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Fig. 4.2-1. IPYPD Basic<br />

search page<br />

IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

Using NES’s BiblioLine software and the existing<br />

infrastructure for the AAR database allowed the<br />

IPYPD consortium to create its database at a very low<br />

cost. Because of NES’s automatic duplicate detection<br />

there is no problem if more than one of the indexing<br />

organizations indexes the same IPY publication.<br />

NES’s COMPARE technology identifies duplicate<br />

bibliographic records, no matter in which format or<br />

publication type they arrive. This technology merges<br />

similar records provided by more than one contributor<br />

into a composite record that binds index terms and<br />

abstracts from all the merged records. The BiblioLine<br />

software provides Basic, Advanced and Expert search<br />

modes, with many powerful search and display<br />

capabilities.<br />

As shown in Fig. 4.2-2, the records in the IPYPD<br />

include citations, detailed subject and geographic<br />

indexing terms, and, in most cases, abstracts. Most IPY<br />

<strong>2007–2008</strong> publications are available online, and the<br />

records describing these publications contain DOIs or<br />

URLs linking to PDF files of the publications. Some of<br />

the publications from the previous IPY/IGYs were also<br />

Fig. 4.2-2. Sample<br />

IPYPD record<br />

already available online, and others are being digitized<br />

by the DAHLI project.<br />

The IPYPD considers IPY publications prepared<br />

for education, outreach and communication (EOC)<br />

purposes to be equal in importance to research<br />

publications, and provides a method to search for just<br />

EOC publications using the “Audience” menu, as shown<br />

in Fig. 4.2-1. Most EOC publications that describe IPY<br />

<strong>2007–2008</strong> activities are being created by IPY projects,<br />

but it was decided to also include in the IPYPD those<br />

publications about IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> activities that<br />

are being created by non-IPY organizations such as<br />

general-interest magazines.<br />

The “Reporting Your Publications” page of the IPYPD<br />

website tells researchers how to determine to which<br />

organization an IPY publication should be reported,<br />

describes what information researchers should send<br />

when reporting a publication, and defines what is<br />

meant by IPY publications.<br />

One of the objectives of the IPYPD project was to<br />

index a publication once and then to use the resulting<br />

bibliographic record in many ways. In addition to

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