Building a Global Knowledge Infrastructure: Emerging Partnerships of

Digital Repository Networks from Europe (DRIVER), Japan and beyondfrom Europe (DRIVER), Japan and beyond

Norbert Lossau, 

Götti St t d U i it Lib G & DRIVER EUGöttingen State and University Library, Germany & DRIVER, EU

TopicsTopics

• Digital Repositories Where do we stand?• Digital Repositories – Where do we stand?

• The Vision: a Global Knowledge Infrastructure

• Challenges

Gl b l D t N t k d l f th Gl b l• Global Data Network: a model for the Global Knowledge Infrastructure?

• The Implementation, Step 1: Europe (DRIVER), Japan and beyondJapan and beyond

• Outlook: towards a global repositoryinfrastructure

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Digital Repositories – Wheredo we stand?

• OpenDOAR a comprehensive register of• OpenDOAR – a comprehensive register ofdigital repositories worldwide−More than 1300 repositories listed

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Repository Typep y yp=>1072 institutional and177 disciplinary

Content Type=>815 hold journal articlesjournal articles, 318 Multimedia, audiovisualaudiovisual….69 datasets, 27 software etc.…

=>Languages:1133 English155 German96 Spanish96 Spanish86 French73 Japanesep…3 Africaans…2 Pashto, Pushto…1 Bulgarian1 Romanian

=>Disciplines763 Multidisciplinary86 Science General…99 Health andmedicine…98 History andA h lArchaeology…75 Social Sciences75 Social SciencesGeneral

=>Example:pWorldwide, Arts and Humanities General14 United States3 France3 France3 Germany3 United Kingdomg2 Australia1 Malay…

Digital Repository Infrastruc‐tures – Where do we stand?

• Disciplinary repository infrastructures – nop y p ysystematic overview yet; examples:– CLARIN OLAC – Linguistics language archives– CLARIN, OLAC – Linguistics, language archives(datasets, international)

CESSDA S i l S i (d t t i t ti l)– CESSDA – Social Sciences (datasets, international)

– DARIAH – Humanities (datasets, international)

– NEEO – Economics (publications, international)

– METAFOR – Meteorolgy, Climate researchMETAFOR  Meteorolgy, Climate research(publications + datasets, international)

– Crystallography (National UK publications +– Crystallography (National UK, publications + datasets)

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The Vision: a Global Knowledge Infrastructure

• Knowledge Infrastructure = Content & Technical services

• Includes any type of relevant informationIncludes any type of relevant information resource, such as publications, datsets etc.

• Opens up knowledge to academiccommunities and society en largey g

• Is the consequent step from catalogues & search engines to the actual content usagesearch engines to the actual content usage

• Provides transparency on the content resources included

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The Vision: a Global 

• Fosters interoperability: among variousKnowledge Infrastructure

Fosters interoperability: among variousinfrastructures, towards external services 

S ifi t & diti ifi d• Specifies usage terms & conditions specified, prefers open access

• Commited to trusted, long‐term service

• Open clearly defined service interfaces to• Open, clearly defined service interfaces to underlying content resources

• Content resources and technical services canbe deployed in multiple ways by externalbe deployed in multiple ways by externalsystems and services

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Challenges towards a Global Knowledge Infrastructure

Complex matrix addresses C t iComplex matrix, addresses

four main dimensionsCountries

Disciplines

• Countries (political, finance, organisational legal etc )

Technologyorganisational, legal etc.)

• Academic disciplinesContent type

• Multiple content resource types

• Technology• Technology

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The Diversity & Wealth of academic disciplines

• EC Framework 6 Programme: 46 pages c 40• EC, Framework 6 Programme: 46 pages, c. 40 entries each

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Discipline Schema: European Commission

• 7 main areas• 7 main areas

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Text ManuscriptText, Manuscript

Drawing

P i iPainting

Foto

Film

Radio, TV Broadcasts

Papyri

Cuneiform tablets

Artefacts

Buildingsg

Maps

Language audio recordings

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Language audio recordings

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Discipline Schema: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

4 main domains

• HSS

• Life SciencesLife Sciences

• Natural S iSciences

• Engineeringg g

14 subdomains

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Gl b l D t N t k d lGlobal Data Network: a model for the Knowledgeg

Infrastructure?

