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Renardus – The Clever Route to Information. Janne Kanner. CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd. NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information. 13/07/2014. Quality-controlled subject gateways. Internet resources for higher education and research

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  1. Renardus–The Clever Route to Information Janne Kanner CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd. NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  2. Quality-controlled subject gateways • Internet resources for higher education and research • Selection and collection development- human intellectual effort, documented selection criteria,collection development policy • Collection management- maintaining or improving the quality of collection,maintenance policy • Resource description- fixed and documented metadata set, well-defined semantic fields (structured searching) • Subject classification- indexed by controlled subject classification scheme or thesauri(subject browsing) NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  3. Renardus broker • A pilot European subject gateway broker service • Integrated cross-searching and cross-browsing of distributed resource collections • Operates across existing large-scale subject gateways • Demonstration of adding one new subject gateway • Collaboration of national initiatives • Improved access to scientific and cultural resources at existing academic subject gateways • Sustainable and improved level of quality in resource discovery NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  4. Renardus administrative details • Started in January 2000 • Duration: 30 months (until June 2002) • Project is funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme ’Promoting a User-friendly Information Society’. This is a major theme of the European Union’s 5th Framework Programme • Total cost: € 2 303 608 • European project with 12 partners in 7 countries: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom • Total effort: 297 person months NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  5. Renardus partners (1/2) • Koninklijke Bibliotheek [Project co-ordinator](National Library of the Netherlands) • Bibliothèque Nationale de France(National Library of France) • CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd., Finland • Die Deutsche Bibliothek (National Library of Germany) • Finnish Virtual Library Project,Jyväskylä University Library, Finland • Institute for Learning and Research Technology,University of Bristol, UK NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  6. Renardus partners (2/2) • NetLab, Lund University, Sweden • Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek,Göttingen, Germany • Technical Knowledge Centre and Library of Denmark • UK Office for Library and Information Networking,University of Bath, UK • Viikki Science Library,University of Helsinki, Finland • Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation Und–information, Germany NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  7. Renardus subject gateways • DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service, The Netherlands • SSG-FI: Math, Geo, History and Anglo Guides, Germany • DAINet: Agricultural Information System, Germany • DEPOSIT: German Online Dissertations, Germany • GENRES: Genetic resources, Germany • RDN: Resource Discovery Network, UK • NOVAGate: Forestry, Veterinary and Agriculture,Nordic initiative • FVL: The Finnish Virtual Library, Finland • EELS: Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden • EULER: Mathematics, European initiative NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  8. Renardus research • End-user and gateway requirements for and benefits from a broker service • Metadata and classification standards and conversion • Economies of scale, metadata interoperability and sharing between subject gateways • Technical solutions, standards, protocols and tools for distributed searching and browsing • Multi-linguality on interface and description levels • Impact on intellectual property rights and ownership • Organisational and business models for a large scale collaborative service NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  9. Renardus timeline • Work finished • Evaluation of existing broker systems and data models • End-user and service provider requirements for a broker • Scoping (pilot scope, service scope) • Functional requirements for the broker and data model • Evaluation of technical standards and protocols • Business issues impacting functional model • Web site, newsletter NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  10. Renardus timeline • Work in progress • Initial architectural model • Initial data model • Prototype specifications • Technical requirements for the participants • Organisational model • Report on potential participants • User guidelines on interoperability NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  11. Renardus timeline • Work to be done • Prototype pilot system • Data interoperability (metadata sharing, multilinguality etc.) • Documentation and technical reporting • Verification and evaluation • Final architectural model • Operational Renardus pilot system • Business models and sustainability of a central service NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  12. End-user and service provider requirements • Distributed architecture • Dublin Core semantics and RDF/XML syntax for records • Multilingual interface • Search options: subject, language and original gateway • Cross-browsing by subject • Notification of new resources (user profiles) • Collecting use statistics • Identify the original gateway NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

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  14. Renardus datamodel • A common metadata set and classification needed to realise distributed searching and browsing • Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and Qualifiers • Title, Creator, Description, Subject, Identifier, Language, Country, Type • Subject: Dewey Decimal point Classification+ Keywords from controlled vocabularies / thesauri NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

  15. Follow the Fox! WWW.RENARDUS.ORG Project details - deliverables, participants, work packages etc. News Digest - the latest news and views by e-mail or archive Talking Heads - series of discussions with key people from the library and information community Gateway Focus - definitions, descriptions & links for gateways in Europe Workshop - a workshop for potential participant subject gateways in September 2001 Related reading - related projects, forthcoming conferences and workshops NORDUnet 2000 : Renardus – The Clever Route to Information 13/07/2014

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