Metadata towards an e-research cyberinfrastructure

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Metadata towards an e-research
cyberinfrastructure

• The case of French ETDs

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Summary

• Introducing ARTIST and authors of this collective
  work
• Main actors operating on French ETDs
• Their roles Their metadata
• 3 case studies
• Creating metadata thinking about reusability
• Thematic survey around biodiversity thinking
  vocabularies
• Institutional survey thinking ontologies
• Conclusion

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Authors

• Jacques DUCLOY INIST, ARTIST
• Yann Nicolas ABES
• Diane Le Hénaff - INRA
• Muriel FOULONNEAU now CCSD
• Luc GRIVEL Univ. Paris 1
• Jean-Paul DUCASSE Univ. Lyon 2
• several little interventions and comments

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ARTIST members

• Networked workshop
• Appropriation
• by Research Communities
• of Technologies
• of Scientific Technical Information
• Community of
• Researchers Engineers
• Information Science Information Technologies
• working in research world
• http//artist.inist.fr/

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ARTIST topics

• How to build
• Digital Library
• or scholarly publishing applications
• dealing with e-science?
• New approaches to make research or science in a
  cyberinfrastructure

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ARTIST e-Science experimentations

• Scientific forum
• Sample cooperative linguistic discussion
• Carl Lagoze paper about DL
• What is a Digital Library ?
• Scientific journal AMETIST
• Appropriation, Mutualisation, Experimentation
• Digital writing
• Richer on-line version
• Experience becomes reproductible
• Paper view
• Scientific focus and evaluation purpose
• Digital Library experimentations (metadata -gt DL)
• Cooperative writing this article

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This article metadata for e-science

• Not only for
• (scientific) information retrieval
• But also for
• research evaluation
• federative digital libraries
• research policy oriented studies
• scientific surveys

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main entities dealing with French ETDs

• Universities
• And their national organization
• EPST (National Research Institute)
• Sample CNRS 30,000 people
• European framework
• Each country gets its own organization
• European actions (Delos, DRIVER)
• Francophone framework
• International framework
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and
  Dissertations (NDLTD),
• ePrints application profile

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Translation difficulties showing different
approaches

• Thèse ETD
• Thesis (English context)
• Dissertation (US context)
• Veille scientifique
• Scientific survey (using informetric tools)
• In order to discover innovations
• Pilotage de la recherche
• research policy oriented studies
• Strong role of French administration

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Actor Cyberthèses
Xml / TEI
ETD
Word style
Jury
Cyberdocs OpenOffice XSLT
PDF
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Cyberthèses metadata

• Thesis document Xml, TEI-Lite
• Xml version must be readable by a human being
• Metadata
• DC
• ETD-ms
• (Electronic Thesis Dissertation Metadata
  Standard)
• Further related axis
• TEI header,
• Latex -gt MathML

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Actor ABES

• Ministry of Education Agency

Preservation
Dissemination (CINES)
Star
Union catalog
University ETD
Sudoc portal
Persistent Identifier
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Abes / Star metadata

• TEF (Thèses Electroniques Françaises)
• AFNOR standard (French member of ISO)
• Dublin Core Qualified
• With several ETD adaptations (jury)
• METS Rights
• Using Schematron

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Actor CCSD

• Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe

Researcher author
TEL
Inserm
Local Archive

HAL National Archive
International Archive (Arxiv, Driver)
Thematic Archive
Researcher reader
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CCSD metadata

• At the beginning local schema
• Strong relationship between
• Author
• University, laboratory, research team
• DC export / OAI - PMH

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Hal institutional repository

• A French advantage related to open archive
•  Protocole daccord Universités EPST sur les
  dépots par les chercheurs 
• In CNRS each researcher must produce an activity
  report which in generated by Hal/CCSD
• Some scientific headers can request a CCSD deposit

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Actor INIST/CNRS

• Institut de lInformation Scientifique et
  Technique
• http//www.inist.fr
• Pascal Francis bibliographic data bases
• 15,000,000 XML records
• Scientific Portals,
• Scientific information analysis
• Vocabularies termSciences

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INIST - metadata

• Bibliographic records
• Exodic
• Origin CCF based MARC format
• Translated in SGML in 92
• now with a DCQ approach
• Strong links between authors and affiliations
• termSciences
• ISO 16642 (TMF)

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The landscape we would like to have
Thesis
Articles
Cyberthèses
CCSD
INIST
STAR
OAI-PMH
Local archive
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Case study sharing theses and their metadata

• Thinking about reusability by several actors
  which interoperate during ETD life cycle

Inra
Inra unit
ETD
Univ. Lab.
Ecole doctorale
University
Abes/star
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Sharing metadata

• Administrative metadata are requested for a quite
  complex workflow
• Contents must be matched
• A given person could have different names
• Different ways of naming units
• Different classification schemes

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Case study 2 BiodivERsA

• BiodivERsA European research policy network
  about biodiversity
• x 10 funding agencies,
• y100 research program
• z 1000 projects
• x1 10000 results
• distributed network of CRIS
• CRIS Current Research Information System

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Vocabulary adaptations
Global DL
Thematic CRIS
Thematic Archive
Classification schemas must be matched for
computation purpose (funding evaluation)
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Case study 3

• Affiliation must be managed with ontologies

UHP
CNRS
INRIA
CRIN
Loria
Inria Lorraine
Inria Sophia
YT
Cortex
Oméga
Orpailleur
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A technical conclusion

• Metadata (DCQ) is good but not sufficient
• We need
• vocabulary adaptations, ontologies
• Sharing several repositories (vocabularies,
  affiliations)
• Managing metadata history
• etc

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The very conclusion

• We need to help people working altogether and
  doing compromises
• We need researcher becoming owners of their
  scientific information system
• We need librarians appropriating technologies and
  helping researcher to appropriate librarian
  feeling
• We need engineers in computer science
  appropriating library and edition issues
• That is what we try to help to do with ARTIST

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Thank you for your listening

• Thank you for your questions