A network of interconnected portals for sharing open contents

Alain KavenokyUNIT

alain@kavenoky.fr

and the ORI-OAI development teamwww.ORI-OAI.org

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UNIT Université Numérique Ingénierie et Technologie Université Numérique Ingénierie et Technologie

Digital University for Engineering and Digital University for Engineering and TechnologyTechnology

Is one of theIs one of the

UNTUNTUniversités Numériques ThématiquesUniversités Numériques Thématiques

Topical Digital UniversitiesTopical Digital UniversitiesCreated by the Higher Education and Research Created by the Higher Education and Research

MinistryMinistry

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UNT Functions

• A brick less university• A student less university• A grade less university

• A repository of e-learning contents, with worldwide free access offered to :

• Students• Professors for creating their own curses using learning elements

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UNIT

• About 60 engineering schools and universities contribute to the content production

• More than 10 000 equivalent hours are available

• The problem : how to manage this huge amount ofdata

• The option to organize a central portal has been rejected

• UNIT has chosen to create a network of connected portals, based on the OAI-PMH protocols.

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Document

Meta-data

A digital document :• e-version of a printed document• movie• multimedia courseware • simulator, • ...

Meta-data:• Dublin Core• LOM or LOM-FR• TEF (thesis)• Link (URL) to the document• ...

Document and méta-data

Link (URL)

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An OAI repository

A set of documents and meta data

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A network of portals

Meta data harvestingOAI-PMH protocol

Queries

Portal#1 Portal#2 Portal#3

Harvesting portal

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• ORI-OAI (Outil de référencement et d’indexation, reference and indexing tool) has been developed, mainly based on open-source components.

• The main functions are : Meta data editor for Dublin Core, LOM, TEF Vocabularies management : for each item,the vocabulary is limited in order to simplifythe queries Workflow control for validating the meta data(may involve authors, libraries, management) Repository to expose the meta data using the OAI protocol

ORI-OAI(1)

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ORI-OAI(2)

• The main functions are : Harvesting a set of OAI repositories Indexing: for meta data and full text indexing Proposing search forms for local or remote contents ECM (Enterprise Content Manager) for storingand retrieving all the documents and securing the contents

• All these modules are developed using JAVA frameworks and, the full system is managed under the GPL licence

• The data fluxes between modules are based on web services.

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ORI-OAI Architecture

ESUP-ECM+ORI-OAI-nuxeoDocuments storage, retrieval

and authentificationORI-OAI-repository

ORI-OAI-indexingIndexing engine

ORI-OAI-workflowMeta data workflow manager

ORI-OAI-vocabularyVocabularies manager

ORI-OAI-harvester

ORI-OAI-searchSearch engine

• 8 modules• Connected by web

services

ORI-OAI-md-editorMeta data editor

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ORI-OAI Users

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UNIT UNISCIEL UVED UMVF UNJF UNR Bretagne UNR Nord-pas-de-Calais UNR Normandie

Le portail Universités Numériques

Université de Rennes 1 Université de Valenciennes INSA de Lyon INP de Toulouse / ENSEEIHT

Université Aix-Marseille Université d’Angers Université des Antilles Université d’Artois Université de Bordeaux 1

Université de Bourgogne

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Université de Bretagne Sud

Université d’Evry

Université de Franche-Comté

Université de Lille 1

Université de Lille 3

Université de Limoges

Université du Maine

Université de Metz

Université de Nancy 1

Université de Nancy 2 Université de Paris 5 Université de Paris 6

Université de Paris 10

Université de Paris Sud

Université de Provence

Université de Rennes 2 Université de Versailles

Club EEA Ecoles de Saint-Cyr

Coëtquidan ENS Lyon INPL Institut de la Montagne IUFM de Bretagne IUTenligne

Campus Virtuel Marocain Université Virtuelle de Tunis JUNET in Jordan Quebec universities

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• ORI-OAI 1.5 has been released, last July • Implementation of the TEF (thèses électroniques

françaises) meta data in the MD editor.

• Use of the TEF data in the search module

• Transfer of the TEF metadata to the ABES (Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur, Library agency for higher education) STAR software ( Signalement des thèses électroniques, archivage et recherche)

Next Release 1.6

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Future development

Two developments are planned:

• Add to ORI-OAI the functions needed to manage a repository for every document issued by the establishment : e-learning, research report,management files, thesis

• Allow this repository to seamlessly transfer theResearch reports to HAL, the open archive forResearch managing system.