Information Management for Science in Korea

Hyun Y. Cho

Department of Library & Information Science

Kyonggi University

hycho@kgu.ac.kr

Information Infrastructure in Korea

Issues Infrastructure for collecting information from the provider

and the producer How to collect data (information) more efficiently Data, produced by domestic producers

Infrastructure for providing information services to users How effectively providing services to users How to deal with intellectual property Information technology, standards…. What else? Too many things to consider

The first thing goes first Korean National Information Resources

Citation Patterns & User Study

Analyzed citation patterns of authors (articles) on domestic journals

Highly dependent on foreign information resources (especially, science and technology), over 90%

Journals, proceedings, technical reports, dissertations, web resources….

Reasons for preference to foreign information resources for doing research

Quality difference Reliability of foreign resources Difficult to find domestic information resources (1980’s)

Need to share national information resources Open access to research information

Important Information Resources

Important information resources in Korea are mostly from academic societies, universities, and other parts, such as government, private, and so on

The Sources of National Knowledge and Information Resources Academic societies : academic journals and proceedings Associations : journals and magazines Universities : theses and dissertations, other research papers Government or government-funded organization : research reports, white

papers, and other government publications National Museum : ancient documents National Archives & Records Service : national cultural heritages and other

national archives Other resources from private sector (Only for open access resources)

Digitization (Data Collection)

Digitization in Korea – role play

Who does what for digitization of resources in Korea KRF (Korea Research Foundation), KISTI (Korea

Institute of Science & Technology Information) Domestic journals from academic societies or universities

KERIS (Korea Education Research Information Service) and individual universities

Theses, dissertations, and other research papers from universities in Korea

National Library of Korea Legal deposit for electronic resources

Other institutes, publishers…. Need-base by an individual institute

Digitization in Korea – role play

continued Government-funded Information Centers

9 information centers, representing 9 major areas (Culture, History, Maritime, Industry, Science & Technology, Education, Information & Communication, Construction, and Law)

Digitizing research reports, government publications, for assigned subject area

KADO (Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion) Managing agent for 9 information centers (Mediating & controlling) Responsibility for making digitizing plan of national information

resources Budget allocation for digitizing of national information resources Responsibility the distribution and sharing of digitized information by

integrated services, called Korea Knowledge Portal

Digitization in Korea

Ways of Digitization in domestic resources Text-based data

A systematic approach to get original data (if possible, automatically)• Data collection system (ACOMS, dCollection, NTIS…..)• Those are the system, pursuing to collect digital documents on the spot wh

ere to be produced SGML, HTML, XML…….

Image-based Tiff, dvi, pdf, DejaVu…. Way of digitization for the past data (printed material)

Any other Legal deposit for digital materials by National Library of Korea (for t

he purpose of archiving and preservation)

Systems for Digitization in Korea

dCollectionBy KERIS, Korea Education Research Information ServiceA system for collecting metadata and digital documents from academic co

mmunities in Korea

ACOMSBy KISTI, Korea Institute of Science & Technology InformationA system to collect digital documents, produced by Korean academic societ

ies

NTISBy MOST, Ministry of Science & TechnologyA system to collect digital documents, produced by government-supported

organizations

Data Collection System - dCollection

A system for collecting metadata and digital documents, such as theses, dissertations, and other research papers from academic communities in Korea

Developed and operated by KERISTo preserve digital documents and to assure open access to

information 206 universities in Korea were attended640 thousands theses and dissertations (full-text) are includedWill be connected with major open archives in other countries

