Dear sirs, The CYCLADES consortium aims to elicit potential users' views on the functionality and services provided by the CYCLADES environment. A questionnaire has been devised for this purpose. We would like to ask you to take a few moments and familiarize yourself with the description and purpose of CYCLADES and also fill out the user requirements

at the following location: http://sappho.ics.forth.gr:5000/User_Requirements/questionnaire.html Your effort in filling out this questionnaire is greatly appreciated. This questionnaire has been devised for the elicitation of user

for the project CYLADES (IST-2000-25456). A brief description of the project and its objectives is given below as well as at the aforementioned web site. Sincerely, The CYCLADES Consortium, Project Description The main objective of CYCLADES (http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/cyclades/) is to develop advanced Internet accessible services to support scholars both individually and as members of networked communities when interacting with large interdisciplinary electronic (e-print) archives}. CYCLADES aims at supporting the transition of e-print systems into genuine building blocks of a transformed scholarly communication model by developing a set of leading-edge technologies providing innovative methods for information

dissemination, sharing and collaborative work. The proposed open archives environment consists of two components: the archives and the services. To the former contribute the Open Archives initiative (OAI). CYCLADES will base the development of the

environment on these specifications. In particular, a core set of

value-added services will be developed to constitute a federation of independent but interoperable services. The Service Environment will

OAi compliant functionality. The CYCLADES services comprise the

Search and Browse Service: develops plans for the execution of user queries. An ad-hoc or a profile-based user query will be decomposed into more simple sub-queries to be sent to the Access Service for execution. The results of the sub-queries are fused and returned to the user. A browse facility is also supported. Collection Service: provides mechanisms for dynamically building

collections. Personalization Service: supports personalization of information access on the basis of individual user profiles and of profiles of

communities to which users belong. Recommendation Service: provides recommendations to satisfy information

of a user based on ratings provided by other users or groups. Collaborative Work Service: supports collaboration between members of

communities. Community working areas are created to use the OAi content in collaborative work. _______________________________________________ OAI-general mailing list OAI-general(a)oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oai-general