IST-2001-33127
SciX project: SciX project: Lowering the Lowering the
technical, economic technical, economic and social barriers to and social barriers to
open scientific open scientific publishingpublishing
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 ITcon journal (1996)the ITcon 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 e-publishing (2000)survey on e-publishing (2000)read electronic, publish on paper; don’t care who reads
W78’96 and W78’2000W78’96 and W78’2000web 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
SciX projectSciX projectSciX project
IST-2001-33127IST-2001-33127, KAIII, KAIIIEU funding €1.000.000EU funding €1.000.000200 person months200 person monthsProject durationProject duration
1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004Partners: 7Partners: 7Deliverables: 20Deliverables: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen sourceWeb: Web: www.www.SciXSciX..netnet
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstartOpen, self organising repository Open, self organising repository for scientific information for scientific information exchangeexchange
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
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
Webtop publishingWebtop publishingground up, grassroots approachground up, grassroots approachmany small publishersmany small publishers
universitiesprofessional organizationsindividuals
result today: websiteresult today: websiteresult tommorow: digital archiveresult tommorow: digital archive
Webtop publ.
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Support for digital Support for digital archivesarchives
archivearchivepublishing 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
Webtop publ.
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
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
Webtop publ.
OAI Workshop – Geneva 2002endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart
How hard can it be?How hard can it be?write your own softwarewrite your own softwarebuy commercial softwarebuy commercial softwareget openSource software, compile, get openSource software, compile, install … install … maintainmaintain
SciXSciXrent infrastructurecustomize using forms on the Webdemo …
Webtop publ.
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
ConclusionsConclusionsSciX will use WSDL, XML and OAI SciX will use WSDL, XML and OAI standards for inter-archive data standards for inter-archive data exchangeexchangeSciX will trivialize the creation and SciX will trivialize the creation and management of open archivesmanagement of open archivesSciX is identifying needs for other SciX 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
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