DRIVER Providing value-added services on top of Open Access institutional repositories Dr Dale Peters Scientific Technical Manager : DRIVER SUB Goettingen Germany Gaining the momentum: Open Access and advancement of science and research, Pretoria May 2009
DRIVER II activity areas and outcomes Organization of Digital Confederation Repository Infrastructure Providers Community Building & Support DRIVER Portal & Helpdesk Open Source Software D-NET Software Digital Repository Infrastructure (s & Data) European Information Space Focused Studies & Demonstrators (e.g. Enhanced Publications ) Studies & Discovery 2 Acknowledgement Norbert Lossau, SUB,Goettingen
DRIVER Objectives Increase existing base of OA scientific content Offer economies of scale to IR s Provide the necessary expertise, knowledge and experience to new entrants to the repository scene. Interoperability & federated networks key to Open Access Strategic support for OA mechanisms International repositories infrastructure organisational OA Infrastructure for publically funded research Policy guidelines developed by the wider research community Add value in shared services Advanced search and discovery Federated networks RedClara, CARL, DRF Japan Confederation Studies & Discovery
Gaining the momentum: Open Access and advancement of science and research, Pretoria May 2009
DRIVER Objectives Increase existing base of OA scientific content Offer economies of scale to IR s Provide the necessary expertise, knowledge and experience to new entrants to the repository scene. Strategic support for OA mechanisms International repositories infrastructure organisational OA Infrastructure for publically funded research Policy guidelines developed by the wider research community Add value in shared services Confederation Studies & Advanced search and discovery Discovery Federated networks -DRF Japan, RedClara, CARL Manage complex digital objects : Enhanced Publications
DRIVER Guidelines Download: http://www.driver-support.eu Better access to full-text Enhanced publications Metadata Expert Group dynamic, voluntary, wiki Standards & interoperability in IRs Aggregator s perspective e.g. BASE Lightweight Influence of DINI-Certifciation
DRIVER Midterm Review, Pisa 30 Januar 2009
Guidelines Objectives Components Policy development Improved services Additional fuctionality Check conformance Validation Collections (sets) DC Metadata OAI-PMH
Register your Repository DRIVER Guidelines compliance Validation Harvesting
The registration process REPOSITORY DRIVER Compliance with DRIVER Guidelines Online registation Implementation of validation tool System-generated validation report Evaluate validation report Supportive communication on validation report Evaluate communication & validate Open service to all repositories Automate registration process 11
DRIVER- Support http://www.driver-support.eu helpdesk@driver-support.eu
Long Term Preservation Objectives Update of LTP developments Guide to European Repositories (Weenink et al., 2008) Examine the requirements of a connection between IR's and long-term archiving facilities A demonstrator for a LTP-connector Definition of an exemplary agreement between an IR and a long-term archiving facility
Overview of archiving process
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Technology Description DRIVER Network Evolution Toolkit (DNET) v.2.0 Open Source Apache License Three user groups repository network administrator : harvest, clean, enrich and aggregate data from local repositories (Repository Network Manager, Resource Monitoring) repository manager check interoperability of local data with the DRIVER Guidelines (Validator) End-users, researchers: use the virtual knowledge base with fundamental features (search, browse, profiling)
DRIVER Infrastructure Advanced User Interfaces National portals Project Applications Administrators End users Functionality Layer Data Layer Enabling Layer Open Access Repositories 18
Repository Architecture Simple concept: data providers harvested by service providers Reality : common services rights management authority control access control (eg for deposit), linking between items in repositories long term preservation usage statistics automated metadata creation
Infrastructure architecture Functionality Layer ResulSet Information User Interface Search Recomm. User Community User Repositories Authz&Authn Manager OAI-PMH Text Engine Index Store Browse Aggregator Enabling Layer Validator Collection Data Layer
DNET Implementation/s National digital repository networks Spain, Belgium, Slovenia Portugal, China, India,. Develop, and allow third parties to develop, a set of services on top of the aggregated content search, re-use, online collaborative tools, citation measurement, subject portals, national web portals, etc. Coordinate national knowledge & disciplinary domains infrastructure based on the open access principles and open and international standards and protocols
Disciplinary Repository Infrastructures ArXiV Physics, Mathematics, Informatics PubMed - Life Sciences CLARIN, OLAC Linguistics, CESSDA Social Sciences DARIAH Humanities RePEc; NEEO Economics METAFOR Meteorology, Climatology MACE - Architecture IVOA Astronomy Media-specific: EFG
Scientific Communities, Research Institutions Discipline-specific tools & services... Interdisciplinary Tools and Infrastructure Info- Extrac tion Visualisation Grid- /VO- Search catalogue, Registry Ontology Registry & s Metadata Registry & s Persistent Identifier Resolver LTP s Repository Systems Hardware resources Content
Outlook Implement infrastructure services to increase advocacy for Open Access and scholarly communication FP7 Open Access pilot PEER alternative reward systems new bibliometrics uphold peer review investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic self-archiving
Contact Dr Dale Peters Scientific Technical Manager : DRIVER SUB Goettingen Germany E-mail: peters@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.driver-community.eu/
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