Enhanced Publications
Presentation for ODaF Europe 2009
Thomas Place
2 April 2009
Enhanced Publication
• A digital publication enhanced or enriched by extra
digital content, e.g., by the corresponding data set
• The digital publication and the extra content form a
compound digital object
• The components of a compound digital object are
digital objects that can be distributed over the web
– compound of distributed digital objects
– not a package of digital objects by-value, but byref
Simple (compound) object model
CO
Metadata
Title
Author(s)
Object file
Semantics: types of objects in CO
• info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata [1, 2, ...]
• info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile
[0, 1, 2, ...]
• info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage
[0, 1]
NEEO proposal:
If Item == objectFile
• info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• info:eu-repo/semantics/authorVersion
More types to be added:
• Data set
• Chapter
• etc
Enhancing publication with data set
CO
Metadata Metadata Object file Object file
Titel
Auteur(s)
DDI
• What belongs to what? Extra semantics
• Same data can be used by other publications. Separate CO for
data set
• Note that for some researchers the data set and the publication
belong together; without the publication the data set misses its
context.
CO
CO
Metadata
Titel
Auteur(s)
Object file Metadata
Object file
DDI
CO can be component of another CO
Aggregation ore:aggregates / ore:isAggregatedBy Aggregation
Driver-II D4.2
Report on Object Models and
Functionalities
SURF foundation, 6 November 2008
Peter Verhaar
Aims of the report
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Identification of requirements for the storage and management
of enhanced publications
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Data model
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Recommendations for serialisation of the data model in RDF/XML
using the OAI-ORE model
Definition
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Enhanced publications are compound digital objects which combine
ePrints with one or more metadata records, one or more data
resources, or any combination of these.
publication
ePrint
data
metadata
Compound
data object
All entities have
• identifier
• semanticType
All entities are digital
objects (atomic, CO)
Versioning,
provenance
ORE in short
• ORE: Object Reuse and Exchange
• Exchange of compound objects on the web
• Composing new objects on the basis of web
resources
• Linked to Semantic Web and especially to Linked
Data (RDF Lite over HTTP)
In the words of Herbert Van de Sompel
• Subject: Aggregations of Web resources
• Approach: Publish Resource Maps to the Web that
Instantiate, Describe, and Identify Aggregations
• Object Reuse and Exchange: Towards a MachineReadable Web
Enhanced Publication as an ORE Aggregation
Driver II: M4.1 Datasets & Demonstrator for Enhanced
Publications
The Demonstrator is available at:
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http://driver2.dans.knaw.nl/demonstrator/html/
Login: driver2 / bijrijder
Best: Firefox 3.0 and Java VM
Techniques:
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OAI-ORE v0.9
RDF
XSLT
XHTML
CSS and Javascript
SamenInDelen Demonstrator,
ReMs live
Introduction: objectives and partners
1.
Objectives SURF-project “Samen in Delen’’ (”Together in Sharing”)
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Create 6 enhanced publications, for 3 types of research data:
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survey data (wp1).
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experimental economics (wp 2).
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financial data (wp3).
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Evaluate DDI 3.0 in the context of EP ‘s (wp4).
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Create a sustainable environment for EP’s (wp5).
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Commitment, procedures, infrastructure.
Set up a demonstrator for EP’s (wp6).
Three types of aggregation (CO’s)
Collection van publications
Publication (enhanced)
• MODS
• Object file
• Dataset
• Reference list
• Enhanced object file
Dataset
• DDI Instance
• Publication
• Data file
• SPSS file
• Software
The ingredients of the demonstrator
• Repository EURotterdam
> Data files
> DDI
• Repository UvTilburg
• Repository SamenInDelen
> DIDL representations of COs
> New objects, not in other repo’s
> XSL stylesheets
• Application (Cocoon: transformations)
> Identifier -> DIDL & DDI -> HTML/Atom
> DIDL -> MODS/DC
SamenInDelen demonstrator
http://drcwww.uvt.nl/~place/SamenInDelen