Memento: Time Travel for the Web (2009)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael L., Sanderson, Robert, Balakireva, Lyudmila L., Ainsworth, Scott, Shankar, Harihar
The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those representations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry...
From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web (2009)
Pepe, Alberto, Mayernik, Matthew, Borgman, Christine L., Van De Sompel, Herbert
In the process of scientific research, many information objects are generated, all of which may remain valuable indefinitely. However, artifacts such as instrument data and associated calibration...
Adding eScience Assets to the Data Web (2009)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Lagoze, Carl, Nelson, Michael L., Warner, Simeon, Sanderson, Robert, Johnston, Pete
Aggregations of Web resources are increasingly important in scholarship as it adopts new methods that are data-centric, collaborative, and networked-based. The same notion of aggregations of...
A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures (2009)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hagberg, Aric, Chute, Ryan
The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past decade. To better capture scientific...
Everyone is a Curator: Human-Assisted Preservation for ORE Aggregations (2009)
McCown, Frank, Nelson, Michael L., Van De Sompel, Herbert
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has recently created the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project that defines Resource Maps (ReMs) for describing aggregations of web resources. These aggregations...
A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience: Object Reuse & Exchange (2008)
Lagoze, Carl, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael, Warner, Simeon, Sanderson, Robert, Johnston, Pete
Work in the Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) focuses on an important aspect of infrastructure for eScience: the specification of the data model and a suite of...
Automatic Metadata Generation using Associative Networks (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
In spite of its tremendous value, metadata is generally sparse and incomplete, thereby hampering the effectiveness of digital information services. Many of the existing mechanisms for the automated...
Towards Usage-based Impact Metrics: - First Results from the MESUR Project (2008)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Rodriguez, Marko A.
Scholarly usage data holds the potential to be used as a tool to study the dynamics of scholarship in real time, and to form the basis for the definition of novel metrics of scholarly impact....
Object Re-Use & Exchange: A Resource-Centric Approach (2008)
Lagoze, Carl, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael L., Warner, Simeon, Sanderson, Robert, Johnston, Pete
The OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) framework recasts the repository-centric notion of digital object to a bounded aggregation of Web resources. In this manner, digital library content is...
The aDORe Federation Architecture (2008)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Chute, Ryan, Hochstenbach, Patrick
The need to federate repositories emerges in two distinctive scenarios. In one scenario, scalability-related problems in the operation of a repository reach a point beyond which continued service...
A Practical Ontology for the Large-Scale Modeling of Scholarly Artifacts and their Usage (2007)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johah, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The large-scale analysis of scholarly artifact usage is constrained primarily by current practices in usage data archiving, privacy issues concerned with the dissemination of usage data, and the lack...
Usage Impact Factor: the effects of sample characteristics on usage-based impact metrics (2006)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
There exist ample demonstrations that indicators of scholarly impact analogous to the citation-based ISI Impact Factor can be derived from usage data. However, contrary to the ISI IF which is based...
5th CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (2006)
Ayris, Paul, Bjørnshauge, Lars, Dekeyser, Raf, Gentil-Beccot, Anne, Guédon, Jean Claude, Hagemann, Melissa, ...
Pathways: Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories (2006)
Warner, Simeon, Bekaert, Jeroen, Lagoze, Carl, Liu, Xiaoming, Payette, Sandy, Van De Sompel, Herbert
In the emerging eScience environment, repositories of papers, datasets, software, etc., should be the foundation of a global and natively-digital scholarly communications system. The current...
Mapping the Bid Behavior of Conference Referees (2006)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The peer-review process, in its present form, has been repeatedly criticized. Of the many critiques ranging from publication delays to referee bias, this paper will focus specifically on the issue of...
An Architecture for the Aggregation and Analysis of Scholarly Usage Data (2006)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user...
Bollen, Johan, Rodriguez, Marko A., Van De Sompel, Herbert
The status of an actor in a social context is commonly defined in terms of two factors: the total number of endorsements the actor receives from other actors and the prestige of the endorsing actors....
Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories (2006)
Bekaert, Jeroen, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Under guidance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Microsoft, a...
Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories (2006)
Bekaert, Jeroen, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Under guidance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Microsoft, a...
Bekaert, Jeroen, Van De Sompel, Herbert
In recent years, a variety of digital repository and archival systems have been developed and adopted. All of these systems aim at hosting a variety of compound digital assets and at providing tools...
Representing Digital Assets for Long-Term Preservation using MPEG-21 DID (2005)
Bekaert, Jeroen, Liu, Xiaoming, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Various efforts aimed at representing digital assets have emerged from several communities over the last years, including the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), the IMS Content...
Representing Digital Assets using MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration (2005)
Bekaert, Jeroen, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Various XML-based approaches aimed at representing compound digital assets have emerged over the last several years. Approaches that are of specific relevance to the digital library community include...
The Convergence of Digital-Libraries and the Peer-Review Process (2005)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Pre-print repositories have seen a significant increase in use over the past fifteen years across multiple research domains. Researchers are beginning to develop applications capable of using these...
mod_oai: An Apache Module for Metadata Harvesting (2005)
Nelson, Michael L., Van De Sompel, Herbert, Liu, Xiaoming, Harrison, Terry L., McFarland, Nathan
We describe mod_oai, an Apache 2.0 module that implements the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAIPMH is the de facto standard for metadata exchange in digital...
Liu, Xiaoming, Balakireva, Lyudmila, Hochstenbach, Patrick, Van De Sompel, Herbert
This paper introduces the write-once/read-many XMLtape/ARC storage approach for Digital Objects and their constituent datastreams. The approach combines two interconnected file-based storage...
Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data (2005)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Smith, Joan, Luce, Rick
We generated networks of journal relationships from citation and download data, and determined journal impact rankings from these networks using a set of social network centrality metrics. The...
