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Frye Leadership Institute Emory University, June 11th 2002

Herbert Van de SompelLos Alamos National Laboratory – Research

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systems for scholarly communication & the OAI-PMH

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technology

law

economy

sociologyscholarly communication

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technology

law

economy

sociology

establishing a technological basis that

allows addressing the other issues.

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the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol

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The OAMH protocol is a low-barrier interoperability specification for the recurrent exchange of metadata between systems

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the Metadata Harvesting protocol

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e-print

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metadata harvesting via OAMH

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federated services via OAMH

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systems for scholarly communication &

the interoperable grid

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the information chain

Common representation of system for scholarly communication

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digital?A RPUB

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the information chain

Common representation of system for scholarly communication

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In order to free our minds:

• let’s forget about who has been doing what and how in the existing system;

• let’s look at what has to be done in a system for scholarly communication

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registration claiming a new finding

certification certifying the claim

awareness ensure information throughput

archiving preserving the heritage

Systems for scholarly communication {Roosendaal & Geurts}

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registration claiming a new finding

certification certifying the claim

awareness ensure information throughput

archiving preserving the heritage

rewarding evaluating & rewarding performance

Systems for scholarly communication {Roosendaal & Geurts}

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registration

awareness

archiving

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value chain

Systems for scholarly communication

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It is -- at least -- legitimate to reflect on the possibility of a digital system for scholarly communication that is not merely a scanned copy of the paper system:

• Serials crisis• Publication delay• Peer-review suppressing ideas• Digital archiving• Rewarding (citation dbases) stabilizes the system• Existing players competing for functions

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• deconstructed journal (Smith - 1993)• institutions as collectors/distributors of their author’s uncertified writings• journal publication as overlay service• decoupling of registration and certification

• subversive proposal (Harnad - 1994)• author self-archiving

Theoretical new models

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• xxx e-print archive (Physics - 1991 - Los Alamos - Ginsparg)• RePEc (Economy - Surrey U - Krichel)• NCSTRL (Computer Science - Cornell U - Lagoze)• CogPrints (Cognitive Sciences - Southampton U - Harnad)

Implemented new models

registration - awareness - no certification

details in D-Lib February 2000

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A preprint in a digital scholarly communication system

registration yes

certification no

awareness yes

archiving no

rewarding no

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A preprint in a digital scholarly communication system

registration yes

certification no

awareness yes

archiving no

rewarding no

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Registration via preprints:• suggests the feasibility of a deconstructed system for scholarly communication.• suggests the possibility of preprints being the starting point of a new value chain in which the raw material -- the non-certified preprint -- is in open access.

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• sustaining versus disruptive technologies;• disruptive technologies:

• somehow perform worse than established ones• not accepted by core customer base• but: convenient, cheap, …

• disruptive technologies can create competition in an existing value network by creating a new one first.=> preprints as a disruptive technology

The Innovator’s Dilemma {Christensen}

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Other functions must still be fulfilled.

In a fully electronic scholarly communication system, the implementation of the functions• can be distributed• can be fulfilled by different parties

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Achieve interoperability by ensuring that information about the fulfillment of the functions:• can travel across the system• can be shared by nodes of the system

metadata

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registration

awareness

• discovery metadata pointing at a preprint• a preprint

OAI

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registration

awareness

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data providers

service providers

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Extend the use of the Metadata Harvesting protocol to establish interoperability in a deconstructed scholarly communication system?

• certification metadata• preservation metadata• usage metadata• author metadata• ....

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registration

awareness certification

Discovery metaPreprint

Certification metaData

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registration

awareness certification rewarding

discoverycertification

usage logs

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registration

awareness

archiving

certification rewarding

discoverycertification

usage logspreservation

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registration

awareness

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interoperable grid

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registration

awareness

archiving

certification rewarding

new value chain