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Under construction: Connecting-Africa Community portal for experts on

Under construction: Connecting-Africa Community portal for experts on Development and African Studies June 2006 Ursula Oberst African Studies Centre Leiden, NL. IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA . Account facility. Experts. Moderator. Connecting Africa. Experts/Org.

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Under construction: Connecting-Africa Community portal for experts on

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  1. Under construction: Connecting-Africa Community portal for experts on Development and African Studies June 2006 Ursula Oberst African Studies Centre Leiden, NL

  2. IMPLEMENTATION MODELCONNECTING-AFRICA Account facility Experts Moderator Connecting Africa Experts/Org. Publications Analyzer (Filter) Harvester OAI-PMH Protocol IR IR IR IR IR IR IR Publications

  3. Core community • 180 community members (total number of Africanists in the Netherlands: 350) • 110 Dutch university units and research schools • Content • metadata records (approx. 3100) • with links to full-text publications (approx. 1900) • digitised publications of the ASC (approx.200) • 44 Repositories harvested and filtered • Connecting-Africa is updated twice a month.

  4. Funding: SURF Foundation 1st Tender 2003: € 46.800 2nd Tender 2004: € 140.000 Partners: African Studies Centre Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam University of Groningen University of Leiden University of Wageningen

  5. Approach: • By developing jointly a service to the benefit of all participants • Based on existing building blocs • Database of Africanists in the Netherlands • Embedded in national infrastructures • DARE (Digital Academic Repositories) • NOD (Dutch Research Database)

  6. FUTURE of CONNECTING-AFRICA • Content • harvest more OAI repositories containing African Studies material (OAI = Open Archives Initiative) • 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)

  7. FUTURE of CONNECTING-AFRICA • Community • enlarge the community with specialists on Africa from NGO’s, the media, governments, etc. • enlarge the community with academia in Africa and Europe

  8. PROJECT GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Funding: DPRN (Development Policy Review Network) Project period: july2006 – december 2007 Partners: • African Studies Centre • Development Policy Review Network Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences • Royal Tropical Institute

  9. PROJECT GLOBAL CONNECTIONS • Activities: • set up Global-Connections: web portal for development expertise in the Netherlands and Belgium. • duplicate the Connecting-Africa model for other area studies

  10. IMPLEMENTATION MODEL GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Account facility Account facility Account facility Moderator ASC Moderator ??? Moderator ??? Connecting Africa Connecting Asia Connecting LatinAmerica GLOBAL-CONNECTIONS http://www.global-connections.nl/ Development experts in NL and B

  11. PROJECT PROPOSAL: INTERNATIONALISING CONNECTING-AFRICA Funding: NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ) Subsidy period: september 2006 – sept. 2009 Subsidy requested:€ 55.000 Partners: • African Studies Centre • CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ) • AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies)

  12. PROJECT PROPOSAL: INTERNATIONALISING CONNECTING-AFRICA • Activities: • to extend Connecting-Africa with research information from Africa and Europe • to enlarge Connecting-Africa with the Africanist communities in Africa and Europe

  13. EXTENDED IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA Account facility Account facility Contact database Mod. CODESRIA Moderator ASC Moderator NAI Connecting Africa Experts/Org. Publications Analyzer (Filter) Harvester IR IR IR IR IR IR IR

  14. Connecting • African Studies • Globally ! • www.connecting-africa.net

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