Antanas Štreimikis

Project IT Leader

The Database „Lituanistika“ Technologies

2013-09-25, The Research Council of Lithuania

Agenda

The Context of the Database „Lituanistika“ (LDB) The Cataloging, Submit and Preservation Services The Review and Administration Services The Search and Delivery Services The Citation and Bibliography Services The Portal Conclusions

The Context of the Database „Lituanistika“ (LDB)

The Database „Lituanistika“

Cataloging, Submit and PreservationReview and

Administration

Search and Delivery

Citation and Bibliography

Portal(LituanistikaD

B)

Librarian

Administrator

SSH Expert

SSH Researcher

The Homepages of the Services Packages

The Cataloging, Submit and Preservation Services

The Cataloging based on the Integrated Library System Aleph (Ex Libris, Ltd.)

Submit and Preservation based on the Repository Software Fedora (open source)

Additional services for the Librarians (based on the Java, PHP and Internet Browsers):o Submit of the publicationso Browse of the submitted publications

E-object of the LDB Repository

It is an integral object where additional information (cover, table of contents, access conditions, metadata in various formats and etc.), files and links are stored together with metadata in the LDB repository

How it was in the Past

How it is Now

Adding and Editing Licenses

How it is Now

WEB Interface for Fulltext Uploading

Data Conversion to LDB Repository

The special convertor software was prepared 45197 bibliographical records of the Lithuanian studies

were analyzed 17472 bibliographical records had the open access

licenses for appropriate full texts 16153 main files ir 81 Book Review files as open access

files were submitted The average full conversion time ~ 14 hours The full conversion were provided several times using

iteration method

The Review and Administration Services

Based on the Relational Database Management System MySQL (open source)

Additional services for the LDB (based on the Java, PHP and Internet Browsers):o The Review Services for the Expertso The Administration Services for the Administrators

The LDB Expert and Administrator

Expert

Expert Evaluation

(EE) Expert

Regulative Evaluation

(RE) Expert

Administrator

Specialist Database Administrator

Environment of the Experts  

Environment of the Administrators 

Developed and New Components

Import and Export EE Environment RE Environment (new) Administration Environment

Review and Administration http Addresses

Old address (for SSH Experts)http://www.minfolit.lt/eks

New addresshttp://lituanistikadb.lt

> Ekspertavimas > Prisijungti ir ekspertuoti

Review and Administration MySQL Domain

Consist of 44 MySQL tables

The Main Review and Administration Services

The management of: o SSH Experts and Administratorso EE and RE environments o SSH Scientist Repository and Classifiers o Services parameters

The fragment of the EE environment

EE Agreement

The Reports of the EE

EE EnvironmentServices

The Management of the Classifications and SSH Scientist Repository

The Search and Delivery Services

Based on the Aleph Web OPAC (Ex Libris, Ltd.) o OPAC technology

Based on the One-stop Solution for the Discovery and Delivery Resources (including full text) Primo (Ex Libris, Ltd.)

o Virtual library technology

Based on the Internet Browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari)

OPAC vs Virtual Library

OAPC Technology (“older”)

o Advanced search and browse supported in the

bibliographical records only

o All traditional OPAC possibilities are supported

Virtual Library Technology (“newest”)

o Search supported in bibliographical records and in full text

o Intuitive facets and links

o All traditional virtual library possibilities are supported

Typically Links in LDB Virtual Library

Typically links related to the search and delivery

o Full-Text Online is the full text (only open access) of the

Lithuanian studies

N.B. Every full text (open access) has Author or Publisher License

Agreement

o Citation and bibliography – link to the Citation and

Bibliography Services

o All articles in the same journal

o All articles in the same issue

Search Full Text in LDB Virtual Library

Three Typically Links

LDB in the Lithuanian Virtual Library

The Citation and Bibliography Services

Based on the Relational Database Management System MySQL (open source)

Additional services for the LDB (based on the Java, PHP and Internet Browsers):o Evaluation of the Citation Indexes (in the LDB area)o Creation of the various Citation Reports including Visualization

(Citation Map)

Evaluation of the Citation Indexes (LDB Area)(newest services of LDB)

LDB

The Lithuanianstudies

Cited publications

....

All Citeted Publications•Authors

•Sources•SSH directions•SSH branches•Keywords

Evaluated the relationship

Citation Indexes evaluate related to cited the

LithuanianStudies in LDB

The Lithuanianstudies

Cited publications

Reports of Citation

Example Example

Example

Example of the Citation Map

Portal (lituanistikadb.lt/en)

Modern web portal with typical possibilities and content

management system made by company Fresh Media

Conclusions (1) In generally LDB started in 2007 with four Service Packages:

o Cataloging Serviceso Review and Administration Serviceso Search Services (only OPAC technology)o Website (old Web technology)

Developing LDB have been used the existing Resources of the Research Council, Ministry of Education and Science and Lithuanian Academic Libraries Consortiumo eLABa infrastructureo Alepho Primoo Humans and other Resource

Conclusions (2)

From 2013 LDB consist of the 5 parts (Packages of the Services related to programing software):o Cataloging, Submit and Preservation Services (developed)o Review and Administration Services (developed)o Search and Delivery Services (developed)o Citation and Bibliography Services (new)o Portal (new)

Conclusions (3)

The maintenance and development design of the LDB are provided by Project Leaders (Rūta, Lina, Nijolė, Antanas) and the Work Group of Consortium Information Systems Supervision

The Research Council of Lithuania is the owner and general manager of LDB

The main users of the LDB are SSH Researchers and Experts

The Regulation Documents of LDB under contraction and will be approved in the end of 2013

Antanas Štreimikis

Project IT leader

http://lituanistikadb.lt > Kontaktai

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