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& & AAquaculture quaculture RRepositoryepository

sharing scientific and scholarly sharing scientific and scholarly research research related to agriculture, food, and related to agriculture, food, and environmentenvironment

PRESENTER’S NAME

INTRODUCTION TO INTRODUCTION TO VOA3RVOA3R

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Open Access to Scientific Information

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This program is funded by ICT Policy Support Programme

The ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT-PSP) aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses.

VOA3R – General InformationVOA3R – General Information

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Repository Open Access Metadata Semantic Web Ontologies Social Web Other....

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OPTIONAL:It depends on the scientificbackground of the audience

Definitions and TermsDefinitions and Terms

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UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA SPAINAGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GREECEUNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN GERMANYGREEK RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK S.A. GREECESVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET SWEDENUNIVERSITEIT HASSELT BELGIUMAARHUS UNIVERSITET (ICROFS) DENMARKINSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE FRANCE

CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA v PRAZE CZECH REPUBLICACTA INFORMATIQUE FRANCECONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO CINECA ITALYTECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF ATHENS GREECEASSOCIATION DE COORDINATION TECHNIQUE AGRICOLE FRANCEMINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF CYPRUS CYPRUS

VOA3R: PARTNERSVOA3R: PARTNERS

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VOA3R in EUVOA3R in EU

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Improve the spread of European

Agriculture and Aquaculture research results

by using an innovative approach

to sharing open access research products

VOA3R objectiveVOA3R objective

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VOA3R activitiesVOA3R activities Platform to integrate metadata from existing OA

repositories Meta-model of research processes & lifecycle Analysis of existing & alternative approaches to

the evaluation of scholarly researchExperiment with alternatives to peer review

Ontologies to match the meta-model of research work

Metadata profiles Adaption of existing systems to comply and

interoperate with the VOA3R service Real-user pilots with target communities Roadmap & guidelines for the evolution of the

platform

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The situation todayThe situation today

Novel search engines as:

Databases as:

Citation systems as:

Indexes as:

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Google Scholar

PubMed

CiteULike

DOAJ

provide open scholarly content

to large masses

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Significant effort is still required

to retrieve relevant information for targeted needs and cover only some of the processes and tasks that are inherent to the nature of research work:

highly specific literature analysis and contrast, preprint publishing, informal feedback, different forms of peer evaluation and post-archival assessment

What about researchers & What about researchers & practitioners?practitioners?

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Will enable researchers to: formulate their information needs in terms of elements in their field

variables, techniques, assessment methods, kinds of objects of interest, etc.

combined with topical descriptions as expressed in metadata.

Re-using existing and mature metadata and semantics technology advanced.

Development of a community-focused integrated platform for the retrieval of relevant open content and data that includes explicit models of the scholarly

methods and procedures.

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Benefits from VOA3RBenefits from VOA3R(1/2)(1/2)

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Community approach will enableenhancement of information seeking with

extended evaluation elements ratings, public reviews, social tagging links to supporting or conflicting reports, etc.

complement and go beyond the traditional, anonymous peer review process.

The technology used will itself become open sourcecan be adopted by enterprises (including SMEs) or other kinds of institutions as a value-added, community-oriented model

for open access content

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Benefits from VOA3RBenefits from VOA3R(2/2)(2/2)

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CONNECTION WITH CONNECTION WITH ORGANIC.EDUNETORGANIC.EDUNET

the technology, the models and service

already deployed in the context of

the Organic.Edunet project

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VOA3R ServicesVOA3R Services Development of new ontologies and models,

specific to research work and research processes. Tailoring the semantic repository to ontologies of

research-scholarly work. Extension or specialization of existing search

interfaces to make them specific to the processes and tasks of scholarly or academic work.

New integration mechanism with systems that go beyond being OAI-PMH providers, as they may be necessary with open journal or open conference systems.

Innovative community functionality Adaptation of metadata schemes, developments of

new profiles, application to existing repositories.

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VOA3R InnovationsVOA3R Innovations Providing search and navigation mechanisms

that exploits representations of research work in the field, thus allowing advanced search for targeted research

needs. Combining search and navigation criteria

based on elements of research workwith domain ontologies in the addressed disciplines.

Extending the paradigm of an open access repositoryto that of a community of scholars and researchers that interact, rate and comment on scientific outputs.

Integrating in the service the research publication processfrom information seeking to final publishing and archival, including pre-print archival, reviews and intermediate

stages.

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TECHNICAL ISSUESTECHNICAL ISSUES(1/2)(1/2) Based on proven

metadata federation technology and semantic metadata repository technology

that was developed by the FP6 STREP LUISA project

and has been used in the Organic.Edunet project. Technology that integrates

conventional Web portal open source technology and existing systems

based on standards for metadata interoperability OAI-PMH, etc.

VOA3R focuses on agriculture and aquaculturebut its technology and approach could be

transposed to other domains seamlessly.

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New community functionalityspecific to the domain of scientific/scholarly

processes combination of conventional Web portal

technology and the semantic and social components that

provide the innovative features. Adaptations of metadata schemes,

new profiles and application of them to existing repositories

Relies in a mature architecture already used in the Organic.Edunet project, a main research outcome of UAH and GRNET.

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TECHNICAL ISSUESTECHNICAL ISSUES(2/2)(2/2)

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main innovations of VOA3R regarding the open access

philosophy Introduction of community aspects as a

desirable first-class element in open access.

Explicit modeling of processes and elements in research work, as a tool to enhance search and filtering of scholarly content.

CONTRIBUTION TO OPEN ACCESSCONTRIBUTION TO OPEN ACCESS

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Workplan of the projectWorkplan of the project

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VOA3R: NEED ANALYSISVOA3R: NEED ANALYSIS<Confernce nam

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study requirements of stakeholders with regard to the deploymentof the open access service/platformSet up the vision regarding desired goals,

expectations and outcomesReview and analyse current requirements

identified from the experience of partners related to producers and consumers of content

Carry out stakeholder meetings to discuss, validate and enhance requirements to reflect the VOA3R vision