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Uppsala University Library

Eva Müller Peter HanssonStefan AnderssonUwe KlosaElectronic Publishing Centre

Krister ÖstlundWaller project

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Highlights from Digital Library Program

• Electronic publishing of digitally born documents

• Digitization - cultural heritage projects• Preservation and access in the long

term• Harmonization of metadata• Semantic markup

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Current projects

Applied research and development• Local level - within University Library/UU

(digitization of culture heritage)• National level (metadata harmonization,

long term preservation – SVEP)• Nordic level (DiVA, Access and

preservation i• International level (Evaluation of

GAMERA)

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• Standards • Component based system

development– Reuse of components– Replacement of components with new

versions– cooperation

• Open source software, where possible

Technical solutions

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Electronic publishing of digitally born documents DiVA ProjectStarted 2000 at Uppsala University, Sweden2004 • ten universities• three countries

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DiVA Publishing SystemDigitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet/Digital Scientific Archive

• Publishing tool for electronic publishing (w/ or w/o print)

• Document-centric model• Entire publishing workflow

supported by XML • Archival workflow based on XML

format

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Web Services

Author

Metadata DisseminationServices

Dublin Core

MARC 21

TEI Header

Endnote

Reference Manager

URN:NBN Register Format

Export Formats

DiVA Document Format

LocalRepository

Word Processor

Word ProcessingFormat (Template)

Content DisseminationServices

PDF

DocBook

TEI

HTML

Export Formats

Long-termPreservation

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DiVA Workflow

• The flow of work done by DiVA Publishing System and its administrators/editors.– Input data– Process data– Output data

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INPUT DATA:DiVA Template or DiVA Web Form

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PROCESS DATA:DiVA Manager

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OUTPUT DATA:Other Systems Collect The Records

Automatically

Union Catalogue

Indexed by Search Engines

URN:NBNResolution Service

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OUTPUT DATA: Simple Search at Local Archive

Search Form

Search Hits

Overview

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OUTPUT DATA: Federated Search

http://www.diva-portal.org/

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OUTPUT DATA: Browsing by Subject

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Digitization Waller project

• Waller database – letters http://publications.uu.se/waller/30,000 records/45,000 images

• Name authority files

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SVEP (like sweep)

The SVEP project aims at promoting, coordinating and supporting electronic publishing at Swedish universities and university colleges.

(September 2003 - September 2005)

http://www.svep-projekt.se/english/

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Funded by BIBSAM

The Royal Library´s Department for National Co-ordination and Development

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Participants and roles

• funded and coordinated by the Swedish Royal Library´s Department for National Co-ordination and Development, BIBSAM

• carried out in close collaboration between nine Swedish university libraries and the National Library

• five workpackages, lead by Lund University Libraries and Uppsala University Library

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WP 1: Interoperability

• Harmonisation of descriptions and description formats for electronically published scientific publications.

• Based on problems discovered in a pilot study of an OAI compliant portal (2002).

• Less problem today because of e.g. DiVA.

• Still to do: subject categories, publication type definitions, and name authorities.

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WP 2: Preservation

• Workflow and technical solution for archiving electronic publications from Swedish universities.

• Persistent identifiers

• Metadata