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Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project

Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project. Donatella Castelli IEI-CNR castelli@iei.pi.cnr.it. General Information. EU-IST V Framework Accompanying Measure Partners UKOLN, University of Bath IEI-CNR, Pisa

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Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project

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  1. Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe:The Open Archives Forum Project Donatella Castelli IEI-CNR castelli@iei.pi.cnr.it DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  2. General Information • EU-IST V Framework AccompanyingMeasure • Partners • UKOLN, University of Bath • IEI-CNR, Pisa • Computing Centre of Humboldt-University, Berlin • Commencement date • October 2001 • Duration • 2 years DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  3. Objective Create a European forum for discussing issues related to the open archives and for disseminating information about the implemented solutions DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  4. Open Archives • Archive • repository of digital information • Open archive • provides a machine interface for making its content available to external services DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  5. Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Santa Fe (New Mexico) – July 1999 Scientific communities that publish their pre-prints on electronic archives • ArXiv(Los Alamos National Laboratory Physics Archive -100.000 papers, 50.000 user daily) • CogPrints(University of Southampton - papers on Psychology) • NCSTRL(University of Cornell - papers on Computer Science from 120 Organisations) • NDLTD(electronic theses and dissertations) • RePEc(papers on Economics) DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  6. Santa Fe Meeting objective To explore the co-operation among e-print archives as a way to contribute in a concrete manner to the transformation of the scholarly communication DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  7. Key Issues • To solve the problem of interoperability among the e-prints archives • Very simple, low-barrier to entry interface that could shift implementation complexity and operational processing load away from the archives DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  8. Service providers personalised dissemination search browse Common Interface Common Interface Common Interface Archive1 Archive2 ArchiveN Data providers Solution proposed OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  9. OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol • 6 protocol requests • Get record • Identify • ListIdentifiers • ListMetadataFormats • ListRecords • ListSets • HTTP-embedded • XML response format DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  10. OAI compliant data and service providers • Around 80 archives have implemented OAI-PHM • 8 OAI compliant services already available • Cross-archives search • Arc • citebaseSearch • Cooperative work support, personalised dissemination • Cyclades • Torii DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  11. OAI other comunities • Other communities • Libraries • Museums • Budapest Open Archives Initiative (Open Society Institute – Soros Foundation) DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  12. OA-Forum objectives (cont.) • Provide a Europe-based forum for discussing and disseminating information about the issues related to the open archives • (e-print archives - scholarly community – OAI-PMH, • other archives - communities - solutions) • Provide experiences exchange channel between projects/communities in Europe • Provide a platform for interacting with the international open archive community DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  13. OA-Forum activities • MaintainaWebaccessible repository of informationand an e-mail discussion list about the implementation of open archives in Europe • Co-ordinate technical and organisational evaluations of the open archives approaches • Organise a series of workshops to share experience and promote good practice • Support European liaison with OAI DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

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  22. Partial map of the European activity - OAI • United Kingdom and Germany - strong • North European Countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands) – good • Eastern and Mediterranean countries – few • ….. a lot of interest everywhere…. DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  23. 1st Workshop: participants 80 participants • 12 European Countries • France, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Norway • Communities • Scientific e-prints, libraries, astrophysical data archives, legal archives, medicine archives, video and multimedia archives DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  24. 1st Workshop: Topics • Communities and services • What communities can benefit from the open archive approach? • Which types of services becomes possible? • Is OAI-PMH powerful enough to support interoperability among archives of different types? • What lessons have been learned by early-adopters of the open archives approach in the context of service provision? • Can we extend openness to services? How can this be supported? DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  25. 1st Workshop: Topics (cont.) • Definition of the key vocabulary • Can we agree on basic terminology? • What are the main concepts that are used in the open archive everyday activity? • Do these concepts differ for different communities? • Are the definitions of these concepts clear? • Can we jointly build a glossary? DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  26. 1st Workshop: Topics (cont.) • Organizational Issues • What lessons about organizational issues, both barriers to adoption and positive factors, can we learn from early adopters? • Which are the business models adopted? • Are there issues related to subject-based archives as opposed to institutional-based archives? • Can organizations reach consensus on metadata formats? DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  27. Next steps • Report on the results of the 1st OA-Forum Workshop • Expert Review on IPR issues • E-mail discussion list for non-technical OAI issues info@oaforum.org • to inform people about our activities and results • to allow them to post issues DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

  28. http://www.oaforum.org

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