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Driver Guidelines , Validator & Helpdesk Working on repository interoperability. Maurice Vanderfeesten SURFfoundation (NL). Why do we need Guidelines ?. Outline. Current repository landscape Inside repository metadata DRIVER initiatives Guidelines Validator Helpdesk
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DriverGuidelines, Validator & HelpdeskWorkingonrepositoryinteroperability Maurice Vanderfeesten SURFfoundation (NL) DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Why do we needGuidelines? DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Outline • Currentrepository landscape • Insiderepository metadata • DRIVER initiatives • Guidelines • Validator • Helpdesk • DRIVER outcomes • Future DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
The Repository landscape – somefigures DRIVER activity 254 repositories – 31countries 220+ harvested 1,2M documents European repositories +/- 500 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
The Repository landscape – somefigures ¼ of the repositories come from small countries with different policies DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
The Repository landscape – somefigures Half the documents come from 200 different repositories with different practices DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
A look inside the repository metadata • Various vocabularies • No standards • Various interpretations • No file locations DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Exampledc:type – theses • text.thesis.masters - 28.671 • Text.Thesis.Doctoral - 46.594 • Doctoralthesis - 32.636 • Dissertation - 29.287 • Electronic Thesis or Dissertation - 366.783 • TeseouDissertacaoEletronica - 357.567 • Thesis - 95.626 • Study - 30.203 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Exampledc:type – article • Article in monographor in proceedings - 43.230 • JournalArticle - 53.606 • Article/Letter toeditor - 58.978 • Article / Letter toeditor - 73.058 • Article / Letter to the editor - 136.160 • article - 345.093 • Article - 337.314 • Artikel - 310.858 • 雑誌掲載論文 Journal Article - 12.774 • peer-reviewedarticle - 56.534 • journalarticle - 84.717 • Journal Article - 77.745 • a - 109.455 • Correspondence - 108.033 • Peer-reviewedArticle - 49.885 • PeerReviewed - 146.348 • preprint - 19.1784 • NonPeerReviewed - 173.643 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Examples Genericdc:type • text - 54.068 • texte - 15.051 dc:date • 2006-11-07 • 2004-05-31T00:00:00Z • 21st century dc:language • Proven x00E7 al Old to 1500 - 1 • pt, es. - 1 • spa;cat - 1 • eng; slv - 1 • noreng - 1 • [BLANK] - 1 • [language = Uvean, West] - 1 • [language = Madngele] – 1 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Fine when your repository is the center of the universe...It becomes a mess when repositories get aggregated! DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
What to do about all thatambiguity? • Guidelines • Talking about the issues and provide theoretical solutions • Validator • Going from theory to implementation • Helpdesk • Opening channels of communication with actual repository community DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Repositoryguidelines – the basics • Interoperable metadata (field content) • Interoperable OAI-PHM (behaviour) • Cleardistinguishable Open Access set DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Guidelines – Basedon best practices • Cross Europeancollaborationactivity • from • Repository managers • Service providers • & Metadata experts DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Guidelines – voluntarilytranslationinitiatives • Spanish • Japanese • Portugese DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Validator – interoperability check • HelpingRepository managers to look from a service provider point of view • Competition: the DRIVER score DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Validator http://validator.driver.research-infrastructures.eu DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Validator – deeperrorreporting DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Number of validations per month Total validations: 270 since Oct 2008 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Helpdesk – community feedback • HelpingRepository managers • implementinginteroperability DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Helpdesk http://helpdesk.driver.research-infrastructures.eu DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Helpdesk Total tickets: 172 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
DRIVER outcome • Took 3.5 years of hard and multiple effort • The outcome: • To be continued through COAR Guidelines, Validator and Helpdesk have helped increase repository interoperability DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Average interoperability with the DRIVER guidelines increases over time Total validations: 262 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Repositories DO come back forre-evaluation DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Story – Tales from Repository managers “ Initially I just used the Validation tool to see if our repository is more or less on track and was reassured when the results looked good, which gave me confidence to register. - Louw Venter, Boloka Research Repository of the North-West University South Africa ” DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Story – Tales from Service providers “ Adoption of a common standard for exporting metadata by repositories is very important for projects such as ours, so we can provide more effective access to their materials. The DRIVER Guidelines provide an excellent set that we hope many more repositories will take up. - Phil Cross UK Institutional Repository Search ” DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
TriasPolitica Model: for reliable democracy Legislative Reliable Democracy Judicial Executive DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
An analogy: What we have so farfor reliable content provision Guidelines “Reliable Content Provision” Validator Helpdesk Support DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
We DON’T have: • A structure for formal commitment to accept Repository Interoperability Guidelines World Wide • Executive enforcement enabling action on adopting Interoperability Guidelines for Repositories, World Wide, on a National and local level DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Some food for thought • What strategies can be used to create a global “TriasPolitica” for repositories in order to come to “reliable content provision” by using interoperability guidelines? • What strategies are there to maintain repository guidelines? Who is responsible? • What strategies are known to create an acceptance mechanism for global agreement to repository guidelines? • What strategies can be used to come to repository guidelines? • Who is responsible for the (metadata) quality of the repository output? DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium
Thankyou Maurice Vanderfeesten www.SURFfoundation.nl vanderfeesten@surf.nl Alsomanythanks to: • NataliaManola & Elena Nicolaki – University of Athens (GR) • Friedrich Summann – University of Bielefeld (DE) DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium