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Under construction: Connecting-Africa
Community portal for experts on
Development and African Studies
June 2006
Ursula Oberst
African Studies Centre
Leiden, NL
ConnectingAfrica
Harvester
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IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA
Analyzer (Filter)
Account facility
Moderator
Experts
Publications
Experts/Org.
Publications
OAI-PMH Protocol
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.
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
Approach:
By developing jointly a service to the benefit of all participants
•Based on existing building blocsDatabase of Africanists in the Netherlands
•Embedded in national infrastructuresDARE (Digital Academic Repositories)NOD (Dutch Research Database)
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)
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
PROJECT GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Funding:
DPRN (Development Policy Review Network)
Project period: july 2006 – december 2007
Partners:African Studies CentreDevelopment Policy Review Network Royal Academy of Arts and SciencesRoyal Tropical Institute
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
GLOBAL-CONNECTIONShttp://www.global-connections.nl/Development experts in NL and B
IMPLEMENTATION MODELGLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Account facility
Moderator ??? Moderator ???Moderator ASC
Account facility Account facility
Connecting Africa
ConnectingAsia
ConnectingLatinAmerica
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 CentreCODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa )AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for
Interdisciplinary Studies)
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
ConnectingAfrica
Harvester
IR IR IR IR IRIR IR
EXTENDED IMPLEMENTATION MODELCONNECTING-AFRICA
Analyzer (Filter)
Account facility
Moderator ASC
Experts/Org.
Publications
Moderator NAIMod. CODESRIA
Account facility Contact database
Connecting
African Studies
Globally !
www.connecting-africa.net
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