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The impact of DRIVER on the repository community

The impact of DRIVER on the repository community. Sophia Jones. The DRIVER Vision. Research institutions worldwide make their research output freely accessible Research output from Europe and worldwide is aggregated into one virtual open knowledge base

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The impact of DRIVER on the repository community

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  1. The impact of DRIVER on the repository community Sophia Jones 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  2. The DRIVER Vision • Research institutions worldwide make their research output freely accessible • Research output from Europe and worldwide is aggregated into one virtual open knowledge base • A wide range of end user services – e.g. search, browse, profiling, citation, visualisation - becomes available to researchers by service providers • Publications are in a position to link with any type of digital data and objects • Berlin Declaration: “Free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide” • DRIVER approach: Constructing a global, interoperable repository infrastructure 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  3. Open Source Software for repository networks DRIVER II – …global, interoperable repository infrastructure Confederation • Organization of Digital • Repository Infrastructure Providers D-NET DR Infrastructure • Technical Digital Repository • Network Infrastructure Services DRIVER Support & Wiki • Community Building • & Maintenance 3 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  4. DRIVER Confederation • Organisation of Digital Repository Infrastructure Providers: A Confederation of Repository Communities • Initial focus on Europe (with international alliances) • Important members and strategic partners • Confederation Advisory Board • European and international repository communities • major repository platforms • standards developers • service providers • related non-government organisations (NGO’s) 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  5. D-Net – DRIVER Network Evolution Toolkit • Open source software • Tool box for service providers: • To share DRIVER based operational systems to run additional instances of existing services • To employ DRIVER based operational systems to develop new services • To deploy a new independent DRIVER infrastructure to serve the needs of the service provider’s own community • Available at: http://www.driver-repository.eu/Downloads 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  6. DR Infrastructure • “European Information Space” • Moved to production mode in June 2008 • Today 210+ repositories from 23 countries • DRIVER Guidelines & Repository Workflow • Supports three groups of users: • The repository manager • The service provider • The researcher, reader, public (demonstration of the infrastructure) 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  7. www.driver-community.eu 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  8. Learn about DRIVER 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  9. Search the Repositories 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  10. “Browse”… 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  11. Register your repository 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  12. Repository Map 210 harvested repositories 23 countries 856,264+ documents 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 12 12

  13. Community Building and Maintenance • DRIVER Wiki • Country “correspondents” • One institution or a group of institutions takes responsibility to build a national repository community (like DARENet-NL, SHERPA-UK, OA-Netzwerk-GE, RECOLECTA-ES, HAL-FR) • Maintain the national repository information on the DRIVER Wiki • Organise repository events in their countries • Translate DRIVER Guidelines and other relevant information into national languages • Build up national data aggregators, clean data, can offer additional services • DRIVER Support • www.driver-community.ey/helpdesk • Mentor Service • www.driver-support.eu/mentor • tutorials • DRIVER liaises already with institutions and initiatives from the majority of European countries, the U.S., Canada, Latin America, China, Japan, India and Africa • DRIVER has signed MoUs with SPARC Europe, LIBER, eIFL, Recolecta Spain, OA-Netzwerk Germany and DRF Japan 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  14. DRIVER Support 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  15. DRIVER Wiki - www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  16. DRIVER Helpdesk- www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  17. Mentor Service – www.driver-support.eu/mentor 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  18. Mentor Service Tutorial 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

  19. More Information about DRIVER • The DRIVERPortal: www.driver-community.eu • Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk, www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk 9th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009

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