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Global Data Networks vs. Global Digital Repository Infrastructure?

• Data networks are neutral carriers“ of• Data networks are „neutral carriers  ofinformation ‐ Digital repositories contain thet l i f tiactual information

• Content resources – multiple semantics andformats

• Data networks are generic – knowledgeData networks are generic knowledgeinfrastructures are disciplin‐specific

C lt l i f di i li Y h th• Cultural issues for disciplines: „You share thenetwork – but not your research data“

• Financing!24

The Implementation, Step 1: Europe (DRIVER), Japan and beyondp ( ), p y

DRIVERCountriesDisciplines

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Content type

Technology

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General Information: DRIVER II

Duration: 24 monthsBudget: 2.7 m EUR

cont…Univ. of Bath (UK)

Timeplan: 12/’07 -11/’09Main Deliverables:

Digital Repository Infrastructure

Univ. of Bath (UK)Univ. of Warszawski (PO)Univ of Gent (BE)Digital Repository Infrastructure

European Digital Repository ConfederationFunded by the European Commission,“Research Infrastructure” Unit FP 7

Univ. of Gent (BE)Univ. of Goettingen (GE)

Research Infrastructure Unit, FP 7Consortium Partners

Univ.of Athens (GR)

Danish Technical University (DK)Universidade do

Univ. of Bielefeld (GE)CNR-ISTI (IT)STICHTING SURF (NL)

Minho (PT)Narodna in univerzitetna knijznica

Univ. of Nottingham (UK)j

(SLO)

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DRIVER “History”

DRIVER (I), started 1 June 2006, ended 30 November 2007November 2007DRIVER II, started 1 December 2007, ends 30 N b 2009November 2009

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DRIVER II Objectives

Establishment of a “Confederation of European Digital Repositories”Repositories Moving the DRIVER Infrastructure into a production environment Expansion of geographical coverage (increasing from 5 to 15 countries) Extension and enhancement of the DRIVER software (D-NET) Expand the types of content (“enhanced publications”) Carry out studies to update the status of European digital repositories and analyse new and future DR relevant technologies

DRIVER Midterm Review, Pisa 30 January 2009

DRIVER II activity areas and outcomes

Organization of Digital Confederation

Community Building &

Repository Infrastructure Providers DRIVER Portal &

H l d kCommunity Building & Support

D NET S ft

Helpdesk

Open Source Software

“European Information

D-NET Software

Digital Repository Infrastructure (Services & Data)

European InformationSpace”

Focused Studies & Demonstrators (e g “enhanced publications”)

Studies &Discovery

DRIVER Midterm Review, Pisa 30 January 2009

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“Confederation of European Digital Repositories”

DRIVER Summit, 16/17 January 2008, GöttingenDRIVER Advisory Board, 3 July 2008, IstanbulDRIVER consultation meeting, 16 November 2008, Baltimore

Broad discussions with various stakeholder groupsWide interest, in Europe and internationallyDiscussion of organisational & financing models

DRIVER Midterm Review, Pisa 30 January 2009

The DRIVER Portal

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D-NET Software: DRIVER Network-Evolution-Toolkit

Version 1.0 released under the Open Source Apache License to the public on the 20 June 2008to the public on the 20 June 2008

The DRIVER Infrastructure Software includes:The DRIVER Infrastructure Software includes:Repository network administration software (such as the Repository Network Manager, Resource Monitoring)epos o y e o a age , esou ce o o g)Support service to local repository managers andaggregators (Validation Tool)gg g ( )End-user services (Search, Browse, Profiling)

