Who are our customers and what do they want? Readers ..

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Contents and Formats Existing Digital Sources
Gertraud Griepke Cornell University , July 26th
2002
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Who are our customers and what do they want?

• Readers
• Enhanced content
• critical mass
• multimedia, more color, additional data
• Enhanced functionality
• powerful search, alerting
• Seamless access
• ubiquitous access to past and present
• Powerful links
• abstracts to full text
• reference linking

• Authors
• Quality imprint
• journal brand
• stamp of authority
• improved visibility
• long term visibility
• accessibility
• different portals
• different places
• different environments

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Who are our customers and what do they want?

• Librarians wish list for e-journals includes
• Services arranged around vertical subject areas
• Services with critical mass of journals
• Seamless linking from aggregator and AI services
  to full text from a variety of publishers
• Single, user-friendly interface (preferably the
  librarys interface)
• Streamlined admin solutions usage statistics
• Better value for money
• E-only access - but.
• archive assurances and standards

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Some Tricky Issues

• Free Stuff (vs access control)
• Usage data
• Digital archiving policy

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Goettingen Library Record
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Material to be Digitized
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Digital Production Process
Data Management
Workflow Management
Content Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Supplier Management
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Data Management
Data Management
Workflow Management
Content Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Supplier Management

• Formats TEX, PDF,PS
• Metadata and content data
• Structuring (Tagging)
• Media neutrality

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Workflow Management
Data Management
Workflow Management
Content Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Supplier Management

• Processing
• Conversion
• Automatization
• Interfaces - input / output

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Content Management
Data Management
Workflow Management
Content Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Supplier Management

• DTD
• Style files
• Information /Object models
• Archiving

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Electronic Data Check Routines

• Syntax
• Completeness
• Integrity of filenames
• Parsing majour SGML data
• Check metadata
• Check pairs of SGML/PDF

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Various Workflows
Processing
Input
Output
RTF
Books
TeX
Archive Journals
Normali-zation
Content Processing
Camera ready
Software
Special Cases
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Designing the Information ModelArticle DTD

• Based on XML (possible XML Schema)
• Consolidation of all Springer DTDs
• Model for a complete issue (Cover2Cover)
• High Level structures
• Simplified and uniform metadata

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Analysis and Optimization of Workflows

• Workshops
• Reducing the number of workflows
• Reducing complexity
• Top down modeling
• Preceding and subsequent processes
• Lifecycle definition based on a state model
• Use case analysis

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Information Model for Journals
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Article DTDArticle Level
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Quality Management
Data Management
Workflow Management
Content Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Supplier Management

• Data consistency
• Process consistency
• Content consistency

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Value Added in Production

• Articles online before print
• Publication of electronic issues
• Linking
• CrossRef
• Errata
• Further publications of publisher
• Electronic supplementary material

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Link from Erratum to Article
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Link from Article to Erratum

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Supplementary Material
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Link Enabled References
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Link Enabled References
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Link Enabled References to Abstracts
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Online before Print

• Electronic Proofs
• HTML
• PDF
• Illustrations
• Equations, Formulas
• Special characters

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Publication of Electronic Issues

• Cover to cover ?
• Research papers
• Other editorial material
• Advertisements
• Table of contents

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Links to Further Publications

• Encyclopedic works
• Online databases
• and much more !!!

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Services

• Editorial tracking system
• Content management
• Data delivery
• Archiving / Retrieval

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Technical Requirements

• Media neutrality
• Standardization
• Automatization
• Data consistency

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Information Model for Books
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Book Series as Monographs
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Book Series as MonographsLNM
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Book Series as Monographs
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Organizational Aspects(Company / Partners)

• Communication
• Cooperation
• Change Management

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Summary