BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference Rio De Janeiro, Brazil June 25-28, 2007 The DRIVER Project D igital R epositories I nfrastructure V ision for.

BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference

Rio De Janeiro, BrazilJune 25-28, 2007

The DRIVER ProjectDigital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research

Natalia ManolaUniversity of Athens, Greece

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BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007

Facts

• IST programme FP6

• Test bed infrastructure

• 18 months (June 2006 – November 2007)

• Two public releases:– End of July

– End of Nov

• Project website– www.driver-repository.eu

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Partners• Univ. of Athens (Greece) – administrative coordinator• Univ. of Göttingen Library (Germany) – scientific coordinator • CNR-ISTI (Italy) – technical coordinator• SURF (the Netherlands)• Univ. of Nottingham – SHERPA (UK)• CNRS (France)• UKOLN (UK)• ICM (Poland)• Univ. of Ghent Library(Belgium)• Univ. of Bielefeld Library (Germany)

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Objectives

• Develop a test-bed for integrating existing national or regional repositories

• Create a production-quality European DR infrastructure

• Identify and promote the use of a relevant set of standards

• Prepare the future expansion and upgrade of the DR infrastructure across Europe

• Raise awareness among user communities

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Challenges

Create a

European

Repository

Infrastructure

Testbed

Large Number of Providers and

Users

Operational infrastructure Open for experimentation

Hosting Hardware and

Software

Emphasis on Content

Organisation

Data

Software

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DRIVER Activities

ContentOrganisation& Provision


TechnologyInfrastructure Development

TechnologyInfrastructure Development

PlanningFocussed Studies

OutreachAdvocacy & Awareness

Pan-European DR Infrastructure

1DR Testbed Service

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Textual Materials (Documents)

(Rich) Media sound, film, language recordings, 3D images from artifacts,

computer-generated images, etc.

Primary Data Observational, experimental, demographic, census, patient

records etc.

Maps

Complex Objects, Living/Dynamic Documents

Software, Simulations

Images, Photographs

Open Access

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Networking

• Focus on Institutional Repositories– Rapid progress over the last years– Inherent sustainability (e.g. libraries)– Adequate technical homogeneity (OAI-PMH)

• Selection of IRs based on– Maturity– Policies– Technologies used

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Network of content providers– Germany (DINI)

• National Policies • Model for quality assurance

– France (CCSD) • Centralized Scheme • Model for centralized network

– The Netherlands (SURF) • National Federation/Aggregated Network • Model for Distributed Network

– United Kingdom (SHERPA) • National Federation • Model for advocacy

– Belgium (Ghent Lib) • Model for network construction

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Current DRIVER repository status

> 100,000 documents

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DRIVER Activities



Technology Infrastructure Development

Technology Infrastructure Development


Outreach

Advocacy & Awareness

DR Testbed Service


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Infrastructure Technology• DRIVER envisions the notion of European Repository

Infrastructure enabling for– The construction of Repository Systems in an easy,

standard and sustainable way– Integrating content and functionality of the existing

Repository Systems by respecting their autonomy

• Provides a distributed environment for the construction, maintenance, and coexistence of Service-based Repository Systems

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Technological features

• Repositories • Users • Communities• …• Services

– Scalability depending on the data provided or the usage– Extensibility of functionalities provided

• Services are implemented as Web Services

• Open source technology

System Resources}

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Driver Infrastructure Architecture

Enabling Layer

Repositories

DRIVERObjects

Data Layer

Functionality Layer

A&A

Service

Recommendation

Service

UI

Service

User

Service

Search

Service

OAI-Publisher

Service

Index

Service

Store

Service

Collection

Service

Aggregator

Service

Information

Service

Manager

Service

Community

Service

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Enabling Layer

• Infrastructure management– Resource/Service Registration (P2P-like)

– Discovery (by functionalities and capabilities) – Orchestration of Services: coordination of Service

interactions

– Authentication and Authorization of all resources

Enabling Layer

Functionality Layer Data Layer

InformationService

ManagerService

Authz&AuthnService

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Data Layer

• DRIVER Information Space Management– Harvesting from external repositories

– Aggregating: cleaning & enriching (provenance data)

– Storage, indexing

– Virtualization of the Information Space: collections

– OAI-Publishing of harvested data

Enabling Layer

Repositories

DRIVERObjects

Functionality Layer

Data Layer

OAI-PMHService

IndexService

CollectionService

StoreService

AggregatorService

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Functionality Layer

• User-oriented functionalities– User Interfaces: Information Space Search – User and Communities profiling– User recommendations & alerts

Data Layer

Enabling Layer

Functionality Layer

User InterfaceService

Recomm.Service

CommunityService

UserService

SearchService

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Infrastructure Network

MS

Index

IS

Aggregator

MDStore

Collection

User Profile

RS

UI

Search

Community

RS

A&A

Enabling Layer Data Layer Functionality Layer

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DRIVER Activities



Technology InfrastructureDevelopment



Outreach Advocacy & Awareness

DR Testbed Service


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Repository Inventory in Europe

• Results from ~120 institutions with DRs– General status on national level infrastructure– Coverage/visibility of academic output– Textual vs. other material – Open access (88%)– Repository technologies used– User services provided

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Technical Standards• Analyzes current implementations of interoperability

standards in DR's. • Identifies limitations of the standards currently used, and

looks into the necessary future development of existing or new standards to resolve difficulties

• Describes other standards that are used (or being developed) in different environments

• Anticipates new challenges: – Guidelines for OAI-PMH implementations– Multiple interfaces to repositories – Challenge of relating entities from multiple domains– Content based-services

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DRIVER activities






Outreach Advocacy & Awareness

DR Testbed Service

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DRIVER outreach

• Produce advocacy materials

• Publish study results

• Presentations at Conferences

• Establish `European Repository Awareness Point’ (E-RAP) as community resource– www.driver-support.eu

• Up-coming public releases

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DRIVER Live Demo

Thank you!

BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference Rio De Janeiro, Brazil June 25-28, 2007 The DRIVER Project D igital R epositories I nfrastructure V ision for.

Documents

dr testbed service slide

coexistence of service

greece slide

network construction

photographs open access

existing repository

based repository systems

centralized network