1. Build a prototype Union Archive of Theses and Dissertations
(TDs) on physics that will probably include PhysDis-OAI, as well as subsets
of both the NDLTD Union Catalog and the OCLC TD collection (extracted from
WorldCat);
2. Build other prototype OAI collections: get various samples of
data from APS,
and use these to demonstrate a variety of Open Archives, of different
types. One large collection that may be available would be about graduate
schools and their physics programs.
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Themes
- Famous physicists with photos, links to their publications,
links to demonstrations of their key findings, …
- Union Catalog
of OAI Journals from APS-AIP
· Work on an XML Schema for their DTDs/Metadata
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Personal Open Archives with information about researchers
· Experiment with tools like Kepler, EPrints and others
a. Start with VT and Oldenburg Physics departments
b. Build hierarchies of OAs, for example, departmental OA
from the union of personal OAs.
3. Improve Requirement Analysis
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Extract requirements from site www.aps.org/statistics (Prof. Zia).
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Have APS/AIP help with some focus groups/surveys or other methods to identify
requirements/interests/needs.
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Start implementing prototype services as a way to get feedback from physicists
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Considered prototype services:
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Searching within MARIAN with evaluation
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Personalization
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Citation Analysis
The project will include research issues, analysis, design, and
prototyping. Some references include:
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Open Archives: Distributed Services for physicists and graduate students
(OAD)
Project proposal
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Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox.
MARIAN: Flexible Interoperability for Federated Digital Libraries, Proceedings
of the Fifth 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
for Digital Libraries (ECDL2001), Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-9 2001.
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Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox,
Eberhard R. Hilf, Michael Hohlfeld, Kerstin Zimmermann, Thomas Severiens.
Flexible Interoperability in a Federated Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations. In Proceedings of the 20th World Conference on Open Learning
and Distance Education, "The Future of Learning - Learning for the Future:
Shaping the Transition", ICDE2001, Duesseldorf, Germany, 01 - 05 April
2001
(PDF)
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E. R. Hilf, "Some Activities of the Group Oldenburg on Information Management
in Physics". Web bibliography. 2000. http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/~hilf/publications-UO.html
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E. R. Hilf, "Integration of Research Institutes into the Future World-Wide
Network of Scientific Information," presented at International Workshop
of Max Planck Gesellschaft MPG: The Transformation of Science, Elmau, Bavaria,
Germany, 1999. http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/~hilf/vortraege/Elmau/MPG-vortrag-full.html,
http://gwdu66.gwdg.de/elmau/hilf-abstract.html
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T. Severiens, "The EuroPhysNet-Project," presented at Proceedings of the
International Workshop of the AK-MetaDaten on "MetaData: Qualifying WebObjects",
1997. http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/workshop97/papers/severien5.1.98.html
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E. R. Hilf, P. G. Bosswell, and F. Laloë, "Many Opportunities for
Collaboration," Europhysics News, vol. 27, pp. 77, 1996. http://epswww.epfl.ch/ene/ene_apr96_paris_text.html
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Students involved: The following students are working on this project:
- Ni Liu (nini@vt.edu)
- Ye Zhou (yezhou@vt.edu)