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Systems for scholarly communication
CS 502 Computing Methods for Digital
LibrariesCornell University Computer
ScienceHerbert Van de Sompelherbertv_at_cs.cornell.
edu
Based on CNI FALL 2000 San Antonio, Texas
December 8th 2000 Closing Keynote Address
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Market of scholarly communication Roosendaal
Geurts
registration claiming a new finding
certification certifying the claim
awareness ensure information throughput
archiving preserving the heritage
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Market of scholarly communication Roosendaal
Geurts
registration claiming a new finding
certification certifying the claim
awareness ensure information throughput
archiving preserving the heritage

rewarding evaluating rewarding performance
accessibility availibility and searchability
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The paper version the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness library selection, service, support
archiving library
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The PDF version the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness publisher, distributor, library
archiving
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the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness
archiving

rewarding
accessibility
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the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness
archiving

rewarding
accessibility low availibility serials crisis
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the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness
archiving

rewarding citation databases
accessibility low availibility serials crisis
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the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness publisher, distributor, library
archiving

rewarding citation databases
accessibility low availibility serials crisis
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the journal system
registration publisher
certification publisher
awareness publisher, distributor, library
archiving ???

rewarding citation databases
accessibility low availibility serials crisis
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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. In order to free our minds
lets forget about who has been doing what and
how in the existing system.
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new models - theoretical

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

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

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new models - production

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

details in D-Lib February 2000
high accessibility - registration - no
certification
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A preprint in a digital scholarly communication
system
registration yes
certification no
awareness yes
archiving no

rewarding no
accessibility high availibility
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A preprint in a digital scholarly communication
system
registration yes
certification no
awareness yes
archiving no

rewarding no
accessibility high availibility
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Registration via preprints suggests the
feasibility of a decomposed system for scholarly
communication.
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awareness
certification
rewarding
registration
archiving
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Communication via preprints 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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The Innovators Dilemma Christensen

• 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.
• gt preprints as a disruptive technology

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awareness
certification
rewarding
registration
archiving
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• This urges us to think about
• how the functions of a scholarly communication
  system can be implemented in a digital
  environment
• how the functions of a scholarly communication
  system can interoperate disregarding their
  implementation

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• In a fully electronic scholarly communication
  system, the implementation of the functions
• is distributed
• is done by different parties
• It would be interesting if information that is
  the result of performing the functions could
  travel across the system
• Such information would probably be metadata
• gt Interoperable grid connecting the functions

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awareness
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discovery
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awareness
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discovery
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usage logs
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awareness
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rewarding
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discovery
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usage logs
preservation
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Certification meta Data
awareness
certification
registration
Discovery meta Data
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• Can OAMH protocol be of any help
• With as little changes as possible?

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awareness
certification

• From repository to certification service
• ID transferred via explicit author action
• author e-mail
• Using function of repository (cf ChemWeb)
• ID OAI-harvested by certification service
  (datestamp)

registration
ID
Discovery meta Data
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Certification meta Data
NID
awareness
certification

• From certification service to others
• NID OAI-harvested by others
• OAI-harvest is Datestamp based
• NID/ID connection must be explicit in harvested
  records

registration
ID
Discovery meta Data
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Architectural Representation of different types
of metadata
discovery
discovery
certification
certification
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Architectural Representation of different types
of metadata

• Modularity
• Complexity to agree on a one-size-fits-all
  format
• Natural fit with OAI concept of parallel
  metadata formats / metadata format identifiers
• Even multiple certification-related metadata
  records

discovery
certification
archival
usage log
rewarding
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• Metadata Format for certification data
• Cross-community header
• Community-specific body
• Header
• original ID
• Certification agency
• Date of manuscript submission
• Date of certification
• Certification-type (it would be great to have a
  controlled vocabulary)
• certification-status

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