Malte Dreyer – Matthias Razum The eSciDoc Project Malte Dreyer – Matthias Razum

Project eSciDoc is as a joint Project of Max-Planck Society (Max-Planck Digital Library) Fachinformationszentrum FIZ Karlsruhe, Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Objective: Development of a Platform for Flexible, Open and Persistent Access to Research Results and Materials Development of Specialized Solutions on top of Generic Infrastructure addressing specific needs and requirements by Max-Planck Institutes Enable for Reuse in other Disciplines Support Scientific Collaboration

Keywords eScience Service Oriented Architecture REST / SOAP Registries (Services, Metadata, (Processes)) Persistent Identifiers Documents Handling, Formats, Full Texts Metadata Profiles Versioning Different Versioning Types Workflows Concept, Workflow Engine, Concrete Workflows Customization Controlled Vocabularies Authority Files Users Authentication / Authorization, Roles / Privileges, Visibility / Status User Experience and Usability Aspects

Infrastructure Using Fedora Components Items Containers Metadata Relations Content Types

Current Solution Developments Publications Deposit Manage Retrieve/View Search First Prove of Concept, (pilots, early adopters) Feature Rich Solution Research Data Specific Functional Fields first (i.e. Images, Transcriptions) More Complex Fields Step by Step

Software Architecture Service Oriented Architecture XML Exchange REST and SOAP Interfaces Three Conceptual Layers Basic Services Actions on Resources Intermediate Services Helper and Utility Services Application Services Concrete Solutions, GUI Helpers,…

Overview of Architecture

Overview Basic Services Structure

Main Activities Max-Planck Digital Library FIZ Karlsruhe Addresses active involvement of Clients/Institutes Concepts, Requirement Engineering, Scenarios, Use Cases Solution Development Intermediary Services FIZ Karlsruhe Concepts Basic Service Interfaces and Schemas Development of Basic Services Integration of Fedora, Lucene, …

Next Steps Improve Infrastructure Semantics Performance Content Types Publish Open Source Licensed Package of all Developments so far (GPL License) Knowledge Network Publish Documentation and related Information (Service Registry) Learn more about possible scenarios for eScience by addressing more specific needs by Institutes Prepare Migrations of existing Publication and Research Data Collections one by one

Knowledge Network (Working Title) Platform for Community Building To involve interested partners To Distribute existing Results For Discussions/Collaboration about both Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Will be focused at Topics within the eScience domain on existing eSciDoc fields at first

Outcome of Project Productive Open Source Infrastructure, to be used by others as well Discipline Specific Solutions (Also Open Source) Sustainable Solutions introduced to Institutes of MPS Infrastructure to enable for Long Term Preservation Ongoing Cooperation between MPG and FIZ Sustainability by real Deployments, Collection Migrations and ongoing requirements for extensions from Institutes

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