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RcLIS towards a Digital Library for Information Science

Learn about RcLIS, a digital library for Information Science that aims to compile and provide access to research documents, facilitate information interchange, and promote open access. Explore its architecture, characteristics, and related initiatives.

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RcLIS towards a Digital Library for Information Science

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  1. RcLIStowards a Digital Library for Information Science José Manuel Barrueco Cruz Imma Subirats i Coll LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  2. 1. We are going to talk... • About a digital library: RcLIS • What is RcLIS? • Research in Computing, Library and Information Science [http://rclis.openlib.org] • 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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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) LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  5. 3. RcLIS architecture (2) LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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 [http://dois.Mimas.ac.uk] LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  7. 4. Characteristics of RcLIS (2) • RcLIS holds metadata about 13.000 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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  9. 6. Open Archives Initiative [http://www.openarchives.org] Service O A I Author EndUser Archive Author Service Author LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  10. 7. E-LIS[http://eprints.rclis.org] • International open access archive for Eprints of Library and Information Scienceand 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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  11. 8. Similar initiatives • @rchiveSIC • 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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  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 LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

  14. http://rclis.openlib.org http://dois.mimas.ac.uk http://eprints.rclis.org LIDA 2003 -- Dubrovnik

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