IST Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange - SciX Žiga Turk University of Ljubljana, Slovenia presentation at the 1 st SciX review Luxembourg, Nov. 11, IST

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Current situation do research write paper for free review papers for free edit journals for free give away the copy-right for free buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal)

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstartIssues why this works at all? not as well as before periodicals crisis it may work differently Internet digital publishing demonstrate alternative ways of publishing economic, technical, social, psychological issues

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstartResults periodicals crisis exploration of new ways of publishing issues economic professional knowledge management

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstartBackground the ITcon journal (1996) electronic journal of IT in construction publication time 4-5 months readers per paper CUMINCAD (1999) cumulative index of CAAD the resource for CAAD community 800+ registered users survey on e-publishing (2000) read electronic, publish on paper; dont care who reads W7896, W782000, ECPPM02 web based conference organisation interoperability of CAD software 1000s data types 100s of programes

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Project at a glance EU funding person months Project duration Partners: 7 Deliverables: 20, all public and/or open source Web:

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart SciX partners and their roles academic: LJU, SHH, TUW, USAL editors, publishers, service providers business process analysis, advanced technology development professional: IBRI, FGGI knowledge transfer to practise prototyping eBusiness: INDRA experience with web publishing and eBusiness

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange demonstrate that the Internet enables new business models for the scientific publishing process, reengineer that process as is model to be model enable the scientists create digital archives vs. web pages time- and cost-efficient access to their peers' work, create an on-line community of authors and readers disseminate scientific work to non- scientists, like engineers or architects

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstartWork: propose solid business models semi-automating the management intelligent, adaptable user interfaces, wrap scientific content for the practitioner's use evaluate solutions, are they sustainable

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Focus of SciX business process re-engineering flow of information barriers to change, flow of values digital library infrastructure operated by societies, professionals, back to the roots of publishing for-rent non-monolithic, Web services architecture, support many different publishing models with a single toolset knowledge management and transfer clustering, machine learning content wrapping and syndication

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Structure of the SciX project market watch (WP 3,4,5) state of the art (WP 3,4,5) inception & elaboration (WP 3,4,5) implementation (WP 3,4,5) dissemination, user analysis (WP 1,6) prototyping (WP 3,4,5) process model as-is (WP1) feedback recommendation, new business models content (WP2) workshop, publications website running service on Internet open- source software assessment and evaluation process model to-be (WP1) we are here

SciX Review endSciX and OAIWebtop publ.GoalsSciX projectstart Structure of the review 1 this introdcution WP1: process model of publishing WP2: how to get content, what we have WP3+4: state of the art, architecture of the pilot software WP5: wrapper service, technologies and draft architecture WP6: dissemination – done and planned WP7: assessment and evaluation – strategies WP8: effort, resources

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