The aim is to have influence on the IEA implementing agreement IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) through participation in ETDE's executive committee and in ETDE's technical working group.
Projektbeskrivelse
Inden for IEA-ETDE aftalen opbygges en fælles database med medlemslandenes beskrivelser af tidsskriftartikler, rapporter, bøger, konferenceindlæg m.m. udgivet i eget land. IEA-ETDE Executive Committee overvåger og videreudvikler samarbejdet, således at databasen får størst mulig dækning, og således at både opbygning og tilgængelighed af databasen sker gennem udnyttelse af moderne informationsteknologi. Den fælles database er tilgængelig under navnet ETDE World Energy Base via adressen www.etde.org/etdeweb. ETDEWEB er gratis for danske brugere. Tilrettelægning af den overordnede markedsføring indgår også i eksekutivkomiteens arbejde. Eksekutivkomiteens beslutninger er bindende for medlemslandende og Operating Agent (US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information). Eksekutivkomiteen har nedsat en teknisk arbejdsgruppe som skal diskutere tekniske forhold i relation til databasen og komme med anbefalinger til eksekutivkomiteen om nye tekniske løsninger. Den danske repræsentant i arbejdsgruppen deltager i 2004 i undergrupper om 1) dækning af EU publikationer, 2) udvikling af ny driftsplan og 3) test af download af fuldtekst publikationer. I 2004 holdes eksekutivmødet i Canada og det tekniske møde i USA. Dansk deltaglese i ETDE-samarbejdet er væsentligt ud fra to indfaldsvinkler: 1) Danmark har en interesse i at information om danske forskningsresultater formidles i en international og fagligt relevant sammnhæng. Informationssystemer - databaser - er et af redskaberne hertil. Inden for energiområdet har analyser vist at ETDE World Energy Base er det bedst dækkende informationssystem. 2) ETDE-aftalen er vigtig for at sikre dansk forskning og erhvervsliv adgang til internationale forskningsresultater, således som de formidles gennem ETDEWEB. Uden aftalen har Danmark ikke adgang til basen
Resultater
In 2004 new guidelines for non-members' (developing countries') access to ETDEWEB were adopted. Developing countries are granted un-restricted access to the database. Users from 20 developing countries were given access in 2004 (Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Ukraine, Zambia, a.o.). The executive committee has looked carefully at the estimated expenditure, which is very tight. Some cost reductions were found leaving room for small improvements of ETDEWEB. In 2004 the agreement lost Italy as a member, but Portugal is expected to become a new member very soon. A new concept for an operational plan was adopted. The concept was developed by a subgroup of the technical working group with the participation of the Danish representative. Recommended by the technical working group, web-links to journal articles in full-text are now automatically assigned in ETDEWEB. This facility increases the usability of the database enormously because many universities and other scientific institutions have subscription licenses to the large publishers. The technical working group has begun analysing the possibility of getting agreements with journal publishers (Elsevier, a.o.) to buy data for relevant articles in order to get the data into the database more efficiently and to improve the coverage. The Danish representative has participated in a subgroup to find ways to get EU reports covered in ETDEWEB. The work continues in 2005
