Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project
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Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe:
The Open Archives Forum Project
Donatella Castelli
IEI-CNR
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General Information
EU-IST V Framework Accompanying Measure
Partners– UKOLN, University of Bath
– IEI-CNR, Pisa
– Computing Centre of Humboldt-University, Berlin
Commencement date
October 2001
Duration
2 years
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Objective
Create a European forum for discussing issues related
to the open archives and for disseminating information
about the implemented solutions
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Open Archives
Archive
repository of digital information
Open archive
provides a machine interface for making its content available to external services
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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)
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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
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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
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Solution proposed
Common Interface
Archive1
Common Interface
Archive2
ArchiveN
Common Interface
Data providers
Service providers
search browse
personalised dissemination OAI
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
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OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol
6 protocol requests– Get record– Identify– ListIdentifiers– ListMetadataFormats– ListRecords– ListSets
HTTP-embedded
XML response format
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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
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OAI other comunities
Other communities– Libraries– Museums
Budapest Open Archives Initiative
(Open Society Institute – Soros Foundation)
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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
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OA-Forum activities
Maintain a Web accessible repository of information and 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
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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….
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1st Workshop: participants
80 participants 12 European Countries
France, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Norway
CommunitiesScientific e-prints, libraries, astrophysical data archives, legal archives, medicine archives, video and multimedia archives
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
[email protected]– to inform people about our activities and results– to allow them to post issues
http://www.oaforum.org