Figaro and Open Access to electronic information objects

Issue title: ICTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Gradmann, Stefan

Affiliations: Project Manager, The Virtual Library Unit, University of Hamburg, Germany

Abstract: The EC-funded FIGARO project is concerned with free access to electronic scientific information in three major respects: it tackles major issues of publication economy by introducing a novel federate business model (this aspect has already been presented by Bas Savenije in Leuven recently), it will implement the OAI-protocol (which of course is useful, but not sufficiently original to merit a separate presentation in this conference), and it is strongly concerned with technical aspects of free access to electronic information objects. While briefly mentioning the two others I will concentrate on this last aspect in my presentation and thus talk about issues such as open, vendor independent document models, identifiers and open linking/pointing techniques as prerequisites for electronic information being freely accessible.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2003-232-329

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 175-177, 2003