IST-2001-33127 The new role of professional organisations in the management of scientific knowledge...

IST-2001-33127

The new role of The new role of professional professional

organisations in the organisations in the management of management of

scientific knowledgescientific knowledge

Žiga Turk, Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Bob Martens, Etial Petrinja

presentation at CIB W79 conference, Aarhus, June 2002.

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IST-2001-33127

April 19, 2023

CIB W78 – Aarhus 2002endCIB W78sciX projectexamplesas-isintroduction

What this talk is about?What this talk is about?

the SciX projectthe SciX project

what SciX can do for youwhat SciX can do for you

what you can do for SciXwhat you can do for SciX

introduction


Current situationCurrent situation

do researchdo research

write paper for freewrite paper for free

review for freereview for free

edit journal for freeedit journal for free

give away the copy-right for freegive away the copy-right for free

buy the results of the above buy the results of the above (subscribe to journal)(subscribe to journal)

as-is


Who else is adding valueWho else is adding value

publisherpublisherprinting, subscriptions, distribution

librarylibraryarchiving

catalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI)catalogue builder (ICONDA, ISI)cataloguing, indexing, citation counting

professional organisationprofessional organisationhanded the journal over to the publisher in the early 1900sendorses a journal

as-is


Who is the userWho is the user

researchersresearchersas readers (?)who thought of it first (?)

general publicgeneral publiccan they afford it (???)

research evaluation research evaluation administrations (!)administrations (!)

as-is


ResultResult

inelastic marketinelastic market

periodicals crisisperiodicals crisis

fewer subscribers, costlier fewer subscribers, costlier journalsjournals

package dealspackage dealsUniversity/country licenses readers have less control over subscriptions

as-is


Exemplars of free modelsExemplars of free models

e-journals and archivese-journals and archivesLos AlamosCiteSeerOpen Archives

free softwarefree softwareGNU/GPLOpen SourcePerl Artistic License

free standardsfree standardsInternet RFCs

examples


BaselinesBaselines

the ITcon journal (1996)the ITcon journal (1996)electronic journal of IT in constructionpublication time 4-5 months500-1000 readers per paper

CUMINCAD (1999)CUMINCAD (1999)cumulative index of CAD4000 papers with abstracts1000 with full texts800+ registered users

survey on e-publishing (2000)survey on e-publishing (2000)read electronic, publish on paperdon’t care who reads

W78’96 and W78’2000W78’96 and W78’2000web based organisation

examples


SciX projectSciX project

IST-2001-33127IST-2001-33127, KAIII, KAIII

EU funding €1.000.000EU funding €1.000.000

200 person months200 person months

Project durationProject duration1.2.2002 - 31.1.2004

Partners: 7Partners: 7

Deliverables: 20Deliverables: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen source

Web: Web: www.www.SciXSciX..netnet

SciX project


PartnersPartners

academicacademicLjubljanaHankenSalfordVienna

e-businesse-businessIndra

professionalprofessionalIBRI, FGGI

SciX project


Partners (cont.)Partners (cont.)

SciX project


What are we doingWhat are we doing

process modelling of the as-is process modelling of the as-is processprocess

suggestion of the to-be processsuggestion of the to-be process

study of the barriers to changestudy of the barriers to change

system analysis and designsystem analysis and designinteroperabilityinformation modelsstandards compliancemachine learning, clustering

SciX project


Tangible results – Tangible results – demonstratorsdemonstrators

e-journal infrastructuree-journal infrastructure

preprints, PhD theses archivepreprints, PhD theses archive

bibliographic indexbibliographic index

content wrappingcontent wrapping

as rentable infrastructureas rentable infrastructure

and/or open source codeand/or open source code

SciX project


Related work in Related work in construction informaticsconstruction informatics

ontology of constructionontology of constructionwhat is construction informaticswhat are the objects of study, how to structure the fieldautomatic clustering/classificationICCI project – http://icci.vtt.fi/

interoperabilityinteroperabilityDublin coreOpen archives standardsTopic mapsWSDL“semantic” web

SciX project


Past role of CIBPast role of CIB

member organisationsmember organisations

experts in these organisationsexperts in these organisations

names and addressesnames and addresses

get them together from time to get them together from time to time, workshops, conferencestime, workshops, conferences

distribute newslettersdistribute newsletters

CIB W78


What has changed?What has changed?

today – people found on the Internet, today – people found on the Internet, groups established ad hocgroups established ad hoc

easy to get sm@rt people together, new easy to get sm@rt people together, new tracks of conferences …tracks of conferences …

the difference is inthe difference is inpast track recordprestige

where is it?where is it?buriedgrey literature

CIB W78


What SciX can do for W78What SciX can do for W78

W78 digital archive … all W78 digital archive … all proceedings in electronic formproceedings in electronic form

searchablesearchable

friendly to general and specialised friendly to general and specialised search enginessearch engines

CIB W78


What W78 can do to helpWhat W78 can do to help

provide content in digital formatprovide content in digital format50% of the costs is digitalisation (UMICH)80% in the case of CUMINCAD

fund digital archivefund digital archive

how much?how much?ECPPM 2002 … E100 per paper SciX should provide an answer (estimate E5-10 per paper)

W78 bylawsW78 bylawsfree, electronic availability of paperssupport digital archive through conference feesunify format of the papers

CIB W78


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