CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5)

Session

Technical / Computer science presentations

TECH

18 Apr 2007, 13:30

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Conveners

Technical / Computer science presentations

• Neil Jacobs (JISC Executive, UK)

Technical / Computer science presentations

• Herbert Van De Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

2. State of OAI-PMH

Dr Simeon Warner (Cornell University, USA)

18/04/2007, 13:30

The OAI-PMH was released in 2001 and stabilized at v2.0 in 2002. Since then there has been steady growth in adoption of the protocol. Support for the OAI-PMH is assumed for base-level interoperability between institutional repositories, and is also provided for many other collections of scholarly material. I will review the current landscape and reflect on some milestones...

3. OAI Object Re-Use and Exchange

Dr Herbert Van De Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

18/04/2007, 14:00

YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us, blogs, message boards and other "Web 2.0" related technologies are indicative of the contemporary web experience. There is a growing interest in appropriating these tools and modalities to support the scholarly communication process. This begins with leveraging the intrinsic value of scholarly digital objects beyond the borders of the hosting...

4. Author identification: national and disciplinary approaches

Dr Leo Waaijers (SURF, The Netherlands), Dr Thomas Krichel (Long Island University, USA)

18/04/2007, 14:40

Author identication can be provided by authors themselves, or be intermediaries. Authors can be identified ex-post, within sets of bibliographic data, or ex-ante, when publication data is composed. Leo Waaijers introduces the digital author identifier, as working in the DARE project. It is based on old library technology, yet compliant with the forthcoming ISO standard on party...

5. OpenDOAR Policy tools and applications

Mr Bill Hubbard (University of Nottingham, SHERPA, UK)

18/04/2007, 15:40

OpenDOAR conducted a survey of the world's repositories that showed 2/3 as having unusable or missing policies for content re-use and other issues. Such policies are essential for service providers to be able to develop innovative services that use the full potential of open access. OpenDOAR has developed a set of policy generator tools for repository administrators and is...

6. Measuring impact revisited - an update on infrastructure, methods and techniques

Frank Scholze (Stuttgart University Library, Germany)

18/04/2007, 16:10

Impact is generally defined as any change or outcome resulting from an activity. In case of scientific research publications are the quantifiable outcome of the research process. The presentation will therefore focus on electronic publication impact as a limited but rather well defined sub-field of research impact. Publication impact can be measured by author or reader...

7. MESUR: metrics from scholarly usage of resources

Dr Johan Bollen (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

18/04/2007, 16:30

Usage data is increasingly regarded as a valuable resource in the assessment of scholarly communication items. However, the development of quantitative, usage-based indicators of scholarly impact is still in its infancy. The Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research library has therefore started a program to expand the set...

8. Usage statistics and demonstrator services

Leslie Carr (Southampton University, UK)

18/04/2007, 16:50

An understanding of the use of repositories and their contents is clearly desirable for authors and repository managers alike, as well as those who are analysing the state of scholarly communications. A number of individual initiatives have produced statistics of variious kinds for individual repositories, but the real challenge is to produce statistics that can be collected...

32. Technical approaches to citations and usage analysis

Frank Scholze (Stuttgart University Library, Germany), Dr Johan Bollen (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Leslie Carr (Southampton University, UK)

18/04/2007, 17:10