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The impact of DRIVER on the repository community

Sophia Jones

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The DRIVER Vision

Research institutions worldwide make their research output freely accessible Research output from Europe and worldwide is aggregated into one virtual open knowledge baseA wide range of end user services – e.g. search, browse, profiling, citation, visualisation - becomes available to researchers by service providersPublications are in a position to link with any type of digital data and objectsBerlin Declaration: “Free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide”

DRIVER approach: Constructing a global, interoperable repository infrastructure

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DRIVER II – …global, interoperable repository infrastructure

Open Source Softwarefor repository networks

Technical Digital RepositoryNetwork Infrastructure Services

Organization of DigitalRepository Infrastructure Providers

Community Building& Maintenance

Confederation

D-NET

DR Infrastructure

DRIVER Support & Wiki

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DRIVER Confederation

Organisation of Digital Repository Infrastructure Providers: A Confederation of Repository Communities

Initial focus on Europe (with international alliances)

Important members and strategic partners

Confederation Advisory BoardEuropean and international repository communities

major repository platforms

standards developers

service providers

related non-government organisations (NGO’s)

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D-Net – DRIVER Network Evolution Toolkit

Open source software

Tool box for service providers:To share DRIVER based operational systems to run additional instances of existing services

To employ DRIVER based operational systems to develop new services

To deploy a new independent DRIVER infrastructure to serve the needs of the service provider’s own community

Available at:

http://www.driver-repository.eu/Downloads

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DR Infrastructure

“European Information Space”

Moved to production mode in June 2008

Today 210+ repositories from 23 countries

DRIVER Guidelines & Repository Workflow

Supports three groups of users:1. The repository manager

2. The service provider

3. The researcher, reader, public (demonstration of the infrastructure)

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www.driver-community.eu

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Learn about DRIVER

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Search the Repositories

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“Browse”…

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Register your repository

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Repository Map

210 harvested repositories

23 countries

856,264+ documents

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Community Building and Maintenance

DRIVER WikiCountry “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)Maintain the national repository information on the DRIVER WikiOrganise repository events in their countriesTranslate DRIVER Guidelines and other relevant information into national languagesBuild up national data aggregators, clean data, can offer additional services

DRIVER Supportwww.driver-community.ey/helpdeskMentor Service www.driver-support.eu/mentor tutorials

DRIVER liaises already with institutions and initiatives from the majority of European countries, the U.S., Canada, Latin America, China, Japan, India and AfricaDRIVER has signed MoUs with SPARC Europe, LIBER, eIFL, Recolecta Spain, OA-Netzwerk Germany and DRF Japan

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DRIVER Support

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DRIVER Wiki - www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki

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DRIVER Helpdesk- www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk

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Mentor Service – www.driver-support.eu/mentor

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Mentor Service Tutorial

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More Information about DRIVER

The DRIVER Portal: www.driver-community.eu

Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk, www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk