# Presentation: 506249

## Frye Leadership Institute

-  Emory University, June 11th 2002

- Herbert Van de Sompel
- Los Alamos National Laboratory – Research Library

- 		systems for scholarly communication &
- the OAI-PMH

## scholarly 

- scholarly
- communication

## establishing a technological basis that

- allows addressing the other issues.

## intro

**intro**

## The OAMH protocol is a low-barrier interoperability specification for the recurrent exchange of metadata between systems

## the Metadata Harvesting protocol

## federated services

## metadata harvesting via OAMH

- metadata

- FTXT

## federated services via OAMH

- metadata

## body

- the interoperable grid

**body**

## the information chain

- Common representation of system for scholarly communication

## the information chain

- Common representation of system for scholarly communication

## In order to free our minds: 

-  let’s forget about who has been doing what and how in the existing system;
-  let’s look at what has to be done in a system for scholarly communication

## Systems for scholarly communication {Roosendaal & Geurts}

| registration | claiming a new finding |
| --- | --- |
| certification | certifying the claim |
| awareness | ensure information throughput |
| archiving | preserving the heritage |

**Notes:**
Each scholarly communication system MUST fullfill these functions

## Systems for scholarly communication {Roosendaal & Geurts}

| registration | claiming a new finding |
| --- | --- |
| certification | certifying the claim |
| awareness | ensure information throughput |
| archiving | preserving the heritage |
|  |  |
| rewarding | evaluating & rewarding performance |

## registration

- awareness

- archiving

- certification

*rewarding*

- Systems for scholarly communication

## It is -- at least -- legitimate to reflect on the possibility of a digital system for scholarly communication that is not merely a scanned copy of the paper system:

-  Serials crisis
-  Publication delay
-  Peer-review suppressing ideas
-  Digital archiving
-  Rewarding (citation dbases) stabilizes the system
-  Existing players competing for functions

##  deconstructed journal (Smith - 1993)

-  institutions as collectors/distributors of their author’s uncertified writings
-   journal publication as overlay service
-  _decoupling of registration and certification_

-  subversive proposal (Harnad - 1994)
-  author self-archiving

- Theoretical *new* models

##  xxx e-print archive (Physics - 1991 - Los Alamos - Ginsparg)

-  RePEc (Economy - Surrey U - Krichel)
-  NCSTRL (Computer Science - Cornell U - Lagoze)
-  CogPrints (Cognitive Sciences - Southampton U - Harnad)

- Implemented *new* models

- _registration_ - awareness - _no certification_

- details in _[D-Lib February 2000](file:///../schol-pub/phd-writings/htmls/UPS-Final/DLib-protoshort.htm)_

## A preprint in a digital scholarly communication system

| registration | yes |
| --- | --- |
| certification | no |
| awareness | yes |
| archiving | no |
|  |  |
| rewarding | no |

## A preprint in a digital scholarly communication system

| registration | yes |
| --- | --- |
| certification | no |
| awareness | yes |
| archiving | no |
|  |  |
| rewarding | no |

## Registration via preprints:

-  suggests the feasibility of a deconstructed system for scholarly communication.
-  suggests the possibility of preprints being the starting point of a new value chain in which the raw material -- the non-certified preprint -- is in open access.

##  sustaining versus disruptive technologies;

-  disruptive technologies:
-  somehow perform worse than established ones
-  not accepted by core customer base
-  but: convenient, cheap, ...
-  disruptive technologies can create competition in an existing value network by creating a new one first.
- => preprints as a disruptive technology

- The Innovator’s Dilemma {Christensen}

## Other functions must still be fulfilled.  

- In a fully electronic scholarly communication system, the implementation of the functions
-  can be distributed
-  can be fulfilled by different parties

## Achieve interoperability by ensuring that information about the fulfillment of the functions:

-  can travel across the system
-  can be shared by nodes of the system

## registration

- awareness

## registration

- awareness

## Extend the use of the Metadata Harvesting protocol to establish interoperability in a deconstructed scholarly communication system?

-  certification metadata
-  preservation metadata
-  usage metadata
-  author metadata
-  ....

## registration

- awareness

- certification

- Discovery meta
- Preprint

- Certification meta
- Data

## registration

- awareness

- certification

*rewarding*

- discovery

- certification

- usage logs

## registration

- awareness

- archiving

- certification

*rewarding*

- discovery

- certification

- usage logs

- preservation

## registration

- awareness

- archiving

- certification

*rewarding*

## registration

- awareness

- archiving

- certification

*rewarding*