and cite:
Eberhard R. Hilf;
Electronic Services in the Sciences:
international work-sharing, competition,
quality control- and the habits of us all;
given at
Palmer School of Library Science, Long Island University, USA ;
12th Dec. 2002
physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/~hilf/vortraege/nyc02/
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The ISN
Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg
Mission:
design and development of services for
the information management for sciences.
What we do: Search services, science portals, metadata, workflow
Our customers:
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European Physical Society EPS
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Max Planck Society with its 85 nationwide distributed Institutions
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National topical Libraries
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European Nuclear Physics Center GSI
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..
Collaborators:
Julika Mimkes,
Thomas Severiens
Michael Hohlfeld
Heinrich Stamerjohanns
and 10 students
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Industrial revolutions come in a set of related phase transitions
- .. in new undreamt-of possibilities and opportunities
to act
[1994, when the www came up; January 94: web-servers of departments]
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.. in new unforseen powerful technical tools
[1998: PHP, SQL, java, ..]
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.. in new unexpected services
[2002: intelligent search, metadata, simulations, interactive modules,..]
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.. in new unimagined effective research and teaching habits
[just-in-time international cooperation, external quality control of teaching,
and research]
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What to learn from Physics about Phase Transitions?
Infinite Systems show
- 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
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Finite Systems show
We aim at future stable structures, qualitatively different from what we are used to.
We have a problem of convincing our local colleagues in a world of transition.
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global new ways of communication and cooperation
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From a time of 'blind trust' in a stable structure
[users know what to expect from a refereed journal article,
librarians know what skills they need, what tasks they have]
moving towards a new future time of 'blind trust', we do not know yet.
We have to define, learn, and implement
Thus in a time of change librarians have to cooperate worldwide and
with their customers to find out what their future skills and tasks are to be.
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How to change the habits of us all
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Some examples of International Coooperations
1. MareNet, and PhysNet
are sets of link lists.
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2. OAD Open Archive Distributed for Physics and Graduates
- NSF-DFG Project Partners: Virginia Technology, SUB G�ttingen
- 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.
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robot to find local scientific documents
(Factor 10 to PhysNet),
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dynamic field-specific vocabular for intelligent
Search engine.
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Once the full document is free online available,
then in the ocean of possible add-on services competing
leads to a boost towards more effective and useful services.
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.
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by local colleagues (University Publishers)
- by scientific community (ArXiv)
- by next generation: Redundant living Longterm archiving of
distributed documents
Improvement of Quality and Professionalism
- Lossless publication
full text, mathematic content (MathML),
proofs, codes, data
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publish first, do refereeing and vetting then
allows multiple serious and adapted vetting
and refereeing levels
[see
peer reviewing of physics publications]
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Content rewriting
['representation mapping': code, math (components, component-free,
integral, differential, geometry object, experimental setup, ..
for the same content!]
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condensing to usable material
instead of reading through piles of marginal papers
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keep information retrievable (long term archiving means
constant lossless mapping of content)
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Some Portals and Entry Points to Science Fields
Virtual Physics
is a joint enterprise of the topical National Library in Germany, TIB Hannover.
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
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(see Frank Patalong,
Spiegel
journal 2002 ,
- Netted Dynamic Field-specific Thesauri to answer what was expected (and not asked..)
- Connecting query, querier-information and history for personalized retrieval.
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eLearning refereed quality filters
Physik Multimedial PMM
is a project of the five North-German Universities.
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Teaching class
PMM
Platform
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Search engine LiLi (distributed sources worldwide)
lili
LiLi uses an own
Metadata-set based on [DC, IEEE, LOM, Ariadne]
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as proposed by us for the GAP Project [German Academic Publishers]
- technical check for readability
- bibliographic checking (references, metadata, formats, completeness)
- author as scientist at a University
- research group leader approval
- institute approval
- department series inclusion
- blind refereeing
- open annotation refereeing
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Longterm archiving in Physics
IUPAP-Conference Lyon 2001:
LTADDP Long term archiving of distributed documents 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:
- Distributed redundant Archiving:
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Local material archiving to be organized by
the library of the author's institution.
- Longtime archiving by the National Libraries
- non-proprietary formats only (XML, CML, MAthML, XML, SGML, html, LaTeX,..)
- archiving the full document content
- Ensure nternational Retrieval-Standards (Metadata)
- Support for condensing and reformatin content
- multiple vetting/certification levels
- free access for scientists and students
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How to change attitudes of individuals in what is not their profession?
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.
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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.)
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I want to become hired as professor: so better fullfill the rules
(and assume it is the number of citations, papers, talks, visits,..
.. and do not realize that criteria are changing,- not the
intent to find the best one.)
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I write well written sketches of my research findings to impress the
referees
(and never learnt that those who distributed their full code,
opened a more long standing respect and progress.)
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I neither know nor care for long term archiving.
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]
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What is needed to change the habits of us all are
seldom found and therefore called Leadership qualities.
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The future Librarians skills and tasks
- participate in research and development of international standards
and services
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organize posting of University material
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train professional retrieval
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support creation and usage of eLearning modules
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participate in distributed long term archiving undertaking
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support free open access of science results (OAi intiative)
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Give your remarks
and serve me a wine!
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