1. CNRS Documentation project : CCSD (Center for Direct Scientific Communication ) Htask meeting (Madrid) 06/12/2001 - Lyon Daniel Charnay / Hélène Jamet

2. 2 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 2 2 CCSD – Who are we ? Small entity of the French National Center for Scientific Research, created in July 2000 Within the IN2P3 computing center (excellent computing environnement : high connectivity, back up facilities, … ) 2 computer scientists

3. 3 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 3 3 CCSD – Our mission Provide direct communication to scientists –Free access to scientific documents on the web, by extending and improving the Los Alamos ArXiv system) –Direct submission of papers (preprint, thesis, articles,…) on the web –Subscription to automated mailings Extend scientific domain coverage ( Life science – Humanities and Social sciences – Physics - …)

4. 4 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 4 4 Los Alamos database model (ArXiv) Open archive concept : an open database –Worldwide accessible –Free –Updated by scientists themselves –Permanent (reliable, long term archiving for digital documents) Some figures –2 500 papers by month –150 000 papers stored –120 000 access a day –Mirror sites in 16 countries (USA, Europe, Asia, Africa)

5. 5 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 5 5 CCSD : our plans (1) Support –Several document format ((La)TeX,eps, JPEG, PNG, PS, PDF, RTF/Word,…), –Links between papers, –Versioning, Assume long term archiving –Native format document storage, –XML format transformation and storage, –Technologic database migrations, Data exchange with other preprints database (ArXiv) and Publisher database (APS, …)

6. 6 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 6 6 CCSD – our plans (2) Convert document format "on the fly" (reader oriented), Use of powerful Search Software, Store Metadata for reliable, fast and powerful search, Provide Metadata using standard protocol like Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Provide friendly web interface

7. 7 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 7 7 CCSD: Links and Contacts Our web site : http://ccsd.cnrs.fr http://ccsd.cnrs.fr OAI web site (Metadata Harvesting) http://www.openarchives.org http://www.openarchives.org ccsd-tech@in2p3.fr

8. 8 ccsd.cnrs.fr Charnay-Jamet 8 8 The End… Questions ?