SciX project: Lowering the technical, economic and social barriers to open scientific publishing
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IST-2001-33127 SciX SciX project: Lowering the project: Lowering the technical, economic and technical, economic and social barriers to open social barriers to open scientific publishing scientific publishing Žiga Turk University of Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected] presentation at OAI Workshop Geneva, October 17, 2002 www.SciX.net IST-2001-33127
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IST-2001-33127
SciXSciX project: Lowering the project: Lowering the technical, economic and technical, economic and
social barriers to open social barriers to open scientific publishingscientific publishing
Žiga TurkUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia
presentation at OAI Workshop Geneva, October 17, 2002
www.SciX.net
IST-2001-33127
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
BackgroundBackgroundwebsite (1993)website (1993)the the ITconITcon journal (1996)journal (1996)
electronic journal of IT in constructionpublication time 4-5 months500-1000 readers per paper
CUMINCAD (1999)CUMINCAD (1999)cumulative index of CAADthe resource for CAAD community800+ registered users
survey on esurvey on e--publishing (2000)publishing (2000)read electronic, publish on paper; don’t care who reads
W78W78’’96 and W7896 and W78’’20002000web based conferenceorganisation
interoperability of CAD interoperability of CAD softwaresoftware
1000s data types100s of programes
SciX project
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
SciXSciX projectprojectSciX project
ISTIST--20012001--3312733127, KAIII, KAIIIEU EU fundingfunding €€1.000.0001.000.000200 200 personperson monthsmonthsProjectProject durationduration
1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004PartnersPartners: 7: 7DeliverablesDeliverables: 20: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen sourceWebWeb: : www.www.SciXSciX..netnet
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
Open, self organising repository for Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchangescientific information exchange
demonstrate that the Internet enables demonstrate that the Internet enables new business models for the scientific new business models for the scientific publishing processpublishing process
as is modelto be model
enable the scientistsenable the scientistscreate digital archives vs. web pagestime- and cost-efficient access to their peers' work,create an on-line community of authors and readersdisseminate scientific work to non-scientists, like engineers or architects
Goals
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Current situationCurrent situation
do researchdo researchwrite paper for freewrite paper for freereview for freereview for freeedit journal for freeedit journal for freegive away the copygive away the copy--right for freeright for free
buy the results of the above buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal)(subscribe to journal)
Goals
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WebtopWebtop publishingpublishing
ground up, grassroots approachground up, grassroots approachmany small publishersmany small publishers
universitiesprofessional organizationsindividuals
result today: websiteresult today: websiteresult result tommorowtommorow: digital archive: digital archive
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Support for digital archivesSupport for digital archivesarchivearchive
publishing and archiving platformworkflow support: submission, review, revision, publishing, readership monitoring …self management, classification
cross archivecross archivemetadata harvesting … andsearchinguser managementcontent clusteringfull content
non technicalnon technicalprestige, image, quality certification
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digital libraryhosting
digital libraryhosting
Draft architectureDraft architecture
indexingwrapper service
digital library(e.g.
CUMINAD, ITcon)
readersauthors
librarianspublishers
user management
server:user communication: http, HTML
server:server communication: http, XML, SOAP, WSDL
service providers
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How hard can it be?How hard can it be?
write your own softwarewrite your own softwarebuy commercial softwarebuy commercial softwareget get openSourceopenSource software, compile, software, compile, install install …… maintainmaintain
SciXSciXrent infrastructurecustomize using forms on the Webdemo …
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OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
ConclusionsConclusionsSciXSciX will use WSDL, XML and OAI will use WSDL, XML and OAI standards for interstandards for inter--archive data archive data exchangeexchangeSciXSciX will trivialize the creation and will trivialize the creation and management of open archivesmanagement of open archivesSciXSciX is identifying needs for other is identifying needs for other kinds of cross archive collaborationkinds of cross archive collaborationpsychological, social and economic psychological, social and economic problems remainproblems remain
a network of small, independent publishers and content providers would make individual effort like ours stronger
Scix and OAI
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
[email protected] www.SciX.net
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