DRIVER

Institutional repositories and CRIS systems – the role of DRIVER’s

infrastructure, concepts and organisation

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Dale Peters, Scientific Technical ManagerGöttingen State and University Library

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DRIVER Vision• Open Access

– European and worldwide research output (publications and data sets ) in Open Access institutional repositories

• Interoperability – automated aggregation of all scholarly research output into one virtual open

Information Space

• Open Content – service providers provide a wide range of end-user services to researchers

(search, browse, profiling, visualisation, citation, impact metrics…)

Integrate research outputs into e-Science workflow - without need to confront new tools.

Consortium Partners

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…more global partners…..

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DRIVER Portal

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Role in scholarly communication

• OA: re-conceptualisation of academic workflows

• New strategic alliances

• IR as tool for leverage for change

• Harvest overview of metadata and repository standards

• World-wide network of scientific repository content

DRIVER Guidelines

Guidelines

• Objectives

– Policy development– Improved services– Additional functionality– Check conformance– Validation

• Components

– Collections (sets)– DC Metadata– OAI - PMH– OAI - ORE

Technology watch

• Connections with related infrastructure and digital library technologies

• DRIVER – CRIS interactions

• GRID technology infrastructures

• Long-term preservation

• Interoperability

• Enhanced publications

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Acknowledgement :Mikael Karstens ElbaekTechnical Information Centre of Denmark

Interactions with CRIS

• Current standards

• Community –driven use cases

• Interactions with DNET Information Space

• Outcomes for DRIVER

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Current standards

• CERIF: Common European Research Information Format

• IR-CERIF: Task Group for Institutional Repositories

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:“To further the science and technology of the linkage between CRIS and repositories and specifically open access institutional repositories of publications[…]”euroCRIS Newsflash, April 2008

Current standards

• CERIF

• DDF-MXD: Metadata Exchange Format for Documents

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DDF- MXD

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• Descriptive elements– Title

– Description

– Publication information

– Local information

• Relational elements– Person

– Organisation

– Project

– Event

the use of controlled vocabularies through XML schema validation of the used syntax enables the development of usefull search and filter features in the DDF search interface [1].

[1] http://forskningsdatabasen.dk/

the use of controlled vocabularies through XML schema validation of the used syntax enables the development of usefull search and filter features in the DDF search interface [1].

[1] http://forskningsdatabasen.dk/

“…the use of controlled vocabularies through XML schema validation enables useful search and filter features in the DDF search interface…”http://forskningsdatabasen.dk/

Current standards

• CERIF

• DDF-MXD: Metadata Exchange Format for Documents

• METIS

• SWAP: Scholarly Works Application Profile

• eSciDoc application profile

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Use studies

• METIS – Heterogenic data - central database

• DDF-MXD – Homogenic data – central harvester

• Expertise Ireland– Integrated system

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CRIS interactions with DNET

• Semantic interoperability– Dublin Core expressed in XML

– Harvested by OAI-PMH protocol

– RDF

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“…the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.”

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary: A Compilation of IEEE Standard Computer Glossaries. New York, NY: 1990

CRIS interactions with DNET

• Semantics: Shared meaning

• Syntax– Machine communication, meaning intact

• Structure– Unambiguous syntax: cardinality, nesting,

encoding scheme

• Protocol– Rules governing syntax and semantics,

Synchronised communication

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Structural metadata

• DRIVER context – Harvesting aggregating

– Agreed descriptive metadata standards ( DC, METS, MODS)

• Link to complex data object/s– Deeper level of link between descriptive

metadata and complex dataobject/s

– Data object structure

– Distributed location

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Access to full text documents and related

datasets

Structural metadata categories

• Envelopes, compound objects or packaging formats - METS, M-PEG-21/DIDL

• Overlays, maps, feeds - RDF, ORE, TopicMaps, Atom, RSS

• Embedding/ extending existing resources :

– RDFa. Microformats, XMP

• New /old publishing formats – HTML5, XHML, ODF

• Web services – Gdata, O.K.I, unAPI

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Outcomes for DRIVER

• DRIVER/D-NET shall implement functionality and user interfaces for creating and maintaining “enhanced publications”

• DRIVER-II shall follow the evolution of scholarly workbenches and innovative tools in scholarly communication

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Open Access

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Electronic Publishing

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Building blocks : Academia.edu

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Web-based peer review systems

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Conclusions

• DRIVER Infrastructure

• Role in scolarly communication

• Interactions with CRIS

• Standards and interoperability

• Convergence in Open Access

• Scholarly communication workflow

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