Creating an Academic Information Domain: a Dutch Example Chris Baars EuroCRIS 2008 – June 5- 7 th Maribor
National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System
Outline AID: Three different worlds: CRIS, OAR & E-data Joining three worlds in NARCIS Digital Author Identifier (DAI) Persistent Identifiers (PI) Conclusions and further development
Academic Information Domain Academic Information Domain Personnel Information Domain Financial Information Domain Repositories CRIS E-Research H.R.Finan. Based on:
Component I: Dutch CRIS 14 CRIS’s participate in NOD, Dutch Research Database Researchers (expertise, research data and workplaces) Research Institutions and Research Schools (Profiles and Addresses) Current Research Programmes and Research Projects
Component II: OAR Central Access Point to the Dutch Institutional Repositories of Open Access publications (21 OARs) Dutch Academic Output that is available Open Access Subsections: Cream of Science and Promise of Science
Component III: E-DATA E-DATA Institute DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) Developed OAI interface on EASY – Electronic Archiving System Data themselves available under the conditions specified by the depositor Humanities and Social Sciences
Joining the three worlds: problems Organizational issues Willingness, commitment and participation Infrastructure: Benefit DARE-program (SurfFoundation) Technical issues Interoperability: OAI - PMH protocol Exchange formats: DC & DIDL / MODS for OAR’s CERIF based XML for CRIS
Joining the three worlds
Digital Glue Digital Author Identifier (DAI) Persistent Identifiers (PI) Interlinking Extra metadata elements
DAI in action
Persistent Identifiers (PI) Unlike URL’s, PI’s do not change in time Target URL should be resolvable National resolver functionality
Conclusions and Future Developments To create an AID the greatest challenges are organizational Need for integration on some level (DAI) Persistent Identifiers are necessary for sustainability and guaranteed access to the right information. Enhanced publications Validation tool Metadata store (NARCIS becomes a National Repository)
National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System