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This is the public version of the Acropolis Strategy document, an official document of E-LIS that roadmaps the actions of the E-LIS community in 2011. It was initially drafted by Imma Subirats and Giannis Tsakonas and it was further discussed by the E-LIS Executive Board and E-LIS staff on April 2011. The Acropolis Strategy sets critical goals to be achieved in 2011, which are expected to improve the current situation of E-LIS services. It is anticipated that this document will be continuously referred to in order to assess the progress of the E-LIS community activities. Finally, this public version is giving the proper acknowledgement to certain individuals and organizations that have substantially supported the work of E-LIS.

1. E-LIS Design Issues

Priority: Very high
Coordinators: Giannis Tsakonas and Christophe Dupriez
Collaborators: E-LIS Team
External collaborators: Marc Gooaverts and Diane Le Hennaff

A first prototype, addressing the main design issues, should be provided by the end of May and be discussed with the Executive Board. Potential collaboration might be developed with the AgriOcean DSpace Team. The prototype should be then refined with the rest of the Executive Board members. Once the prototype is ready, it will be submitted to CILEA for review and the E-LIS Executive Board will ask for implementation. This is a major work with a lot of intellectual input from the team. Any work on the layout level should contain a Creative Commons license where it is acknowledge the work of the E-LIS members. Any re-use of it by CILEA or any other party should acknowledge the creators' work through the CC license.

2. Workflow

Priority: Very high
Coordinators: Giannis Tsakonas and Christophe Dupriez
Collaborators: E-LIS Executive Board

The current workflow needs a deep revision with special regard to customization of the text files used for the notifications of uploads to editors and users, with the inclusion of new dynamic information like the collection where the paper has been submitted or approved, and a possible simplification or improvement according to the E-LIS workflow needs.

The desired output of this task will be an analysis for the improvement of the workflow.

3. DSpace editors' guide

Priority: High
Coordinators: Paula Sequeiros and Ilkay Holt
Collaborators: E-LIS Executive Board

With the new Dspace environment, the material for introducing E-LIS to the new national editors should be prepared. It is expected that this task will produce as output a first draft manual on DSpace E-LIS that will include (a) introductory details about E-LIS, (b) possibly a schema modeling the workflow (already on progress by Christophe Dupriez) and (c) technical details about the editing of papers in DSpace.

4. JITA

Priority: High
Coordinators: Imma Subirats and Christophe Dupriez
Collaborators: E-LIS Executive Board
External collaborators: Armando Stellato, FAO of the United Nations and MIMOS

This is a set of tasks that addresses challenges of JITA progress and revision.

4.1. Revision of JITA Classification Schema

Eight years after its publication, JITA Classification Schema requires a revision which should allow the E-LIS Community to include terms that nowadays are used in the LIS Context. It is proposed that open consultation can be the first or second week of September in order to collect the new/revised terms suggestions by members of the E-LIS community. By the end of May it is expected that the Executive Board will formulate a statement of the aims and the objectives of this initiative.

4.2. Publication of JITA as LOD

This is an ongoing activity, which is carried out with the collaboration of the FAO of the UN. The publication will take place at MIMOS. An expected delivery is the end of April. A second round of JITA LOD publication will be performed following the same procedure as the first (see 4.1.).

4.3. Publication of JITA in the VocBench

FAO of the UN offers the hosting of JITA in the online editor tool for multilingual thesauri VocBench. This tool provides facilitates for the maintenance of multilingual thesauri, as JITA. New translations will be easier to add using this tool. The process of publication will take place as soon as the VocBench 2.0 is released, which it is expected to be in October 2011.

4.4. Improvement of the indexing procedure in the DSpace Data Entry

The indexing procedure used in DSpace is creating consistency problems due to the difficulties to visualize JITA and to add more than one term.

5. E-LIS LOD Task Force

Priority: Medium
Coordinators: Imma Subirats
Collaborators: E-LIS Team
External collaborators: Marcia Lee Zeng, Diane Le Hennaff, Armando Stellato, Marc Goovaerts, Yves Jaques, Stefano Anibaldi

E-LIS team is planning to publish E-LIS data as LOD during this year. An E-LIS LOD Task Force has been set up with external collaborators; the forum takes place at https://groups.google.com/group/elis-lod-task-force?hl .

6. Open Bibliographic Data

Priority: Medium
Coordinators: Giannis Tsakonas and Antonella De Robbio
Collaborators: E-LIS Executive Board

This task explores the potential publication of E-LIS metadata under the Open Bibliographic Data principles. This is a task to be completed by the end of April as it is related to 4.2.