SYNAT - the Polish National Research Content Infrastructure

Wojtek Sylwestrzak, ICMTomasz Rosiek, ICMTomasz Krassowski, ICM

Tartu, EstoniaJune 27, 2012

Agenda

What is Synat? Strategic reasoning:

status of Polish content infrastructure ICM experience – YADDA

Strategic goals: objectives and approach delivery and partners

Products: results to be accomplished key features: Infona and Synat

Future development: directions, ideas

Synat is... (1/2)

The Polish national strategic research programme to build an Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information

The nationwide open digital library environment being standardised way to create and maintain individual digital libraries (DLs)

The cooperation project of the leading universities, libraries, research institutes and museums

The initiative allowing future easy development and enhancement due to the open source development policy

Synat is... (2/2)

An information infrastructure development project, expected to seamlessly integrate Polish heterogeneous digital research content resources

An approach to facilitate knowledge exchange between Polish scholars

An easy way to publish research articles A platform to build various customised content

management systems

Strategic reasoning: status of Polish content infrastructure

Several autonomous institutional repositories – various data description formats and user interfaces

Lack of central, national multisearch engine – libraries use dedicated, mutually not interoperable software

Licensing issues and limitations – large part of content is licensed to be accessed exclusively by given institutions

Need for functionalities resulting from ICM experience with large repository projects – YADDA (>10m full-texts), Polish Scholarly Bibliography, DRIVER, OpenAIRE

Limited uptake of dLibra and Digital Libraries Federation (DLF) developed by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (c. 0.5m full-texts)

Strategic reasoning: ICM experience – YADDA

YADDA platform is a central national solution to address compatibility and availability issues in Polish science

Has a great impact towards building comprehensive national Virtual Library system

Hosts both publicly available and restricted access publications

Full text collections of Elsevier and Springer journals, also much more

Seamlessly handles several millions of full-texts (>10m research papers)

Integrates various sources in one system

Core platform for other services: e.g. EuDML

Some components used in DRIVER, OpenAire

Strategic goals:objectives and approach

Synat has a status of a research project, funded by the National Centre for Research and Development

We expect to implement the results of research and launch the system operationally

Three types of tasks are distinguished within the project Practical tasks – core development of the software

and implementation of the system Purely research tasks – the development of

algorithms and theoretical methods Structural tasks – administration of the project

delivery, marketing and management activities

Strategic goals:delivery and partners

Synat combines effort of leading Polish institutions developing digital library and repository systems

ICM, University of Warsaw(the project leader)

Warsaw University of Technology

Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH

National Library of Poland

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science (PAS) – Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

National Institute of Telecommunications

Institute of Computer Science, PAS

MIM, University of Warsaw

NASK

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

Wrocław University of Technology

Łazarski University

Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Military University of Technology

WETI, Gdańsk University of Technology

Products: results to be accomplished

The Synat Platform (core)

Data Acquisition Module

(data supplier interface)

The Infona Portal (end user interface)

Data analysis, enrichment and enhancement

modules

Other extension modules

Modules for data exchange: interfaces and

protocols

Search options enhancement modules (e.g. semantic search, audio/ video search)

Scientific raw data support modules (e.g. store, analyse, domain specific

search)

Alternative front-end modules

Journal hosting service

application

Digital library hosting service

application

Supports searching & browsing functionalities Allows access to the content (hosted and external) Enhances DL group collaboration experience:

Enables publishing of users' content (e.g. papers) Empowers expression of opinions via discussion

tools and ranking best performers by rating of articles Facilitates knowledge sharing by sharing links to

articles and ability to create virtual collections of documents

Maintains quality of content by means of extensive error and abuse reporting functionalities

Products: key features of Infona portal (1/2)

Products: key features of Infona portal (2/2)

Products: key features of Synat platform (1/2) Scalability

Modular approach to system development allows both easy enhancement of system functionalities and virtually unlimited load scalability

Supports several millions of content records Allows to build a network of institutional repositories that

may be connected to the central core system Will allow attachment and detachment of services to the

whole system without downtimes Enables low-scale deployment, when needed – could

be used as a project or institution knowledge repository

Products: key features of Synat platform (2/2) Interoperability

Supports several data exchange formats and mechanisms in addition to own BWmeta data model

Enables metadata exchange between Synat and other systems, to enable search and browsing within all parts of the system

Open access policy Allows open access to content, supports access

control and licensing Open source software enables development and

integration of additional software modules

Future development: directions, ideas

Journal hosting service Software facilitating building

of websites for journals Publishing process automation Supports customisation of

layout and features Deployable in standalone or in

a software-as-a-service model Possible migration of data to

Synat platform

Digital library hosting service Software supporting

development and management of publication repositories for institutions

Deployable standalone or in a software-as-a-service model

Possible sharing of data with Synat platform

This work is partially supported by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) under Grant No.

SP/I/1/77065/10 by the Strategic scientific research and experimental development program: SYNAT -

“Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information”.

Acknowledgements

Thank you for your attention

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