1. BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference Rio De Janeiro, Brazil June 25-28, 2007 The DRIVER Project D igital R epositories I nfrastructure V ision for E uropean R esearch Natalia Manola University of Athens, Greece

2. 2 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Facts IST programme FP6 Test bed infrastructure 18 months (June 2006 – November 2007) Two public releases: –End of July –End of Nov Project website –www.driver-repository.eu

3. 3 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Partners Univ. of Athens (Greece) – administrative coordinator Univ. of Göttingen Library (Germany) – scientific coordinator CNR-ISTI (Italy) – technical coordinator SURF (the Netherlands) Univ. of Nottingham – SHERPA (UK) CNRS (France) UKOLN (UK) ICM (Poland) Univ. of Ghent Library(Belgium) Univ. of Bielefeld Library (Germany)

4. 4 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Objectives Develop a test-bed for integrating existing national or regional repositories Create a production-quality European DR infrastructure Identify and promote the use of a relevant set of standards Prepare the future expansion and upgrade of the DR infrastructure across Europe Raise awareness among user communities

5. 5 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Challenges Create a European Repository Infrastructure Testbed Large Number of Providers and Users Operational infrastructure Open for experimentation Hosting Hardware and Software Emphasis on Content Organisation Data Software

6. 6 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER Activities Content Organisation & Provision Content Organisation & Provision Technology Infrastructure Development Technology Infrastructure Development Planning Focussed Studies Outreach Advocacy & Awareness Pan-European DR Infrastructure 1 DR Testbed Service

7. 7 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Content Arts Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Life Sciences Medicine Agriculture Other... Engineering Textual Materials (Documents) (Rich) Media sound, film, language recordings, 3D images from artifacts, computer-generated images, etc. Primary Data Observational, experimental, demographic, census, patient records etc. Maps Complex Objects, Living/Dynamic Documents Software, Simulations Images, Photographs Open Access

8. 8 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Networking Focus on Institutional Repositories –Rapid progress over the last years –Inherent sustainability (e.g. libraries) –Adequate technical homogeneity (OAI-PMH) Selection of IRs based on –Maturity –Policies –Technologies used

9. 9 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Network of content providers –Germany (DINI) National Policies Model for quality assurance –France (CCSD) Centralized Scheme Model for centralized network –The Netherlands (SURF) National Federation/Aggregated Network Model for Distributed Network –United Kingdom (SHERPA) National Federation Model for advocacy –Belgium (Ghent Lib) Model for network construction

10. 10 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Current DRIVER repository status > 100,000 documents

11. 11 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER Activities Content Organisation & Provision Content Organisation & Provision Technology Infrastructure Development Technology Infrastructure Development Planning Focussed Studies Outreach Advocacy & Awareness DR Testbed Service Pan-European DR Infrastructure 2

12. 12 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Infrastructure Technology DRIVER envisions the notion of European Repository Infrastructure enabling for –The construction of Repository Systems in an easy, standard and sustainable way –Integrating content and functionality of the existing Repository Systems by respecting their autonomy Provides a distributed environment for the construction, maintenance, and coexistence of Service-based Repository Systems

13. 13 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Technological features Repositories Users Communities … Services –Scalability depending on the data provided or the usage –Extensibility of functionalities provided Services are implemented as Web Services Open source technology System Resources }

14. 14 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Driver Infrastructure Architecture Enabling Layer Repositories DRIVER Objects Data Layer Functionality Layer A&A Service Recommendation Service UI Service User Service Search Service OAI-Publisher Service Index Service Store Service Collection Service Aggregator Service Information Service Manager Service Community Service

15. 15 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Enabling Layer Infrastructure management –Resource/Service Registration (P2P-like) –Discovery (by functionalities and capabilities) –Orchestration of Services: coordination of Service interactions –Authentication and Authorization of all resources Enabling Layer Functionality LayerData Layer Information Service Manager Service Authz&Authn Service

16. 16 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Data Layer DRIVER Information Space Management –Harvesting from external repositories –Aggregating: cleaning & enriching (provenance data) –Storage, indexing –Virtualization of the Information Space: collections –OAI-Publishing of harvested data Enabling Layer Repositories DRIVER Objects Functionality Layer Data Layer OAI-PMH Service Index Service Collection Service Store Service Aggregator Service

17. 17 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Functionality Layer User-oriented functionalities –User Interfaces: Information Space Search –User and Communities profiling –User recommendations & alerts Data Layer Enabling Layer Functionality Layer User Interface Service Recomm. Service Community Service User Service Search Service

18. 18 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Infrastructure Network MS Index IS Aggregator MDStore Collection User Profile RS UI Search Community RS A&A Enabling LayerData LayerFunctionality Layer

19. 19 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER Activities Content Organisation & Provision Content Organisation & Provision Technology Infrastructure Development Technology Infrastructure Development Planning Focussed Studies Outreach Advocacy & Awareness DR Testbed Service Pan-European DR Infrastructure 3

20. 20 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Repository Inventory in Europe Results from ~120 institutions with DRs –General status on national level infrastructure –Coverage/visibility of academic output –Textual vs. other material –Open access (88%) –Repository technologies used –User services provided

21. 21 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Technical Standards Analyzes current implementations of interoperability standards in DR's. Identifies limitations of the standards currently used, and looks into the necessary future development of existing or new standards to resolve difficulties Describes other standards that are used (or being developed) in different environments Anticipates new challenges: –Guidelines for OAI-PMH implementations –Multiple interfaces to repositories –Challenge of relating entities from multiple domains –Content based-services

22. 22 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER activities Content Organisation & Provision Content Organisation & Provision Technology Infrastructure Development Technology Infrastructure Development Planning Focussed Studies Outreach Advocacy & Awareness DR Testbed Service 4 Pan-European DR Infrastructure

23. 23 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER outreach Produce advocacy materials Publish study results Presentations at Conferences Establish `European Repository Awareness Point (E-RAP) as community resource –www.driver-support.eu Up-coming public releases

24. 24 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 DRIVER Live Demo Thank you!

25. 25 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Enabling LayerData LayerFunctionality Layer Current DRIVER deployment UI Search User Profiling Communities Recommendation ResultSet (x2) Aggregator MDStore Index Information Manager A&A Collection ResultSet (x7)

26. 26 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Simple Search Scenario UI Index IS RS Search

27. 27 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Contextual Search Scenario Keyword Search on collections

28. 28 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Contextual Search Scenario UI Index IS RS Search Collections Communities Repositories Vocabularies

29. 29 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Scenario #2: Repository Managers Local Repository Manager Repository registration DRIVER Repository Manager Harvesting Aggregating Indexing

30. 30 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Scenario #2: Repository Managers DRIVER Repository Manager Harvesting Aggregating Indexing

31. 31 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 Repository Registration-Harvesting-Indexing MS Index IS Aggregator MDStore Repository Collection User Profile RS UI Search Community RS registers

32. 32 BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 25-28, 2007 What to expect next? Enabling Services –Integration of AA into the infrastructure –Notification mechanisms among services –Monitoring of the system (multiple instances of services) Data Layer Services –Further work on cleaning aggregated metadata –Full text indexing –Improve performance of index lookup Functionality Services –Search to work with multiple Index Services –Recommendation integrated to the system –UI improvement Administrator tools with uniform UI