Pablo de Castro

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• Article: A Pedestrian View of the Roads to Open Access: Understanding Workflows to Enrich Infrastructure

  Peter Burnhill, Pablo de Castro, Andrew Dorward, Terry Sloan
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  ABSTRACT: Things are moving quickly on the policy front with respect to the roads to Open Access with renewed focus on Gold Open Access. Gold OA is essentially the purchase of a service from a publisher: that the Publisher’s (or Published) Final Copy is made available under specified terms of Open Access. This is in contrast to the Green Road to Open Access, which typically involves the deposit and availability of the Authors’ Final Copy, by an author or an authorised agent. UK RepositoryNet+ (UKRepNet) is a JISC initiative being developed by EDINA. This is infrastructure to enable the delivery of services to universities and colleges in the UK in their work with Institutional Repositories (IRs) and the like to support Open Access (OA) and reporting arrangements for research outputs and outcomes. The focus is upon research literature as part of research output, noting the growth of the enhanced publication (i.e. the data behind the graph) and the importance of citation of data sources and instrumentation. Though Green OA is still important, the move to Gold OA is being accelerated faster than originally anticipated at the project kick-off in October 2011. Accordingly UKRepNet was given a ‘watching brief’ to monitor the significance of Gold OA in order that infrastructure being created remained relevant. What follows is report from that Watch activity, setting out the envisaged workflows, both financial and informational. The RepNet focus is on delivering a sustainable and fit for purpose repository service infrastructure. This has an emphasis on institutional repository infrastructure and therefore a focus on Green but naturally there are links to Gold, and as other service requirements emerge the service environment would need to be extensible to encompass those or to at least interoperate with them. Related to this JISC initiative & the wider OA environment ( both Gold & Green) is the work on metadata to research outputs that JISC is taking forward with publishers & RCUK: this includes RIOX, Vocabulary for OA (V4OA) & also the activity via the Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) on APCs ( which this short report is feeding into). RIOX & V4OA constitute action with regards to the agreement on UK Repository Application Profile to include OA and Funder Metadata. The semantics of OA are being dealt with in V4OA which is a JISC action as a result resulting from the agreement to address this issue between OAIG & Publishers. This work will feed into the National Information Standards Organisation (NISO).
  UK RepositoryNet+ Discussion Papers. 08/2012;
• Article: SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios

  Stuart Lewis, Pablo de Castro, Richard Jones
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  ABSTRACT: The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol was designed to facilitate the interoperable deposit of resources into systems such as repositories. The use of an interoperable standard eases the burden of developing clients to deposit such resources. This paper examines nine different deposit use cases, and provides case studies and examples of each use case to demonstrate the wide range of repository deposit scenarios. The use cases range from the deposit of scholarly communication outputs from a publisher to a repository and the automatic deposit of data from laboratory equipment, to inter-repository transfer and collaborative authoring workflows.
  D-Lib Magazine 01/2012; D-Lib Magazine 18(1/2), doi:10.1045/january2012-lewis(1/2 (Jan/Feb 2012)).
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  Article: The Quixote project: Collaborative and Open Quantum Chemistry data management in the Internet age.

  Sam Adams, Pablo de Castro, Pablo Echenique, Jorge Estrada, Marcus D Hanwell, Peter Murray-Rust, Paul Sherwood, Jens Thomas, Joe Townsend
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  ABSTRACT: ABSTRACT: Computational Quantum Chemistry has developed into a powerful, efficient, reliable and increasingly routine tool for exploring the structure and properties of small to medium sized molecules. Many thousands of calculations are performed every day, some offering results which approach experimental accuracy. However, in contrast to other disciplines, such as crystallography, or bioinformatics, where standard formats and well-known, unified databases exist, this QC data is generally destined to remain locally held in files which are not designed to be machine-readable. Only a very small subset of these results will become accessible to the wider community through publication.In this paper we describe how the Quixote Project is developing the infrastructure required to convert output from a number of different molecular quantum chemistry packages to a common semantically rich, machine-readable format and to build respositories of QC results. Such an infrastructure offers benefits at many levels. The standardised representation of the results will facilitate software interoperability, for example making it easier for analysis tools to take data from different QC packages, and will also help with archival and deposition of results. The repository infrastructure, which is lightweight and built using Open software components, can be implemented at individual researcher, project, organisation or community level, offering the exciting possibility that in future many of these QC results can be made publically available, to be searched and interpreted just as crystallography and bioinformatics results are today.Although we believe that quantum chemists will appreciate the contribution the Quixote infrastructure can make to the organisation and and exchange of their results, we anticipate that greater rewards will come from enabling their results to be consumed by a wider community. As the respositories grow they will become a valuable source of chemical data for use by other disciplines in both research and education.The Quixote project is unconventional in that the infrastructure is being implemented in advance of a full definition of the data model which will eventually underpin it. We believe that a working system which offers real value to researchers based on tools and shared, searchable repositories will encourage early participation from a broader community, including both producers and consumers of data. In the early stages, searching and indexing can be performed on the chemical subject of the calculations, and well defined calculation meta-data. The process of defining more specific quantum chemical definitions, adding them to dictionaries and extracting them consistently from the results of the various software packages can then proceed in an incremental manner, adding additional value at each stage.Not only will these results help to change the data management model in the field of Quantum Chemistry, but the methodology can be applied to other pressing problems related to data in computational and experimental science.
  Journal of Cheminformatics 01/2011; 3:38. · 3.42 Impact Factor
• Article: ¿Son nuestros repositorios lo suficientemente sólidos como para asumir mandatos institucionales?

