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Calliope is a real scale experimentation on tomorrow's distributed digital
library.
At the origin of the project was the need for INRIA Rhône-Alpes
researchers to have access to a library based on the document archives of their
partners. The goal was to offer Web access of distributed documents to a
community of researchers, who were themselves dispersed over different
sites.
Even though it is a virtual library, Calliope nonetheless provides very real
services. First is the possibility of accessing the table of contents of the
650 journals acquired by the documentation centers of INRIA, Imag and XRCE
(Xerox Research Center Europe). These tables of contents are initially bought
from the Europériodiques company, then reformatted in HTML and finally
integrated into the contents server. Calliope also provides a "subscription"
service whereby interested readers may receive the contents of the journals of
their choice by email as soon as they are published. This service is available
to the entire INRIA, Imag and XRCE community.
Finally and above all, the main function of Calliope is to provide direct
access to the articles. This service is currently restricted to INRIA
Rhône-Alpes and to the Grenoble Xerox research center. In addition to
displaying the contents, the system makes it possible to require a digitization
of the body of the article, or, if the article has already been digitized, to
click on an icon pointing directly to the digital images of the article. For
juridical reasons, the visual quality of the articles is voluntarily reduced
and digitized documents must be printed on the reader's site prior to use. The
remote photocopy system keeps an account of printings and the French Copyrights
Center (CFC) is able to record the royalties. Given Calliope's
characteristics--from paper to paper--CFC declared itself competent to manage
the redistribution of fees to the publishers.
Calliope is based on the Rank Xerox XDOD platform for digitization and on
DocuWeb, the XDOD Web server for article visualization and printing.
Digitization on demand is currently performed at Irisa-INRIA Rennes (140
periodicals), XRCE (40 periodicals) and INRIA Rhône-Alpes (10
periodicals). The upcoming availability of a digitization platform at Loria in
Nancy should make it possible to increase the number of digitizable titles and
to offer this service to a larger number of users at INRIA. In the long run,
when many journals are available in electronic form, Calliope could offer a
unified interface to access INRIA's documentation centers resources and the
publications of French laboratories gathered by INRIA.
Project Orphée is a follow-up of Calliope. It is conducted in
collaboration with the University of Savoie and ENSSIB (National Superior
School of Information and Library Sciences) in Villeurbanne, that are in
particular testing a replica of the system in the framework of higher education
institutions.
Contact: Carole Silvy, INRIA Rhône-Alpes Exterior, Industrial and
International Relations
Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 11 -
Carole.Silvy@inria.fr
http://www.inrialpes.fr/services/calliope.html