DRIVER Confederation of European Digital Repositories

Fostering sustainable synergies in the global repository landscape

Dale Peters

OAI6 DRIVER tutorial 17 June 2009

1. DRIVER Community & Confederation What does this mean?

2. Robust e-Infrastructure and services

3. Challenges of Open Access in support of innovative scholarly communications:

institutional repositories

data collections

subject repositories

learned societies

Organisation

Data

Infrastructure

Outline

Tutorial Questions

What does the DRIVER Infrastructure offer to my repository…?

What can the Confederation do for my organisation…?

What other name would be appropriate for an international repository organisation?

Repositories

4

200+ harvested repositories

23+ countries

1,000,000+ documents

25+languages

Acknowledgement Paolo Manghi CNR

Community & Confederation

Develop national communities

Improve data quality for automated harvesting

Strategic support

Professional development of repository managers

Persistent identifiers

Organisational model

What is the Confederation…?

Permanent organisational backbone for European repository structure

Geographic and thematic extension

Diffusion of DRIVER technology

Connect established communities of practice

Promote Open Access

Fill repositories with Open Access publications

The Confederation thus provides an integrated concept for organisation, technology and content for the European Open Access repository landscape, in a virtual structure – beyond DRIVER project activities.

Federation of federations

Academic institutions host scientific digital repositories

Universities

Research centres

NGO’s SPARC Europe, LIBER

National, regional or

subject-based

federationsData aggregations

Repository infrastructure challenges

Acknowledgement: Neil Jacobs, JISC

Repository infrastructure challenges

Acknowledgement Neil Jacobs, JISC

Disciplinary Repository Infrastructures

ArXiV – Physics, Mathematics, Informatics

PubMed - Life Sciences

CLARIN, OLAC – Linguistics,

CESSDA – Social Sciences

DARIAH – Humanities

RePEc; NEEO – Economics

METAFOR – Meteorology, Climatology

MACE - Architecture

IVOA – Astronomy

Media-specific: EFG

Federation objectives

Academic institutions

NGO’s

National, regional or subject-based federations

Overcome shortcomings of simple point-to-point networks

Foster synergies between existing federations

Stimulate building of federations where these do not exist

Memoranda of Understanding

DRIVER- SPARC Europe – July 2008

Open Access Netzwerk von Repositorien (Germany) - August 2008

RECOLECTA (Spain) – August 2008

eIFL.net – Electronic Information for Libraries – September 2008

Digital Repository Federation (DRF Japan) - November 2008

Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) - March 2009

Canadian Academic Research Libraries – in progress

Ubuntunet Alliance / CLARA - progress

Outcomes of MoU’s

Outcomes

What does the DRIVER Infrastructure offer to my repository…?

What can the Confederation do for my organisation…?

What other name would be appropriate for an international repository organisation?

Confederation model

become a legal entity – new name…?

move towards an interoperable operational service

offer support for clients/partners/new repositories in the network

develop the DNet software OS community

develop strategic and political relationships

act as an advocacy body at an operational and strategic level