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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
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ConnectingAfrica
Harvester
IR IR IR IR IRIR IR
IMPLEMENTATION MODEL CONNECTING-AFRICA
Analyzer (Filter)
Account facility
Moderator
Experts
Publications
Experts/Org.
Publications
OAI-PMH Protocol
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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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Connecting
African Studies
Globally !
www.connecting-africa.net