A Sustainable Model based on the Social Network Service to Support the Research Cycle

Abstract

Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United KingdomIn this paper, we analyze requirements for institutional repositories from the viewpoint of the research cycle, and find that it is critical any existing repository system has little functions managing social relations of researchers. This leads us to a general model in which an SNS platform is an interface for researchers and an institutional repository is a backyard system. The SNS platform enables researchers to work together with co-workers. In addition to the interface, the SNS platform provides authentication and authorization mechanism for other backyard systems. Due to the mechanism, we can use, for instance, a search engine with the access control. Therefore academic resources not available to the public, such as a manuscript of a paper, can be safely indexed. Managing the authentication and authorization mechanism is done in a sustainable manner, compared to other standard authentication or authorization systems, such as SSO or ACL (Access Control List)