DRIVER

Building a worldwide scientific data repository infrastructure in support of

scholarly communication

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JISC/CNI Conference, Belfast, 10-11 July 2008

Dale Peters, Scientific Technical ManagerGöttingen State and University Library

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Vision

• European and worldwide research output (publications and data sets ) is openly accessible through institutional repositories

• Interoperability ensures the automated aggregation of all scholarly research output into one virtual open knowledge base

• Open content enables service providers to provide a wide range of end-user services to researchers (search, browse, profiling, visualisation, citation, impact metrics…)

• API’s enable the linking and interaction of publications with any type of digital data and objects (e.g. primary data, films, language recordings, learning courses, digital artefacts etc.)

Partners

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DRIVER II

Open Source Softwarefor repository networks

Technical Digital RepositoryNetwork Infrastructure Services

Organization of DigitalRepository Infrastructure Providers

Community Building& Maintenance

Confederation

D-NET

DR Infrastructure

DRIVER Portal &

Wiki

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User community

DRIVER infrastructure supports three groups of users:

1. The repository manager2. The service provider3. The e-research community

Interoperability

• Policy formulation– Confederation

• Guidelines – Data conformity

• Repository services– Registration, aggregation, domain-specific

• Robust technical infrastructure– Tools and services

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DRIVER Guidelines

• http://www.driver-support.eu

Guidelines

• Objectives

– Policy development– Improved services– Additional functionality– Check conformance– Validation

• Components

– Collections (sets)– DC Metadata– OAI - PMH– OAI - ORE

Work in Progress

• Improvement: full-text access

• Enhanced publications

• Metadata Expert Group– dynamic, voluntary, wiki

• Standards & interoperability in IRs– aggregator‘s perspective e.g. BASE

– lightweight

• Support, certification

Register your Repository

• DRIVER Guidelines compliance

• Validation

• Harvest

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Technical infrastructure

D-NET v.1.0 released under the Open Source Apache License on the 20 June 2008

DRIVER Network Evolution Toolkit includes:

• Repository network administration software (such as the Repository Network Manager, Resource Monitoring)

• End-user services (Search, Browse, Profiling)

• Support service to local repository managers and aggregators (Validation Tool)

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Challenges

• Local interpretation

• Access to full text

• Persistent identifiers

• National aggregators

• Long term preservation

• Technical support

Conclusion

• Interoperability key to Open Access – Robust technical infrastructure

– Improved services to repository community

– Guidelines

– Policy development

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DRIVER More Information

http://www.driver-support.eu

helpdesk@driver-support.eu

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