Federated digital libraries in the field of Aquatic Sciences

OceanDocsAquatic Commons - Avano

Marc GoovaertsCoordinator OceanDocsStaff member Information TechnologyHasselt University Library

D4Science, Rome – FAOThursday, November 26 2009

Overview

1. Repository Development at IOC/IODE

1. OdinPubAfrica2. OceanDocs

2. Aquatic Commons3. AVANO

1.1. OdinPubAfrica

An African repository for marine science

OdinPubAfrica

A FUST project of IOC (Aug. 2004 – Aug. 2006) coordinated by Hasselt University and supported by the Flemish government in the framework of OdinAfrica

http://web.archive.org/web/20060822002821/iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/

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)

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

1.2. OceanDocs

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

OceanDocs NetworkIODE related repositories:1. OceanDocs

(31 institutes from Africa and Latin America) - http://www.oceandocs.net

2. Repositories with the same software: – IBSS(Sevastopol – Ukraine):

http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace/– CEEMAR (http://www.ceemar.org/) – 11 institutes –

Eastern Europe3. 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

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

Software Development

Based on the following assumptions:1. Open source software repository package: DSpace2. Use of community standards3. Cooperation with organizations with similar goals:

• FAO - Agris DSpace – Thesaurus plug-in

4. Development of integration tools • DSpace Harvester function (2010)

5. Support for setting up repositories: Easy-to-install version

Need of standardsOceanDocs Supports1. Metadata:

DC – QDC (Standard DSpace) MODS AGRIS AP – (FAO)

METS – DIDL – RDF (Standard DSpace)

2. Thesauri - Classifications ASFA

OceanDocs on DSpace 1.5.2

Available in December 2009

2. Aquatic Commons

Repository developed by IAMSLIC

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

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

3. AVANO

Harvester for Aquatic and Marine ScienceIFREMER

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

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 ?)

• Thank you for your attention.