1. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers BELIEF Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers The Project & the Digital Library 3 rd October 2007 EGEE’07 Conference Budapest Franco Zoppi (CNR-ISTI, Italy) franco.zoppi@isti.cnr.it

2. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 2 Contents BELIEF in brief BELIEF & EELA BELIEF knowledge repository: the DL –Accessing the DL –The Information Sources –Components, Functionalities and Services Future actions Conclusions

3. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 3 BELIEF in brief – The Project BELIEF is founded by the European Commission DG INFSO Research Infrastructure Unit BELIEF: –Is a One-stop-shop for finding about eInfrastructures –Is a common dissemination channel for eInfrastructures projects –Brings together eInfrastructures users & providers, research and business –Promotes the use of eInfrastructures for new applications and regions

4. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 4 BELIEF in brief – The Partners Greece: University of Athens Ireland: Engitech USA: University of Wisconsin India: ERNET Italy: CNR ISTI; Metaware SpA (co-ordinator) Brazil: Universidade De São Paulo

5. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 5 BELIEF in brief – Key concepts Digital Library: store, search, access, maintain and preserve Research Infrastructure knowledge Conferences: understand eInfrastructures in emerging economies (Latin America & India) Brainstormings: new applications & technology reports Joint communications: eInfrastructures guide & DVD Portal: communication & networking platform Research-Industry: Networking & Synergies (Research-Industry handbook on opportunities for business in context of eInfrastructures)

6. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 6 BELIEF in brief – The BELIEF Worldwide Community BELIEF & other RI FP6 Projects (See: http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/projects.htm ) http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/projects.htm –LoSs and/or MoUs signed with 55 of them for dissemination and documentation harvesting for DL feeding –Over 400 Community Members registered on the website from different regions and sectors: 50% EU Projects & Research; 20% Business; 15% Gov 60% Europe; 30% India; 15% Latin America –Specific synergies with DILIGENT ( DIgital Library Infrastructure on Grid ENabled Technology ) and DRIVER ( Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research ) Reuse of their products (e.g. DLMS modules, Data harmonization, etc.) Feedback to them, acting as a “User Community”

7. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 7 BELIEF in brief - Events Brainstorming 3: Dublin – Business Applications Brainstorming 2: CERN - Biomedical Informatics Brainstorm 1: Linz - Knowledge Infrastructures International Conference 1: New Delhi International Conference 2: Rio de Janeiro Brainstorming 4: Rome Networking 1: Helsinki Networking 2: Hamburg

8. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 8 BELIEF in brief – Events outputs Report on Business Applications Report on Biomedical Informatics Report on Scientific Repositorie s Report on Indian eInfrastructures Priorities Report on Latin American eInfrastructures Priorities Report on Cultural Heritage Research & Industry Handbook-II Research & Industry Handbook-I

9. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 9 BELIEF in brief – The Portal

10. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 10 BELIEF in brief – DL growth at a glance PLANNED vs. ACTUAL 1st year 2nd year 1st year 2nd year (month 21 out of 26) Sources 8 30 14 35 Collections 15 40 27 48 Documents 2.000 6.000 3.000 12.500

11. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 11 BELIEF & EGEE-EELA Signed a LoS and a MoU with BELIEF to collaborate with the BELIEF partners in the setup of a Digital Library integrating EGEE and EELA documentation together with other relevant projects, initiatives and organizations. The collaboration led to: –Organize joint events (Rio Conference with EELA) –Include in the BELIEF DL EGEE and EELA metadata and documents from INDICO, EDMS and Training Library

12. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 12 EELA in the BELIEF Digital Library

13. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 13 DL Access To submit documents, contact info@beliefproject.org, To start browsing and searching, just go to www.beliefproject.org and access the DL there

14. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 14 DL Access Browse by document type, project, etc… e.g. by Projects…

15. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 15 DL Access …then by document type

16. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 16 DL Access …or Search by any metadata value… e.g. « Any field contains 6DISS » Field + Operator + Text

17. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 17 DL Access …then access the result set

18. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 18 Release 1 (M6 - April 2006) –CONDOR –DANTE with: ALICE EUMEDCONNECT GEANT, GEANT2 TEIN2 –DILIGENT –eConcertation –EGEE –SEE-GRID Release 2 (M12 - October 2006) –BioinfoGRID –DRIVER –e-IRGSP –EUChinaGRID –EUMEDGRID –Grid@Asia –ISSeG Release 3 (M18 - April 2007) –6DISS –EELA –ETICS –EUIndiaGRID –EuQoS –GridCC –ICEAGE –int.eu.grid –LOBSTER –MUPBED –Research Infrastructure Unit –SEE-GRID2 and –AIM@SHAPE –DELOS –iSGTW DL Information Sources

19. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 19 Automatic Harvesting –EELA –EGEE –DANTE with: ALICE EUMEDCONNECT GEANT, GEANT2 TEIN2 –DILIGENT –ETICS –ICEAGE –iSGTW –SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID2 –SEEREN2 Batch submission via XML Schema –EuQoS –AIM@SHAPE –MUPBED Native integration –DELOS –DILIGENT On-line submission –6DISS –BioinfoGRID –eConcertation –CONDOR –DRIVER –e-IRGSP –EUChinaGRID –EUIndiaGRID –EUMEDGRID –Grid@Asia –GridCC –int.eu.grid –ISSeG –LOBSTER –Research Infrastructure Unit DL Harvesting & Feeding Modes

20. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 20 Standard protocols and formats –OAI-PMH –XML, RSS –DC, DCQ, MARC, UNIMARC, MARC21 Proprietary programmatic interfaces –CDSware APIs –EDMS APIs –FEDORA APIs Repository sharing (DELOS, DILIGENT) DL Harvesting & Feeding Modes

21. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 21 Created using the OpenDLib DLMS (Digital Library Management System) –A Scholnet project outcome (http://www.ercim.org/scholnet/)http://www.ercim.org/scholnet/ –Engineered up to product level (http://www.opendlib.com/)http://www.opendlib.com/ Customized to cope with requirements and suggestions from both: –Consumers & Providers –BELIEF Portal DL – The OpenDLib DLMS

22. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 22 Information Contents –Feeding (via harvesting or submission) –Creation (acting as an authoring system) –Discovery (via browse and search) –Management (of metadata, documents and manifestations) Information Space – Personalization (creation of collections) DL Management –Metadata definition –Document Models implementation User Access –Via graphical user interface for end-users –Via API (relying on OpenDLib Toolkit) for programmers DL Functionalities

23. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 23 DL Hosting Service –For projects which want to delegate maintenance of their documentation to BELIEF. –BELIEF supplies a web-based interface for the submission of documents to directly feed the DL. –The submission interface makes use of customizable submission models provided by BELIEF. DL Extended Access Service –For projects which want to maintain full control on their documentation. –Rules and tools to periodically harvest new documents and feed the DL are agreed with the projects. –Tools for interfacing the DL with any agreed standard supported by projects are implemented by BELIEF and run by the same on a regular basis. Note:In both cases projects will supply to BELIEF the metadata of their documents so that the DL can archive and retrieve them in an effective way. DL Services

24. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 24 BELIEF Future Actions and Proposals DL related –Expansion of the number of served projects, and consistent growth in terms of number of collections and documents. –Addition of new end-user services (e.g. Sub-Community Service, Provision Service, creation of event agendas and collection of the associated event documentation, peer-review support, Wiki, preservation, etc.). –Extension of the number of managed document types (e.g. video streaming, multimedia compound documents, etc.). –Enhancement of the interfaces towards the rest of the world (e.g. Open Access to the DL Repository, Plug-and-play Search, etc.). Portal related –eConcertation (organize, host & manage events, material & follow-up) –Smart Event Calendar –etc.

25. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 25 User side functionality –Create a “close” Sub-Community within the BELIEF Community for a particular “Project X”. –Use the BELIEF DL as a document repository or as a real Content Management System accessible by that Sub- Community only. BELIEF side functionality –BELIEF DL performs the underlying processes of structures creation and functions & security management (by means of the DLMS functions). –Document Models are implemented to cope with users’ needs in terms of managed metadata and document structure. An example: New Sub-Community Service

26. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 26 DL Provision Service –For projects which want to setup and maintain their own Digital Library. –Feasibility study for DL deployment (hw + sw). –Provide, install, configure the DL sw. –Training of projects’ technicians on DL developing and managing issues. –Training of projects’ contents managers on DL Information Space design and maintenance issues. –Support for the startup phase. An example: New DL Provision Service

27. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 27 Conclusions Get involved with BELIEF –Register with the Portal –Access the BELIFF DL & Portal to find out about eInfrastructures –Contact the DL for our content management services –Disseminate your project documents & events on our Digital Library & Portal –Send us your success stories for dissemination

28. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 28 Contacts info@beliefproject.org http://beliefproject.org/ Related Projects DILIGENT http://diligentproject.org/ http://diligentproject.org/ DRIVER http://www.driver-repository.eu/ http://www.driver-repository.eu/

29. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 29 Miscellaneous

30. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 30 BELIEF in brief – Relevant themes BELIEF & (Repository) Networking (a list of themes we are involved in) : –From an organisational point of view International communication forum Policies of cooperation –From a technical point of view Data harmonization Policies for technical interoperability

31. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 31 BELIEF in brief – Events outputs Published reports –Scientific Repositories & Future Knowledge Infrastructures –Biomedical Informatics Reports to be published –Business Applications –Cultural Heritage Research-Industry Handbook –Research-Industry handbook on opportunities for business in context of eInfrastructures

32. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 32 Bridging Consumers –Analyze and homogenize different attitudes in looking at Information Sources (managers, technicians, librarians, …) Interviews & focused deepenings  Portal & DL User Profiling Bridging Providers –Analyze and homogenize different semantics given to the Information Sources (metadata, document types, …) Interviews & focused deepenings  Repositories Integration & DL Information Space Personalization DL - Creating the conceptual environment and the momentum (1/3)

33. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 33 Finalizing MoUs –Suggesting what, why, which way has to be done to reach an effective information dissemination Focused deepenings  MoU (55 MoUs and/or LoSs up to now) –Suggesting why and how proper use of metadata is a mean to obtain the above Focused deepenings  MoU Technical Annex (formalizing number, type and semantics of metadata to be used) DL - Creating the conceptual environment and the momentum (2/3)

34. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 34 Benefit from: –Widening audience for Projects’ results –Preservation of Projects’ public materials –Giving consumers a conceptually organized Information Space, based on both the System-defined and the User- definable Virtual Collections DL - Creating the conceptual environment and the momentum (3/3)

35. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 35 Quality of metadata –Adoption of a common metadata description format or at least a “metadata etiquette” to foster common understanding of the “semantics” of the documents and proper classification. Quality of public/shed documents –Adoption of adequate policies to avoid “inappropriate” publication of documents: both low quality documents (incomplete or hyper-draft) and awkward ones (management/economic reserved data). DL - Suggestions from Lesson Learned

36. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 36 Conclusions What BELIEF offers: –A tactical advantage For information providers (diffusion and preservation) For information consumers (conceptually organized, homogeneous and easy access to different sources, VDL on-demand) –A strategic advantage Seamless integration in the “European mainstream” via DRIVER ( Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)

37. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 37 Information Sources The term Information Source is used to mean metadata and (multimedia) documents related to/produced by an Entity (Projects, Organizations and Initiatives). Information Contents The whole set of metadata & documents of a DL; not yet structured/organized. Information Space The collections of (metadata+documents) a user can access; i.e. the logical & rights-controlled organization of the Information Contents. Collection A set of (metadata+documents) characterized by a common semantics. Concepts (1/4)

38. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 38 DL (Digital Library) A (potentially virtual) organization that comprehensively collects, manages, and preserves for the long term rich digital content and offers to its user communities specialized functionality on that content, of measurable quality, and according to prescribed policies. DLS (Digital Library System) A software system that is based on a (potentially distributed) architecture and provides all functionality that is required by a particular Digital Library. When operating in a Digital Library environment, users interact with the corresponding Digital Library System. Concepts (2/4)

39. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 39 DLMS (Digital Library Management System) A generic software system that incorporates all functionality that is considered foundational for Digital Libraries and provides the appropriate software infrastructure to both produce a basic Digital Library System and integrate additional software offering more refined, specialized, or advanced functionality. An intrinsic part of a DLMS is a “Digital Library Administrative Tool” that is used to choose the appropriate subset of its functionality, e.g., through relevant parameters of its components, and then (potentially (semi-)automatically) install, deploy, and (re)configure a Digital Library System. Concepts (3/4)

40. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers EGEE’07 Conference – 1°-5° October 2007, Budapest 40 OpenDLib is a… –Digital Library System Generator “A highly parameterized software system that encapsulates templates for a broad range of functionality, which includes all basic/foundational as well as any advanced functionality that has been deemed appropriate. Through an initialization session, the appropriate parameters are set and tuned; at the end of that session, software is automatically generated that constitutes essentially a Digital Library System ready to be installed and deployed.” –Extensible Digital Library System “A complete Digital Library System that is fully operational with respect to basic/ foundational functionality required. It is based on an open software architecture, so that further software components can be incorporated on top of the ones already there with ease”. Concepts (4/4)