Mission: design and development of services for the information management for sciences.

What we do: Search services, science portals, metadata, workflow

Our customers:

• European Physical Society EPS
• Max Planck Society with its 85 nationwide distributed Institutions
• National topical Libraries
• European Nuclear Physics Center GSI
• ..

• .. in new undreamt-of possibilities and opportunities to act
  [1994, when the www came up; January 94: web-servers of departments]

• .. in new unforseen powerful technical tools
  [1998: PHP, SQL, java, ..]

• .. in new unexpected services
  [2002: intelligent search, metadata, simulations, interactive modules,..]

• .. in new unimagined effective research and teaching habits
  [just-in-time international cooperation, external quality control of teaching, and research]

• sudden transitions

• infinitely large fluctuations

• before and after: a homogenous system

• new structures have no resemblance with the former one

• infinite transition coordinated effort necessary

• smooth graduate transitions
  [Selling of newspapers decline gradually]

• finite local fluctuations
  [ People are nervous of what is going on]

• coexistence of different structures
  [Locally people may be 'quite happy' in their old habits, even unaware of new opportunities at other places]

• local efforts can make partial transition
  [It is worth acting yourself]

• .. only digital services

• .. only sciences

• .. mostly only own experiences

• reducing local passive fossile document reading..
• brunching of slides, teaching material, paper-chapters,code-slices
• new means for direct communication of scientists
• new intelligent ways of retrieving material.

moving towards a new future time of 'blind trust', we do not know yet.

We have to define, learn, and implement

• new international standards,

• new services and their optimal service organisation
• new modes of learning, teaching, researching and their respective needs.

• find ways to reach the users, and the local library experts.

• move to end-user principle (in Germany: Knut Barghorn, Bernd Diekmann, 1989)

• form coalitions:

  One example: The DINI
  German Initiative for NetworkInformation

  Its mission:

  1. convince politicians

  2. train local library experts (OAi-training camps) so that they can train local authors and readers

  3. promote the German Academic Publishers GAP project

  4. assure professional standards, services and integration

  5. respond to changing learning strategies (from linear to graphical)

1. MareNet, and PhysNet

• Worldwide distributed Cooperation: National Physics Societies, Research Institutions.

• Charter of nonbiased noncommercial free service

• A distributed set of active gatherers, and brokers.

2. OAD Open Archive Distributed for Physics and Graduates

• NSF-DFG Project Partners: Virginia Technology, SUB Göttingen

• Integrate worldwide heterogenous document sources

  Realization by Heinrich Stamerjohanns by [Import of metadata into a 'Container', mapping to an internal format, export from container to an OAi-data provider PhysNet.]

  [OAi Open Archive Initiative for free and easy exchange of metadata].

• Heterogeneous distributed archives included are PhysDoc, ArXiv, all journals of IoPP, PhysDiss-International.

• OAD is a registred OAi Data provider

• compliant as OAi Service Provider [ca. 150.000 Documents]

• OAi-Installation-programme in-time for the release des OAi 2.0 PMH Protocol.

• Retrieval with ranking.

• robot to find local scientific documents (Factor 10 to PhysNet),

• dynamic field-specific vocabular for intelligent Search engine.

III .Competition

• of commercial services,
• of public libraries

Example: Dissonline at CvO: first: perfect service, no customers by local library.

Once the department set the rules and put up a server, the library took over.

• Obligatory Workflow for all Dissertations

• Contract with candidate before start (use MMM)

• Department server as nonpermanent posting machine

• Transfer to University Library with metadata

• keep original file, serve pdf.

IV. Quality control

1. by local colleagues (University Publishers)
2. by scientific community (ArXiv)
3. by next generation: Redundant living Longterm archiving of distributed documents

• Lossless publication
  full text, mathematic content (MathML), proofs, codes, data
• publish first, do refereeing and vetting then
  allows multiple serious and adapted vetting and refereeing levels [see peer reviewing of physics publications]
• Content rewriting
  ['representation mapping': code, math (components, component-free, integral, differential, geometry object, experimental setup, .. for the same content!]
• condensing to usable material
  instead of reading through piles of marginal papers
• keep information retrievable (long term archiving means constant lossless mapping of content)

Virtual Physics

Partners are all physics departments, the national libraries and the STN Host.

Concept: vertically structured , well refereed professional collection of collections.

Example: ViFaPhys leads via 'math.Methoden..' and Publications' to e.g. ArXiv

• Vivisimo.com Document clustering according to type and topic

• Completeplanet searches 103,000 databases.

• askJeeves good statistics on what people ask

• Look smart with collections of famous persons, pp.

• Teoma with good phrase findings

• Elsevier's machine

• Paracite finds citations (PARACITE).

• Netted Dynamic Field-specific Thesauri to answer what was expected (and not asked..)
• Connecting query, querier-information and history for personalized retrieval.

Physik Multimedial PMM

• Teaching class PMM Platform
• Search engine LiLi (distributed sources worldwide) lili

1. technical check for readability
2. bibliographic checking (references, metadata, formats, completeness)
3. author as scientist at a University
4. research group leader approval
5. institute approval
6. department series inclusion
7. blind refereeing
8. open annotation refereeing

Longterm archiving in Physics

Participants: most international publishers, national libraries and societies.

The one unanomous opinion is being cast into Charters.

A. IUPAP (International Union for Pure and Applied Physics),

and EPS.

This DRAFT-Paper is open for discussion.
physnet.uni-oldenburg.de"~hilf/eps/eps-ltadp.html
EPS (Acion Committee for Publication and Scientific Communication ACPaSC) recommendations will be:

1. Distributed redundant Archiving:

2. Local material archiving to be organized by the library of the author's institution.

3. Longtime archiving by the National Libraries

4. non-proprietary formats only (XML, CML, MAthML, XML, SGML, html, LaTeX,..)

5. archiving the full document content

6. Ensure nternational Retrieval-Standards (Metadata)

7. Support for condensing and reformatin content

8. multiple vetting/certification levels

9. free access for scientists and students

V. .. and the habits of us all

Mismatch of taken risks (traffic vs. lightning)

Prejudices: I know how I am doing things, I do it so long that way, therefore I am an expert..

Indeed: humans feel good in structures they are familiar with, thus they must be good.

Some answers: A. Focus on being read than offer to be read

I want to get all references for my research;
I do not care about getting read, nor to be visible on the Web.

I am proud of having papers being cited twice (and I do not know that free full text online papers are cited up to ten times.)

B. Focus on being hired

C. Focus on number of papers

D. Focus on to be praised by present day colleagues

But commercial publishers are not interested either (no way to make money now),
and government is just exploring how to do that,- and to archive what! (Marginal papers are not to be archived [cited from Zinn-Justin, Montonen and others]

VI. Final Remarks

• vision
• audacity
• setting out to the unknown
• curiosity
• sharpsightedness
• decision making
• acting

The future Librarians skills and tasks

• participate in research and development of international standards and services

• organize posting of University material

• train professional retrieval

• support creation and usage of eLearning modules

• participate in distributed long term archiving undertaking

• support free open access of science results (OAi intiative)

and serve me a wine!