P. Schirmbacher 25.02.2004 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Changing Process of Scholarly Publishing or the Necessity of a New Culture of Electronic.

P. Schirmbacher 25.02.2004

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The Changing Process of Scholarly Publishing

or the Necessity of a New Culture of Electronic

Publishing


Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The Changing Process of Scholarly Publishing

or the Necessity of a New Culture of Electronic

PublishingOutline:

1. Changing Libraries2. Aspects of Electronic Publishing

or what is a culture of scholarly publishing

3. Criteria and Certificate for Publication repositories


1. Change from paper based materials to digital materials with different kinds of presentation– Text oriented documents– Video-files– Audio-files– Pictures

2. The workflow in the library is changing.– Acquisition– Exploitation– Cataloguing– Long term preservation– Retrieval

Changing Libraries


Situation in Germany

Year of publication

Number of electronic dissertations

1995 22

1996 32

1997 131

1998 482

1999 1.452

2000 3.316

2001 4.587

2002 5.488

sum 15.410Webstatistic of German National Library


Present Situation

Perspectives and problems

• Percentage of electronic publications is rapidly growing

• Generally there are few experiences in electronic publishing

• The process of electronic publishing is at it's very beginning

• Only few standards exist

• There are some rules and recommendations for authors, libraries and the whole scholarly community


New Culture of Electronic Publishing

Traditional way• Stabile technology

• Long publishing cycles

• Quite small availability

• Established referee system

• No problems with authenticity and integrity of documents

• Immutable paper based formats

Electronic publishing• No established

technologies

• Short time to publish

• Worldwide accessibility

• Referee systems are to establish

• Digital signatures and time stamps are necessary(new technology, new laws)

• Only partial solutions do exist


• View of authorscreate and edit; publishing / dissemination,intellectual property rights / authenticity / integrity, question of time, .

• View of usersavailability, retrieval capabilities, authenticity, ...

• View of librariesacquisition, exploitation, cataloguing, long term archiving, authenticity, ...

• View of computing centersavailability, bandwidth of computer network, retrieval, long term archiving, search machines, storage capacity

• View of publisherstechnological process, quality control, dissemination, marketing, …

Expectation of Electronic Publishing


Creation an electronic document

Demands of the authors• Modern text processor• Supporting tools for

multimedia applications• Guarantee of integrity

and authenticity of my document

• Long term archiving• Short publication times• Worldwide availability

Requirements to the authors

• Do not use proprietary systems or file formats

• Use standards or at least common rules

• In order to support the retrieval create a structured text

• Do not use your own system of citation


The community tries to find new approaches:• Dublin core metadata set

– Integration of metadata into OPAC’s

• Rules for the authors in order to collect metadata• Templates in order to structure documents

(Document type definitions)• Standard file formats for different media types• Open Archives Initiative in order to realize the

technical possibilities to access• Budapest Open Access Initiative in order to

give everybody to access

Steps in Electronic Publishing

DINI „Electronic Publishing Group“

12.02.2004

Primary Objectives

Deutsche Initiative für NetzwerkInformation

DINI(German Initiative for Networked Information)

Coalition of German Infrastructure- or Service-Institutions:

• Libraries

• Computing Centres

• Media Centres

• Learned Societies


University RepositoriesGeneral rules / Recommendations1. Compliance with national and international

rules and standards Open Archives Initiative Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

2. Avoidance of proprietary file formats Using of SGML and XML should be the aim of long

term activities3. Protection of authenticity and integrity

Saving the documents by time stamps and methods of digital signature

Establish a policy for document and publishing server

4. Archiving and long term availability Recommendation for hardware, software und

orgware rules

http://www.dini.de/documents/DINI-EPUB-2002-03-10-E-V2.pdf


DINI-Certificate

1. Policy

2. Author Support

3. Legal Aspects

4. Authenticity and Integrity

5. Indexing• Subject indexing

• Export of Metadata

• Interfaces

6. Logs and Statistics

7. Long-term Availability

DINI „Electronic Publishing Group“

12.02.2004

DINI-Certificate / Evaluation

• Proposal by Web-questionnaire

• Evaluation of minimum standards by two experts

• Legitimacy to use the DINI-certificate-logo


DINI-Certificate

Electronic Publishing in Higher Education Recommendations

http://www.dini.de/documents/DINI-EPUB-2002-03-10-E-V2.pdf

DINI-Certificate http://www.dini.de/zertifikat/dini_certificate.pdf

Questions:• DINI-office, located at University-Library of Goettingen

[email protected]

• Dr. Peter Schirmbacher, Computer- and Mediaservice of Humboldt University [email protected]

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