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E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. E-LIS archive's goal is to promote communication in this field by the rapid dissemination of papers. Eprints for LIS has been established as a community service by RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) to promote open access to papers on these fields.
October 22, 2005. CERN (Switzerland)
After two years of maintaining E-LIS, the workshop was an opportunity for the E-LIS community to openly discuss and analyze new proposals and objectives for the future, with special attention to technical aspects and organizational models of work. A main purpose of the conference was to have people meet and learn about the E-LIS open archive. Another was to discuss strategies to further the growth of E-LIS, and finally, related efforts.
The aim of IraLIS is to create a register of authorities of the names of all of those authors who publish works related to librarianship, documentation and archiving.
In Spain and in Latin American countries, unlike Anglo-Saxon, Portuguese, Nordic and Slavic countries, the surname of the father is used in first place with that of the mother next, and in many cases there is also a compound first name.
Authors signing with their complete official name (as appears on their identity card, passport, driving licence, Social Security documentation, etc.) are often faced with the unpleasant surprise that their works published in journals appear in the references of browsers, in the OAI stores, and in the international databases in different ways –according to the interpretation of the compiler of the database or the source in hand- as a result of which on occasions the compilation of a personal bibliography becomes complicated. The fact that a signature can be made up of a number of elements also adds to the author signing his works in different ways.
One of the main pillars for the recovery of information is the author’s names. For this reason, normalization is a highly relevant aspect for the Web. The problem is of special importance for academics whose recognition is based on their personal curriculum.
IraLIS aims to help to reduce this serious distortion in the compilation of bibliographies as far as possible in three ways:
1. By creating a register of names of authors in librarianship, documentation and archiving, to help to locate the different variants. The register will incorporate both those that an author may have used, and those that may have been interpreted by the producer, compiler, browser etc. of the different sources of information.
2. By making the Hispanic authors aware of the problem so that they always sign their works in the same way, thinking of how they will be referenced by the international databases, the OAI archives and the automated browsers which, as a practically irreversible fait accompli, are under the influence of the English culture and habits (Science Citation Index, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, Medline, Google Scholar, etc.).
3. By creating the simple IraLIS form of signature which allows a suitable and unconfused recognition even by the Anglo-Saxon sources of cultural information.
Open access archive or thematic repository, specialized in the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, in ICOMOS and coordinated by its Documentation Centre. As there are only a few similar initiatives in this field, the implementation of an open access archive by ICOMOS will help it become the global reference point for the promotion and dissemination of cultural heritage conservation scientific documentation
'Methodology for the preservation and digital diffusion of the scientific and cultural patrimony : application of international standards'.
'Diffusion in Spain of the new forms of knowledge's international communication'.
'Spanish network of scientific documents : report on the implementation of a digital library for the Spanish academic community and the analysis of its copyright issues'.
DoIS is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in Information Science. DoIS is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. DoIS is a volunteer effort to create a free bibliographic resource of scientific texts specialized in Information Science.
RCLIS is a project to build a database about all current and current and past research in computing and library and information science. The data will be freely available for public and private, commercial and non-commercial purposes. It will serve as a testbed for digital library research. It will initially be released using the public metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), using the Academic Metadata Format (AMF).