Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange - SciX

1. Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange - SciX Žiga TurkUniversity of Ljubljana, Sloveniazturk@fgg.uni-lj.si presentation at the 1st SciX reviewLuxembourg, Nov. 11, 2002 IST-2001-33127 IST-2001-33127 www.SciX.net

2. Issues • why this works at all? • not as well as before • periodicals crisis • it may work differently • Internet • digital publishing • demonstrate alternative ways of publishing • economic, technical, social, psychological issues

3. Results • periodicals crisis • exploration of new ways of publishing • issues • economic • professional • knowledge management

4. Background • the ITcon journal (1996) • electronic journal of IT in construction • publication time 4-5 months • 500-1000 readers per paper • CUMINCAD (1999) • cumulative index of CAAD • the resource for CAAD community • 800+ registered users • survey on e-publishing (2000) • read electronic, publish on paper; don’t care who reads • W78’96, W78’2000, ECPPM02 • web based conference organisation • interoperability of CAD software • 1000s data types • 100s of programes

5. Project at a glance • EU funding €1.000.000 • 200 person months • Project duration1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004 • Partners: 7 • Deliverables: 20, all public and/or open source • Web: www.SciX.net

6. SciX partners and their roles • academic: LJU, SHH, TUW, USAL • editors, publishers, service providers • business process analysis, • advanced technology development • professional: IBRI, FGGI • knowledge transfer to practise • prototyping • eBusiness: INDRA • experience with web publishing and eBusiness

7. Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange • demonstrate that the Internet enables new business models for the scientific publishing process, reengineer that process • as is model • to be model • enable the scientists • create digital archives vs. web pages • time- and cost-efficient access to their peers' work, • create an on-line community of authors and readers • disseminate scientific work to non-scientists, like engineers or architects

8. Work: • propose solid business models • semi-automating the management • intelligent, adaptable user interfaces, • wrap scientific content for the practitioner's use • evaluate solutions, are they sustainable

9. Focus of SciX • business process re-engineering • flow of information • barriers to change, flow of values • digital library infrastructure • operated by societies, professionals, back to the roots of publishing • for-rent • non-monolithic, Web services architecture, support many different publishing models with a single toolset • knowledge management and transfer • clustering, machine learning • content wrapping and syndication

10. we are here Structure of the SciX project assessment and evaluation processmodel as-is (WP1) processmodel to-be (WP1) recommendation,new business models state of the art (WP 3,4,5) market watch (WP 3,4,5) open-sourcesoftware inception & elaboration(WP 3,4,5) feedback prototyping (WP 3,4,5) running service on Internet content (WP2) implementation(WP 3,4,5) workshop,publicationswebsite dissemination,user analysis (WP 1,6)

11. Structure of the review 1 • this introdcution • WP1: process model of publishing • WP2: how to get content, what we have • WP3+4: state of the art, architecture of the pilot software • WP5: wrapper service, technologies and draft architecture • WP6: dissemination – done and planned • WP7: assessment and evaluation – strategies • WP8: effort, resources

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