Subject-based Profile
• Who are the stakeholders?  How many
publishers? Research demographics of new user
groups?
• How big is the field?  How structured  and
defined is it? What’s important? Why? Change
driven by discipline and by technology
• How standardized is the literature? (xml, etc)
• How complex/fixed is it? (database, virtual)
• Who owns rights for re-use? Assessment of
economic, first-use, citations, second use,
technology