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Networking and aggregating projects across Italy, Europe and Latin America for the benefit of public health
Paola De Castro Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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THIS IS NOT A TECHNICAL PRESENTATION
No metadata schema, protocols or data modelsbut hints on how to make them work!
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Networking
A key word in a global society
Communication and understanding Technical, financial, political aspects Experience of networking project
for OA in Europe and Latin America
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Pre-requisite for networking
Share common goals Guarantee free access to information
for all Regardless of geographical,
cultural, technological, institutional and legal barriers
Find joint solutions
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Framework: health information
Access to health information is essential and strategic at national and
global level directly affects population and the
entire community Researchers, physicians, patients and
the general public e.g. Disease outbreaks, environmental
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Concepts
Information value for individuals and institutions at stake(use, career, revenue)
The 5 W in the information chainWho, What, Why, When, Where
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Background
Publishing Unit at ISS(National Institute of Health in Italy)900 researchers – 1800 publications per year
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Priviledged observatory (contacts with authors, editors, publishers, librarians, informatoin scientists, administrators, general public)
Long experience with training and support for authors
Production and diffusion of publications (institutional and others)
Development of a thematic repository (DSpace ISS) 28.000 items
4.400 full-text
The OA policy of the ISS.A strategy of involvement
Technological infrastructure as a pre-requisite Involvement of administrators Meeting in Liegi in Oct. 2007, ISS Policy Jan
2008
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The ISS policy for OA (mandate) is taken as an example for many research institutions in Italy and Europe
Policy is not enough Continuous INVOLVEMENT of all stakeholders is
the key Hard work
LESSONS LEARNT
Technologies (protocols, standards, metadata, etc.) are a necessary
BUT NOT sufficient condition to provide change
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The human factor (HF) deeply affects the functioning of any (technological) systemThe Treaty of Lisbon (2007) of the EU, stresses the value of the human being as center of all actions to be taken for the development of a common policy
Consideration of the socio-cultural background is fundamental for the most appropriate application of existing technologies
The same applies to the policies or other mandatory actions in favour of OA
How do we convince authors?
Talk and support Provide examples
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- Show how to increase their attractiveness and academic fitness
- Provide statistics (citations, download, etc.)
The modern researcher and the peacock's tailD. Whiteman, Lancet 2007
How do we promote change?
Connecting people at different levels Working together for common goals The example of NECOBELAC project
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www.necobelac.eu
NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe
and Latin American Caribbean countries
to spread know-how in:
is a three years project (2009 – 2012) funded by the EU to develop a
public healthand health-related disciplines
AIM
All stakeholders in scientific communication
NECOBELAC
TARGET
AREA
scientific writing open access publishing
12RIBDA 2009 Innovación en el Acceso Abierto a la Información Agrícola y Ambiental – Lima 27-29 Octubre 2009
Europe-Latin AmericaFP7 collaborations: 102 3 Science in Society (NECOBELAC) 9 International Cooperation 17 Health 13 Infomation Communication Technologies 6 Infrastructures 7 Socio-economic sciences and humanities and many others
How many things in common? Welcome CRIS-CEFIF!
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NECOBELAC STRATEGY Bi-directional approach EU-LAC Involving people and institutions
Creation of a network Training course for trainers
Selection (trainers will replicate courses) Learning from the others (experts)
Use of online resources (topic maps)
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NECOBELAC network
Partners NECOBELAC
Participants in the training program for trainers (T1)
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Public health institutionseditors, librarians, authors, information specialistsEuropa –Latin America and Caribe
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Courses will be replicated at local level, thus further developing the net
NECOBELAC 2-level TRAINING
TRAINING 1 (T1) Participants are
experts scientific writing open access
Plenary discussions Working groups
Role of future trainers in NECOBELAC T2
TRAINING 2 (T2) Participants are not experts
scientific writing open access
Ad hoc training programs Local requirements Technical issues Socio-cultural-economic issues
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Competence and flexibility
First Training course for trainers Sao Paolo April
2010 30 participants from
LAC public health institutions
Teachers NECOBELAC partners
and local experts
Major feedback Provide support to
use existing technologies
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Topic maps as a training tools across national borders
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Topic maps use the semantic web to represent online resources and their associations
TOPICS represent concepts (people, objects, modules)
ASSOCIATIONS represent relationship among concepts
OCCURRENCES represent information sources
Topic maps allow the best use of technologies according to different scenarios
Attributes of topic mapsAccording to Ontopia Project, editor of the topic maps, contents should be Modular Extensible Flexible Portable Reusable
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http://code.google.com/p/ontopia/
It is a perfect solution for NECOBELAC training strategy
NECOBELAC Topic map created for Scientific publication
Topic map created for Open access vs public health
In systesis
Networking is essential in our society to make information (documents/data) available for all to avoid duplications of work to share and grow
Technologies help to create the network and share data
A legal framework is necessary to make technologies work
The human factor always plays a basic role to make the best use of existing technologies and policies!
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Thank you
NECOBELAC - www.necobelac.eu
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