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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Infrastructure Using Fedora Components Items Containers Metadata
Relations
Content Types

5. 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

7. 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,…

8. Overview of Architecture

9. Overview Basic Services Structure

11. 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, …

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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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