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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
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