1. MPDL –Einführung
Malte Dreyer

2. Locations Distributed organization (~ 23.000 staff)
Cooperation between different locations is very common
Locations outside Germany are not shown (Nijmegen, Florence, Rome, Shanghai, Florida,…) 1

3. Fields diverse set of fields not a broad as many universities
Chemistry, Physics, Technology
Biology, Medicine, Brain Science
Law, Art, History, Cognition
not a broad as many universities
but more interdisciplinary

4. The Max Planck Institute Libraries
FTE
Average FTE
Total 71
230
3.2
BioMed Section 25
40.6
1.6
ChemPhysTech Section 26
43.4
1.7
SocSciHum Section 20
145.1
7.3
Key characteristics:
small special libraries with high degree of autonomy
no common library system
no common cataloging or common library standards
different regional and subject requirements
organized along section lines and through „Sprecherrat“
+ Max Planck Digital Library (~ 40 FTE)

5. Max Planck Digital Library MPDL
Founded in 2007
Departments
Information Provision
Research and Development
Complemented by activities in many institutes
Close cooperation with Institutes

6. Department for Scientific Information Provision

7. Grundversorgung in Figures
Volume
Ca. 16K eJournals
Ca. 14K Aggr-items
Ca. 9T eBooks
Ca. 90 Databases
Cost distribution
1.2% for BMS & CPTS
0.8% for GSHS
+ central funds
Budget: Solidargedanke,
Without German National Licenses 6

8. Development of eJournal Platforms & Fulltext Requests
Spending ~14 Mill. € in 2009
60+ direct publisher contacts p.a.
150 current licenses
160 retired licenses
140 ntl. licenses backfiles
150 end-user interfaces
45 admin interfaces

9. Department for Research and Development
Scientific Virtual Research Environments and Infrastructure
Integrated Publication Infrastructure for the MPS
Digital Collection Management
Development of Service Lines
E.g. support in digitization projects
Projects and Competency Center in eScience/eResearch
We develop Software Infrastructure and Software Applications
We provide Solutions for the Management of Publication and Research Data for the Scientists and Scholars
We Maintain and Support Infrastructure and Solutions
We are committed to Open Source

10. Use of information technology for enhancing research
eScience / eResearch =
Use of information technology
for enhancing research
Kurt Mehlhorn, Director MPI for Informatics, Interim Head of MPDL, Vice President MPG -2008

11. Some Services Online
Pubman is for the management and dissemination of publication data
Discipline specific, fexible, component based
Faces is for managing und publishing of image data
Discipline specific images and metadata
Publication and sharing of subsets
VIRR is for digitized resources
Editing of descriptive and structural metadata
Standards based viewing environment
WALS is the World Atlas of Language Structures
More than 2,500 languages covered
More than 140 linguistic features described
Living Reviews are scientific Open Access journals
Innovative concept
Five journals online
We use the term „Solution“ to name our web applications directly heading for user requirements

12. Services /1

13. Services /2
Solutions /2

14. Building Infrastructure and Solutions

15. The eSciDoc eResearch Infrastructure
A Repository Infrastructure
An Infrastructure for Virtual Research Environments
A Publication Infrastructure
A Set of Services, Tools and Content Models
An Archive
Web Applications

16. eSciDoc: What for?
Publish, Visualize, Manage and Work with Data Artifacts
Publication Data
Research Data
Across Disciplines
Using a Service Oriented Architecture
Unified Infrastructure and
Specialized Solutions
Within the context of Research Questions
Integrating existing Solutions
While also addressing Aspects of
Data Reliability and Data Quality
Data Curation and Long Term Preservation
Artifact Lifecycle Support
Semantic Relations between Artifacts

17. eSciDoc Usage

18. Research Data Radio X-Ray Optical John Hibbard
NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Fabbiano et al.

19. Research Data – Primary Data

20. Research Data – Analysis Data

21. Example of a Network of Interrelated Objects
Metadata
Annotation
Transcription
Metadata
Translation
Metadata
Annotation
© Institut Catholique, Paris, France

22. From Ideas to Publications, an example Workflow
Collaboration
Idea
Exploration
Data Acquisition
Experiment
Aggregation
Analysis
Publication
Archiving
Continuum of Data

23. One Repository Technology, Multiple Services and Re-Use
Repositories
Services
Re-Use

24. Stable Citation for research data

25. Internal MPDL Projects
Cross-Linguistic Database Platform
HARVE
Inter (Interoperability of Data Repository)
JusCMS (Publication Management Solution)
Linguistic texts enhancing PubMan
RoR (Registry of Registries)
XML Workflow
A databse to share linguistic material
Building an archival network for audio and video digitizations
To connect Repositories
To connect PubMan to local CMS and extend for discipline specific metadata
Extending PubMan for Linguistic material
A registry to register other registries and databases
Scientific support services for digitization

26. Example: XML Workflow Scope Services to be developed
Develop services for supporting structured XML editions of digitized material
Services to be developed
A service to support the preparation of structured XML editions
A rich display and access environment to present text and images in parallel
A virtual exhibition environment to allow for individual presentation of material
An Open GI network to make GIS work manageable for individual researchers
To be integrated into the MPDL framework of services
Partner
MPI for History of Science
A service to support the preparation of structured XML editions     specifications for data entry of European and Chinese texts completed     approx. 100 texts transcribed according to specifications     "ECHO" XML schema in Relax NG 1.0 completed     several model texts structured as XML A rich display and access environment to present text and images in parallel     backend system based on eXist/Lucene developed (will have REST API)     prototype display system created, supporting rich search, including lemmatized search     interface with existing linguistic middleware implemented     interface with existing image presentation software (Digilib) partly implemented A virtual exhibition environment to allow for individual presentation of material     completed An Open GI network to make GIS work manageable for individual researchers     prototype version of historical GIS with SQL backend and interface with Google maps API     detailed architecture for more modular production system fully documented

27. Projects

28. Thanks for your attention