Upload
anthea
View
33
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Under construction: Connecting-Africa African studies community portal for research and higher education July 2005 Titia van der Werf Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, NL. PROJECT DARC Distributed Africana Repositories Community Funding : SURF Foundation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
Under construction: Connecting-Africa
African studies community portal
for research and higher education
July 2005
Titia van der Werf
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden, NL
PROJECT DARC
Distributed Africana Repositories Community
Funding: SURF Foundation
1st Tender 2003: € 46.800
2nd Tender 2004: € 140.000
Partners:
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Amsterdam
University of Groningen
University of Leiden
University of Wageningen
Focus:
Research in the Netherlands
Aim:
•Strengthen African Studies in the Netherlands: more unity and visibility on the web
•Improve access to Dutch research material via the Internet
•Foster exchanges and co-operation in Dutch research and higher education
Approach:
By developing jointly a service to the benefit of all participants
•Based on existing building blocsDatabase of Africanists in the Netherlands
•Embedded in national infrastructuresDARE (Digital Academic Repositories)NOD (Dutch Research Database)
ConnectingAfrica DAREnet
Search
SubjectGateway
H
H
H
IR IR IR IR IRIR IR
ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG
IMPLEMENTATION MODEL DARE
IMPLEMENTATION MODEL DARC
Inputmodule
IRUniversityLibrary
Dutch Research Database
DARCHarvester
Requestinfo
Connecting-AfricaAfrican Studies Portal
University-department
Core community
•350 Africanists in the Netherlands
•110 university units and research schools
Interested parties
•Dutch academics doing research on Africa
•Africanists from elsewhere; policy-makers; NGO staff; journalists; etc.
Content
•metadata records (approx. 2000)
•with links to full-text publications (approx. 300)
•digitised publications of the ASC (approx.100)
Repositories harvested:
Site Records•University Leiden: 1941•University Groningen: 3565•University of Amsterdam: 15474•Wageningen University: 103227
Total of 124245 records harvested
Records filtered:
Approx.300 records filtered with list of African country and regions names (excl. Wageningen)
Software development
1. OAI Harvest Manager
•Based on open source software
•Enhanced with a scheduler and other functionalities
•Available as open source software
2. OAI Harvest Analyser
•Developed from scratch
•Matches harvested records with controlled vocabularies
•Filtering mechanism based on weighted results
•Will be made available as open source software
AFRICAN STUDIES
are not restricted to the Netherlands
…
we also harvested the repository of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (SOAS)
see title 25 on next sheet …
AFRICAN STUDIES
•distributed community
•interdisciplinary
•niche research area
Strong starting points for
•developing virtual community
• pulling in Africa-related research
•achieving cross-sectoral synergies
FUTURE of CONNECTING-AFRICA
•cover African Studies in the Netherlands
•harvest other OAI repositories containing African Studies material
•encourage colleagues in Europe to deposit material in OAI compliant repositories
•encourage African colleague research institutions to set up OAI compliant repositories (harvest content from Africa)
•enlarge the community with specialists on Africa from NGO’s, the media, governments, etc.
Connecting
African Studies
Globally !