Presentation for the Mcluhan Galaxy Conference. Barcelona, May, 23nd-25th.

1. Università degli studi di Milano |IN3 – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya M. Ciastellardi, U. Eccli, F. Perotta Knowledge isles In an open Archipelago The Open ArchipelagoProject

2. “If It Works, It’s Obsolete” M. McLuhan

3. Whatis obsolete… and stillworks? Elementsfocused in the project Copyright Books …endless design

5. OA consists of a main web server platform (Archipelago) and different localized PAC-kiosks (Isles: SEELE and PEOPLE distributions)

6. OA is a project oriented to the research environment (Universities, libraries, etc.)

7. It is a cooperative open project developed with the collaboration of two research institutes:

8. UniversitàdegliStudi of Milano

10. Use of new devices(ipads, smartphones, ebookreaders, etc.) in «impenetrable» environments

11. Direct, modular and affordableaccessto information (to traditionalknowledge)

12. A sustainable, lowcost, low impactsystem to share and distribute information

13. A differentpolicies/politics for innovation, social inclusion and technologicalgrowth (according to the EU guidelines).

15. Archipelago: the concept

17. applied research to propose a multi-platforms solution (the “Isles”) to manage these resources.Emergent model: open access network architecture which could manage resources as a traditional repository as well as a meta-crawler indexing system. The framework is based on a semantic hybrid database and on a collection of resources that could be consulted, downloaded and tagged.

19. To create a pilotprojectand to defineactivecommunities of reserchers/ librarians in order to collect, catalogue and meta-define Open Access resources

20. To adopt and sustain the Open Access model

21. To adopt and promote the use of low-consumption and low impact ICT technologiesdecreasingenvironmentalcosts

23. Libraries from archive of paper resources to digital repository

24. Libraries from Education to digital Education Digital education as a new way for Dissemination

26. Distribution

27. Licensing

28. Impact factor

29. Open Access platforms for publication

30. Journals

31. Repositories

32. Open Access services

34. iPads (tablets)

35. Low cost portable media drives (multimedia cards, USB pendrive, portable player, etc.)

36. Smart(er) Phones

37. Subnotebook, netbooks

39. MedialibraryOnLine (OA Service Provider)

40. PLEIADI Project (OA Service Provider)

41. DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals (OA Service Provider)

42. OpenDOAR(OA Service Provider)

43. RePEc

45. a collection of resourcesResources could be consulted, downloaded and tagged.

47. it offers semantic driven answers, suggesting pertinent contents based on overlapping areas of interest, defined by the resources’ tags and relations It stores (B’) the queries analyzing the tags, the path of each research and the users’ choices The database process (D) the queries and it grows during the users’ researches, adding new tags and reframing the existing classification; the hybrid engine permits to have a dynamical map of the resources (A’) that change partially after each research

49. to offer to users a clustered system for information retrieval,

50. to have available more resources with less expenses

52. Directlyon personal/mobile device (downloading on usb keys, memory cards, tablets, smartphones, ebook readers, etc.)

53. Remotelyby networks (accessing with personal computer to the full source via Internet connection)

54. Remotely by subscription (with feed and RSS distribution)

56. PEOPLE (Paperless Electronic Open Public Library Environment): a kiosk optimized for Open Access delivery. It has a smaller screen than the SEELE version but it presents many connections with external devices to transfer directly all the resources offered.Full integration with QR code for the mobile access and portability

58. Mobile device (for only collect contents - plug’n’go)

59. WiFibrowsing (for devices wi-fi compliant, like notebooks or IPads)

60. QR-codes conceived as electronical classifiers of the delivered contentsSEELE acquires users’s feedbacks in a hybrid semantic engine to suggest better and more defined researches after each session

62. Will be a system to erogate contents in a versatile way:

63. E-Book reader(inside the Library)

64. Mobile device (for onlycollectcontents - plug’n’go)

65. WiFibrowsing(for deviceswi-ficompliant, like notebooks or IPads)

66. Feed RDF/RSS/Podcast(by subscription)

68. Archipelago: the platform

71. Conclusion Innovation, sustainability and shared knowledge A possibility: to establish a new rhetoric of the project in order to create a dialogue between the social and the technical tissue, and this means not only to produce tools or system to support new scenarios with sustainable models, but also to suggest a vision of a different cultural apparatus, to offer a new way of interaction, and new points of access to the knowledge.

72. Thanks mciastellardi@uoc.edu ugo.eccli@unimi.it fabio.perotta@unimi.it