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D-NET and the Portuguese Repository Portal (RCAAP)

D-NET and the Portuguese Repository Portal (RCAAP). DRIVER Summit, 20 th October 2009, Ghent Eloy Rodrigues Director Documentation Services Universidade do Minho. Building a national repository network.

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D-NET and the Portuguese Repository Portal (RCAAP)

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  1. D-NET and the Portuguese Repository Portal (RCAAP) DRIVER Summit, 20th October 2009, Ghent Eloy Rodrigues Director Documentation Services Universidade do Minho

  2. Building a national repository network • RCAAP (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal = Portugal Open Access Science Repository)www.rcaap.pt • Main components of RCAAP: • RCAAP Portal • A national aggregator and search portal for repositories • Currently 19 repositories harvested • 30.000+ documents • SARI (Serviço de Alojamento de Repositórios Institucionais) • A repository hosting service (ASP) for Portuguese research institutions without IR’s (based in Dspace) • Currently 10 repositories hosted (+4 in installation phase)

  3. RCAAP Portal

  4. DRIVER and RCAAP • RCAAP Portal/Aggregator will shortly require DRIVER Guidelines (V2) compliance to aggregate repositories • RCAAP Portal was planned to be created in 2008 with D-NET v1.0, but… • complexity of software and some problems detected, • completely new D-NETversion planned/announced • and lack of resources from DRIVER consortium to offer helpdesk service and support on the installation and configuration process, • …led us to choose another solution: develop portal based on ARC, and a local validator

  5. Evaluating D-NET for RCAAP Portal 2.0 • RCAAP planned to have a new version of the Portal by the end of November 2009, with some added features (OAI Data Provider, Full Text indexing, etc.) • In July/August D-NET 1.1 was installed, tested and comparatively evaluated with the current RCAAP platform (homegrown, based on ARC) for the development of RCAAP 2.0 • This process was supported by the team of NKUA (Antonis Lempesis)

  6. Evaluating D-NET for RCAAP: Conclusions • Advantages of DNET • Provides more features/services than a simple aggregator; • Very flexible and modular • Would facilitate integration/interoperability with DRIVER European Information Space • Disadvantages of DNET • Poorly documented (installation and usage) • Insufficiently mature • The requirements in terms of infrastructure are highly incompatible with what is currently developed under the project RCAAP

  7. Evaluating D-NET for RCAAP: Conclusions • The costs of adapting D-NET… • adapting interface to RCAAP identity • developing new features • adapting RCAAP infrastructure to D-NET’s requirements • …would be considerably higher than updating/developing the current platform to the new features • So, we decide to develop RCAAP 2.0 with the current platform

  8. Thank you, for your attention www.rcaap.pt

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