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

• Usage statistics guidelines
  • I have written the initial documentation and did the editiong work on completing the details.
  • For 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 was co-author, providing information about the SURE2 project, on transparent aggregation and provisioning usage statistics of Open Access Publications in the Netherlands.
  • link: http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/publicaties/Pages/Users_narcissism_control.aspx

• 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 18237479-New-ways-of-innovation-for-the-Higher-Education-and-Research-in-the-Netherlands
  • download .pdf 18749091-New-ways-for-SURFfoundation-to-innovate-in-the-Dutch-Higher-Education-and-Research-field-in-Dutch
• 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