System Architecture of dCollection

National Knowledge DB

National Knowledge DB

articles others

reports thesis

Integrated DB

National Integrated DB

National Integrated DB

Duplication Detection Algorithm Data

Transfer

Data

collection

Users

Integrated DB

Integrated DB

OAI-PMH

Update requestUpdate request DP Management DP Management

SystemSystem

DB Integration SystemDB Integration System

Data Transmission Data Transmission SystemSystem

dCollection SP SystemdCollection SP System

dCollection DP SystemdCollection DP System

Full-textArchive

LocalMetadata

Data Exposing Data Exposing SystemSystem

Data Management SystemData Management System

Local Searching Local Searching SystemSystem

License Management SystemLicense Management System

Hosting Management SystemHosting Management System

dCollection int. retriev sysdCollection int. retriev sys

Local ServicesLocal Services

Integrated ServicesIntegrated Services

Data Collection System - ACOMS

Article COntribution Management System, developed and operated by KISTI

Two different Purposes; For Academic Societies : Web-based Paper Submission & Review System

To support the major activities of academic societies including membership management, journal processing, conference organization, e-journal management and search system

For Information Center : Web-based system for collecting information, produced by academic societies

To collect digital documents, in a systematic approach, produced by Korea

n academic societies At the present, 225 academic societies were attended

System Architecture of ACOMS

Journal DatabaseJournal

Database

NTIS : National S & T Information SystemDeveloped by Ministry of Science & TechnologyA part of National R&D Management Systemthe system, pursuing to collect digital documents on the spot

where to be produced Target data are research or project information from government

or government-funded organizationsOpen access to research informationSharing research results

Data Collection System - NTIS

National S&T Information SystemNational S&T Information System

National R&D ProgramSupport System

National R&D ProgramSupport System

R&D Planning & Man. Evaluation & Promotion

R&D Process

Innovation

National R&D ProgramMonitoring Board

Support Policy Making

Innovative S&T ActivitySupport System

Innovative S&T ActivitySupport System

National S&T Information System

National S&T Information System

Support R&D Activity

Support Industrialization

Industry

SupportPolicy Making

Economy

Education

Information ServicesKorean Knowledge PortaldCollection Service SystemKoreaScience Portal

Korea Knowledge Portal (Service)

Korea Knowledge Portal is the web-based information service system, designed to promote the circulation of the digitized Korean national knowledge and information resourcesOperated by KADO (Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and

Promotion) providing integrated information search services that encompass

9635 databases, scattered across various areas 331 government agencies operate service systems for their own databases

Korea Knowledge Portal gives the highest priority to maximize sharing and usage of national knowledge information

resourcesOpen to public

Korea Knowledge Portal

Data Distribution Ratio by Subject

A: General

B: Humanities

C: Social Sciences

D: Management/Economics

E: Law

F: Pure Science

G: Applied Science

H: Electronic/Electric/Comp. Sci.

J: Medical Science

K: Art/Culture

L: Language & Literature

M: History/Geology

A: General

B: Humanities

C: Social Sciences

D: Management/Economics

E: Law

F: Pure Science

G: Applied Science

H: Electronic/Electric/Comp. Sci.

J: Medical Science

K: Art/Culture

L: Language & Literature

M: History/Geology

Central Service Center

Integrated DB

Information Center

Specialized Information Center(Data Provider)

dCollection member librarydCollection member library

dCollection Service System & Korean Knowledge Portal

Korean Knowledge

Portal

dCollection Hosting Agency

Integrated DB

UserUser

A Portal To Provide a Seamless & Barrier-free Access to &

from World-wide S&T InformationOperated by KISTI (also operates ACOMS)Covers articles in domestic journals in science & technology

KoreaScience Portal

Korea-Science Service Structure

- Sorting- Refined Search- Category Search

-MD Registration-J. Registration to Comm. Aggregator

- - Article View-Citation Info.- ref. linking

National S &T Info.Link Center

E-journals E-journals

DOI

Link Center as a Bridge to the World

Concluding Remarks

We found a way to go, but we did not find a way how well to get there yet in sharing information among …..

Information Infrastructure is not a matter of how well to collect electronic data, but a matter of how well to cooperate and share information among libraries, countries, all over the world

The ultimate goal is to provide information services to users Should be ready to open, and to be shared

Digital Divide among people, countries should be minimized

How can we do?