SPARC, Baltimore, 17/18 Nov 2008 1 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 DRIVER: Open Access to Information through Digital Repository Networks in Europe

SPARC, Baltimore, 17/18 Nov 20081

SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008

DRIVER: Open Access to Information through Digital Repository Networks in Europe and Worldwide

Norbert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator;Director Göttingen State and University Library


The „Berlin Declaration“ requests

Free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide

(October 2003)

Needs a global, interoperable, trusted, long-term repository infrastructure

DRIVER has built the nucleus of this infrastructure


DRIVER’s vision

All research institutions in Europe and worldwide make all their research publications openly accessible through institutional repositories


General Information: DRIVER II • Duration: 24 months

• Budget: 2.7 m EUR

• Timeplan: 12/’07 -11/’09

• Main Deliverables:– Digital Repository Infrastructure

– European Digital Repository Confederation

• Funded by the European Commission, “Research Infrastructure” Unit, FP 7

• Consortium Partners– Univ.of Athens (GR)

– Univ. of Bielefeld (GE)

– CNR-ISTI (IT)

– STICHTING SURF (NL)

– Univ. of Nottingham (UK)

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– Univ. of Bath (UK)

– Univ. of Warszawski (PO)

– Univ. of Gent (BE)

– Univ. of Goettingen (GE)

– Danish Technical University (DK)

– Universidade do Minho (PT)

– Narodna in univerzitetna knijznica (SLO)


DRIVER II activity areasand outcomes

Open Source Softwarefor repository networks

Digital Repository Network Infrastructure Services

Organization of DigitalRepository Infrastructure Providers

Community Building& Maintenance

Confederation

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DRIVER Portal &

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DRIVER: Establishes a „Confederation“ of Repository Communities

• Launch planned for October 2009 • Initial focus on Europe, but with international alliances from the

beginning• Members and strategic partners invited:

– European and international repository communities– Subject based communities– Repository system providers– Service providers– Political, research, funding etc. organisations

A key question? • Establish a new, independent legal body or merge with an existing

organisation?<=DRIVER Advisory Board established on the 2 July ‘08 in Istanbul;

wider consultation meeting took place on the 16 November in Baltimore



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D-NET Software: DRIVER Network-Evolution-Toolkit Version 1.0 released under the Open Source Apache

License to the public on the 20 June 2008

The DRIVER Infrastructure Software 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)


DRIVER Infrastructure

First implementation in operation: “DRIVER European Information Space (DEIS)”, maintained by the DRIVER Consortium

Supports three groups of users:

1. The repository network manager

2. The service provider

3. The researcher, reader, public


Software implementation into the DRIVER infrastructure

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Repository Workflow• Registration

– Ready for human and automatic validation

• Manual and Automatic validation– Content quality and DRIVER Guidelines

• Harvesting– Manager Service: requires allocation of stores for containing the

harvested records– OAI-PMH original metadata records (Dublin Core et al.)

• Transformation– Manager Service: requires allocation of stores and indices for

containing the generated records and enabling their interrogation– Transforming harvested records into DRIVER Metadata Format

records (DMF)



The DRIVER Portal, www.driver-community.eu





DRIVER Software and Infrastructure Deployment

Possible deployment use cases, examples:• Countries, communities or organisations using the

existing DRIVER instance, e.g. by customising the portal (example: RECOLECTA, Spain)

• Countries running an additional, independent instance of a DRIVER infrastructure

• National aggregators or local repositories using the DRIVER Validator Tool

Current challenge to the DRIVER Consortium– Limited capacity for technical support


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How does DRIVER relate to national repository communities?• National communities are usually represented by

country “correspondents” – One institution or a group of institutions takes

responsibility to build a national repository community (like DARENet-NL, SHERPA-UK, OA-Netzwerk-GE, RECOLECTA-ES, HAL-FR)

• Country “correspondents” …– Maintain the national repository information on the

DRIVER Wiki– Organise repository events in their countries– Translate repository guidelines and other relevant

information into national languages– Build up national data aggregators, clean data, can offer

additional services



How does DRIVER relate to international repository communities?

• DRIVER sees it’s mission as – Catalyst for a global repository infrastructure– Develop and maintain the European repository

infrastructure node• DRIVER liaises already with institutions and

initiatives from the majority of European countries, the U.S., Canada, Latin America, China, Japan, India and Africa

• DRIVER has signed MoUs with SPARC Europe, LIBER, eIFL, Recolecta Spain, OA-Netzwerk Germany and DRF Japan


Further actions needed …• Lobby for Open Access mandates from all funding organisations• Revise contracts with (STM) publishers – build Open Access

consortia: – convert current subscription payments to “subscription +

institution-wide “green road” IR deposit permission” (cf. pilot Springer Open Choice agreements)

– agree on automated article transfer from the publisher to institutional repositories (European PEER project)

– Develop automated metadata transfer workflows from article databases into institutional repositories (e.g PubMed > Fact Science research database)

• Support Open Access journal publishing• Support Open Access book publishing (European OAPEN project)• Develop and support new types of citation & impact measuring

services• Develop and provide long-term archiving services for repositories…

Publishing and the Ecology of European

Research (PEER)

EC eContentplus Vorgesehener Start: 1. September 2008

Laufzeit: 3 Jahre

Partner: International STM Headoffice, ESF, Universität/SUB Göttingen, MPG/MPDL,

INRIA, SURF, Universität/UB Bielefeld

Purpose of PEER

Publishers and research community collaborate

Develop an “observatory” to monitor the impact of systematically depositing stage-two outputs on a large scale

Gather hard evidence to inform future policies

Depositing activities

15 major STM publishers (incl. Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc.)

Ca. 300 Journal Approx. 20,000 articles per year (~60,000

articles for the project) 50% of the articles: Publisher > Repositories 50% of the articles: Author > Repositories


Where can I get more information about DRIVER?• Go to the DRIVER Portal:

www.driver-community.eu

• Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk, [email protected]

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