08-OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER DRIVER Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research – Essentials –

08-OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVERDigital Repository

Infrastructure Vision for European Research

– Essentials –


The current situation for digital repositories• More than 850 institutional repositories

worldwide

– Many others: disciplinary, national, …– Many types: Primary data, textual documents,

learning materials, multimedia objects, Code etc.– Documents: incl. pre-prints, postprints, technical

papers, dissertations, theses– Various repository software


• Many have the OAI-PMH implemented– small but relevant local specialties

• Some international registries exist– OpenDOAR, ROAR …

• Some search engines exist– BASE, OAIster, Google Scholar …

What is known about repositories?


Collaboration in repositories

• Very few mature national repository organisations/collaborations

• Little trans-national repository organisation/collaboration

• Lack of data harmonization, orchestration of services


From the user point of view

[ talking about researchers ]

• Fragmented, obscure information landscape

• content can be (partly) searched and found

• quality and re-use differs from repository to repository


DRIVER Vision

• Build a pan-European Digital Repository Infrastructure

• and provide the European Hub in a Global Repository Network for

• any type of document, data and object,• of any format,• involving all European countries and • covering all academic disciplines


DRIVER – a multi-phase effort

• PHASE 1– Mid 2006 to end 2007

– A testbed infrastructure and organisational model

– Focus on textual resources

• PHASE 2– 2008/2009

– A production infrastructure and organisation

– Focus on complex objects

• …


DRIVER now!

A Digital Repository Infrastructure Test-bed

• Textual documents

• from 5 Countries (BE, FR, DE, NL,UK) • Distributed, high-quality content provision

• Distributed software deployment

• All open and re-usable


DRIVER – infrastructural axes• Organisational Networking

– Forum for stakeholders

• Data harmonization – Cleaned and enriched „information space“– Offered for re-use by service providers

• Service orchestration– Open, distributed, scalable technical architecture– Re-use of existing services– Facilitate interactions between services

Organization

Data

Software


DRIVER – Partners Administrative Co-ordination

UoA National and Capodistrian University of Athens, GreeceMike Hatzolopoulos, Yannis Ioannidis, Natalia Manola, Vassili Stoumpos, Antonis Lebessis

Scientifc-Technical Co-ordination

SUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, GermanyNorbert Lossau, Heike Neuroth, Wolfram Horstmann, Margo Bargheer

CNRS Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe / CNRS DIS, France Francis Andre, Muriel Foullonneau, Anne-Marie Badolato, Daniel Charnay

SURF SURF Foundation, The Netherlands Leo Waaijers, Martin Feijen, Kasja Weenink

UGhent University Library Ghent, BelgiumSylvia van Peteghem, Karen van Godtsenhoven, Patrick Hochstenbach, Inge Van Niewerburgh

UniNott University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen Pinfield, Bill Hubbard, Mary Robinson, Sophia Jones

CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. FAEDO" / CNR, ItalyDonatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano, Paolo Manghi

ICM Interdiscipl. Centre for Math. and Comp. Mod. /Univers. of Warsaw, PolandMarek Niedgódzka, Wojtek Sylvetsrzak, Jaroslaw Wypychowksi

UniBi Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, GermanyMichael Höppner, Friedrich Summann, Marek Imialek

UKoln UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of BathLiz Lyon, Rosemary Russell, Rachel Heery

http://www.uoa.gr/

http://www.uoa.gr/

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

http://ccsd.cnrs.fr/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.surf.nl/

http://www.lib.ugent.be/




http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

http://www.isti.cnr.it/









http://www.icm.edu.pl/










http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/






DRIVER Current Activities

Test Bed for Repository-Services

Focused Studies

Network of “Content-Providers”

“Advocacy and Awareness Raising”

Content

Technology

Planning

Outreach


Repository networking

Organisation being synergetic with data infratstructure

Organisation

Data

Software


Networking test-bed

• 5 countries– DRIVER exemplars – BE, DE, FR, NL, UK

• Different– Maturity– Policies– Technologies– …


The Netherlands

– National Federation

– Aggregated Network

– Now KNAW

– “Cream of Science”

>> Model for Distributed Network


Germany

– National Policies

– Pro-active, individual

approach

– High quality certificate

>> Model for quality assurance


Great Britain

– National federation

– Advocacy focus

– ROMEO IPR lookup

– OpenDoar Registry

>> Model for advocacy / added value services


France

centralized

scheme

>> Model for centralized network


Belgium

– 2006 no national

federation

– 13 Rectors signed Berlin Declaration

>> Model for network construction


Networking test-bed

• 50+ “organized” repositories

• Is there a simple technical recipe for networkingthese repositories?


