Introduction to the Cooperation between CAS and DRIVER

1. Jianxia Ma Xiaolin Zhang Zhongming Zhu majx@lzb.ac.cn Introduction to the Cooperation between CAS and DRIVER DRIVER Confederation Summit Ghent/Belgium 20th. Oct, 2009 National Science Library,CAS

2. Outline • Background : • What is CAS • NSL and some of it’s responsibility • NSL’s international cooperation • CAS IR Grid Current Status and Future • Consideration of OAI metadata harvester system • Why DNET • Requirements • Testing • Future expectations

3. Background : What is CAS • Foundedon Nov. 1, 1949 • Highest academic institution in natural sciences in China • Most comprehensive R&D center in natural sciences and high-tech development • Highest national advisory body in S &T

4. NSL and some of it’s responsibility • NSL—Library system of CAS • As Knowledge Organizer and Curator of CAS, we have the responsibility to organize, coordinate and support institutes and researchers to create, organize, preserve and communicate their knowledge outputs, and to organize and to make use of these information as components of CAS’s knowledge assets. • As knowledge Officer of CAS, we have obligation to provide necessary technical platform, running mechanism and policy instruction for institutes and scientists, in order to promote open access of science and technology information.

5. NSL’s international cooperation • As a part of NSL’s twelfth fifth-year strategic plan, we are developing operational international cooperation. This is not only included academic exchange but also included practional cooperation in resource development and service. • For example, DRIVER, COAR • Safe Places Network (National Library of the Netherlands KB ) • LOCKSS (Stanford Univ.) • Our aim is integration into the world, developing internationalized capacity of service.

6. CAS IR Grid Current Status In 2007, the CAS Institutional Repository Grid was brought forth Each institute establishes its own local repositories as a node of the Grid NSL constructs a centralized metadata repository, which could harvest the metadata of academic resources stored in many distributed institutional repositories NSL also keeps an integrated search interface for the resources and provides other enriched services

7. Targets of CAS IR Grid • providing the organizational and technological framework for a CAS-wide IR infrastructure for research • helping every institutes set up their own IRs to increase the visibility, and preserve their research outputs • implementing a harvester-based cross-repository search and browse service to enhance exposure of the CAS’s research output as a whole • making the GRID ready for becoming building blocks for national or international wide repository infrastructure

8. 12 branches • 97 institutes • 9 supporting institutions • 1 Grad school & 1 University IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR Future Institutional Repository Landscape CAS Distribution of Institutes of CAS IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences Xinjiang Branch Changchun Branch Institutes in Beijing area Shenyang Branch Lanzhou Branch Hefei institutes Nanjing Branch Xian Branches Shanghai Branch Chengdu Branch Kunming Branch Guangzhou Branch University of Science and Technology of China

9. System Architecture of CAS IR Grid IR for Inst. Of …… …... …... IR for Inst. Of Mech. eJournals Federated Institutional repository (Core) IR for Inst. Of Chem. eBooks OAI Repos. IR for Inst. Of Phys. …… …… IR for Inst. Of …… “Hub and Spoke “ Model

10. We have two steps to build our IR Grid • Step One: Building Institutional Repositories in Institutes • Step Two: Building the Federated Repository for the whole Academy

11. Step One: Building Institutional Repositories in Institutes Four tasks we have done Select the institute and set up examples for other institutes to follow Develop IR based on DSpace Integrate with the existing system (such as ARP) Help the institute plan and implement IR There are 39 Institutes signed the agreement and 29 Institutes have deployed IR, Some Institutes have already have data.

12. Step Two: Building the Federated Repository for the whole Academy Three tasks need to be done Deploy the IRs and Spread the IRs to institutes across the country Develop OAI metadata harvester system to harvest metadata from IRs in institutes to NSL center repository Develop value-added and augmented services

13. Some consideration of OAI metadata harvester system OCLC open source software OAI Harvester 2.0 are selected to be extended and integrated into DSpace via a way of plugin DRIVER’s open-source D-Net toolset are also considered whether it will be a better option for us

14. Why DNET • Open source • Open infrastructure • 2 years experience deployed in DRIVER • Cooperation between CAS and DRIVER

15. Requirements(1) • Stable, robust and flexible function • Localization/internationalization • Built-in mechanism for supporting localization/internationalization easily (interface, indexing and searching) • Support harvesting of a target repository which exposes its metadata with a customized metadata format

16. Requirements(2) • have a plug-in or add-on based design of supporting extended development • we may want to provide services as generating knowledge directories or maps at different granularity level, co-operation networks of institutions or individuals, and other significant semantic enhanced services • Detailed updated handbook about technical architecture and structure

17. Testing 1.DNET Foreground: 1)Driver Search interface http://210.77.64.222:8580/uoa-web/ 2)Validator Web Interface: http://210.77.64.222:8480/uoa-validator-web/ 2.DNET Background: 1)Repository Manager Interface: http://admin.t.china.driver.research-infrastructures.eu 2)Aggregator Manager Interface http://210.77.64.223:9000/cgi-bin/ASmanager.pl 3.We are looking forward to the stable edition DNET1.2

18. Future expectations • Investigation of DNET • As a member of COAR, we hope to get techniques, tools, resources and training support. • The fees of COAR should take into consideration of the capacity of every member • NSL hope to take part in the Advisory Board of COAR

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