Publications

Articles

• Onderzoek is rijker dan publicaties alleen (Research is more than publications only)
  • I have co-authored this publication. The article is about Enhanced Publications; explaining the importance of re-traceable and transparent research, and the new type of research that can be done with the abundance of semantic linking between the charted resources.
  • link: ho-managment
  • download: Onderzoek is meer dan Publicaties alleen (2012)
    

• A deep validation process for open document repositories, ELPUB 2008: Open Scholarship
  • I have co-authored this article. This article is about the process of deep validation of repositories, checking the quality of semantic interoperability of the repository metadata content.
  • link: A deep validation process for open document repositories (2008)
  • PID: urn:nbn:se:elpub-429_elpub2008

Books

• EU-FP7-DRIVER-II Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology
  • I have written the sections 5. New Standards, Formats and Evolutions and 6. Evelopes and Packages
  • These parts give an overview of packaging formats that are able to contain information suitable for describing enhanced publications.
  • link EmergingStandardsforEnhancedPublicationsandRepositoryTechnology
  • download EU-FP7-DRIVER-II emerging standards for enhanced publications

Technical documentations

• OpenAIRE Usage Statistics Guidelines
  • I have given input, and connected the people working in similar area’s, to the people working in OpenAIRE, to work on an interoperable exchange format.
  • link: OpenAIRE Usage Statistics Guidelines
    

• OpenAIRE Guidelines
  • I have given advice on the use of new semantically identifiable information in simple OAI_DC required for the project, such as distinguishing a grant agreement id from a phone number.
  • link: OpenAIRE Guidelines for repositories 1.1
    

• KE Usage statistics guidelines
  • I have written the initial documentation and did the editiong work on completing the details.
  • For the Knowledge Exchange organisation I was able to gather a collective of authors and reviewers to come to an agreement on an interoperable format for gathering usage statistics data from distributed sources, without opposing any interpretation of the data.
  • link: wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/standards/KE+Usage+Statistics+Guidelines
    

• Enhanced Publications guidelines
  • I have drawn the basic outline of the document, and made extensive editorial work.
  • link wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/vp/1.1+Information+Model+for+Enhanced+Publications+whitepaper
    

• DRIVER guidelines
  • I have drawn the basic outline of the document, collected all the information needed for the soundness of the document and made extensive and detailed editorial work.
  • The DRIVER guidelines is a guideline document that explaines how to create interoperable metadata on a basic semantic level. This only applies to the expression of metdata that is pushed outward, it is not applicable to describe an the system internals of an information model. This interoperable metadata for the outside world is needed in order to build a sound knowledge infrastructure across systems making an interconnecting network of information.
  • link wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/DRIVERguidelines
  • download DRIVER_Guidelines_v2_Final_2008-11-13
  • presentation 2009 10 20 Ghent Driver Guidelines And Validator By Maurice Vanderfeesten
    

• Compound Objects guidelines
  • I have written the first versions of this document, making a sound and complete document.
  • The DIDL application profile in the Dutch library context is a way to describe how multiple parts of a document and its additional and related material belongs together. This is done for harvesting purposes, because the metadata itself does not contain structural information, only descriptive information. The DIDL format is chosen for its flexibility, and can be extended out of its originating context.
  • link MPEG21+DIDL+Application+Profile+for+Institutional+Repositories

Reports

• Users, narcissism and control – tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century, 2012
  • I contributed to this article, providing information about the SURE2 project, on transparent aggregation and provisioning usage statistics of Open Access Publications in the Netherlands.
  • link: http://www.surf.nl/kennis-en-innovatie/kennisbank/2012/rapport-users-narcissism-and-control.html
  • download: Users, narcissism and control

• PEER – Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers (2009)
  • I have worked on the mechanism of the workflow of the publications and metadata from publishers, via the peer depot to repositories.
  • Link: PEER reports
  • Download: PEER – Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers (2009)

• Study on innovation strategies for SURFfoundation, 2009, by Maurice Vanderfeesten
  • This study shows that in order to innovate, all personnel of Higher Education sector must be more involved with the creation of the SURF innovation agenda. Communication must run more smoothly.
  • read online New ways for SURFfoundation to innovate in the Dutch Higher Education and Research field (in Dutch)
  • download .docx New-ways-for-SURF-to-innovate-Dutch-Higher-Education-and-Research
  • download .pdf New-ways-for-SURF-to-innovate-Dutch-Higher-Education-and-Research

• ACE – abridged – Report of the second year of the IReL project – Academic Content of Eire, 2008, by Leo Waaijers and Maurice Vanderfeesten
  • This report provides an accurate description for the Irish Academic Institutions how to make a reliable knowledge infrastructure.
  • download ACE – Consultancy report – abridged version with undisclosed sections
  • download ACE – Appendix 6. Persistent Identifier, Digital Author Identifier
  • download ACE – Appendix 7. Usage and Citation Metrics
    

• A portal for e-theses in Europe, lesson learned from a demonstrator project, 2007,  by Maurice Vanderfeesten and Gerard van Westrienen
  • The report shows the implications when one would like to build an E-theses portal in Europe, relying on heterogeneous  harvest metadata from different distributed repository systems.
  • download ETD-LessonsLearned-Full-Report+Annex

Thesis

• Identifying Roles in Multi-Agent Systems by overhearing, Master Thesis, by Maurice Vanderfeesten
  • I did my Masters thesis about Multi-Agent systems (MAS). MAS is an environment, preferably the internet, where Autonomous software agents  can form a virtual organisations instantly, based on their needs, functions, capabilities and competences. An agent is a piece of software that is specialized in a specific function and delivers some output after it has fed input data. A network of agents together form a complex organism, like all the different parts of a human cell. In order to operate in this network each agent is acting with a different behaviour signature. This behaviour is visible to the outside world in the way each of the agents communicate to each other. A new agent entering this vibrant virtual organisation scans for the behaviour of an agent he is compatible with. My research was about to evaluate several different machine learning techniques. The agent had to scan for compatible behaviour in language, agent language, in order to hook on that conversation. The technique can be used for automated stock market insertions, but in basis also for pointing out suspicious behaviour in an array of thousands of surveillance camera’s that need to be monitored by a small number of people.
  • download INF-SCR-05-62_Identifying_Roles_In_Multi-Agent_Systems_By_Overhearing
  • link Identifying Roles in Multi-Agent Systems by overhearing