Institutional Repositories: a new platform in Higher Education and Research Leo Waaijers

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Institutional Repositories a new platform in
Higher Education and ResearchLeo Waaijers
SARUA Open Access Leadership Summit November
19-21, 2008 Gaborone, Botswana
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• The same technical and economic drivers that
  fueled much of the commitment to e-science, .
  are also shaping the future of scholarly
  communication .. Notable and important examples
  include the movements towards open access to
  scientific literature movements towards open
  access to underlying scientific data demands
  (particularly in the face of some recent
  high-profile cases of scientific fraud and
  misconduct) for greater accountability and
  audibility of science through structures and
  practices that facilitate the verification,
  reproducibility and re-analysis of scientific
  results and efforts to improve the collective
  societal return on investment in scientific
  research through a recognition of the lasting
  value of much scientific data and the way that
  the investment it represents can be amplified by
  disclosure, curation and facilitation of reuse.
  Note that in the final area the investments
  include but go beyond the financial consider the
  human costs of clinical trials for example.
• Lynch, C. "The Shape of the Scientific Article in
  The Developing Cyberinfrastructure," CTWatch
  Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 3, August 2007.
  http//www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/
  the-shape-of-the-scientific-article-in-the-develop
  ing-cyberinfrastructure/

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Research life cycle
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Enhanced publications

• have complex metadata because
• publication includes research data, simulations,
  models, algoritms, visualisations, structured by
  rdf-triples
• authorship is fragmented
• components are distributed
• versions become releases, annotated originals
• advance
• improved quality control by enabling
  verification, reproducibility, re-analysis,
• amplified research process through concatenated
  use of data, algoritms etc.

Scientific Publication Packages - Jane Hunter -
Autumn 2006
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Research life cycle
DRIVER
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Project data

• DRIVER is a (small) FP6 STREP http//cordis.europa
  .eu/fp6/instr_strp.htm
• in http//cordis.europa.eu/ist/
• with overall budget of M 2,507 and
• EC contribution of M 1,835
• starting at 01/06/2006 for a period of 18 months
• Web http//www.driver-community.eu/

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National agents

• The knowledge infrastructure testbed, delivered
  by DRIVER, will be based on nationally organized
  digital repository infrastructures The
  successful DARE network in the Netherlands,
  recently presented to the public by the project
  partner SURF, will serve as model to DRIVER.
• Leo Waaijers, The DARE Chronicle Open Access
  to Research Results and Teaching Material in the
  Netherlands. Ariadne October 2007.
  http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/waaijers/

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DRIVER, partners

• Greece, UoA National and Capodistrian University
  of Athens,
• Administrative Co-ordination
• Germany, SUB Niedersächsische Staats- und
  Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany
• Scientifc-Technical Co-ordination
• France, CNRS Centre pour la Communication
  Scientifique Directe / CNRS DIS, France
• Poland, ICM Interdiscipl. Centre for Math. and
  Comp. Mod. /Univers. of Warsaw, Poland
• Italy, CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
  dell'Informazione "A. FAEDO" / CNR, Italy
• The Netherlands, SURF SURFfoundation, The
  Netherlands
• UK, UKOLN UK Office for Library and Information
  Networking, University of Bath
• Belgium, UGhent University Library Ghent, Belgium
• UK, UniNott University of Nottingham, United
  Kingdom
• Germany, UB-Bi Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld,
  Germany
• national organizations

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Two layers, concept

• DRIVER with its testbed will not build a
  specific digital repository system with
  pre-defined services, based on a specific
  technology and serving dedicated communities. The
  testbed will in its inception focus on the
  infrastructure aspect, i.e., open, clearly
  defined interfaces to the content network, which
  allow any qualified service-provider to build
  services on top of it.

