1. DRIVER Step One towards a Pan-European Digital Repository Infrastructure Norbert Lossau Bielefeld University, Germany Scientific coordinator of the Project DRIVER, Funded by the European Commission Consultation Workshop: European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information, 8-9 June 2006

2. What really counts to researchers or the five Imperatives for the future eInfrastructure in Europe 1.Comprehensive, global access to any type of 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

3. DRIVERFacts Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for Europe Partners Start: 1 June 2006 Project Duration: 18 Months Univ. of Bielefeld (scientific co-ordinator, Germany) Univ. of Athens (administrative co-ordinator, Greece) CNR-ISTI (Italy) SURF (The Netherlands) Univ. of Nottingham (UK) CNRS (France) UKOLN (UK) ICM (Poland) Univ. of Gent (Belgium) Univ. of Göttingen (Germany)

4. Objectives To develop a test-bed for integrating existing national, regional and/or thematic repositories in order to create a production-quality European DR infrastructure. This infrastructure will make accessible worldwide, through an initial set of advanced services, these sources virtually organised and structured according to the needs of the specific audience of the user communities.

5. Additional Objectives To identify and promote the use of a relevant set of standards. To prepare the future expansion and upgrade of the DR infrastructure across Europe and to ensure widest possible user involvement.

6. DRIVER – From Transnational DR Testbed Towards pan-European DR Infrastructure Content: Organisation and Provision Content: Organisation and Provision Infrastructure Middleware Development/ Implementation Infrastructure Middleware Development/ Implementation Focussed Studies Raising Awareness / Outreach Programme DR Testbed Service Pan-European DR Infrastructure 1 UniBie Goe ISTI- CNR SURF UniNott

7. © Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University, 2006 7 Scientific Literature and Data: CONTENT types 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

8. © Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University, 2006 8 Textual Materials (Documents) Images, Photographs Scientific Literature and Data: CONTENT types DRIVER - Testbed

9. © Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University, 2006 9

10. Content: Organisation and Provision Content: Organisation and Provision Infrastructure Middleware Development/ Implementation Infrastructure Middleware Development/ Implementation Focussed Studies Raising Awareness / Outreach Programme DR Testbed Service Pan-European DR Infrastructure 2 DRIVER – From Transnational DR Testbed Towards pan-European DR Infrastructure

11. Reference Architecture Archive Metadata Schemas Ontologies Thesauri User Interface OAI-PMH Publisher Query Mediator Publish Review Document Conformer Annotation …. Search Repository OAI-PMH Harvester Ontology Aligner Collection Virtualizer Content Transformer Content Translator Metadati Schema Mapper …. Process Engine Information Service …. Service X Service Y Aggregator

13. A pan-European and (in perspective) international Digital Repository Infrastructure for any type of document, data and object, of any format, involving all European countries and covering all academic disciplines The DRIVER Vision

15. © Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University, 2006 DRIVER Collaboration Joint Building of the Future Knowledge Infrastructure in Europe DRIVER

16. DRIVER Consortium Contacts: norbert.lossau@uni-bielefeld.de mike@di.uoa.gr