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The current situation of Stellar partners
From Stellar Deliverable 6.4
This section summarizes the current situation of every Stellar partner regarding its relationship with the SOA: nomination of a facilitator, availability of publication feeds, submission of links towards publication repositories, ongoing work and discussion.
1 The Open University UK [Coordinator]
- Facilitator: Fridolin Wild (f.wild@open.ac.uk)
- Feeds:
- Links: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/fridolin-wild
- http://mohegan.wu-wien.ac.at:8097/publications+showBib+BibTex+author+Wild
- http://mohegan.wu-wien.ac.at:8097/publications+showBib+rss+category+education
The Knowledge Media Institute does have a publication database (called ‘Impact’), from which no export mechanism is publicly available at now. But it can easily build one along the lines described at http://stellarnet.eu/d/6/3/Publication_feeds, as it has already been made for the STELLAR deliverable repository: http://www.stellarnet.eu/index.php/tools/deliverables_rdf.php
SOA accounts have been created on request for various KMi members.
2 Université Joseph Fourier FR (UJF)
- Facilitator: Nicolas Balacheff (nicolas.balacheff@imag.fr)
- Feeds: http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/rss?latestpublicationsbystamp_METAH
- Links: http://www.telearn.eu/open-archive/browse?browse=collection¶m=36
UJF MeTAH team is used to upload papers in the TeLearn open archive since its creation.
- Number of papers: 94 videos: 7
- (7 submissions in 2009)
3 L3S Research Center - Leibniz Universität Hannover DE
- Facilitator: Eelco Herder (herder@L3S.de)
- Feeds:
- Links: http://dblp.l3s.de/L3S/?q=all&resTableName=query_resultdKLJLx&moreProjects=3&project_facet[]=Mobile+Learner&project_facet[]=TENCompetence&project_facet[]=ELENA&project_facet[]=GRAPPLE&project_facet[]=ELAN&project_facet[]=Edutella&project_facet[]=ELEONET&project_facet[]=PROLEARN&project_facet[]=mst-bildung&resultsPerPage=
L3S has a publication database that is based on a Faceted DBLP system. By selecting the relevant projects, a relevant publication stream can be constructed. (see link above). This constructed list cannot be exported as a RSS-feed at now, but developing such a publication feed is under consideration.
For now, the given link results in 98 entries, whose examination shows that:
- their TEL relevance should be scrutinized
- no exporting facility appears
- individual BibTex references sometimes exist but are often not available
- no documents or link to documents are available
- several references are duplicated
4 Knowledge Media Research Centre DE
- Facilitator: Ulrike Cress (u.cress@iwm-kmrc.de)
- Feeds:
- Links: http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/publikationen/index.html
Most of the KMRC publications are journal articles, book chapters, proceedings etc… Because of copyright issues, pdfs are not available. But bibliographical data can be found at the address given above where a single RSS 2.0 feed is available.
Examination shows that:
- single RRS feed is rather poor in term of bibliographical metadata
- no document is available, nor link, (or password protected)
- no search / sort mechanism is available
- no way to assess TEL relevance
- the German language is frequent
5 Centre for Social Innovation AT
- Facilitator: Ingmar Karner (karner@zsi.at ) and Bernhard Bauch (bauch@zsi.at) ?
- Feeds:
- Links:
The ZSI is currently redesigning and restructuring its website completely and wonders how much sense it would make to invest a lot in defining an interface for the current website. An "easy" export can be made for the moment and in the new website the publications will already have the structure and meta data requested to add them directly to the Open Archive.
Contacts with facilitators are going this way.
6 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne CH
- Facilitator: Pierre Dillenbourg (pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch)
- Feeds: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai2d
- http://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai2d?verb=ListRecords&set=TEL&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
- Links: http://infoscience.epfl.ch
EPFL has an institutional database (InfoScience) from which publications could be exported as a feed. The InfoScience archive is OAI-PMH compliant and the staff is preparing an OAI interface that could provide a feed. Up to the SOA now to become a harvester and be able to process this feed. The ‘TEL feed’ will contain the publications of those EPFL researchers involved in Stellar.
Investigation: Ongoing discussions focus on the operability of such a feed:
- adding new researchers
- ascertaining of TEL relance
- duplicates
- matching of publication types with SOA types
- quality and richness of metadata: too few abstracts, author identities duplicates, no author/lab affiliation etc.
An OAI interface is valuable if the harvesting process can be made fully automatic from the SOA (still to be developed). Periodically run, it will take care of the new items only. At now, as a BibTex export is available from InfoScience (on a author by author basis), it is used to feed the SOA BibTex import facility,in order to provide a quick result.
7 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE
- Facilitator: Erik Duval (erik.duval@cs.kuleuven.be)
- Feeds:
- Links: lirias.kuleuven.be/
- https://lirias.kuleuven.be/items-by-author?author=Duval%2C+Erik%3B+U0016838
Publications from KULeuven are available at the institutional repository, called LIRIAS (see link above). The only problem is one of filtering out the relevant publications. The facilitator will experiment a bit with various ways to do so and get back once this is clearer.
Investigation:
- Not any apparent export mechanism from the LIRIAS site.
- assessing TEL relevance?
- many Dutch records
- metadata are present but not exportable; a database dump ?
8 Open University of the Netherlands (CELSTEC) NL
- Facilitator: Dirk Boerner: ( dirk.boerner@ou.nl ) . Fallback and please cc: Fred de Vries (fred.devries@ou.nl), Marcus Specht :(marcus.specht@ou.nl)
- Feeds:
- Links: <http://dspace.ou.nl> (publications, software, presentations)
- <http://celstec.org> (news, new book publications, blogs of colleagues)
- <http://celstec.org/medialab> (medialab podcasts, delicious bookmarcs, flickr stream)
All OUNL contents are open and can be syndicated from the links mentioned above.
Investigation:
- DSPACE : dublin-core description case by case but OAI Interface ?
9 Know Centre AT
- Facilitator: Peter Kraker (pkraker@know-center.at)
- Feeds: http://i-know.tugraz.at/2009/papers/feed
- Links: www.know-center.at
KC publications are listed at www.know-center.at An enhanced RSS feed is being developed to export them.
10 University of Freiburg DE
- Facilitator: Dejana Diziol (dejana.diziol@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de)
- Feeds:
- Links:
Most of the publications from the University of Freiburg team are protected by copyright that does not allow to send the pdfs. The team will be happy to provide the bibliographical data, and to actively upload any documents emerging from its work within STELLAR.
11 Atos Origin s.a.e ES
- Facilitator: Noaa Barak (noaa.barak@atosresearch.eu)
- Feeds:
- Links:
Atos agree that it is important to give the OA an initial push in order for it to be successful. It is considering ways to contribute to the archive. Daniel Burgos is working on a position paper for the Science corner Atos suggests to increase the outreach and visibility of the OA by integrating it into the TEL-europe platform (placing a banner, adding an OA search functionality or an automatic recommending system that suggests OA items related to discussions taking place on the TEL-europe platform). A unified login system is a concern (openId ?)
12 Summary
Despite a slow take off, the implication of most of the partners is now ‘on the rails’. Their commitment to feed the archive, as far as their scientific production is concerned and their institutional policy approves it, is real. The WP6 meeting in Grenoble, end of January 2010, was very productive in this regard. Most of the partners will produce a publications feed in a ‘stellarized format’ in a short term. It is up to SOA to digest them.