1. Natalia Manola Department of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens, Hellas 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague

2. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Outline Introduction European repository landscape overview –European vision –Current efforts DRIVER overview –Technological advantages –Functionalities offered –Content & organization Current status Ongoing and future work

3. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Fact Sheet Research Infrastructures Programme Dec 2007 – Nov 2009 3.4 M (2.7 M funding) University of Athens(GR) University of Bielefeld (DE) CNR-ISTI (IT) SURF Foundation (NL) Univ. of Nottingham – SHERPA (UK) CNRS-CCSD (FR) University of Bath – UKOLN (UK) University of Warszawski – ICM (PO) University of Gent (BE) University of Goettingen (GE) Danish Technical University (DN) National and University Library (SL) University of Minho (PT) www.driver-repository.eu

4. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Scholar Communication: Imperatives 1.Comprehensive, global access to any type of scientific information 2.Minimum time and resources effort to access and use this information 3.Easy search/navigation, handling, manipulation, and re-dissemination of information 4.Maximum visibility to and communication with the research community, research impact 5.Long-term access and preservation of research results

5. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague High-Level Objectives Develop an environment for integrating existing national, regional, or thematic repositories Create a production-quality European DR infrastructure Prepare the future expansion and upgrade of the DR infrastructure across Europe Identify and promote the use of a relevant set of standards Raise awareness among user communities

6. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Universal DRs Repository Landscape: Past-Present-Future National, Regional, and Thematic DRs Trans-National DRs (DRIVER) Pan-European and Inter-Thematic DRs

7. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Challenges Create a European Repository Infrastructure Large number of providers and users Emphasis on content and services Hosting hardware and software Operational infrastructure, open for experimentations Multifaceted endeavor: technology, organization Organization - Network Data - Content Technology - Software

8. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Technology Overview Why an infrastructure? What is an infrastructure?

9. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Repository Systems: current efforts Individual institution site Information Space Index Search Index UI … Centralized System High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software Poor & limited scalability Reuse by data and service duplication! Functionality resources Content resources OAI-PMH

10. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Repository Systems : current efforts Multiple institution sites Repeated efforts High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software Poor & limited scalability Reuse by data and service duplication! Disconnected repositories ………………………………

11. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Repository Systems : current efforts Sharing and reusing content OAI-PMH Institution Site OAI-PMH Institution Site OAI-PMH Institution Site … Aggregator Information Space Index Search Index UI … Centralized System High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software Poor & limited scalability Reuse by data duplication! Functionality resources Content resources OAI-PMH

12. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Repository Systems : current efforts Sharing and reusing content … … Netherlands … … Belgium … … Italy … … Greece … … Germany … … ….. … … India … … E-Theses … … Genetic Data … … wwPDB … … ….. Repeated efforts High installation and maintenance cost for hardware and software Poor & limited scalability Reuse by data and service duplication! Disconnected repositories Sometimes desired policy Often undesirable

13. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague DRIVER Infrastructure Vision Moving from building individual repositories or repository clusters, one at a time, repeating “things” again and again, to building a “generating engine”, a warehouse, an INFRASTRUSCTURE, facilitating the above by offering appropriate generic, reusable services

14. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague DRIVER Infrastructure Vision Build and maintain a sustainable European environment where content and functionality resources can be openly shared and integrated for use by any application or community Sustainability - Maintainability - Scalability - Reusability

15. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague DRIVER Infrastructure Aggregator Index Search Index UI … Aggregator UI Search Index Store OAI-PMH Institution Site … OAI-PMH Institution Site OAI-PMH Institution Site … Content Resources Information Manager AuthnAuthz Enabling Services Content/Data Services Functionality Services Recommendations Alerts

16. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Scalable and dynamic –Repositories are dynamically added –Scales up with usage/load Extensible –New functionalities/services are easily added Fully distributed System –Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture Technological advantages

17. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Functionalities offered For researchers –Advanced searching capabilities –Collections offering specialized views on the content –Communities allowing for collaboration –User Personalization mechanisms –Alerts and recommendations For repository managers –Repository registration and content validation tools –Direct access to repositories through DRIVER portal

18. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Functionalities offered cntd. For organizations, aggregators, funders –Adaptable User Interface serving different needs –Publish DRIVER metadata via OAI-PMH –Usage statistics assisting in OA advocacy For service providers –Provide middleware for further service development –Offer information space to be used in external services

19. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Content-Data Focus on Institutional Repositories –Rapid progress over the last years –Inherent sustainability (e.g. libraries) –Adequate technical homogeneity (OAI-PMH) Open Access Textual publications Automated mechanisms for cleaning & enriching of metadata DRIVER content guidelines –Feedback to repository managers

20. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Organization-Networking Major European players –DARENET / SURF (aggregated network) –SHERPA / JISC (focus on advocacy) –German Repositories (DINI – national policies, certification) –France (HAL/CNRS – centralized scheme) Joint policies and objectives Metadata, technical, and organisational standards Studies published (AUP) –European Repository Landscape –Repository related issues and good practices –Technologies/standards - interoperability issues DRIVER Summit, Goettingen, January 2008

21. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague Current status DRIVER search portal –350,000 docs (70+ repositories) – Open Access DRIVER online support –Information for key stakeholder groups –OA policies –Help in building repositories Various scenarios for data sharing and reuse –Belgium scenario Use European DRIVER infra Have a storage/Index for themselves Provide their (Belgian) data to Europe –E-theses scenario (ETD) Include European theses documents in DRIVER Make these visible through virtual mechanisms for specialized searches –Spain/India Scenario Deploy DRIVER infrastructure acting as national network

22. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague DRIVER-II Geographical expansion –Start with Slovenia, Portugal, Denmark –More repositories joining in… Confederation of European Digital Repositories –Involve representatives from academic institutions that host scientific digital repositories and representatives of national, regional or subject-based federations –Policies, practices, strategies The future challenge is to encourage every country to participate and to move beyond local networks to a European Vision.

23. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague DRIVER-II Move from test-bed to quality production system Move beyond textual publications –Support different content types (images, video, audio, etc.) Advance collaborative environment Enhance personalized user services Enhanced publications (scientific datasets) –Create a model for supporting complex/compound objects –Identify communities with thematic repositories –Provide tools for discovery and links –Annotations ? Identify next research issues

24. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague www.driver-community.eu DRIVER drives Europe towards full unification of its scientific information Summary

25. 4th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 15-16 May 2008, Charles University, Prague We will be waiting to hearing from you… Thank you!