towards interoperable archives: the Universal Preprint Service initiative
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The document discusses the Universal Preprint Service initiative which aims to promote interoperability between preprint archives. It provides background on existing preprint models and services. The initiative is supported by several organizations and held its first meeting in 1999 to discuss technical recommendations for achieving interoperability between archives.
towards interoperable archives: the Universal Preprint Service initiative
- 1. towards interoperable archives: the Universal Preprint Service initiative acknowledgements the Council on Library and Information Resources the Digital Library Federation SPARC & the American Research Libraries Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library herbert van de sompel University of Gent - Central Library Interconnectivity 2000 November 1-2, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- 2. 5 input considerations lead to a conclusion (a personal interpretation of the discussions on the transformation of scholarly communication) the Universal Preprint Service Initiative (an initiative to promote preprint solutions) theory practice
- 3. theory i1. the information chain A R P U B S U B L I B consideration: disintermediation value chain: only links that add value survive endangered: equity of access opportunities: create optimal communication mechanism digital?
- 4. accessibility serials crisis registration certification awareness archiving delay & supressing of ideas who does the digital archiving? no registration only rewarding stabilizer theory i2. the established journal system
- 5. deconstructed journal (Smith - 1993) decoupling of registration and certification institutions as collectors/distributors of their author’s uncertified writings subversive proposal (Harnad - 1994) author self-archiving theory i3. theoretical models
- 6. xxx e-print archive (Physics - 1991 - Los Alamos - Ginsparg) NCSTRL (Computer Science - Cornell U - Lagoze) CogPrints (Cognitive Sciences - Southampton U - Harnad) NDLTD (Theses - Virginia Tech - Fox) RePEc (Economy - Surrey U - Krichel) high accessibility - registration - no certification theory i4. implemented models
- 7. The Innovator’s dilemma (Christensen - 1997) sustaining versus disruptive technologies; disruptive technologies somehow perform worse than established ones, but they are convenient, cheap, … disruptive technologies can create competition in an existing value network by creating a new one first; theory i5. evidence from economics
- 8. decouple registration and certification: create free information layer of non-certified information promote - commercial - overlay services, amongst others addressing certification free layer via institutional involvement through libraries; libraries can add value to the digital information chain by repositioning in the information chain, becoming archivers of non-certified information authored by institutional authors theory o1. main conclusions
- 9. library free information layer company commercial information layer A R theory o2. another information chain
- 10. accessibility high availibility: free layer retrievability: free & commercial layer registration certification awareness archiving author via an institutional process commercial layer fast & no supressing of ideas free layer: institutional commercial layer: (?) rewarding mechanisms based on free & commercial theory o3. other ways to address the functions
- 11. The Universal Preprint Service initiative has been set up to create a forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between preprint solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance. Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce & Herbert Van de Sompel http://vole.lanl.gov/ups/ practice the Universal Preprint Service initiative
- 12. The transformation of scholarly communication is not only a political/sociological/economical matter. Technology is important: How should preprint archives be architected? How to achieve a level of compatibility between archives, both discipline-oriented and institution-based? How to integrate the free layer and the commercial layer? Technical means to introduce alternatives for the rewarding function? ... practice the Universal Preprint Service initiative
- 13. Supported by: ARL, CLIR, DLF, LANL Library, SPARC Goals: enable the creation of a cross-archive end-user service make recommendations on the architectural design of archive solutions in order to facilitate the creation of such services Discussion stimulated by the creation of an experimental cross-archive prototype practice the Santa Fe UPS/1 meeting 10/21-22/99
- 14. Caroline Arms Library of Congress Les Carr University of Southampton & CogPrints Eric Celeste MIT Mark Doyle the American Physical Society Dale Flecker Harvard University Edward Fox Virginia Tech & NDLTD Mike Friedman HighWire Press & Stanford University Paul Ginsparg Los Alamos National Laboratory & xxx Paul Gherman Vanderbilt University & SPARC Stevan Harnad University of Southampton & CogPrints Thomas Krichel University of Surrey & RePEc Carl Lagoze Cornell University Rick Luce Los Alamos National Laboratory practice the UPS/1 participants (1)
- 15. Clifford Lynch Coalition for Networked Information Kurt Maly Old Dominion University Deanna Marcum CLIR Michael Nelson NASA Langley Heath O’Conell Stanford SLAC/SPIRES John Ober University of California Bill Parks Washington University & EconWPA Herbert Van de Sompel University of Ghent Eric Van de Velde Caltech Don Waters The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ken Weiss University of California practice the UPS/1 participants (2)
- 16. coordination: herbert van de sompel, michael nelson, thomas krichel involvement of: Old Dominion U & NASA Langley U of Surrey U of Ghent Los Alamos National Laboratory - Library Russian Academy of Science - Siberian branch proto who?
- 17. Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library JISC eLib WoPEc project proto sponsors
- 18. metadata only full text remains at archives static dumps obtained ca. July 99 the arXiv CogPrints NACA NCSTRL NDLTD RePEc Total objects 85,223 742 3,036 29,184 1,590 73,367 193,142 full-text 85,223 659 3,036 9,084 951 13,582 112,535 project datasets
- 19. conversion of metadata to ReDIF re-creation of archives using intelligent data-objects called buckets creation of NCSTRL+ end-user service addition of SFX linking services proto project activities
- 20. DEMO proto
- 21. fundamental distinction between: data providers take care of archive functions: submission, maintenance data implementers provide end-user functions: search interfaces, … results data providers & data implementers
- 22. native end-user interface results open archives submission mechanism machine interface archive
- 23. service providers data providers results open, harvestable archives archive archive cross archive cross archive
- 24. subset of Dienst protocol: ask an archive for its subdivisions harvest data from these subdivisions harvest criteria bulk accession date subject author affiliation material type results harvest protocol & criteria
- 25. Internal format of the archive (RFC1807, ReDIF, Refer, MARC, …) Santa Fe Set: Dublin Core compliant minimal set identifier (archive, id) author, author affiliation title accession date abstract subject date for user comment refereed results metadata formats resulting from harvest
- 26. Architectural concept Technical recommendations Gentlemen’s agreement between providers and implementers: providers describe conditions for usage of the data implementers describe their usage of the data Will be implemented by all existing and future archives represented in Santa Fe Already very positive reactions from other archives Short story in Science Magazine, Friday October 29 results Santa Fe Convention
- 27. http://vole.lanl.gov/ups/ Find up-to-date information on UPS at http://ups.cs.odu.edu Check out the experimental proto at thank you
- 28. UPS protoproto Initiated by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson & Thomas Krichel A discussion model for UPS 1 Supported by LANL Library, eLib Data from xxx, NCSTRL NDLTD, NASA, CogPrints, RePEc Architecural choices: distributed archives N open archives M digital library services intelligent metadata integration with established system via SFX
- 29. commericial overlay S1 S2 S3 meta peer comment full text search citation searches F R E E integrate with commercial overlay S6 S7 S8 meta peer review C O M M citation searches journal paper
- 30. institution based ASA Institution: institutional adaptation of rewarding function natural extension of the prepublishing habit beyond early adopter disciplines the addition of a level of author-authentication to submissions concern about the institutional brand which might encourage institutions to impose a certain level of quality control to its output Library: ethical incentive to ensure the right for information existing international infrastructure and cooperation should be best motivated to archive the institutional output know-how that guarantees a formal quality of the output extension of the ongoing creation of the institutional bibliography