Speaker
Mr
Nicholas Robinson
(CERN)
Description
CERN has long been committed to the free dissemination of scientific
research results and theories. Towards this end, CERN's own
institutional repository, the CERN Document Server (CDS) offers access
to CERN works and to all related scholarly literature in the HEP
domain. Hosting over 500 document collections containing more than
900,000 records, CDS provides access to anything from preprints and
articles, to multimedia information such as photographs, movies,
posters and brochures. The software that powers this service, CDS
Invenio, is distributed freely under the GNU GPL and is currently used
in approximately 15 institutions worldwide.
In this paper, we discuss the use of CDS Invenio to manage a
repository of scientific literature. We outline some of the issues
faced during the lifecycle of a document from acquisition, processing
and indexing to dissemination. In particular, we focus on the
features and technology developed to meet the complexities of managing
scientific information in the LHC era of large international
collaborations each of which has its own distinct needs and requests.
Primary author
Mr
Nicholas Robinson
(CERN)
Co-authors
Mr
Jean-Yves Le Meur
(CERN)
Dr
Tibor Simko
(CERN)
