More Facts than Promises. FAIR Data at Your Fingertips with Open Source Solutions

Presentation held at the conference "Dalle pubblicazioni ai dati: l'apertura della scienza tra promesse e fatti", Udine, 7 - 8 November 201

Relazione Workshop OAF, Bath 9/2003

The paper reports on the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop "In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open Archives", held at Bath, UK, 4th-5th September 2003

Behaviour and Perceptions of the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service Users: High Energy Physicists at CERN- a Case Study

CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, situated in Geneva, Switzerland, has a rare user population, which consists of more than 10,000 high energy physicists coming from other institutes scattered in Europe and the rest of the world. They come to CERN to share accelerators and research infrastructures and services. Therefore, the library and particularly the ILL-DD Service have a substantial number of potential users. As it is a research library, with many varied subject interests, and experiences the 'normal' budget restrictions, the CERN Library collection cannot accommodate all the documents in all of subjects potentially required. Therefore, the ILL-DD Service is performing an important task. During a one month period this year, we distributed a User Survey. Primarily this was to gauge the level of user satisfaction and to discover if the service was performing competently. Using these results along with statistics collected about the users requests, drawing on experience, and consulting published observations we have collected interesting information in this paper which portrays not only high energy physicists behaviour, but also user perceptions that may shape the future work of all ILL-DD Services

Le tesi di dottorato elettroniche in Europa

A workshop on electronic PhD dissertations was held in January 2006 in Amsterdam.The results revealed that each country has different policies and practices, but there is scarcely any national agreement on collection and treatment of dissertations. Other important issues were also addressed by the debate: preservation, intellectual property, formats, interoperability, that have no solutions yet. Following the workshop, a working group has been constituted that could include Italian representatives for participation to European projects, with the aim of enhancing the visibility of Italian research outputs.Nel gennaio 2006 si è tenuto ad Amsterdam un workshop europeo dedicato alle tesi di dottorato in formato elettronico. Il trattamento delle tesi di dottorato nel nostro continente si è rivelato molto diversificato. Solo in rari casi le tesi elettroniche vengono raccolte sistematicamente. Problemi di conservazione e di diritto d’autore, di formati e di interoperabilità non hanno ancora trovato soluzione. In seguito al workshop si è tuttavia costituito un gruppo di lavoro che potrebbe accogliere una rappresentanza italiana per partecipare a progetti europei che contribuiscano a migliorare la visibilità della ricerca italiana

Electronic Publishing Infrastructure (EPI), innovazione nell’editoria accademica

Italian universities have limited publishing activities for several reasons. The nature of scholarly research and communication is changing dramatically and innovative publishing systems for data and results are needed. Technological advances in e-publishing foster the takeover of a new role for universities. CILEA provides actions and tools to support academic publishing and signed an agreement with Firenze University Press to develop a platform of services for e-publishing. This project commits the partners to collaborate for innovation in processes and technologies, but cultural change is the real challenge that academic publishing will have to tackle to survive in the near future.Nelle università italiane le iniziative editoriali sono limitate per diversi motivi. Le nuove modalità di conduzione e comunicazione della ricerca scientifica richiedono innovazioni nella pubblicazione di dati e risultati. Le innovazioni tecnologiche nel campo dell’editoria elettronica favoriscono l’acquisizione di un ruolo più importante per gli atenei. Il CILEA offre azioni e strumenti a supporto dell’editoria accademica e ha siglato con Firenze University Press un accordo per lo sviluppo di una piattaforma di servizi per l’e-publishing. Il progetto impegna i partner a collaborare per innovare processi e tecnologie, ma è certo il cambiamento culturale la sfida più cospicua che l’editoria accademica dovrà affrontare per non chiudere i battenti nel prossimo futuro

Relazione Workshop OAF, Bath 9/2003

The paper reports on the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop "In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open Archives", held at Bath, UK, 4th-5th September 2003

