DRIVER - Supporting Institutional Repositories in Europe Mary Robinson [email protected] SHERPA, University of Nottingham, UK Wolfram Horstmann

DRIVER - Supporting Institutional Repositories in Europe

Mary [email protected]

SHERPA, University of Nottingham, UK

Wolfram [email protected] of Goettingen, Germany

ELPUB June 2007

Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

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• 14.00 -- Welcome, Introductions & Aims of Workshop• 14.15 -- DRIVER Objectives Repository Networking• 14.45 -- DRIVER Advocacy and Support Activities• 15.15 -- DRIVER Software Architecture• 15.30 -- Coffee• 16.00 -- Presentations by Workshop Participants • 16.30 -- Open Discussion, Questions & Answers• 17:15 -- Wrap-up

Agenda

DRIVER – Objectives, Repository Networking


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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

• No 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

Need for Repository Infrastructure

• Organisational Networking– Forum for stakeholders

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

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

Organisation

Data

Software

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 now!

A Digital Repository Infrastructure Test-bed

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

• Distributed software deployment

• All open and re-usable

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 infratstructureOrganisation

Data

Software

“Make it workable”

• Focus on existing repositories and services

• Focus on Institutional Repositories– Rapid progress over the last years– Inherent sustainability (e.g. libraries)– Adequate technical homogeneity (OAI-PMH)

• Focus on textual materials

• Focus on specific (test-bed) countries

Networking test-bed

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

• Different– Maturity– Policies– Technologies– …

The Netherlands

– National Federation– Aggregated Network– Outsourced– “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 Current Activities

Test Bed for Repository-Services

Focused Studies

Network of “Content-Providers”

“Advocacy and Awareness Raising”

Content

Technology

Planning

Outreach

DRIVER – Software Architecture


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DRIVER Software

Organisation

Data

Software

EU Knowledge Infrastructural Vision

• Build and maintain a sustainable European environment where content and functionality resources can be openly shared and integrated for use by any Application

• Sustainability means:- Maintainability, Scalability, Reusability

Service-based Repository Systems

• Environment and tools for building service-based Repository Systems– Sets of services running at different network sites,

possibly in multiple instances, interacting, dynamic, sharable, open

European Information Space

• Includes the DRIVER Repository System – Providing registered users with advanced

functionalities over a uniform European Information Space formed by aggregating multiple Repositories

• Repositories– Can join or leave the infrastructure at any time– Are dynamically/automatically aggregated to

populate and keep updated the DRIVER Information Space

Run-Time DRIVER Infrastructure

• European Information Space Repository System– Scalable, reusable, self-maintained

Enabling Layer

Data Layer

Functionality Layer

Enabling Layer

• Infrastructure management: common to all Repository Systems– Service Registration (P2P-like) and Discovery– Subscription and notification on Service-related events– Orchestration of Services: coordination of Service interactions

Enabling Layer

Functionality Layer Data Layer

InformationService

ManagerService

Authz&AuthnService

Data Layer

• DRIVER Information Space Management

Enabling Layer

Repositories

DRIVERObjects

Functionality Layer

Data Layer

OAI-PMHService

IndexService

CollectionService

StoreService

AggregatorService

Functionality Layer

• User-oriented functionalities

Data Layer

Enabling Layer

Functionality Layer

User InterfaceService

Recomm.Service

CommunityService

UserService

SearchService

DRIVER infrastructure: the benefits

Enabling Layer

Data Layer

Functionality Layer

Repositories

DRIVER Infrastructure

Repository System

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/

Application Scenarios

End-User / Researcher

• not the primary target group

• but exemplary applications being built– Search Service (pan-European)

– Recommender Service

– …

• Third parties shall join!

Local Repository Operator

• Register Repository

• Monitor Data Quality– Comply with Guidelines (full-text)

– Enrich data (provenance)

Local Repository Developer

• Re-use services for local system– Information space

• Search• Index• Collections• …

Repository network manager

• Manage clusters of repositories

• Build a regional, national thematic data network– Re-use collections

• Develop individual GUIs

Repository platform developer

• Align developments with DRIVER– Better harvesting

– Data quality

– Service integration

Service Provider

• Integrate service into DRIVER infrastructure

• Benefit from service orchestration

• Allow to „speak“ with other services

Service Developer

• Develop services that run also with DRIVER– Citation analyis

– Workflow systems

– Text-Mining / Data-Mining

– Classification systems

– …

DRIVER- Advocacy & Support Activities

Mary Robinson

[email protected], University of Nottingham

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Repositories Worldwide

http://www.opendoar.org/

Repositories in Europe

http://www.opendoar.org/

DRIVER - Inventory study into the present type and level of OAI compliant Digital

Repository activities in the EU

http://www.driver-support.eu/en/about.html Malta Cyprus

advanced stageearly stagestartingno data / no DR

• Academics – as authors– as researchers

• Institution Administrators• Repository Administrators• Library & Support Staff• Funding Agencies

– National government – European– Other

• Publishers • National research

bodies • European research

bodies• General Public

Stakeholder & Information Gap Analysis

• What are the benefits?

• How will this affect the peer review process?

• Where can I go for more information?

• Where can I go to discuss this issue?