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D-NET Download Page

DRIVER Infrastructure

First implementation in operation: “European Information Space”Information SpaceMoved to production mode on the 20 June 2008Today 210+ repositories from 23 countriesToday 210+ repositories from 23 countries

S t th fSupports three groups of users:1.The repository manager2 Th i id2.The service provider3.The researcher, reader, public (demonstration of the

infrastructure)infrastructure)

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Repository Map

185+ harvested repositories p

21 countriescountries

856,264+ documents

3939

Service Map

9hosting nodes

25+ Functionality typologiestypologies(services)

36serviceInstances

3

4040

3applications: DRIVER Main, Belgium, Spain-Recolecta

DRIVER Admin (Internal) Control Panel I

Monitor repository landscape I

DRIVER Admin (Internal) Control Panel II

Monitor repository landscape II

DRIVER Admin (Internal) Control Panel III

MR Monitor

Reposi r &

Prtory D rocess

Data

s

DRIVER Admin (Internal) Control Panel IV

Monitor &Monitor & Update ServicesServices

DRIVER Admin (Internal) Control Panel V

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index ck repox profil ository

le upd y dates

Studies & Discovery

“Research Repositories in Europe: the 2008 DRIVER Inventory study”the 2008 DRIVER Inventory study “Enhanced Publications State-of-the-Art”“Object Models and Functionalities” "Technology Watch report" gy pSample datasets and Demonstrator DRIVER Guidelines v2 0DRIVER Guidelines v2.0

DRIVER Midterm Review, Pisa 30 January 200946

DRIVER Guidelines in various languages

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DRIVER – Enhanced PublicationsThe most important requirements for this demonstrator are: Cover multiple scientific disciplines. The enhanced publications for the demonstrator are chosen to cover typical material from the three scientificdemonstrator are chosen to cover typical material from the three scientific disciplines: a hebrew database from the Alpha-studies, measurements from the Beta-studies and survey data from the Gamma-studies. Use OAI-ORE. OAI-ORE, as suggested in the report about Object Models, and RDF are used to aggregate and serialize enhanced publicationsand RDF are used to aggregate and serialize enhanced publications. Display data. Data is too often just a compressed archive of files. This demonstrator should present the data behind a publication. Navigation. Users can browse through all objects of the enhancedNavigation. Users can browse through all objects of the enhanced publication. Identification. All elements of the enhanced publications are atomic and citable web resources that are identified by a persistent identifier. Sh i t l ti E h d bli ti t i tiShow interrelations. Enhanced publications connect existing resources. Seen from the other side: existing resources will connect two enhanced publication. Enhanced publications can create flocks of related research activities

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DRIVER – Enhanced Publications

TechnologyTh d t t t i tifi bThe demonstrator aggregates scientific web resources via OAI-ORE v0.9 and RDF. XSLT is

d t t f th i t XHTML CSS dused to transform these into XHTML. CSS and Javascript do the rest of the presentation. A Java

l t i d t d i ll di l th l tiapplet is used to dynamically display the relations between resources. Although these relations can b f d t th l t t th tbe fed to the applet as parameters, they are not yet automatically interpreted from the RDF-

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What you can do?• Organise digital repository communities in your countries & for disciplinesyour countries & for disciplines

• Become part of the upcoming Confederation

• Connect your national or disciplinaryrepository hub to the developing globalrepository hub  to the developing global infrastructure

• Secure interoperability, translate DRIVER guidelines and collaborate on guidelines forg gnon‐textual materials

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Upcoming eventsUpcoming events

• JISC DRIVER SURF International Repositories• JISC‐DRIVER‐SURF, International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, 16/17 March 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• IST‐Africa 2009 Conference, 6‐8 May 2009,IST Africa 2009 Conference, 6 8 May 2009, Kampala, Uganda (supported by the European Commission under the ICT Theme FP7)Commission under the ICT‐Theme, FP7)

• OAI6 DRIVER Workshop, 17 June 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

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Thank you for your attention!Questions?

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