  Pablo de Castro
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  ABSTRACT: Aquesta comunicació se centra en l'estudi de la mida, la flexibilitat i l'estabilitat dels equips que gestionen els dipòsits espanyols en l'actualitat, per tal de determinar si són prou sòlids i estables com per suportar mandats institucionals. Per això s'ha realitzat una enquesta entre els dipòsits per tal de recopilar informació sobre l'estructura dels equips professionals que els gestionen. Atès que el nivell de desenvolupament entre els dipòsits espanyols és molt diferent, l'anàlisi se centrarà inicialment en aquells que es troben més consolidats, encara que la intenció de l'estudi és assolir un nivell de cobertura el més ampli possible que eventualment pugui excedir els límits nacionals. Esta comunicación se centra en el estudio del tamaño, la flexibilidad y la estabilidad de los equipos que gestionan los repositorios españoles en la actualidad, con el fin de determinar si son lo suficientemente sólidos y estables como para soportar mandatos institucionales. Para ello se ha realizado una encuesta entre los repositorios con objeto de recopilar información sobre la estructura de los equipos profesionales que los gestionan. Dado que el nivel de desarrollo entre los repositorios españoles es muy dispar, el análisis se centrará inicialmente en aquéllos que se encuentran más consolidados, aunque la intención del estudio es alcanzar un nivel de cobertura lo más amplio posible que eventualmente pueda exceder los límites nacionales. This paper focuses on the study of size, flexibility and stability of the working teams managing the Spanish repositories today, in order to determine whether they are sufficiently strong and stable to withstand institutional mandates. For this we have conducted a survey between the repositories to gather information on the structure of the professional teams that manage them. Since the level of development among Spanish repositories is really uneven, the analysis will initially focus on those who are more established, although the intention of the study is to achieve a level of coverage as broad as possible subject that may exceed national boundaries.
• Article: Interoperabilidad y repositorios: el Grupo de Trabajo SONEX

  Pablo de Castro
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  ABSTRACT: Durante el International Repositories Workshop celebrado en Amsterdam en marzo de 2009 se señaló la urgente necesidad de incrementar los contenidos almacenados en los repositorios institucionales. Bien a través de la promoción de iniciativas para la transferencia automática de contenidos desde los editores o mediante el desarrollo de la interoperabilidad entre los sistemas de información sobre investigación o Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) y los repositorios institucionales, era preciso fomentar estrategias que permitieran automatizar la incorporación de contenidos. El grupo de trabajo SONEX (Scholarly Output Notification and Exchange), financiado por el JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), se estableció entonces para analizar las cuestiones relacionadas con la interoperabilidad de repositorios y contribuir a la implementación de las soluciones detectadas. Tras la publicación el pasado marzo de 2010 por parte del JISC de la convocatoria para financiar proyectos relacionados con el depósito de contenidos en los repositorios del Reino Unido, el papel del grupo SONEX se amplió para incluir la colaboración y el apoyo a los proyectos seleccionados en dicha convocatoria. En esta presentación se resume el marco de interoperabilidad de repositorios analizado por SONEX a lo largo del último año y se mencionan algunas iniciativas en la materia que vienen desarrollándose en diversos repositorios españoles.