IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

13th Joint INIS/ETDE Technical Committee Meeting 20-21 October 2011, Vienna, Austria

Dobrica Savić, INIS Unit Head

IAEA

Contents

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1. Four elements of future direction2. Information democratization3. Technology leverage4. User experience5. Organizational framework6. Summary

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Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today! - African proverb

1. PurposeWhat the organization stands for? The purpose should be more than just its products. INIS: Organizing the world's nuclear information and making it universally accessible

2. Business modelThe way we carry out our business often delineates that crucial difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’. INIS: A self-governed, not for profit, collaborative system of member states and international organizations bringing benefits to the world’s nuclear scientific and technical community.

3. Technology and work methodologyUsed for achieving business goals, making products or delivering special services.INIS: Future technology and work methodology should be inseparable from the purpose of INIS and needs to be creative and innovative in order to achieve it, while supporting the business model.

4. GrowthSustainable growth driven by uniqueness and quality.INIS: Quality growth achievable through the continuous use of reliable nuclear information provided by recognized sources, preferably as full texts.

Four elements of future direction

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Information democratization

• From the beginning of its establishment in 1970, INIS kept democratization of scientific information at its forefront

• The Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that the IAEA's goal was:

• to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy

• to encourage the exchange among its members of information relating to the nature and peaceful uses of atomic energy

• to serve as an intermediary among its members for this purpose

• This led to creation of INIS• a system that provides online access to a considerable collection of references to the world’s

nuclear literature as well as to many full NCL texts • a real international cooperative venture, requiring active participation of its members • only 25 members at the beginning; 151 members (127 countries and 24 international

organizations) today • created and maintained by the global community for the global community

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Technology leverage

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication! - Leonardo da Vinci

• Maximize the use of Google-based INIS Collection search (features, outside use)

• Simplified bibliographic metadata set; improved WinFIBRE

• Diversification of INIS relevant input (harvesting, open access)

• Streamlined INIS data processing system

• Enhanced visibility and accessibility (INIS Collection as open access repository)

• Content standardization (XML, Unicode, PDF/A long-term archival format)

• Multilingualism (interface, search)

• Mobile Website

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User experience

Opportunities come from sharing information and connecting people!

• Reliability, accuracy and timeliness of available information resources

• Functionality and user needs (personalization)

• Google-type search experience

• Fast, simple to use, engage beginners and attract experts, design for the

world, innovative, plan for today‘s and tomorrow‘s business

• Social networking, bookmarking, tagging

• Accessibility from different devices (PCs, mobiles)

• Information mining (content, statistics)

• Visibility and promotion

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Organizational framework

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable! - Moliere

• Membership Agreement

• Open and free access for all Internet users

• Integration with global information networks (e.g. federated search)

• Greater reliance on full-text NCL submitted by INIS members

• Increased participation of INIS Members (review their capabilities and needs)

• INIS restructuring within IAEA

• Technical, human and financial resource strengthening of INIS

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Summary

• Promote INIS Collection search

• Improve INIS Web presence

• Review INIS Membership Agreement

• Strengthen the role and position of national INIS centres

• Increase the number of NCL full-texts

• Find alternative ways for acquiring additional INIS inputs

• Finalize INIS restructuring within IAEA

• Complete digitization of available INIS microfiches

Hard work, constant improvements and clear direction are the only guarantors of future relevance and leading place of INIS in providing the world with reliable

nuclear information for peaceful use.

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Thank you!