DRIVER SummitOct 20th, Ghent
DRIVER: National portals Use cases: Belgium & Spain
Karen Van Godtsenhoven & Alicia Lopez-Medina
DRIVER Summit Oct 20th, Ghent
National portals in DRIVER: Be & Spain
Why have a national portal?Community building between repository managersNational funding opportunitiesStreamlining content delivery to DRIVER & othersCollaboration with other national systems, e.g. CRIS
Scenarios?1. Minimal cost: GUI by national consortium, service
hosted by Driver2. Own national portal that interacts with DRIVER IS3. National consortium acts as main gateway to DRIVER
IS, repositories are managed locally4. Independent national aggregation portal with D-NET
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Belgium
9 repositories via national DRIVER portalMinimal cost set-up (option 1)
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Community building in a divided country
Why do people register with DRIVER (from the usability study):
Increase content visibility
Be part of a European network of peers & learn best practices
Later also: to get official validation of repository by external organisation
What is the role of the national portal in Belgium?
DRIVER repository managers network : ‘glue’
Visibility: DRIVER returns results, logo on page
Incentive for new repositories to join DRIVER network, or for institutions to create
one
Tool for showing government authorities that there is (unfunded) national
cooperation
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Future scenario for portal
Keep adding new repositories as they ‘get in shape’
Lifespan: as long as the DRIVER IS exists, OR
Integration into a national service?
Examples: RCAAP (Portugal),NARCIS (NL), Recolecta (Spain)
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Steady growth up to 250 repositories
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UK, Spain and Germany: leaders
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Spain553.308 documentsOwn national portal interacts with DRIVER IS (option 2)National consortium acts as main gateway to DRIVER IS; repositories are managed locally (option 3)
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Why a national portal with DRIVER?
o Research is global, services should be global
o A Model
o DRIVER has opened us the door to the world (as Spain alone, we would not have gone so far, so fast)
o Discipline
o Cultural change
o Am I doing it right?: standardization and quality
o Experience
o Leadership
o More “status” face our authorities.
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What are we doing right now
o Helping repositories to get in shape
o RECOLECTA working groups:- Author persistent id
- Statistics
- Evaluation/Certification
- OAI-ORE pilot project
…and a national portal in Colombia
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Universidad de La Salle, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad de La Sabana, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Universidad de Medellín, Universidad del Norte, Universidad Eafit, Universidad Icesi, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
…and a regional portal in Latin America
Partners: CEDIA, CUDI, RENATA, IBICT, REUNA + ONCyT o Ministerios de Educación Superior de países socios.
Executive Agency: CLARA
Co-funding Organization: Organización Universitaria Interamericana OUI.
Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico… soon Ecuador and all the countries in the region in the future.
(Thanks to Martha I. Giraldo, Executive Director, RENATA)
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Project: Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Documentation in Latinamerica
Future scenario
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Standards, policies, technology, strategy, support, coordination, a common voice…
COARCOAR
Thanks to Tim Berners Lee