All publications in a repository

…………………

…


Aggregate with OAI-PMH

Aggregator

OAI-PMH


Feed back to research

Aggregator

OAI-PMH

search engine


Lift to an international scale

Aggregator

… …

search engine


Problems remain

Building of aggregations is not trivial!

• An example: Full-text availability– Full-text not homogeneously offered

• metadata only, jump-off pages, authorization• full-text URLs in varying locations


Full-text guidelines

• Help to improve the repository landscape– Support of “sets”

– Clear location of URL

– Resource harvesting

• Studies say:– International retrieval

– Guidelines


Next Steps

• Help 50+ repositories– Guidelines release

– Help Desk (WP8)

– …

• Help more repositories– “DRIVER countries”

– other countries

– …


DEMO

• Disclaimer– Test version

– Some interfaces for administrators only

• Repository Landscape – DEMO1

– DEMO2

http://driver01.isti.cnr.it/OLP/IS_UI/1.0/Load/Main

http://duffy.di.uoa.gr:8080/webInterface/


DEMO OF TEST-VERSION








DRIVER-IIDigital Repository

Infrastructure Vision for European Research

PHASE 2: 2008/2009

– Essentials –


• Organization– Building a Confederation of European

Digital Repositories

• Data– Extending the virtual Information Space

over multiple and heterogeneous repositories

• Software– Consolidating and enhancing the

Infrastructure to operate a production quality system with advanced user functionalities

DRIVER-II – Overall Goals

Organization

Data

Software


• Confederation for European Digital Repositories– Geographical Coverage

– Liaison with relevant organizations• Community Building

– Identification & support of advocate networks across Europe – Promotion of services to service and data providers & repository

users• Studies

– Usage of object descriptions for the representation, management and sharing of discipline specific data

– Investigation of new technologies for future integration

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B NL

I SI DKPL NOR IRL E

DRIVER-I Test-Bed

EL P S FIN

DRIVER-I partners

DRIVER-II new partners

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IR Community

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DRIVER-II – Organization


DRIVER-II – Data• DRIVER Information Space enhancement

– Include additional, non-textual, types of resources

– Extend the typology of repositories beyond those conforming to the OAI-PMH Object Model

• Focus on Enhanced Publications– Manage combined packages of textual resources with

additional, interlinked material

• Complex Object Model Management– Extend the DRIVER Object model definition to describe the

structure of Objects obeying to various Object Models


DRIVER-II – Software• From testbed deployment to production-quality, full-scale system

– Maintain and enhance the underlying system infrastructure– Adhere to continuous software development cycle

• Providing quality service operation and support to– Service providers with well defined APIs & documentation for two-

sided application integration– Repository managers with feedback and tools

• Providing additional end-user related functionalities– Advanced resource discovery over heterogeneous types and

formats of data – Enhanced community & personalized services– Advanced system performance


DRIVER-II – Process

Networking

DRIVER-I

D-NET 1.0

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B NL

I SI DKPL NOR IRL E

DRIVER-I Test-Bed

EL P S FIN

DRIVER-I partners

DRIVER-II new partners

AdditionalPartners

IR Community

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Service

D-NET 2.0

Service orchestration

Data harmonization

Organizational development, support and discovery

Consolidation Innovation

LT

test-bed

organizational model

Research


DRIVER-II – Infrastructure Architecture

Enabling-Layer

Data-Layer

Functionality Layer

Repositories

UI

Service ProvidersExternal Applications

End Users

ConfederationData Providers