Trip Report: OAI6

OAI6

The OAI6 was held in Geneva on 17th-19th June 2009.

General[edit]

The workshop is aimed at those involved in the development of openaccess (OA) repositories and who can influence the direction of developments either within their institution, their country or at an international level - that includes technical developers of OA bibliographic databases and connected services, research information policy developers at university or library level, funding bodies concerned with access to the results of their research, OA publishers,and influential researchers keen to lead OA developments in their own field. [1]

Presentations marked with are especially recommended (by me) :)

Program[edit]

Day 1[edit]

Tutorial on OAI-ORE (Herbert van de Sompel) slides

Subject: Publication as a set of relations, modeling data, interoperability, linked data

Overview of the OAI-ORE interoperability framework (Herbert van de Somple) slides

Subject: Brief oai-ore overview

Visualizing JSTOR: Exploring OAI-ORE for Information Topology Navigation (Robert Sanderson) slides

Subject: Information visualization

A demonstrator of enhanced publications using OAI-ORE (Maarten Hoogerwerf)

Subject: Driver2 project, oai-ore experiences

Using OAI-ORE to Simplify Data Publishing Workflows (Tim Dilauro)

Subject: Microsoft, Office integration, SWORD

Economic implications of alternative publishing models: Self-archiving and repositories (John Houghton) slides

Subject: Publisher Models, Costs, self-archiving

Mandates: an Australian example at the Queensland University of Technology (Tom Cochrane) slides

Subject: Costs, repository policies, self-archive

Example 3 : Alliance for Permanent Access (Wouter Spek) slides

Subject: European approach, Permanent Access, finance

The Preservation Planning Workflow: From institutional requirements via experimental evidence to accountable preservation plans (Andreas Rauber) slides

Subject: Digital Preservation, Planning Tool

Day 2[edit]

Copyright: perspectives from the repository coalface (Morag Greig) slides

Subject: OA Publishing, Copyright

Alternative routes to the reuse of copyrighted journal content (David Hoole) slides

Subject: NPG, Business Model, Journals and OA

Adding value to scholarly communications through text mining (Sophia Ananiadou) slides

Subject: Text Mining, Faceted Browsing

Data deposition as a measure to prevent and to detect scientific misconduct (Alexander Lerchel) slides

Subject: Importance of Dataset integration, Fraud

Embedding into the work environment of a researcher or research group: the library on the move (Martin Van Luijt) slides

Subject: Collaboration, User-Centred Design, Publication Tool of Univ. Utrecht

UK about embedding into the learning environment: JORUM (Peter Burnhill) slides

Subject: Learning materials repository, Collaboration

Giving researchers what they want: SPIRES, High-energy physics and subject repositories (Travis Brooks)

Subject: Researcher pages, community, SPIRES promotion

Day 3[edit]

How to engage authors into an open bibliography initiative, the RePEc Author Service (Christian Zimmermann) slides

Subject: Researcher Pages, Peer Review, mostly RePeC promotion

The ResearcherID Project: Unlocking Scholarly Identity to Support Research Communities (James Pringle) slides

Subject: Researcher Pages

Author Identification in the Bibliographic Knowledge Network (Jim Pitman) slides

Subject: A bit of everything

Studying scientific activity from large-scale usage data (Johan Bollen) slides

Subject: Information visualization, Journal impact factor

Open peer review and interactive open access publishing: the effectiveness of transparency and self-regulation in scientific quality assurance ( Ulrich POESCHL, MPG) slides

Subject: Researcher Pages, Peer Review

Misc[edit]

Top Topics
- OAI-ORE
- Integration of Datasets
- Researcher Pages
- SWORD

Announcement: SPIRES and CERN Document Server pool together and become INSPIRE (will launch end of this year)

Some Thoughts during the Conference[edit]

We should really address OAI-ORE
Can we somehow participate in next OAI Conference? (As we already address lots of issues discussed)
Enhance SWORD interface, as this seems to be a big issue (you hear sword everywhere...)
We have a Researcher Portfolio, but no Organization Portfolio (perhaps of interest for institutes which do not want to host own page)
- maybe simply establishing a WordPress blog as Organization portfolio would do the work? --Natasa 10:20, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
- I thought we might simply generalise the researcher portfolio, as there is no big difference between--Friederike 11:18, 23 June 2009 (UTC) a researcher and an organization, they both have: identifier, publications, related links, address etc.
Are there any protocols for harvesting researcher data? As it seems that there are many researcher pages in the web, perhaps 'our' researcher page can function as an aggregation of those.

Links[edit]

[1] http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=48321
http://www.openannotation.org (Annotation Tool)
http://www.myexperiment.org (How to store and visualize workflows (using oai-ore))
Driver2 Demonstrator