1. DINI Certificate & DRIVER Guidelines Quality Principles for Repository Networks DINI: German Initiative for Networked Information DRIVER: European Repository Infrastructure

2. DINI & DRIVER: Common background Open Access Repositories as a basis for a distributed, machine-based global network for scholarly documents (and maybe more) – A ground to build digital libraries on OAI-PMH as the standard – Maybe not the most fashionable Not strictly WWW-based, metadata quality issues – But it‘s there and we cannot simply ignore it More than 1500/20Mio. docs worldwide Protocol is robust, functional, easy to implement and to maintain (!!!!!) Certificate & Guidelines improve standard application – DRIVER-G. are an elaboration of DINI-C in terms of OAI-PMH

3. DINI & DRIVER: Com‘s & Diff‘s AspectDINI Certificate DRIVER Guidelines Explicit quality policy for protocol and metadata implementationYes Explicit policy for operations (personell, support etc.)YesNo Personal quality check (questionaire, on-site review)YesNo Intellectual quality check (remote)Yes Automatic self validationNoYes Organized through sustainable OrganisationDINICOAR Explicit branding when checkedYesNo Translation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, JapaneseNoYes Green and GoldYesNo Strictly full-text orientedYes

4. Effects Observed: BASE BASE is a search engine looking day to day at OAI-PMH repositories for almost 10 years DINI Repositories are better than others – More robust protocol impl., less XML errors, more full-texts & homogenous DC, DCC etc. (> browsing) EUROPEAN repositories growing with a rather high quality standard, several national networks were born

5. Future DINI Certficate 2010 and DRIVER Guidelines v2.0 fully compatible DRIVER Guidelines address also compound objects (models and protocols) DINI explicity introducing usage statistics and citation analysis DRIVER to be adopted for implementation of European Open Access mandate (OpenAIRE)

6. Conclusion Both DINI-Certicicate and DRIVER-Guidelines are practical rather than „sexy“ Both do not create the perfect world but they provide orientation for new and existing OARs Not everybody is registered/certified but many look at the specifications and implement aspects Clear quality improvements observable but main effect is that of a chimnee