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Creating the Flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons

Creating the Flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons. presented by Stephanie C . Haas, Jan Heckman, and Lisa Raymond. Presented at SAIL 2008 Panama, Republic of Panama April 14-16, 2008. Aquatic Commons Initiative

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Creating the Flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons

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  1. Creating the Flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons presented by Stephanie C. Haas, Jan Heckman, and Lisa Raymond Presented at SAIL 2008Panama, Republic of Panama April 14-16, 2008

  2. Aquatic Commons Initiative is a model for digital resource sharing between stakeholders in the marine/aquatic information world. Its integrative architecture accommodates researchers and research institutions at all technological levels.

  3. History of the Aquatic Commons Initiative 2005 The Aquatic Commons Initiative was introduced to the ASFA Board and IAMSLIC at the Rome meeting. 2006 The Aquatic Commons Implementation Task Force was charge witH implementing the "Aquatic Commons." Task Force’s report was submitted in August 2006. Discussion and voting occurred at the annual meeting in Portland. IAMSLIC signed the contract for the development of an EPrints based repository with the Florida Center for Library Automation. Fred Merceur of IFREMER announced the development of the AVANO harvester. An Aquatic Commons Board appointed to oversee the development of the repository.

  4. 2007 • Aquatic Commons repository is built on version 3 of EPrints. Goes live in August and deposits begin in September. • AVANO out of IFREMER is designated as the official harvester for IAMSLIC. Google and OAIster also harvest records, and repository is registered at Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories • Web site is created off the IAMSLIC home page athttp://www.iamslic.org/index.php?section=175 • ASFA Board allocates $28 000 dollars to help build digital collections. • Late 2007, three working groups are formed to help further the Aquatic Commons mission: Collection Development Working Group, Metadata Working Group, and a Tech Group.

  5. 2008 • Recruitment of content begins • Citation format display is modified for monographs • Issuing agency is added as a “branding” field similar to communities in DSpace

  6. Active contributors include:

  7. Deposits into AC (n=909 as of April 10, 2008)

  8. Statistics December 2007- January 2008 • 1,919 unique IP addresses visited; an average 169 users per day • 2,500 downloads

  9. Statistics January 2008 - March 2008 update Visits from 4,612 unique IP addresses; daily average between 100 to about 600 visits Total # of visits = 11,649; 10,192 of these visits were not referrals or links from other sites like Google * Over 1,000 searches in Google led users to aquacomm.fcla.edu * the top non-search linking sites were enaca.org, www.irfremer.fr, eprints.org, agnic.org, iamslic.org

  10. Navigating the site Most browses were by subject categories (50% of all browsing), followed by year (25%) and then the "latest additions" category (25%). 167 Simple searches conducted within the repository search interface 197 Advanced Searches conducted within repository search interface Record #125 was the most-viewed object metadata record (52 views)Florida's East Coast Inlets: shoreline effects and recommended action. Aquaculture Asia Oct. 2007 issue was the most downloaded paper (89 downloads)

  11. http://aquacomm.fcla.edu

  12. Repository purpose and scope • Facilitate exchange of scientific research related to marine/aquatic environments. • Build content based on born digital and legacy documents produced by IAMSLIC member organizations and their partners. • Offer repository services where local, stable IT support is lacking (or where non-OAI compliant services exist). • The contents of Aquatic Commons goes beyond the scope of the Open Access which focuses on capturing the scientific and research literature that authors give to the world without expectation of payment. • Long-term goal is to assist in providing access to legacy collections.

  13. Relationship to OceanDocs Aquatic Commons is one of a number of thematic digital marine and aquatic repositories. It is complementary to OceanDocs, which is supported by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) specifically to collect, preserve and facilitate access to all research output from members of their Ocean Data and Information Networks (ODINS). The records of both repositories are harvested by Avano which aggregates records from marine and aquatic repositories around the World.

  14. Creating the Flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons • Reasons to share through Aquatic Commons Initiative • Open access materials are used more, both in terms of citations and downloads. • NIH, Wellness Trust, and other governmental agencies have taken the position that publicly funded programs should make the results of those programs freely available to the public. This interpretation is rapidly gaining global acceptance. • Malcolm Getz of Vanderbilt reported “a sevenfold increase in use of the MedLine Index followings its move to open access and 30% use by non-professionals, which clearly suggests that there can be a significant impact beyond traditional subscription users…” • Aquatic Commons repository is OAI compliant permitting service providers to harvest and broaden access.

  15. Listed with: Harvested by: AVANOOAIsterGoogle • ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repostories http://roar.eprints.org/) • SCIRUS http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp • OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/) • University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registryhttp://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/details.asp?id=2218

  16. Email account Aquatic Commons Board now has a Google mail account: AquaticCommons@gmail.com

  17. Searching and depositing

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