SYNAT - the Polish National Research Content Infrastructure

1. SYNAT - the Polish National Research Content Infrastructure Wojtek Sylwestrzak, ICMTomasz Rosiek, ICMTomasz Krassowski, ICM Tartu, EstoniaJune 27, 2012

2. Agenda • What is Synat? • Strategic reasoning: • status of Polish content infrastructure • ICM experience – YADDA • Strategic goals: • objectives and approach • delivery and partners • Products: • results to be accomplished • key features: Infona and Synat • Future development: directions, ideas

3. Synat is... (1/2) • The Polish nationalstrategic research programme to build an Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information • The nationwide open digital library environment being standardised way to create and maintain individual digital libraries (DLs) • The cooperation project of the leading universities, libraries, research institutes and museums • The initiative allowing future easy development and enhancement due to the open source development policy

4. Synat is... (2/2) • An information infrastructure development project, expected to seamlessly integrate Polish heterogeneous digital research content resources • An approach to facilitate knowledge exchange between Polish scholars • An easy way to publish research articles • A platform to build various customised content management systems

5. Strategic reasoning: status of Polish content infrastructure • Several autonomous institutional repositories – various data description formats and user interfaces • Lack of central, national multisearch engine – libraries use dedicated, mutually not interoperable software • Licensing issues and limitations – large part of content is licensed to be accessed exclusively by given institutions • Need for functionalities resulting from ICM experience with large repository projects – YADDA (>10m full-texts), Polish Scholarly Bibliography, DRIVER, OpenAIRE • Limited uptake of dLibra and Digital Libraries Federation (DLF) developed by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (c. 0.5m full-texts)

6. Full text collections of Elsevier and Springer journals, also much more Seamlessly handles several millions of full-texts (>10m research papers) Integrates various sources in one system Core platform for other services: e.g. EuDML Some components used in DRIVER, OpenAire Strategic reasoning: ICM experience – YADDA • YADDA platform is a central national solution to address compatibility and availability issues in Polish science • Has a great impact towards building comprehensive national Virtual Library system • Hosts both publicly available and restricted access publications

7. Strategic goals:objectives and approach • Synat has a status of a research project, funded by the National Centre for Research and Development • We expect to implement the results of research and launch the system operationally • Three types of tasks are distinguished within the project • Practical tasks – core development of the software and implementation of the system • Purely research tasks – the development of algorithms and theoretical methods • Structural tasks – administration of the project delivery, marketing and management activities

8. Strategic goals:delivery and partners • Synatcombines effort of leading Polish institutions developing digital library and repository systems • ICM, University of Warsaw(the project leader) • Warsaw University of Technology • Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH • National Library of Poland • Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science (PAS) – Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center • National Institute of Telecommunications • Institute of Computer Science, PAS • MIM, University of Warsaw • NASK • Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology • Wrocław University of Technology • Łazarski University • Jagiellonian University in Krakow • Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw • Military University of Technology • WETI, Gdańsk University of Technology

9. Products: results to be accomplished The Infona Portal (end user interface) Alternative front-end modules Modules for data exchange: interfaces and protocols Digital library hosting service application The Synat Platform (core) Scientific raw data support modules (e.g. store, analyse, domain specific search) Journal hosting service application Other extension modules Data Acquisition Module (data supplier interface) Search options enhancement modules (e.g. semantic search, audio/ video search) Data analysis, enrichment and enhancement modules

10. Products: key features of Infona portal (1/2) • Supports searching & browsing functionalities • Allows access to the content (hosted and external) • Enhances DL group collaboration experience: • Enables publishing of users' content (e.g. papers) • Empowers expression of opinions via discussion tools and ranking best performers by rating of articles • Facilitates knowledge sharing by sharing links to articles and ability to create virtual collections of documents • Maintains quality of content by means of extensive error and abuse reporting functionalities

11. Products: key features of Infona portal (2/2)

12. Products: key features of Synat platform (1/2) • Scalability • Modular approach to system development allows both easy enhancement of system functionalities and virtually unlimited load scalability • Supports several millions of content records • Allows to build a network of institutional repositories that may be connected to the central core system • Will allow attachment and detachment of services to the whole system without downtimes • Enables low-scale deployment, when needed – could be used as a project or institution knowledge repository

13. Products: key features of Synat platform (2/2) • Interoperability • Supports several data exchange formats and mechanisms in addition to own BWmeta data model • Enables metadata exchange between Synat and other systems, to enable search and browsing within all parts of the system • Open access policy • Allows open access to content, supports access control and licensing • Open sourcesoftware enables development and integration of additional software modules

14. Digital library hosting service Software supporting development and management of publication repositories for institutions Deployable standalone or in a software-as-a-service model Possible sharing of data with Synat platform Future development: directions, ideas Journal hosting service • Software facilitating building of websites for journals • Publishing process automation • Supports customisation of layout and features • Deployable in standalone or in a software-as-a-service model • Possible migration of data to Synat platform

15. Acknowledgements • This work is partially supported by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) under Grant No. SP/I/1/77065/10 by the Strategic scientific research and experimental development program: SYNAT - “Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information”.

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