SINN01 - First International Technical Workshop of the project SINN - Searchengine Network in the International Natural Science Network

PhysNet
- the Charter and the international partners of PhysNet

Eberhard R. Hilf; Institute for Science Networking, Oldenburg, Germany

The concept of distribute-and-collect

Distributed Document Databases at the Physics Departments and Institutions worldwide
Distributed local, regional or national gatherers
(for administrational information anddocuments)
Distributed service providers (brokers): the SINN01-topic
Distributed workforce for add-on services and development

The history of PhysNet

Started as service for EPS by Eddy Lingeman.
Concept of distributed services by ERH (Physics) and M. Grötschel (Mathematics) at the Meeting in Halle 1994
Installation for EPS in 1995
Development of Links and services

Usage

Details of Usage

International Coherence

A Charter has been set up to set the frame for an unbiased coherent cooperation of a multitude of institutes, departments, national societies.

Ingredients are

those who signed do participate in developing the concept,
have to name a responsible person,
have to name an operator,
have to introduce the usage of metadata for documents to be funneled into PhysDoc. A Web-Uploadform is offered to ease this.
have to name a stable URL for the departments homepage,
create a stable document list of local document lists to be included into PhysDoc.
get the reward of influencing the future of PhysNet ingredients,
get the reward of getting wider read and retrieved worldwide,
get the reward of automatic being inlcuded into the OAi distributed metadata-using document and service provider network, - without having to fullfill their regulations.
get the reward to contribute constructively to the Physics as a science.

The appeal of the charter has been nicely demonstrated by S. Krashakov and L. Shchur.

Interdisciplinary Coherence

A cooperation agreement had been prepared for Mathematics, with the IMU International Mathematical Union as a partner.

IMU wants to negotiate with IUPAP.

Technical cooperation takes place on metadata and PACS/MSC classification and search query splitting.

IUPAP at its LTADDP conference Nov. 2001 has included in its proposition for recommendations the endorsement of PhysNet of EPS.

PhysNet is the only distributed physics service using the local institutions document data bases.

IuK, the Information and Communication Initiative of the German Learned Societies, has set up workgroups on metadata and e-journals.

The IuK-workgroup ArVe works on 'Networking of fieldspecific services. It serves e.g. collections on Open Archive Initiative OAi, Copyright, and input forms for departments.

Lists of field-specific services are found at Arve-portals and by PhysNet.