Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 ECDL 2003 A German Scientific Portal for Cross- Searching Distributed Digital Resource Collections Heike.

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003ECDL 2003

A German Scientific Portal for Cross-Searching Distributed Digital Resource Collections

Heike Neuroth & Tamara Pianos

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003

Introduction

• Vascoda is a new portal for scientific information

• Central access point for all fields of science (not all subjects included yet)

• Allows interdisciplinary searches as well as (in a later version) complex navigation and browsing

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The Idea Behind vascoda

• vascoda facilitates access to quality information • Offers access to all types of documents:

born-digital as well as digitised and print materials can be obtained either free of charge or through pay-per-view options

• Includes full-texts, link-collections, bibliographic and other databases, subject-specific search engines and more

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Sponsors and Institutions Involved

• Sponsors:

BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and Research)

DFG (German Research Society)  

• Institutions:More than thirty German institutions - with co-operation partners worldwide – are working together to offer users an actual one-stop-shop for all scientific information. The partners of this project are libraries as well as information centres and other institutions providing quality academic information.

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The Partners

• The Information Alliance (4 individual projects)

• Virtual Libraries (23 individual projects)

• EZB - Electronic Journals Library

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Partners of the Information Alliance

• Focus on providing digital full-texts, published materials and grey literature

• Combine the search results of databases with the electronic full-texts provided either by publishers, grey-literature- or preprint-servers etc.

• EconDoc, GetInfo, infoconnex and Medicine

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Virtual Libraries

• Offer access to information and documents relevant for research in a specific field of study

• Integrate searching and the delivery of documents - stored and scattered around the world

• Cover electronic as well as printed material• 23 individual Virtual Libraries, 15 are already

online

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Virtual Libraries - Partners

• Anglo-American Culture (SUB Göttingen)

• Business (USB Köln) and Economics VWL (ZBW Kiel)

• Contemporary Art (SLUB Dresden)

• Dutch Culture (ULB Münster)• Engineering (UB/TIB Hannover)• Ethnology (HU Berlin)• Geo-Sciences (Göttingen)• History (BSB München, SUB

Göttingen, HU + StaBi Berlin)• Ibero-America (IAI Berlin)• Law (StaBi Berlin)

• Medicine (ZBMed Köln)• Middle East (ULB Halle)• Pharmacy (UB Braunschweig)• Physics (UB/TIB Hannover)• Politics and Peace (SUB

Hamburg)• Psychology (SULB

Saarbrücken)• Romanic Languages (Bonn)• Social Sciences (IZ Bonn)• Veterinary Medicine (BTiHo

Hannover)• Wood-Technology (Dresden)

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EZB - Electronic Journals Library

• Offers an effective use of academic journals found on the internet

• Offers fast, structured and standardized access to scientific and academic full text journals

• Contains 16,470 titles, among them 1,882 online-only journals, covering all subjects

• 5654 journals can be read free-of-charge• The participating libraries offer full text access to the

journals they subscribe to

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Vascoda.de Home

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Vascoda.de Search Results

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Full-Text

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Go to Subjects

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Subjects-Science

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Subjects Social sciences

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StandardizationDocument Types

• monographs

• journal articles

• preprints, reports, conference proceedings, manuals, statistics,

• websites …

a huge effort needs to be taken to standardize metadata

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Standardization

MetadataBefore vascoda

• members of the information alliance agreed on a minimum standard of four metadata-fields

• while the Virtual Libraries agreed on the VLib-Application Profile based on Dublin Core.[1]

• Problem: a certain amount of the metadata is created and delivered by different publishers. A lot of work still needs to be done to find solutions …

[1] http://bibliotheksdienst.zlb.de/2002/02_01_03.pdf

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Elements of the VLib Application Profile

• Title

• Title alternative

• Subject

• Description (Abstract, ToC)• Indentifier (URI, DOI, ISSN...)

• Creator (PND, GKD)

• Publisher

• Contributor

• Type• Date• Format• Source• Language• Relation• Coverage• Rights• Country

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ViFaPol Metadata-Sharing

http://pptest.sub.uni-hamburg.de/admin/partner sicht2

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Contact:

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Contact

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Thank You!