Questions common to all Stakeholders

• Advocacy Materials• Attendance at conferences• Contacting professional groups• Resources, Support and Community Building

– DRIVER Support website– DRIVER Guideline Helpdesk– Mentor Service – DRIVER Wiki

Approach

DRIVER Support website www.driver-support.eu

• Information Dissemination– Infrastructure reports– Materials for re-use– Advocacy for stakeholders

• Support & Facilitate Communication– Point of contact with project & national contacts– Wiki– Mentor– News, Events and Links of interest

DRIVER- Advocacy & Support Activities

www.driver-support.eu

[email protected]

DRIVER Workshop

Participant Contributions

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

DAREnet, CRIS and NARCIS: Access to research information in the Netherlands

Elly DijkKNAW Research Information

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Outline


DARE programme and DAREnet

Integration of DAREnet and NARCIS

Linking CRIS information, publications and datasets


KNAW Research Information

Academy's mission: to ensure the quality of scientific research in the Netherlands and to promote the open accessibility of scientific information

Our mission: national focal point of research information

Dutch Research Database (NOD)

DAREnet

NARCIS


The Mission of DARE

Better access to the results of publicly funded research in the Netherlands


DARE Programme

Approved: 14 June 2002

Name: DARE [Digital Academic REpositories]

Period: 1 Jan. 2003 – 31 Dec. 2006

Budget: € 5.9 M

Standards: OAI-PMH 2.0; Dublin Core

Partners: All the universities, KNAW, NWO,

KB and SURF


Society

Research

Education

Harvesters Virtual Learning Environments,Course Ware, Readers, ...

InstitutionalRepository

Academy

TUDelft

NWO

.....

CNRS

MIT

Subject repositories, refereed portals, databases, collaboratories,(Open Access) journals, ...

Institutional windows, expertise,professional journals, personal Web sites, national windows, ...

Two Layers


InstitutionalRepository CNR-ISTI

Amsterdam

.....

.....

CERN

ArXiv

27 January 2004DAREnet

Nationwide (13 universities, KNAW, NWO)Initially 17,000 publications (currently 128,000)

Milestone #1

http://www.darenet.nl/


Milestone #2Cream of Science

10 May 2005

www.creamofscience.org

Entire output of +10 topacademics per DARE participant

http://www.creamofscience.org/


16 institutions 229 authors 47,000 records = 205 per author (from 3 to 1,224) 60% full text = 28,000 records 25% copyright obstructed, 15% only metadata available at the moment

Some figures of Cream of Science


100,000 new OA publications before the end of 2006

of which 10,000 doctoral theses under the heading of

Promise of Science

Milestone #3 One HunDAREd Thousand


Milestone #4

Promise of Science

September 2006: Dutch national site for e-theses officially launched

June 2007: nearly 15,000 doctoral e-theses from all Dutch universities

Annual production: c. 2,500 e-theses 1995: some 17% accessible 2006: some 77% accessible


Lessons learned Cooperation Academy of Science, university libraries, National Library, SURF, National Research Council (NWO)

Agreement on open standards and harvesting Internet, Web, XML, OAI PMH, DC ++, (IEEE LOM, DIDL, SOA)

New actions to feed the repositories Cream of Science, Promise of Science


Success factors

DAREnet with 128,000 objectsIRs are embedded in the local and national knowledge

infrastructureCopyright toolbox, including a licence to publish

http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors

Communication toolkit for acquisition of doctoral e-theses

DRIVER1-1-2007: Academy assumed responsibility for DAREnet

http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors


Next step

Integration of CRIS and repositories by integrating DAREnet and NARCIS

What is NARCIS?


NARCIS

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System

Project of KNAW Research Information in collaboration with NWO

It is a portal giving access to: Research Information: research programmes, research institutes, researchers

Dutch repositories: full text publications News from scientific organisations Extra feature: RSS feed


Integrating DAREnet and NARCIS

NARCIS combines roughly the Dutch Research Database and DAREnet, but.......

DAREnet has unique features

NARCIS-DAREnet integration project to combine thebest of both worlds


Steps in the integration process

Integrated backend by using the DAREnet backend system

Advanced search

Special access to Cream of Science and Promise of Science

Google

New look-and-feel; and a new name?


Linking CRIS information, publications and datasets

Academy: current researchNational Library: e-depotDANS: research data (humanities and social

sciences)

Linking by:Digital author identifiers in the NODPersistent identifiers of publicationsPersistent identifiers of datasets


www.DAREnet.nl

www.researchinformation.nl

www.NARCIS.info

http://www.darenet.nl/en

http://www.researchinformation.nl/

http://www.narcis.info/

Institutional Repositories inLatin America and Syria:2 European Commission

sponsored projects

Ian Johnson

América Latina Formación Académica Academic links

3+ Universities in Latin America3+ Universities in European Union

Biblioteca deBabel

BIBLIOTECA DE BABEL

CoordinatorPontificia Universidad Catolica de

Valparaiso, Chile Partners

15 universities in Latin America9 universities in Europe

Associated memberColumbus Group

European Universities Association

Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe

BIBLIOTECA DE BABEL

Aims:Guidelines on best practice for

university libraries

BIBLIOTECA DE BABEL

Outputs – guidelines on Institutional repositoriesInformation literacyDigital reference

TEMPUS MEDA

1 university in North Africa or the Middle East

1 university in the European Union

Joint European Projects Structural and Complementary

Measures

SYReLIB

CoordinatorThe Robert Gordon University

PartnersMiddlesex University, London2 universities in SyriaeIFL.net

SYReLIB

AimsEstablishing a national strategic

framework for electronic libraries

SYReLIB

OutputsPilot projects in 2 universities

Enhanced e-journal collection Integrated Library Management Systems

Institutional RepositoriesProposal for second project

Questions?Comments?

Thank you for your attention

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/abs

DRIVER Workshop- Supporting Institutional Repositories in Europe

Mary [email protected]

SHERPA, University of Nottingham, UK


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