Jan Brase

• Dr. rer. nat.
• Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library

As part of a project initiated by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) assigned its first DOI names to scientific data in summer 2004. The goal was to use persistent identifiers as part of a broader effort to make scientific datasets citable research outputs. The effort begun by TIB led t...

The Competence Center is planned as link between Geoscientific facilities and an existing archive network for earth and environmental data in Germany. KomFor generally aims at improving the overall availability and quality of data in a sustainable way. Practically from the users view the project will create a unique instance which accompanies scien...

Digital Library support for textual and certain types of non-textual documents has significantly advanced over the last years. While Digital Library support implies many aspects along the whole library workflow model, interactive and visual retrieval allowing effective query formulation and result presentation are important functions. Recently, new...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the work being done at The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) to make non‐textual information, for example three dimensional objects, more easily accessible. The goal is to create workflows and develop tools that allow academic libraries to treat this data in the same way as text...

Since 2005, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has offered a successful Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration service for persistent identification of research data. In 2009, TIB, the British Library, the Library of the ETH Zurich, the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), the Technical I...

Since 2005, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has offered a successful Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration service for persistent identification of research data. In 2009, TIB, the British Library, the Library of the ETH Zurich, the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), the Technical I...

The scientific and information communities have largely mastered the presentation of, and linkages between, text-based electronic information by assigning persistent identifiers to give scientific literature unique identities and accessibility. Knowledge, as published through scientific literature, is often the last step in a process originating fr...

This report is the outcome of the project “Numeric Data: Citation Techniques and

In the last decade data driven research has become a third pillar of scientific work alongside with theoretical reasoning and experiment. Greatly increased computing power and storage, together with web services and other electronic resources have facilitated a quantum leap in new research based on the analysis of great amounts of data. However, tr...

Since 2005 the TIB is an official DOI registration agency. Scientific content, mostly primary data sets, resulting from public funded research can be awarded with a DOI by TIB to become accessible in any web browser worldwide.

Intensive research in the earth sciences over the past decades has created a tremendous wealth of literature, data, and material collections. So far, literature, data and sample collections have been separated. Information technology and the internet, in particular the new cyberinfrastructures for the earth sciences, offer ways to interlink literat...

In its 2004 report "Data and information", the International Council for Science (ICSU) strongly recommended a new strategic framework for scientific data and information. On an initiative from a working group from the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the German Research Foundation (DFG) has started the project "Publication an...

The 'Berlin Declaration' was published in 2003 as a guideline to policy makers to promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base. Because knowledge is derived from data, the principles of the 'Berlin Declaration' should apply to data as well. Today, access to scientific data is hampered by structural deficits...

Registration of scientific primary data, to make these data citable as a unique piece of work and not only a part of a publication, has always been an important issue. In the context of the project "Pub- lication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) the German National Library of Science and Techno...

Registration of scientific primary data, to make these data citable as a unique piece of work and not only a part of a publication, has always been an important issue. With the new digital library techniques, it is finally made possible. In the context of the project “Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data” founded by the German resear...

This paper will discuss some of the advantages and complexities in using the Resource Description Framework, RDF, to express learning object metadata following the IEEE LOM standard. We will describe some details of the current draft for a complete RDF binding for LOM and discuss some of the constructs used in that binding. We will then present a s...

Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) aims at describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. In this article we show how additional inference rules allows us to derive additional metadata from existing ones. Additionally, using these rules as integrity constraints helps us to define the constraints on LOM elements, t...

This paper will discuss some of the advantages and complexities in using the Resource Description Framework, RDF, to express learning object metadata following the IEEE LOM standard. We will describe some details of the current draft for a complete RDF binding for LOM and discuss some of the constructs used in that binding. We will then present a s...

Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) aims at describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metadata can be a tedious task. In this paper we show how additional inference rules can make this task easier, and allows us to derive additional metadata from e...

Learning Objects Metadata describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metadata can be a tedious task. In this paper we show how additional inference rules can make this task easier, and allows us to derive additional metadata from existing ones....

Learning Objects Metadata describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metadata can be a tedious task. In this paper we show how additional inference rules can make this task easier, and allows us to derive additional metadata from existing ones....

Introduction In this case study we give you a brief overview how we annotate our computer science course and how we storage them in our learning repository. In section 2 we give you a brief introduction to the field of metadata and their binding and discuss which subset of the metadata schema LOM (Learning objects metadata) by the IEEE we find most...

This chapter gives an overview over the use of Ontologies and Metadata for eLearning as well as about innovative approaches and techniques we developed for enhanced eLearning scenarios. After a brief introduction to the field of metadata, metadata bindings and metadata annotations in the context of a large computer science testbed we will introduce...

The World Wide Web has not only revolutionized the area of tra- ditional hypermedia, it is also starting to influence adaptive hyper- media research. The main feature of the World Wide Web has been simplicity, standards based protocols and formats, and open envi- ronments and systems. In this paper we will investigate the poten- tial of these aspec...

The Institute for Knowledge Based Systems has developed several learning repositories in the last five years based on explicit use of metadata and (in the last two years) RDF. Using standard and self-defined metadata schemas to represent the structure and meta-information of learning objects, we decided to make our latest generation of repositories...

In 2003 the 'Berlin Declaration' was published as a guideline to policy makers to promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base. Since knowledge is derived from data, the principles of the 'Berlin Declaration' should similarly apply to data. However, access to scientific data is hampered, in part, by structu...