SURplus, un prodotto per la valutazione e la rendicontazione della ricerca

Scientific research is one of the main institutional tasks of any Italian university. Accounting and reporting on research results for evaluation purposes is a necessary but timeconsuming effort for researchers and administration offices. All data and output that are created from a plethora of different research activities need to be collected, turn them into a consistent format and make them available in a continuous stream. Moreover, wide publication and dissemination of results is requested for every research project and is fundamental for research careers and funding. SUR+ (SURPLUS) is an integrated system for research management that aims to control several workflows related to research activities and their results in the academic environment. It enhances the internal and external visibility of research activities, and provides real-time monitoring tools, reporting and exporting facilities. SUR+ is formed from several interoperable application modules, that can be adopted separately. This presentation will deal with the OA (Open Archive) module, a repository that collects, describes, indexes, and distributes the intellectual output of institutional research activities. Based on the open-source software application DSpace, designed and developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hewlett-Packard labs, SUR+ OA is a userfriendly tool that can be accessed by any researcher belonging to the institution to submit his/her own publications. Simple metadata are compiled by the submitter and checked/completed by a librarian. Publication details can be reused in different applications, from the SUR+ WF module for project management to the "Professor site" of the Ministry, from the personal web page of the researcher to any bibliographical list. The use of standards formats and protocols such as Dublin Core, XML, OAI-PMH, ensures compliancy with the architectures of the Open Archives Initiative and the broadest dissemination of open-access scholarly literature for higher institutional visibility and the public benefit

SURplus, un prodotto per la valutazione e la rendicontazione della ricerca

Scientific research is one of the main institutional tasks of any Italian university. Accounting and reporting on research results for evaluation purposes is a necessary but timeconsuming effort for researchers and administration offices. All data and output that are created from a plethora of different research activities need to be collected, turn them into a consistent format and make them available in a continuous stream. Moreover, wide publication and dissemination of results is requested for every research project and is fundamental for research careers and funding. SUR+ (SURPLUS) is an integrated system for research management that aims to control several workflows related to research activities and their results in the academic environment. It enhances the internal and external visibility of research activities, and provides real-time monitoring tools, reporting and exporting facilities. SUR+ is formed from several interoperable application modules, that can be adopted separately. This presentation will deal with the OA (Open Archive) module, a repository that collects, describes, indexes, and distributes the intellectual output of institutional research activities. Based on the open-source software application DSpace, designed and developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hewlett-Packard labs, SUR+ OA is a userfriendly tool that can be accessed by any researcher belonging to the institution to submit his/her own publications. Simple metadata are compiled by the submitter and checked/completed by a librarian. Publication details can be reused in different applications, from the SUR+ WF module for project management to the "Professor site" of the Ministry, from the personal web page of the researcher to any bibliographical list. The use of standards formats and protocols such as Dublin Core, XML, OAI-PMH, ensures compliancy with the architectures of the Open Archives Initiative and the broadest dissemination of open-access scholarly literature for higher institutional visibility and the public benefit

Case Study: The Challenge of Building an Italian National Repository Dedicated to the Field of Medical Research

4Science is designing a repository for a multi-institutional health system dedicated to medical research. The idea, promoted by a consortium of healthcare and health research institutions, will operate on the initial basis of the library network of these institutions. The idea of the project, which draws its foundations from the DSpace-CRIS platform, is to create a repository in which the libraries are interconnected and can thus share the repository infrastructure. With this presentation, 4Science intends to expose and share the issues and opportunities that have arisen from working with such a large and complicated infrastructure as the Italian health system and the documentation it contains. We will describe the potential of the platform and consider how these can be implemented, generating benefit, in the U.S. health system and how individual institutions can use these platforms as their own digital repository increasing its flexibility, visibility, dissemination and prestige. DSpace-CRIS is the world\u27s first open-source CRIS/RIMS platform, based on the widely adopted DSpace, to which 4Science is a leading contributor. The DSpace-CRIS extension offers advanced, unique and extremely user-friendly functionality. Our ambition, at 4Science, is to continue to invest resources in co-creating a global infrastructure that supports research and innovation at its best

Authority framework in 1.6 and CILEA's customization for the Hong Kong University

Universities and researcher centers are rethinking their communication strategies, highlighting the quality of their research output and the profiles of their best researchers. Listing publications from an Expert Finder system may represent a solution. But providing an Expert Finder system within an IR is a more innovative approach. This idea was developed by the University of Hong Kong Libraries and applied to their IR, HKU Scholars Hub at http://hub.hku.hk/, powered by DSpace. This presentation shows how the HKU requirements were implemented by CILEA in the context of the ResearcherPage@HKU project. Using the new authority control framework by Larry Stone, introduced in DSpace 1.6.0, an Expert Finder system can be nicely integrated with DSpace but kept technically separated. Its components can evolve separately and are easier and cheaper to maintain. The author (Bollini) has contributed in porting the authority control framework, originally implemented for the XMLUI, to the JSPUI, and extending its architecture to support browse and search variants