Federated digital libraries in the field of Aquatic Sciences

1. Federated digital libraries in the field of Aquatic Sciences OceanDocs Aquatic Commons - Avano Marc Goovaerts Coordinator OceanDocs Staff member Information Technology Hasselt University Library D4Science, Rome – FAO Thursday, November 26 2009

2. Overview • Repository Development at IOC/IODE • OdinPubAfrica • OceanDocs • Aquatic Commons • AVANO

3. 1.1. OdinPubAfrica An African repository for marine science

4. OdinPubAfrica A FUST project of IOC (Aug. 2004 – Aug. 2006) coordinated by Hasselt University and supported by the Flemish government in the framework of OdinAfricahttp://web.archive.org/web/20060822002821/iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/

5. The goals of OdinPubAfrica • Facilitate publishing of research findings by African scientists (e-journal as well as e-archive) thereby promoting African research and increasing access by African scientists to the international research forum • Make scientific publications in the field of marine science and oceanography in Africa more easily and freely accessible • Enhance the internal scientific communication • Develop an OAI-compliant repository providing access to full-text publications created by scientists affiliated to African institutes (with 1500 documents at the end of the project)

6. Development of OdinPubAfrica • Training: • Local coordinators (16 information managers) • Appointment of 2 DSpace administrators: • West-Africa – French • East-Africa - English • Support by UHasselt and IOC • OdinPubAfrica – training material at:http://www.uhasselt.be/bibliotheek/demos/oceandocs_e.htm • Implementation at institute level: • Agreement of the management • Implementation of an institutional repository policy = most difficult part = the result of the work of the information managers of OdinAfrica

7. 1.2. OceanDocs

8. From OdinPubAfrica to OceanDocs • Repository development has been identified as a major goal by IOC • Information management training sessions • Interest of ODIN communities: OdinCarsa – OdinCindio – OdinECET – … • Two-level approach is unavoidable • Institutes have their own repository • The oceanographic collection will be a part of a larger institutional repository • The OceanDocs Central will be available for smaller institutes and institutes with limited internet capacity

9. OceanDocs Network IODE related repositories: • OceanDocs (31 institutes from Africa and Latin America) - http://www.oceandocs.net • Repositories with the same software: • IBSS(Sevastopol – Ukraine): http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace/ • CEEMAR (http://www.ceemar.org/) – 11 institutes – Eastern Europe • Related institutional repositories: • NIO (Goa-India): http://drs.nio.org/ - On DSpace • ODINPimris (http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj/) – on Greenstone - ± 15 institutes - South Pacific

10. Statistics OceanDocs • Records: 2797 • Downloads: • Africa: 2008: 82.617 - 2009: 134.071 • L. America: 2008: 63.891 - 2009: 96.186 • Most visited collection: • In Africa: Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisia. (25.723 downloads) • In Latin America: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Argentina. (56.085 downloads) Since May 27, 2008. See http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/stats

11. Software Development Based on the following assumptions: • Open source software repository package: DSpace • Use of community standards • Cooperation with organizations with similar goals: • FAO - Agris DSpace – Thesaurus plug-in • Development of integration tools • DSpace Harvester function (2010) • Support for setting up repositories: Easy-to-install version

12. Need of standards OceanDocs Supports • Metadata: • DC – QDC (Standard DSpace) • MODS • AGRIS AP – (FAO) • METS – DIDL – RDF (Standard DSpace) • Thesauri - Classifications • ASFA

13. OceanDocs on DSpace 1.5.2 Available in December 2009

14. 2. Aquatic Commons Repository developed by IAMSLIC

16. IAMSLIC Network • Worldwide organization of libraries and information centres related to aquatic and marine sciences and their allied disciplines • 325 members from 86 countries • Services: • Union list of serial holdings in members libraries • IAMSLIC Z39.50 Distributed Library (common search interface to the holdings of over 84 marine science libraries) • Aquatic Commons – Since 2006

17. Aquatic Commons Repository offered to any marine or aquatic researcher to deposit full text of research No repository at host institution Host institution cannot implement a repository Not covered by ODIN OceanDocs programme Complementary to OceanDocs Working with OceanDocs http://iamslic.eprints.fcla.edu

18. 3. AVANO Harvester for Aquatic and Marine Science IFREMER

20. OAI harvester for marine and aquatic sciences - AVANO Developed by Fred Merceur, Ifremer / Bibliothèque La Pérouse As of November 2009, contained 192.000 records harvested from more than 200 open archives and 2 commercial editors Designating Avano as the official harvester for IOC/IODE - OceanDocs the Aquatic Commons Initiative. IAMSLIC proposal: thematic harvester offering federated searching across: repositories, IAMSLIC’s Z39.50 distributed library the union database of marine serials and the ASFA database

21. Repositories in Aquatic Sciences • Two major projects: • Aquatic Commons (IAMSLIC) • OceanDocs (IOC/IODE) ! Need for submissions + Many other repositories and digital collections • One Harvester AVANO • Basis for extra services: • Integrated search tools • Linking between publication(s) and data (OdinAfrica ?)

22. Thank you for your attention.