European Repository Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication

1. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Natalia Manola Department of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens, Hellas

2. Outline • Introduction • European repository landscape overview • European vision • Current efforts • DRIVER overview • Technological advantages • Functionalities offered • Content & organization • Current status • Ongoing and future work

3. Fact Sheet www.driver-repository.eu Research Infrastructures Programme Dec 2007 – Nov 2009 3.4 M (2.7 M funding) • University of Athens(GR) • University of Bielefeld (DE) • CNR-ISTI (IT) • SURF Foundation (NL) • Univ. of Nottingham – SHERPA (UK) • CNRS-CCSD (FR) • University of Bath – UKOLN (UK) • University of Warszawski – ICM (PO) • University of Gent (BE) • University of Goettingen (GE) • Danish Technical University (DN) • National and University Library (SL) • University of Minho (PT)

4. Scholar Communication: Imperatives • Comprehensive,global access to any type of scientific information • Minimum time and resources effort to access and use this information • Easy search/navigation, handling, manipulation, and re-dissemination of information • Maximum visibility to and communication with the research community, research impact • Long-term access and preservation of research results

5. High-Level Objectives • Develop an environment for integrating existing national, regional, or thematic repositories • Create a production-quality European DR infrastructure • Prepare the future expansion and upgrade of the DR infrastructure across Europe • Identify and promote the use of a relevant set of standards • Raise awareness among user communities

6. Repository Landscape: Past-Present-Future Trans-National DRs (DRIVER) Universal DRs Pan-European and Inter-Thematic DRs National, Regional, and Thematic DRs

7. Challenges Organization - Network Data - Content Technology - Software Large number of providers and users Create a European Repository Infrastructure Emphasis on content and services Hosting hardware and software Operational infrastructure, open for experimentations Multifaceted endeavor: technology, organization

8. Technology Overview • Why an infrastructure? • What is an infrastructure?

9. Repository Systems: current effortsIndividual institution site OAI-PMH • Centralized System • High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software • Poor & limited scalability • Reuse by data and service duplication! UI Functionality resources Search … Index Index Information Space Content resources

10. Repository Systems : current effortsMultiple institution sites … … … … … … … … … … … … • Repeated efforts • High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software • Poor & limited scalability • Reuse by data and service duplication! • Disconnected repositories

11. Repository Systems : current effortsSharing and reusing content • Centralized System • High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software • Poor & limited scalability • Reuse by data duplication! UI Functionality resources Search … Index Index Information Space OAI-PMH Aggregator OAI-PMH OAI-PMH OAI-PMH … Content resources Institution Site Institution Site Institution Site

12. Repository Systems : current effortsSharing and reusing content … … … … … … … … … … … Genetic Data Netherlands E-Theses Germany Belgium wwPDB Greece India Italy ….. ….. … … … … … … … … … … … • Repeated efforts • High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software • Poor & limited scalability • Reuse by data and service duplication! • Disconnected repositories • Sometimes desired policy • Often undesirable

13. DRIVER Infrastructure Vision Moving from buildingindividualrepositories or repository clusters, one at a time, repeating “things” again and again, to building a “generating engine”, awarehouse, anINFRASTRUSCTURE, facilitating the above by offering appropriate generic, reusable services

14. DRIVER Infrastructure Vision • Build and maintain a sustainable European environment where content and functionality resources can be openly shared and integrated for use by any application or community • Sustainability • Maintainability • Scalability • Reusability

15. DRIVER Infrastructure Information Manager Manager AuthnAuthz Functionality Services Enabling Services Alerts UI UI Recommendations Search Search … Index Index Index Store Content/Data Services Aggregator Aggregator Content Resources OAI-PMH OAI-PMH OAI-PMH OAI-PMH … … Institution Site Institution Site Institution Site Institution Site

16. Technological advantages • Scalable and dynamic • Repositories are dynamically added • Scales up with usage/load • Extensible • New functionalities/services are easily added • Fully distributed System • Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture

17. Functionalities offered • For researchers • Advanced searching capabilities • Collections offering specialized views on the content • Communities allowing for collaboration • User Personalization mechanisms • Alerts and recommendations • For repository managers • Repository registration and content validation tools • Direct access to repositories through DRIVER portal

18. Functionalities offered cntd. • For organizations, aggregators, funders • Adaptable User Interface serving different needs • Publish DRIVER metadata via OAI-PMH • Usage statistics assisting in OA advocacy • For service providers • Provide middleware for further service development • Offer information space to be used in external services

19. Content-Data • Focus on Institutional Repositories • Rapid progress over the last years • Inherent sustainability (e.g. libraries) • Adequate technical homogeneity (OAI-PMH) • Open Access • Textual publications • Automated mechanisms for cleaning & enriching of metadata • DRIVER content guidelines • Feedback to repository managers

20. Organization-Networking • Major European players • DARENET / SURF (aggregated network) • SHERPA / JISC (focus on advocacy) • German Repositories (DINI – national policies, certification) • France (HAL/CNRS – centralized scheme) • Joint policies and objectives • Metadata, technical, and organisational standards • Studies published (AUP) • European Repository Landscape • Repository related issues and good practices • Technologies/standards - interoperability issues • DRIVER Summit, Goettingen, January 2008

21. Current status • DRIVER search portal • 350,000 docs (70+ repositories) – Open Access • DRIVER online support • Information for key stakeholder groups • OA policies • Help in building repositories • Various scenarios for data sharing and reuse • Belgium scenario • Use European DRIVER infra • Have a storage/Index for themselves • Provide their (Belgian) data to Europe • E-theses scenario (ETD) • Include European theses documents in DRIVER • Make these visible through virtual mechanisms for specialized searches • Spain/India Scenario • Deploy DRIVER infrastructure acting as national network

22. DRIVER-II • Geographical expansion • Start with Slovenia, Portugal, Denmark • More repositories joining in… • Confederation of European Digital Repositories • Involve representatives from academic institutions that host scientific digital repositories and representatives of national, regional or subject-based federations • Policies, practices, strategies The future challenge is to encourage every country to participate and to move beyond local networks to a European Vision.

23. DRIVER-II • Move from test-bed to quality production system • Move beyond textual publications • Support different content types (images, video, audio, etc.) • Advance collaborative environment • Enhance personalized user services • Enhanced publications (scientific datasets) • Create a model for supporting complex/compound objects • Identify communities with thematic repositories • Provide tools for discovery and links • Annotations ? • Identify next research issues

24. www.driver-community.eu Summary DRIVER drives Europe towards full unification of its scientific information

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