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Fall 1999 Meeting of CNI Open Archives and the Santa Fe Conventions

Fall 1999 Meeting of CNI Open Archives and the Santa Fe Conventions. Donald Waters Program Officer, Scholarly Communications The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation December 13, 1999. Open ARCHIVES. Presumption of overlay services implies a distinction between archives and services “Archives”

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Fall 1999 Meeting of CNI Open Archives and the Santa Fe Conventions

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  1. Fall 1999 Meeting of CNIOpen Archives and the Santa Fe Conventions Donald Waters Program Officer, Scholarly Communications The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation December 13, 1999

  2. Open ARCHIVES • Presumption of overlay services implies a distinction between archives and services • “Archives” • May be bundled with a variety of services: index, search and retrieval, linking, etc. • Minimally, archives are “repositories” that take in materials (actively or passively), store them, and provide a set of “open” service interfaces

  3. OPEN Archives • “Open” • Openly specified persistent identifier for objects held • Openly specified native metadata set, including id field • Ability to represent material in common but minimal metadata set • Protocol for requesting and delivering both native and conventional metadata and content

  4. Discussion • The Mellon Foundation is interested in exploring the features of “open archives” and is willing to support development of them in multiple disciplines • The Foundation is particularly interested in particular features of these archives • There are many issues that were not addressed at the Santa Fe meeting and need to be aired not in the abstract but through experimentation and implementation

  5. Features of interest • The extent to which archives undertake to provide long term preservation of the materials they hold • The collaborative efforts (among scholars, scholarly societies, publishers, and libraries and universities) needed to create the archives • The development of a rich economy of services built on the presumption of permanent archives • The economic and organizational mechanisms for archives to sustain themselves in such an economy

  6. Technical issues • There was a narrow focus on key technical issues • Are these understood? • Object identifiers • Value of the common metadata set • Interaction of native metadata set with the minimal, conventional set

  7. What kinds of materials • Preprints and working papers are the principal focus of existing archives • Focus on gray literature as opposed to the formal literature • Author-archiving of published articles • Are other kinds of relationships with publishers possible? • Which disciplines are ripe for the development of open archives? Which are most resistant?

  8. Motivations for institutions • What incentives and rewards are necessary for institutions (e.g. libraries and universities) to invest in open archives • University-based archives • Publisher-based archives • Discipline based archives

  9. Motivations for authors • What would motivate authors to submit their own materials • Authoring tools • Active collection management • Institutional policy • Are protections of intellectual property (access control and preservation) factors for authors? Under what circumstances?

  10. Sustainability • Does open mean “free” to the user? • Do protections for intellectual property (access controls and preservation) have to be built into the architecture from the beginning? • What economic models are possible and plausible?

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