DRIVER Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

DRIVER Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research – Essentials – 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

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 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

What is known about repositories? • Many have the OAI-PMH implemented – small but relevant local specialties • Some international registries exist – Open. DOAR, ROAR … • Some search engines exist – BASE, OAIster, Google Scholar … 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Collaboration in repositories • Very few mature national repository organisations/collaborations • Little trans-national repository organisation/collaboration • Lack of data harmonization, orchestration of services 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

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 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER Vision • Build a pan-European Digital Repository Infrastructure • and provide the European Hub in a Global Repository Network for • • 08 -OCT-2007 any type of document, data and object, of any format, involving all European countries and covering all academic disciplines Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER – a multi-phase effort • PHASE 1 – Mid 2006 to end 2007 – A testbed infrastructure and organisational model – Focus on textual resources • PHASE 2 – 2008/2009 – A production infrastructure and organisation – Focus on complex objects • … 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER now! A Digital Repository Infrastructure Test-bed • Textual documents • from 5 Countries (BE, FR, DE, NL, UK) • Distributed, high-quality content provision • Distributed software deployment • All open and re-usable 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER – infrastructural axes • Organisational Networking – Forum for stakeholders • Data harmonization – Cleaned and enriched „information space“ – Offered for re-use by service providers Organization Data • Service orchestration – Open, distributed, scalable technical architecture – Re-use of existing services – Facilitate interactions between services 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER Software

DRIVER – Partners Administrative Co-ordination Uo. A National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece Mike Hatzolopoulos, Yannis Ioannidis, Natalia Manola, Vassili Stoumpos, Antonis Lebessis Scientifc-Technical Co-ordination SUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany Norbert Lossau, Heike Neuroth, Wolfram Horstmann, Margo Bargheer CNRS Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe / CNRS DIS, France Francis Andre, Muriel Foullonneau, Anne-Marie Badolato, Daniel Charnay SURF Foundation, The Netherlands Leo Waaijers, Martin Feijen, Kasja Weenink UGhent University Library Ghent, Belgium Sylvia van Peteghem, Karen van Godtsenhoven, Patrick Hochstenbach, Inge Van Niewerburgh Uni. Nott University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen Pinfield, Bill Hubbard, Mary Robinson, Sophia Jones CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. FAEDO" / CNR, Italy Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano, Paolo Manghi ICM Interdiscipl. Centre for Math. and Comp. Mod. /Univers. of Warsaw, Poland Marek Niedgódzka, Wojtek Sylvetsrzak, Jaroslaw Wypychowksi Uni. Bi Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, Germany Michael Höppner, Friedrich Summann, Marek Imialek UKoln UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath Liz Lyon, Rosemary Russell, Rachel Heery 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER Current Activities Network of “Content-Providers” Content Test Bed for Repository-Services Focused Studies Planning “Advocacy and Awareness Raising” 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER Technology Outreach

Repository networking Organisation being synergetic with data infratstructure Organisation Data Software 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Networking test-bed • 5 countries – DRIVER exemplars – BE, DE, FR, NL, UK • Different – – Maturity Policies Technologies … 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

The Netherlands – National Federation – Aggregated Network – Now KNAW – “Cream of Science” >> Model for Distributed Network 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Germany – National Policies – Pro-active, individual approach – High quality certificate >> Model for quality assurance 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Great Britain – National federation – Advocacy focus – ROMEO IPR lookup – Open. Doar Registry >> Model for advocacy / added value services 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

France centralized scheme >> Model for centralized network 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Belgium – 2006 no national federation – 13 Rectors signed Berlin Declaration >> Model for network construction 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Networking test-bed • 50+ “organized” repositories • Is there a simple technical recipe for networking these repositories? 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

All publications in a repository … … … … 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Aggregate with OAI-PMH Aggregator 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Feed back to research OAI-PMH Aggregator search engine 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Lift to an international scale … … Aggregator 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER 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 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Full-text guidelines • Help to improve the repository landscape – Support of “sets” – Clear location of URL – Resource harvesting • Studies say: – International retrieval – Guidelines 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

Next Steps • Help 50+ repositories – Guidelines release – Help Desk (WP 8) – … • Help more repositories – “DRIVER countries” – other countries – … 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DEMO • Disclaimer – Test version – Some interfaces for administrators only • Repository Landscape – DEMO 1 – DEMO 2 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DEMO OF TEST-VERSION 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DEMO OF TEST-VERSION 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DEMO OF TEST-VERSION 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DEMO OF TEST-VERSION 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER-II Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research PHASE 2: 2008/2009 – Essentials – 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER-II – Overall Goals • Organization – Building a Confederation of European Digital Repositories • Data Organization – Extending the virtual Information Space over multiple and heterogeneous repositories • Software – Consolidating and enhancing the Infrastructure to operate a production quality system with advanced user functionalities 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER Data Software

DRIVER-II – Organization • Confederation for European Digital Repositories – Geographical Coverage DRIVER-I partners P NL B F DRIVER-II new partners EL DRIVER-I Test-Bed UK D PL I SI Additional Partners S DK IR Community NOR FIN LT E IRL – Liaison with relevant organizations • Community Building – Identification & support of advocate networks across Europe – Promotion of services to service and data providers & repository users • Studies – Usage of object descriptions for the representation, management and sharing of discipline specific data – Investigation of new technologies for future integration 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER-II – Data • DRIVER Information Space enhancement – Include additional, non-textual, types of resources – Extend the typology of repositories beyond those conforming to the OAI-PMH Object Model • Focus on Enhanced Publications – Manage combined packages of textual resources with additional, interlinked material • Complex Object Model Management – Extend the DRIVER Object model definition to describe the structure of Objects obeying to various Object Models 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER-II – Software • From testbed deployment to production-quality, full-scale system – Maintain and enhance the underlying system infrastructure – Adhere to continuous software development cycle • Providing quality service operation and support to – Service providers with well defined APIs & documentation for twosided application integration – Repository managers with feedback and tools • Providing additional end-user related functionalities – Advanced resource discovery over heterogeneous types and formats of data – Enhanced community & personalized services – Advanced system performance 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER

DRIVER-II – Process DRIVER-I Test-Bed NL B F DRIVER-I partners UK DRIVER-II new partners EL D organizational model PL S SI DK FIN LT NOR P I IR Community Additional Partners E IRL Organizational development, support and discovery Networking Data Service harmonization orchestration D-NET 1. 0 D-NET 2. 0 Service test-bed Consolidation Innovation Research DRIVER-I 08 -OCT-2007 6 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER 12 18 24 Month

DRIVER-II – Infrastructure Architecture Service Providers External Applications End Users UI Functionality Layer Data-Layer Enabling-Layer 08 -OCT-2007 Meeting: EIFL/DRIVER Repositories Confederation Data Providers