DRIVER Summit, Ghent, 20 October 2009

DRIVER: Confederation of European Digital Repositories

Dale PetersState and University Library of Goettingen

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Towards a Confederation

http://www.driver-community.eu/

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What is the Confederation…?

Permanent organisational backbone for European repository infrastructure

Geographic and thematic extensionDiffusion of DRIVER technologyConnect established communities of practicePromote Open AccessFill repositories with Open Access publications

Organisational Development

develop the vision of DRIVER to build an information infrastructure for the European Research Area

develop appropriate organisational models for a sustainable network of strategic partners

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European Network Plan

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Identify mature federations Extend affiliations

Establish Confederation Advisory Board

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Mature Federations

Extended affiliations

New partners National aggregations

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Confederation Advisory Board

Michele Kimpton DSPACE Foundation Melissa Hageman Open Society Institute

Sandy Payette Fedora Commons Rima Kupryte eIFL

Herbert VanDeSompel OAI-PMH / ORE Sijbold Noorda EUA

Tom Baker DCMI / W3C Paul Ayris Director, UCL Library Services / Co-Director DART Europe

Suzanne Dobratz DINI Alma Swan Consultant, Key Perspectives

Kat Hagedorn OAIster Clifford Lynch Executive Director, CNI

John Wilbanks Creative Commons Leo Waaijers OA activist, former SURF manager

Lars Björnshauge DOAJ

Laurent Romary Diretor, MPDLTony Hey Microsoft Technical Computing

Neil Jacobs Knowledge Exchange Hans Geleijnse LIBERDavid Prosser SPARC Europe

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Recommendations

Geographic level of organisationConfederation structure Confederation roleInvolvement in education networksFurther consultationConfederation Summit

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International Repository Workshop

Stakeholder consultation Funders: government organisations, policy makers Clients: repository managers, librarians Partners: software platforms, CRIS systems,

publishers Suppliers: service providers

Statement of Intent “ To enhance and progress the provision, visibility and

application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access digital repositories. “

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Lilian van der Vaart, March 2009

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Shaping the organisation

networked and cross-border characterwide ranging stakeholder community with differentiated needs

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Expectations of funders, government organisations & policy makers

represent an actual communityharmonisationinteroperable infrastructure

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Expectations of repository managers / host

lightweight organisationfacilite between parent organisation and repository hosting institutionnetwork of expertise, broker, connecting the peopleshould not generate projects but should facilitate projectspromote the repositoryprovide a seal of repository quality

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Expectations of partners

umbrella organisation global network of partnersbroker relationships between repository platform providersprovide (free) trainingfacilitate funding for training programs, implementation in developing and transitional countries

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Expectations of service providers

interoperability standardsdefine deposit workflowsindependent body for quality certificationadvocate repository community interestschannel feedback from repository managers to supplierstrusted body

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COAR

Lightweight organisationFlexibility to meet dynamic developments

Dual challengeSustainable infrastructure beyond project durationBuild global OA knowledge infrastructure system