9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 The impact of DRIVER on the repository community Sophia Jones

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 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

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February DRIVER II – …global, interoperable repository infrastructure Open Source Software for repository networks Technical Digital Repository Network Infrastructure Services Organization of Digital Repository Infrastructure Providers Community Building & Maintenance Confederation D-NET DR Infrastructure DRIVER Support & Wiki

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 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 (NGOs)

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 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 providers own community Available at:

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 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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9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Learn about DRIVER

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Search the Repositories

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Browse…

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Register your repository

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February Repository Map 210 harvested repositories 23 countries 856,264+ documents

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 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 Mentor Service 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

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 DRIVER Support

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 DRIVER Wiki -

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 DRIVER Helpdesk-

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Mentor Service –

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 Mentor Service Tutorial

9 th International Bielefeld Conference, 3-5 February 2009 More Information about DRIVER The DRIVER Portal: Contact the DRIVER Helpdesk,