IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency INIS Training Seminar Review of INIS Activities Dobrica Savić Head of INIS Unit 23 November 2009 Vienna, Austria

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 2  INIS Products and Services  INIS Database  NCL Collection  INIS Database on the Internet  Computer-Assisted Indexing System (CAI)  Metadata Extraction Tool (MET)  Digital Preservation  Meetings: ILO 2008  Meetings: INIS/ETDE JTC 2009  Presentation Overview

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 3 INIS database Preservation of non-conventional nuclear literature Unique multilingual thesaurus Capacity building  INIS Products and Services

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 4 123,536 records added in % increase compared to 2007 The best annual result in the history of INIS January-October 2009 additional 95,000 records Three million records in the INIS Database  INIS Database

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 5 New full-text NCL documents Available at INIS total Online , ,145 30,018 13, ,346 27,227 10, ,117 25,801 9,086  NCL Collection

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 6 On 3rd April 2009 access to INIS database opened to all Internet users Free, open and unrestricted access available from the INIS Homepage or directly from This provided easy access to reliable nuclear information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, including nonconventional literature, and made nuclear knowledge readily available worldwide  INIS Database on the Internet

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 7 In 2008, Bulgaria, China, Germany, ETDE, Finland, Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam used the CAI batch processing mode to process 13,424 records Since 2005, the number of records processed by CAI batch has increased to 37,004 At the request of the INIS Liaison Officers, a remote access feature to CAI was set up and implemented in June 2007 and is available at the CAI website ( External access to CAI provides secure connection and encryption This was tested during 2007 and 2008 by Argentina, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, ETDE, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland, Uruguay and Uzbekistan Since May 2008, remote access to CAI is being provided to all Member States as a regular service of the INIS  Computer-Assisted Indexing System (CAI)

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 8 MET is a new tool developed and tested by INIS The objective is to automate INIS record creation using PDF files Tool allows capture of text from original PDF reformatting of content according to INIS input rules verification against INIS Authorities production of bibliographic files in TTF and their export to INIS production system Tool allowed significant handling improvements and the facilitation of data capture A basic set of validation rules has been implemented and the final check is done by FIBRE and the production system  Metadata Extraction Tool (MET)

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 9 The most significant project of the past four years has been conversion of the INIS collection of ‘grey’, non- conventional literature (NCL) from microfiche to digital media About 60 percent of this microfiche collection has been digitized. To be finished in 2 years Searchable full-text documents in PDF were uploaded to the INIS online database, respecting the public access authorization of INIS Members. In 2008 NCL collections of 29 States have been converted from microfiche to digital medium Digitized country sets are available online from the INIS Database and were provided as a separate set to Member States 30,000 of US NCL reports have been digitized by INIS, reviewed by OSTI, and given authorization for open access to the full text Other projects Back volumes of the English and French versions of the ‘IAEA Bulletin’ IAEA General Conference documents dating back to 1957 Documents of the Board of Governors of the past 50 years IUREP publications available at the IAEA on World Uranium Resources 11 volumes of the series ‘Directory of Nuclear Reactors’ In October 2008 a document providing information about the digital preservation processes carried out by the INIS has been published  Digital Preservation

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 10 The 34th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 3-5 November 2008 INIS Status Report on Actions and Recommendations available on the INIS website Members’ area, 12 th INIS/ETDE JTC Meeting Documentation, as IP-JTC Meetings organized during the ILO: An Introductory Session for the newcomers Regional meetings Workshop on computer assisted indexing Workshop on digital preservation Meeting of the International Nuclear Library Network (INLN) Meeting with representatives of countries considering/starting nuclear national programmes Recommendations To recover conference literature missing from the INIS; Members to assist the INIS Secretariat with voluntary contributions Electronic full-texts to be given special attention Secretariat to complete the digitization of the INIS NCL collection Publish new release of the ETDE/INIS Joint Reference Series No.2: Subject Categories and Scope Description INIS Members to share their experience and materials regarding promotion Further enhance INIS Database and its interface; use Web 2.0 Give free access to INIS Database and NCL Make Metadata Extraction Tool available to inputting Centres in Member States once it is finalised INIS to implement XML output format; ISO 2709 will be available until June 2010  Meetings: ILO 2008

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 11 The 12th ETDE/INIS Joint Technical Committee Meeting, 21–22 October 2009, Vienna - Balance INIS Member States’ and INIS Secretariat’s contributions to the database - Purchasing bibliographic records for core journals only - Include open access journals - Commended France and Latin America on their contributions to the coverage of conference literature and welcomed Japan - Replace FIBRE with the Metadata Extraction Tool (MET) - INIS Secretariat to maintain ISO2709 and XML in parallel until 30 June XML to become the standard format for all INIS processes - Move toward Unicode - Use Computer Assisted Indexing (CAI) remote access and batch processing possibilities - Update the INIS thesaurus in electronic form and discontinue the formal printed version - Immediate implementation of four new subject categories; technical notes will be issued shortly - Commend INIS for providing free and open access to the INIS DB and NCL on the Internet - ETDE not to require INIS membership as a criteria for ETDE database access, since INIS is available on the Internet - Develop INIS widget and encourage members to add links to INIS from their web pages - To stay attuned to new web developments and review ways to use them to enhance usage and build communities - To define INIS/ETDE metrics for measuring the usage of the databases  Meetings: INIS/ETDE JTC 2009

IAEA Wednesday, 25 November 2015 INIS Training Seminar 12 Thank you!