DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002 Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project Donatella Castelli IEI-CNR [email protected].

DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002

Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe:

The Open Archives Forum Project

Donatella Castelli

IEI-CNR

[email protected]


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


Objective

Create a European forum for discussing issues related

to the open archives and for disseminating information

about the implemented solutions


Open Archives

Archive

repository of digital information

Open archive

provides a machine interface for making its content available to external services


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)


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


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


Solution proposed

Common Interface

Archive1

Common Interface

Archive2

ArchiveN

Common Interface

Data providers

Service providers

search browse

personalised dissemination OAI

Protocol for Metadata Harvesting


OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol

6 protocol requests– Get record– Identify– ListIdentifiers– ListMetadataFormats– ListRecords– ListSets

HTTP-embedded

XML response format


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


OAI other comunities

Other communities– Libraries– Museums

Budapest Open Archives Initiative

(Open Society Institute – Soros Foundation)


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


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










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….


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


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?


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?


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?


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

DLM-Forum - Barcelona, 7-8 May 2002 Promoting and Supporting Open Archives in Europe: The Open Archives Forum Project Donatella Castelli IEI-CNR [email protected].

Documents

oai slide

archives communities

european forum

economics slide

open archives approaches

legal archives

medicine archives

multimedia archives