metadataserver
Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
How does it fit together?
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End of 2003 Now: product selection
Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
How does it fit together?
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Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
Harvesting of OAI metadata
UvA harvester
How does it fit together?
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Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
Creation of overlay e-journals
How does it fit together?
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Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
Creation of high value electronic publications
How does it fit together?
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Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
Selection for subject publication site
How does it fit together?
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Portals
Metadata DB
E-journals Text DBImage DBE-dictionariesInstitutional
repository
Content Management
System
MM ed/publication site
Subject portal: integrated searching & diglib services
How does it fit together?
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Thank you for your attention!
Any questions?
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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/