1. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Cyclades E U V Framework Project – February 2001 IEI-CNR (Italy) UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND (Germany) FORTH (Greece) FRAUNHOFER FIT (Germany) ERCIM (France)

2. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Objectives Develop a system which provides an open collaborative virtual archive environment for supporting single scholars or communities of scholars

3. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Functionality Advanced search in large, heterogeneous, multidisciplinary digital archives Personalised Information Space Organisation Support to collaboration Filtering and Recommendation

4. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Architecture DIGITAL ARCHIVE 1 DIGITAL ARCHIVE 2 DIGITAL ARCHIVE n... CYCLADES Virtual Archive Environment Collections Search&BrowseFiltering & Recommendation Personalised Collaborative Information Space User Communities/ Projects OAI- PMH

5. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Virtual Collections The information space is organised into virtual collections Users and Communities may define their own collections, e.g. by specifying criteria and by refinement of existing ones The OAI archives remain hidden to the users and communities Common Interface OAI Archives C1 C2 C3 Collection Exported data Archive 2 Archive N Archive 1

6. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Search & Browse Users may search & browse the collections Search: typical Search using the collections search fields, e.g. author, title, description Query formulation through browsing Collection = Logic, Author = Straccia Search Browse SchemaAttribute Author Description Title...Castelli Straccia Thanos...

7. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Users may save the retrieved metadata records into their folders QUERY:= Collection = Logic, Author = Straccia, Description = Fuzzy Logic Result List R1. A fuzzy Description Logic R2. A note on fuzzy IR... save Papers on Fuzzy Logic Search & Browse

8. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Personalised, Collaborative Information Space Folders may be organized hierarchically Folders may be shared among community/project members A folder may contain: Metadata records retrieved through past searches Uploaded user documents System recommendations (users, communities, projects, records) Annotations User ratings

9. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Filtering & Recommendation Service learns the user information needs (folder profile) automatically from the users folder content Uses of folder profiles – To filter out irrelevant information during a search session – To automatically notify users about new documents, users, collections, communities relevant for them

10. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Recommendations pertain to a user folder, i.e. user topic of interest Documents Collections Users Communities Recommendations

11. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Final remarks Cyclades is a powerful service that support co-operations among researchers Cyclades can be activated on selected OAI compliant archives Cyclades is another cross-archive service

12. Lisbon, 7th December 2002 Open Archives Forum Workshop Final remarks First Running Prototype January 2003 http://www.ercim.org/cyclades Contact: Umberto Staccia Straccia@iei.pi.cnr.it