Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI

 Context ◦ Data e-Infrastructures  Metadata evolution  Interoperability Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

Managed set of services Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 Network management  Transparent access to computer and storage capabilities  Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and Auditing  Process management  …. Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 Transparent access to metadata and document collections, ontologies, thesauri  Metadata aggregation and transformation  Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment  Provenance and preservation management  Search, retrieval and access and visualization  Authority files management  Shared workspace management  …. Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 European Repository Infrastructure ◦ 249 research institutional and thematic repositories ◦ 33 countries  Major services: ◦ Transparent access to metadata collections ◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation ◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment ◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 European Commission Open Access Mandate Pilot ◦ Articles resulting from EU funded research should be Open Access  Major services: ◦ Transparent access to metadata collections ◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation ◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment ◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization ◦ Bibliometric analysis ◦ Project/people performance analysis Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 Data Infrastructure on Grid-enabled Technology serving Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resource Management scientific communities  Major services: ◦ Transparent access to metadata collections ◦ Metadata aggregation and transformation ◦ Automatic metadata cleaning and enrichment ◦ Search, retrieval and access and visualization ◦ Products generation (from raw data) ◦ Compound objects creation Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

VRE Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

1. Univ. of Pisa Repository 2. DSpace technology 3. SERRA Univ. Center Implicit Assumptions 1. o Language is Italian o Dept names are known o Classification by agreed vocabulary o Policies are those established by the Univ. 2. o Dspace doc model o DC metadata o OAI-PMH harvesting protocol 3. o Connected to GARR - GEANT network Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

o Different language o Different doc policies o Different org policies o Different actors roles o Different quality measures o …… Implicit assumptions e.g. o Agreed metadata format o Agreed harvesting protocol Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome Aggregator

Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome Aggregator Different information objects manipulation workflows

 Access & processing policies  Provenance (i.e. who created an object, how, where, when and why)  Object quality  Users and roles  Processes  …  Organizations  Projects  ….. Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 Shared information objects must be equipped with contextual information Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome Aggregator

Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome o Repositories maintain and expose a richer set of metadata CRIS Aggregator or o Authority data are maintained in specialised repositories

 e-Infrastructure service  Source of authority information Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome Aggregator

Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 Achieving interoperability in data e-Infrastructures is much complex than originally expected  Complex and rich metadata: quality, policies, provenance, user roles, derivation processes, …. Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

The capabilities of the data e-Infrastructures will largely depend on the use of standards Standard Mediation Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome

 An important element in facilitating the realization of data e-Infrastructures Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome CRIS Aggregator CRIS

Workshop on CERIF, CRIS and Institutional Repositories, May 10-11, 2010, Rome