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LIBER 37th Annual Conference, Istanbul, 3 July 2008

DRIVER: Building a sustainable infrastructure of (European) Scientific Repositories

Norbert Lossau, Scientific CoordinatorGöttingen State and University Library

LIBER Annual Conference, 2008, Istanbul

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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


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DRIVER’s vision

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

• Guidelines, certificates and technology ensure the automated aggregation of all publications into one virtual open knowledge base

• Content (i.e. data index) is open for service providers to provide a wide range of end-user services to researchers (such as search, browsing, profiling, visualisation, citation and impact metrics, etc.)

• API’s enable the linking and interaction of publications with any type of digital data and objects (e.g. primary data, films, language recordings, learning courses, digital artefacts etc.)


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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)

• cont…

– 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)


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DRIVER History

• DRIVER (I), started 1 June 2006, ended 30 November 2007

• DRIVER II, started 1 December 2007, ends 30 November 2009

• Recent event: DRIVER Summit 16/17 January 2008, Göttingen


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DRIVER II activity areasand outcomes

Open Source Softwarefor repository networks

Technical Digital RepositoryNetwork Infrastructure Services

Organization of DigitalRepository Infrastructure Providers

Community Building& Maintenance

Confederation

D-NET

DR Infrastructure

DRIVER Portal &

Wiki


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DRIVER: An European Community of (national) repository networks

What does “community” mean?

Members agree to some fundamental principles– Make research publications openly available– Become partner in a repository service network – Follow “guidelines” to make data and services interoperable– Ensure long-term access to an institution’s research publications– More to come…

Note: DRIVER Community is wider than the DRIVER Consortium, (the Community has no legal restrictions and is open for new members)


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DRIVER: Establishes a „Confederation“ of National and Disciplinary Repository Communities

Tasks and questions to be addressed:• Build an organisation which exists beyond the duration of

a DRIVER project• Establish a new, independent legal body or merge with an

existing organisation?• Define a set of joint principles for the Confederation• Liaise with repository communities from all continents and

with disciplinary communities

<=DRIVER Advisory Board established on the 2 July in Istanbul


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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)


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DRIVER Infrastructure

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

Supports three groups of users:1. The repository manager2. The service provider3. The researcher, reader, public


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DRIVER Software and Infrastructure

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

existing DRIVER instance, e.g. by customising the portal (DART Europe, RECOLECTA)

• 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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The DRIVER Portal


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How can a single repository become a member of the DRIVER community?• The concept of DRIVER sees national communities

as the basis and as natural partners for the European repository network

• Contact the DRIVER Wiki and find out about your national contact point(s) (“correspondents”) to the DRIVER community

– Become a member of your existing national community OR

– Support the building of a national community within your country (see also DRIVER Mentoring Service)

• In case there is no correspondent: register your interest on the DRIVER website to

– Become a member of the DRIVER community

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


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Do national repository communities have to deploy DRIVER software (D-NET)?• NO. D-NET has been developed as

technically advanced, open source toolkit for re-use by repository networks. Deployment guarantees interoperability, saves costs and time, but not mandatory.

• BUT: Data and services have to support interoperability (see the DRIVER Guidelines)


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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 U.S., Latin America, China, Japan, India and Africa

• DRIVER collaborates with eIFL, the library support organisation for developing countries

• DRIVER liaises with the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and SPARC, U.S.


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Benefits of joining the DRIVER community

• You will contribute to the successful implementation of Open Access by joining a powerful, cross-country community

• Your researchers require an international infrastructure• Local institutions and countries research output becomes

visible as part of a common international knowledge base

• Funding and research organisations can build their own interface on the DRIVER data index to demonstrate their efforts

• You will share in developments by service providers


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What makes DRIVER sustainable?• DRIVER partners assume responsibility for the DRIVER

objectives• Strong natural incentives (beyond funding) to build an

international repository community• DRIVER embedded in national communities• DRIVER has built alliances with strong partners (LIBER, SPARC

Europe) • DRIVER Confederation as permanent organisational backbone• DRIVER is liaising with all relevant stakeholders ( funders, EUA,

repository platform and technology developers, publishers)• DRIVER is reaching out to build a global repository community

and network


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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…


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

www.driver-community.eu

• Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk, [email protected]

DRIVER Workshop• TICER Digital Libraries a la carte, 29 August 2008,

Tilburg, NL

http://www.driver-community.eu/

mailto:[email protected]

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