1. RcLIS towards a Digital Library for Information Science
José Manuel Barrueco Cruz
Imma Subirats i Coll
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LIDA Dubrovnik

2. 1. We are going to talk... About a digital library: RcLIS
What is RcLIS?
Research in Computing, Library and Information Science [
Inspired by the open source software movement
Managed by a team of volunteers made up of professionals (librarians, computer scientist or economics) from countries like Spain, Italy, USA, Bosnia or India
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3. 2. Objectives of RcLIS
Develop a digital library for Information Science
Compile and place in the public domain metadata about research documents
Facilitate the access to the freely documents available on the Internet
Create a process to interchange bibliografic information and electronic documents
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4. 3. RcLIS architecture (1) Built on a distributed architecture
Two categories of participants:
Archives: data providers
Services: provide some added value to metadata
Rules of the interchange of metadata from archives to services:
Guildford Protocol
ReDIF (bibliographic format)
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5. 3. RcLIS architecture (2)
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6. 4. Characteristics of RcLIS (1)
Archives
Structure of directories and files defined in an FTP or HTTP server
ASCII files
Three main data providers
RcLIS:jul (University of Salamanca, Spain)
RcLIS:upv (Polythecnic University of Valencia, Spain)
RcLIS:aib (Associazione italiana Biblioteche. Italy)
Services
DoIS, Documents in Information Science [
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7. 4. Characteristics of RcLIS (2)
RcLIS holds metadata about documents (6.900 in electronic format and freely available)
Failed to get on board the main content providers of the discipline
Why?
No tradition of preprints and working papers, publication concentrated in journals and conference proceedings
Organised by large societies and institutions, and don’t see clearly the advantages
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8. 5. Does it needs any improvement?
We need new data input methods
Self-archiving (Stevan Harnard)
A new concept  E-prints
Authors are the only owners of the documents they produce
They can store them in their home pages or in public archives  higher visibility for their works
But…in those place documents are of little interest if we can’t interoperate and interchange metadata…
Open Archives Initiative came to solve this problem
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9. 6. Open Archives Initiative[
Service O A I
Author
EndUser
Archive
Author
Service
Author
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10. 7. E-LIS [http://eprints.rclis.org]
International open access archive for Eprints of Library and Information Science and related disciplines
We created E-LIS in January 2003
Its objective is to make the full text of scientific documents…
Visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and useable…
…by any potential user with access to the Internet
Totally free for any user
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11. 8. Similar initiatives @rchiveSIC DLIST
centred in France
OAI data provider
DLIST
centred in USA
Only documents in english
Why another archive for LIS is needed?
Alternative to the author
International effort without language or geographical restrictions
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12. 9. Characteristics of E-LIS
Built using the eprints software
developed at the University of Southampton
Contribution policy very simple
Any document related by topic with LIS
Available electronically
Any format
Must be relevant to research in LIS
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13. 10. Conclusions RcLIS is in transition phase
Two types of archives and protocols live together
We hope in the near future the old archives in Guildford Protocol will be moving forward to adopt the OAI-PMH model
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14. http://rclis.openlib.org http://dois.mimas.ac.uk
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