DRIVER Confederation of European Digital Repositories Fostering sustainable synergies in the global repository landscape Dale Peters OAI6 DRIVER tutorial 17 June 2009
Mar 27, 2015
DRIVER Confederation of European Digital Repositories
Fostering sustainable synergies in the global repository landscape
Dale Peters
OAI6 DRIVER tutorial 17 June 2009
1. DRIVER Community & Confederation What does this mean?
2. Robust e-Infrastructure and services
3. Challenges of Open Access in support of innovative scholarly communications:
institutional repositories
data collections
subject repositories
learned societies
Organisation
Data
Infrastructure
Outline
Tutorial Questions
What does the DRIVER Infrastructure offer to my repository…?
What can the Confederation do for my organisation…?
What other name would be appropriate for an international repository organisation?
Repositories
4
200+ harvested repositories
23+ countries
1,000,000+ documents
25+languages
Acknowledgement Paolo Manghi CNR
Community & Confederation
Develop national communities
Improve data quality for automated harvesting
Strategic support
Professional development of repository managers
Persistent identifiers
Organisational model
What is the Confederation…?
Permanent organisational backbone for European repository structure
Geographic and thematic extension
Diffusion of DRIVER technology
Connect established communities of practice
Promote Open Access
Fill repositories with Open Access publications
The Confederation thus provides an integrated concept for organisation, technology and content for the European Open Access repository landscape, in a virtual structure – beyond DRIVER project activities.
Federation of federations
Academic institutions host scientific digital repositories
Universities
Research centres
NGO’s SPARC Europe, LIBER
National, regional or
subject-based
federationsData aggregations
Repository infrastructure challenges
Acknowledgement: Neil Jacobs, JISC
Repository infrastructure challenges
Acknowledgement Neil Jacobs, JISC
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
Federation objectives
Academic institutions
NGO’s
National, regional or subject-based federations
Overcome shortcomings of simple point-to-point networks
Foster synergies between existing federations
Stimulate building of federations where these do not exist
Memoranda of Understanding
DRIVER- SPARC Europe – July 2008
Open Access Netzwerk von Repositorien (Germany) - August 2008
RECOLECTA (Spain) – August 2008
eIFL.net – Electronic Information for Libraries – September 2008
Digital Repository Federation (DRF Japan) - November 2008
Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) - March 2009
Canadian Academic Research Libraries – in progress
Ubuntunet Alliance / CLARA - progress
Outcomes of MoU’s
Outcomes
What does the DRIVER Infrastructure offer to my repository…?
What can the Confederation do for my organisation…?
What other name would be appropriate for an international repository organisation?
Confederation model
become a legal entity – new name…?
move towards an interoperable operational service
offer support for clients/partners/new repositories in the network
develop the DNet software OS community
develop strategic and political relationships
act as an advocacy body at an operational and strategic level