Service-oriented Metadata Annotations and Retrieval for Open Access Journals

当今知识社会的驱动因素之一是自由和个人获取高质量的科学信息。开放获取运动试图发表越来越多的科学成果，然而，结果是难以管理越来越多的期刊上自由获取的各种文章。与传统的图书馆和出版社相比，开放获取期刊的一个主要缺点是缺少商业模式，这反过来又不允许将收入用于语义索引和人工管理的有价值的科学结果的元数据注释。因此，真正的个性化访问很难实现。向这个方向迈出的第一步可以在医学领域看到，像GoPubMed这样的门户网站，人工管理的MeSH分类法为索引文档提供了一个高质量的工具。不幸的是，大多数科学领域缺乏如此强大的索引工具，因此自动索引仍然非常困难。该项目旨在开发和实施一些方法，使开放获取信息提供者（特别是化学领域的信息提供者）能够在控制质量的情况下自动为其馆藏编制索引。项目的第二部分将使用这些元数据构建模块化的个性化检索门户。因此，总体目标是为开放获取期刊的创新和面向服务的框架奠定基础，以实现反映用户个人知识空间的个性化和质量控制的检索过程。

One of the driving factors for today's knowledge society is the free and individual access to high quality scientific information. The open access movement tries to publish an increasing number of scientific results, resulting however in a hard to manage variety of freely accessible articles in a growing number of journals. In contrast to classical libraries and publishing houses, a major drawback for open access journals is the missing business model, which in turn does not allow for revenue to be used for semantic indexing and manually curated metadata annotation of valuable scientific results. Thus, a truly personalized access is hard to realize. First steps into this direction can be seen in the area of medicine with portals like GoPubMed, where the manually curated MeSH taxonomy provides a high quality tool for indexing documents. Unfortunately most scientific areas are lacking such a powerful tool for indexing and thus automatic indexing is still extremely difficult. This project aims at the development and implementation of methods that allow open access information providers particularly in the area of chemistry to automatically index their collections with controlled quality. The second part of the project will use these metadata for building modular personalized retrieval portals. Thus, the overall aim is to lay the foundations for an innovative and service-oriented framework for open access journals that allow for a personalized and quality controlled retrieval process reflecting the user's individual knowledge space.