The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine 2004

Thursday, 17 June 2004

Library case studies

9:00 hrs Digital library and e-publishing developments in chemistry (building 593, room R-010)

  • historical background of chemical information
  • importance of secondary sources in chemistry (abstracting & indexing)
  • serial crisis and e-journals
  • information at the chemist's work bench
  • adapting a special library: from holdings to servers and services, from OPACs to Portals
  • support, training, and education (courses and multimedia)
Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

10:00 hrs Institutional Repository Model: The Max Planck eDoc system (building 593, room R-010)

  • issues and advantages of a local solution
  • design and deployment considerations
  • obtaining content practical steps
  • new directions and possible solutions
Gerhard Beier
Project manager Max Planck eDoc-Server project, Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management in the Max Planck Society (ZIM), Germany

11:00 hrs Coffee/tea

11:30 hrs Discussion (building 593, room R-010)

Rick Luce
Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

Gerhard Beier
Project manager Max Planck eDoc-Server project, Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management in the Max Planck Society (ZIM), Germany

12:00 hrs Lunch (CERN Restaurant no.2)

13:30 hrs Interoperability standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content (building 593, room R-010)

  • position of the library in the information chain
  • fitness of the established mechanism for scholarly communication
  • reference linking and extended services
  • the OpenURL framework for context-sensitive linking
  • reference linking via DOI/CrossRef
  • integration of the OpenURL framework and the DOI/CrossRefframework
Herbert Van de Sompel
Research and Prototyping Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

15:00 hrs Coffee / tea

15:30 hrs Workshop: Institutional repositories (building 593, room R-010)

Herbert Van de Sompel
Research and Prototyping Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

17:00 hrs End of sessions

20:00 hrs Farewell dinner

22.30 hrs End of programme

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