Virtual Collections for researchers

Virtual Collections for researchers The HAL archive and The Digital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research [email_address] Dublin Core Conference 2007, Singapour Muriel Foulonneau, CNRS

The HAL platform

Multiple portals, multiple deposit interfaces Deposit portals HAL INRIA HAL-SHS OTHER UNIV INRA h a L EXPORTS IMPORTS XML, WS TEL generic domain-dependent typological institutional OAI-PMH REDIF RSS Etc. Common metadata Domain-specific metadata Institutional metadata

The HAL platform hosts various portals

Virtual collections in HAL

The difference with portals:

The same metadata set

the same deposit interface

Criteria for creating collections?

Laboratories/Institutions

Congresses

Project

BUT for display only

Browsing

Customizing interface

A collection in HAL Stamps document 08/16/2007 Person who requested the collection Administrator Creation date Automatic (query) or Manual collection process Display template (logo, css …) Super-collection Identifier Name

The DRIVER project

Objectives:

The design of an infrastructure for digital repositories

Proof of concept : National networks of institutional repositories

Partners

University of Athens ( Gr )

University of Bielefeld ( Ger )

CNR ( It )

SURF ( NL )

University of Nottingham ( UK )

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( Fr )

University of Bath ( UK )

University de Warsaw ( Pol )

University of Ghent ( Be )

University of Göttingen ( Ger )

5 National networks

From 5 countries with different IR networks history

UK : SHERPA

Belgium : under construction

Netherlands : DAREnet

Germany : DINI

France : Archives-Ouvertes

An infrastructure to connect « digital repositories »

Distributed

OAI-PMH, including DC-based guidelines

Service oriented architecture (SOA)

To facilitate the creation of services

For access, customization etc (eg. The DRIVER demonstrator)

To support research communities

60 European repositories

The distributed architecture (SOA)

The demonstrator: a portal with collections

A DRIVER collection

Internal description of a virtual collection Size Number of documents Description Description Collector Administrator Collector Creator Title Title Identifier Name DCCAP DRIVER internal system

Also relations between collections + for a service Sub-collection Children Super-collection Father DCCAP DRIVER internal system Relation to other collections Definition DRIVER internal system Survival if father dies Deletion Propagation of properties to children BeFrozen Property Inheritance Visibility Icon Functional for Display

Problem: how do you share collection structure?

In HAL, OAI sets

But does not share set description : OAI sets are metadata collections (see DLF Forum Spring 2006 presentation M. Foulonneau, C. Arms, S. L. Shreeves)