Co-Authorship Networks in the Digital Library Research Community (2005)
Liu, Xiaoming, Bollen, Johan, Nelson, Michael L., Van De Sompel, Herbert
The field of digital libraries (DLs) coalesced in 1994: the first digital library conferences were held that year, awareness of the World Wide Web was accelerating, and the National Science...
aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object Repository (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Bekaert, Jeroen, Liu, Xiaoming, Balakireva, Luda, Schwander, Thorsten
This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture, designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos...
What's new from the OAI (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Warner, Simeon M., Nelson, Michael L.
Presentation about news on OAI-PMH, with an overview on rights and best practices in open archives.
The aDORe digital repository architecture designed and implemented by the Los Alamos Research Library is fully standards-based and highly modular, with the various components of the architecture...
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The wide-spread implementation of institutional repositories (IR), digital libraries, preprint services, and open access journals has dramatically changed the communication options that are available...
OAI-PMH for Resource Harvesting (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael L.
A variety of examples have arisen in which the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been used for applications beyond bibliographic metadata interchange. One of...
What's new from the OAI (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Warner, Simeon M., Nelson, Michael L.
Presentation about news on OAI-PMH, with an overview on rights and best practices in open archives.
The aDORe digital repository architecture designed and implemented by the Los Alamos Research Library is fully standards-based and highly modular, with the various components of the architecture...
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The wide-spread implementation of institutional repositories (IR), digital libraries, preprint services, and open access journals has dramatically changed the communication options that are available...
OAI-PMH for Resource Harvesting (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael L.
A variety of examples have arisen in which the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been used for applications beyond bibliographic metadata interchange. One of...
aDORe: A Modular, Standards-Based Digital Object Repository (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Bekaert, Jeroen, Liu, Xiaoming, Balakireva, Luda, Schwander, Thorsten
This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos...
aDORe: A Modular, Standards-Based Digital Object Repository (2005)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Bekaert, Jeroen, Liu, Xiaoming, Balakireva, Luda, Schwander, Thorsten
This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos...
The OAI and OAI-PMH: where to go from here? (2004)
Lagoze, Carl, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Update on the current status of the OAI-PMH. Overview of current activities and possible next steps. These include oai-rights, moving beyond metadata, and peer-to-peer.
The OAI and OAI-PMH: where to go from here? (2004)
Lagoze, Carl, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Update on the current status of the OAI-PMH. Overview of current activities and possible next steps. These include oai-rights, moving beyond metadata, and peer-to-peer.
The multi-faceted use of the OAI-PMH in the LANL Repository (2004)
Jerez, Henry, Liu, Xiaoming, Hochstenbach, Patrick, Van De Sompel, Herbert
This paper focuses on the multifaceted use of the OAI-PMH in a repository architecture designed to store digital assets at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and to...
The OAI and OAI-PMH: How did we get here, and where do we go from here? (2003)
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has its roots in the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The motivation to launch the OAI was to...
The OAI and OAI-PMH: How did we get here, and where do we go from here? (2003)
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has its roots in the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The motivation to launch the OAI was to...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking by Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach". Published...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach....
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment" by Herbert...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Beit-Arie, Oren
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in :...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Beit-Arie, Oren
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in : :...
Introductory talk and presentation of the OAI-PMH 2.0 (2002)
Introductory talk about: OAI in general, results of previous OAI conferences and workshops, follow-up to such activities. Presentation of the new OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking by Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach". Published...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach....
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment" by Herbert...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Beit-Arie, Oren
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in :...
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Beit-Arie, Oren
Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in : :...
Introductory talk and presentation of the OAI-PMH 2.0 (2002)
Introductory talk about: OAI in general, results of previous OAI conferences and workshops, follow-up to such activities. Presentation of the new OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
OAI metadata harvesting specifications (2001)
The author presents a brief history of the OAI Metadata Harvesting protocol and the status of OAI: software to run OAI repository, tools to support OAI implementation, modes of running OAI 1.0...
OAI protocol beyond discovery metadata (2001)
Conclusions of the report of the panel discussion about the future of the scholarly communication "Protocol for certification on the archive".
Dekeyser, Raf, Pettenati, Corrado, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Arms, William Y., Krichel, Thomas
The panel discussions of the workshop on “The Open Archives Initiative and Peer Review Journals in Europe” were mainly concerned with the following topics: peer review, economical aspects,...
OAI metadata harvesting specifications (2001)
The author presents a brief history of the OAI Metadata Harvesting protocol and the status of OAI: software to run OAI repository, tools to support OAI implementation, modes of running OAI 1.0...
OAI protocol beyond discovery metadata (2001)
Conclusions of the report of the panel discussion about the future of the scholarly communication "Protocol for certification on the archive".
Dekeyser, Raf, Pettenati, Corrado, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Arms, William Y., Krichel, Thomas
The panel discussions of the workshop on “The Open Archives Initiative and Peer Review Journals in Europe” were mainly concerned with the following topics: peer review, economical aspects,...
The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives (2000)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, KRICHNEL, T, NELSON, M, Hochstenbach, Patrick, LYAPUNOV, V, MALY, K, ...
OpenURL syntax description : version OpenURL/1.0f, 2000-05-16 (2000)
Van De Sompel, Herbert, Hochstenbach, Patrick, Beit-Arie, Oren
In order to enable the delivery of context-sensitive services or -- initially bibliographic -- metadata, information providers are invited to add an OpenURL to the metadata, when it is being...
Henry Van de Velde. Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, Ghent University library 1797-1997 (1997)
Van Hooydonk, Guido, Proost, Greta, Van De Sompel, Herbert, De Reu, Martine, Van Peteghem, Sylvia