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The impact of DRIVER on the
repository community
Sophia Jones
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The DRIVER Vision
Research institutions worldwide make their research
output freely accessible
Research output from Europe and worldwide is
aggregated into one virtual open knowledge base
A wide range of end user services – e.g. search, browse,
profiling, citation, visualisation - becomes available to
researchers by service providers
Publications are in a position to link with any type of digital
data and objects
Berlin Declaration: “Free and unrestricted access to sciences and
human knowledge representation worldwide”
DRIVER approach: Constructing a global, interoperable
repository infrastructure
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DRIVER II – …global, interoperable repository
infrastructure
Confederation
Organization of Digital
Repository Infrastructure Providers
Open Source Software
for repository networks
Technical Digital Repository
Network Infrastructure Services
D-NET
DR Infrastructure
Community Building
& Maintenance
DRIVER
Support &
Wiki
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DRIVER Confederation
Organisation of Digital Repository Infrastructure
Providers: A Confederation of Repository
Communities
Initial focus on Europe (with international alliances)
Important members and strategic partners
Confederation Advisory Board
European and international repository communities
major repository platforms
standards developers
service providers
related non-government organisations (NGO’s)
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D-Net – DRIVER Network Evolution Toolkit
Open source software
Tool box for service providers:
To share DRIVER based operational systems to run
additional instances of existing services
To employ DRIVER based operational systems to
develop new services
To deploy a new independent DRIVER infrastructure
to serve the needs of the service provider’s own
community
Available at:
http://www.driver-repository.eu/Downloads
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DR Infrastructure
“European Information Space”
Moved to production mode in June 2008
Today 210+ repositories from 23 countries
DRIVER Guidelines & Repository Workflow
Supports three groups of users:
1. The repository manager
2. The service provider
3. The researcher, reader, public (demonstration of the
infrastructure)
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www.driver-community.eu
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Learn about DRIVER
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Search the Repositories
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“Browse”…
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Register your repository
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Repository
Map
210
harvested
repositories
23
countries
856,264+
documents
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Community Building and Maintenance
DRIVER Wiki
Country “correspondents”
One institution or a group of institutions takes responsibility to build a national
repository community (like DARENet-NL, SHERPA-UK, OA-Netzwerk-GE,
RECOLECTA-ES, HAL-FR)
Maintain the national repository information on the DRIVER Wiki
Organise repository events in their countries
Translate DRIVER Guidelines and other relevant information into national
languages
Build up national data aggregators, clean data, can offer additional services
DRIVER Support
www.driver-community.ey/helpdesk
Mentor Service
 www.driver-support.eu/mentor
 tutorials
DRIVER liaises already with institutions and initiatives from the majority of
European countries, the U.S., Canada, Latin America, China, Japan, India
and Africa
DRIVER has signed MoUs with SPARC Europe, LIBER, eIFL, Recolecta
Spain, OA-Netzwerk Germany and DRF Japan
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DRIVER Support
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DRIVER Wiki - www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki
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DRIVER Helpdesk- www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk
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Mentor Service – www.driver-support.eu/mentor
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Mentor Service Tutorial
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More Information about DRIVER
The DRIVER Portal:
www.driver-community.eu
Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk,
www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk
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