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Two layers, concept
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Two layers, embedded
Services
Research
Subject repositories, refereed portals,
databases, collaboratories, (Open Access)
journals, ...
Society
Education
Institutional windows, expertise, professional
journals, personal Web sites, national windows,
...
Virtual Learning Environments, Course Ware,
Readers, ...
Harvesters
D A I
M e t i s
S U R F
Institutional Repository
e-Depot
M e t i s
M e t i s
Amsterdam
UU
DANS
Libraries
UvT
Delft
.....
TUE
UT
Content
Grid
EUR
Oxford
Deff
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Two layers, business

• Services
• end user services
• machine-man
• self-supporting
• demand driven
• scalable
• customized
• competition
• exploiting

• Content Grid
• infrastructure
• machine-machine
• public domain
• supply based
• international scale
• standards/SOA
• cooperation
• enabling

lt-technical quality-gt lt-content quality-gt
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Business case studies

• John Houghton, Colin Steele Peter Sheehan,
  Research Communication Costs in Australia
  Emerging opportunities and Benefits, September
  2006. Centre for Strategic Economic Studies,
  Victoria University, Melbourne.
  (http//www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/0ACB271F-EA7D
  -4FAF-B3F7-0381F441B175/13935/DEST_Research_Commun
  ications_Cost_Report_Sept2006.pdf)
• Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK), The
  Business of Digital Repositories. Published soon
  in A DRIVERs Guide to European Repositories.
• Amsterdam University Press, December 2007.
• (http//www.driver-community.eu/)

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DRIVER building blocks
Infrastructure Middleware Development/Implementat
ion
Content Organisation and Provision
ISTI-CNR
UniBie / UniGoe
Focussed Studies
Raising Awareness
UniNott
SURF
Pan-European DR Infrastructure via FP7
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DRIVER content

• 51 repositories in 5 countries
• DRIVER exemplars
• BE, DE, FR, NL, UK
• Different
• Maturity (e.g. population)
• Policy (e.g. mandates)
• Technology (standards)

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DRIVER validation
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DRIVER architecture
Presentation Layer
OAI Publisher
Community Specific Services
System Services
Recommendation
User Interface
Profiling
Search and Browse
Information Management
Index
Collectioning
Data Management Services
MDStore
System Management
Data Provision Services
Aggregator
Internet
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DRIVER architecture
Presentation Layer
Services
OAI Publisher
Community Specific Services
System Services
Recommendation
Demonstrator
User Interface
Profiling
Search and Browse
Information Management
DRIVER Core
Index
Collectioning
Data Management Services
MDStore
System Management
Data Provision Services
Aggregator
Institutions
Internet
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DRIVER studies
Published by Amsterdam University Press both in
open access and via printing on demand.
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DRIVER studies (1)

• The European Repository Landscape
• Maurits van der Graaf, Kwame van Eijndhoven
• Inventory study into present type and level of
  OAI compliant Digital Repository activities in
  the EU as per April 2007
• Maurits van de Graaf, "DRIVER Seven Items on a
  European Agenda for Digital Repositories",
  Ariadne, July 2007 http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5
  2/vandergraf/

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DRIVER studies (2)

• A DRIVERs Guide to European Repositories
• Kasja Weenink, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Leo
  Waaijers (eds.)
• Studies of related issues
• Business models, Key Perspectives/Alma Swan
• IPR, SURF/Wilma Mossink
• Long term preservation, KB/Barbara Sierman
• Data curation, KNAW-DANS/Rene van Horik
• IR population, Tilburg University/Vanessa
  Proudman

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DRIVER studies (3)

• Investigative Study of Standards
• for Digital Repositories and Related Services
• Muriel Foulonneau, Francis André
• metadata (formats, qualifiers)
• content description (document types, versions)
• data modeling
• complex documents
• identifier (documents, authors, institutes)

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DRIVER advocacy

• Web sites (being redesigned)
• www.driver-community.eu
• www.driver-support.eu
• Studies, Guidelines, Mentor, Software, etc.
• www.driver-search.eu (-gt usability testing)
• user interface
• www.driver-repository.eu
• Presentations, workshops, articles etc.
• Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi,
  Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell, DRIVER
  Building the Network for Accessing Digital
  Repositories across Europe, Ariadne, October
  2007, http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/feijen-et-a
  l/
• Global interest
• China, National Academy of Science is very
  interested
• Indian National Science Academy, wants guidance
  from pioneers
• eIFL, request for formal cooperation

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DRIVER II

• Confederation of European Repositories
• 17 countries (200 repositories)
• Enhanced publications
• Collaboratories
• Infrastructure for complex documents
• Studies, trainings, etc.

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First step data
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Next step models
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Workflow
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Research output
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Enhanced publication
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Metadata
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The ABC Ontology and Model - Lagoze and Hunter -
November 2001
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Collaboratory
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