2009 10 20 Ghent Driver Guidelines And Validator By Maurice Vanderfeesten

DriverGuidelines, Validator & HelpdeskWorkingonrepositoryinteroperability
Maurice Vanderfeesten
SURFfoundation (NL)
DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Why do we needGuidelines?

Outline
Currentrepository landscape
Insiderepository metadata
DRIVER initiatives
Guidelines
Validator
Helpdesk
DRIVER outcomes
Future

The Repository landscape – somefigures
DRIVER activity
254 repositories – 31 countries
1,116,755 documents
European repositories > 500

¼ of the repositories come from small countries with different policies

Half the documents come from 200 different repositories with different practices

A look inside the repository metadata
Various vocabularies
No standards
Various interpretations
No file locations

Exampledc:type – theses
text.thesis.masters - 28.671
Text.Thesis.Doctoral - 46.594
Doctoralthesis - 32.636
Dissertation - 29.287
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation - 366.783
TeseouDissertacaoEletronica - 357.567
Thesis - 95.626
Study - 30.203

Exampledc:type – article
Article in monographor in proceedings - 43.230
JournalArticle - 53.606
Article/Letter toeditor - 58.978
Article / Letter toeditor - 73.058
Article / Letter to the editor - 136.160
article - 345.093
Article - 337.314
Artikel - 310.858
雑誌掲載論文 Journal Article - 12.774
peer-reviewedarticle - 56.534
journalarticle - 84.717
Journal Article - 77.745
a - 109.455
Correspondence - 108.033
Peer-reviewedArticle - 49.885
PeerReviewed - 146.348
preprint - 19.1784
NonPeerReviewed - 173.643

Examples
Genericdc:type
text - 54.068
texte - 15.051
dc:date
2006-11-07
2004-05-31T00:00:00Z
21st century
dc:language
Proven x00E7 al Old to 1500 - 1
pt, es. - 1
spa;cat - 1
eng; slv - 1
noreng - 1
[BLANK] - 1
[language = Uvean, West] - 1
[language = Madngele] – 1

Fine when your repository is the center of the universe...It becomes a mess when repositories get aggregated!

What to do about all thatambiguity?
Guidelines
Talking about the issues and provide theoretical solutions
Validator
Going from theory to implementation
Helpdesk
Opening channels of communication with actual repository community

Repositoryguidelines – the basics
Interoperablemetadata (field content)
InteroperableOAI-PHM (behaviour)
Cleardistinguishable Open Access set

Guidelines – Basedon best practices
Cross Europeancollaborationactivity
from
Repositorymanagers
Service providers
& Metadata experts

http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html

Guidelines – voluntarilytranslationinitiatives
Spanish
Japanese
Portugese

Validator – interoperability check
HelpingRepository managers
to look from a service provider point of view
Competition: the DRIVER score

Validator
http://validator.driver.research-infrastructures.eu

Validator – deeperrorreporting

Total validations: 270 since Oct 2008
Number of validations per month

Helpdesk – community feedback
HelpingRepository managers
implementinginteroperability

Helpdesk
http://helpdesk.driver.research-infrastructures.eu

Helpdesk
Total tickets: 172

DRIVER outcome
Took 3.5 years of hard and multiple effort
The outcome:
To be continued through COAR
Guidelines, Validator and Helpdesk have helped increase repository interoperability

Average interoperability with the DRIVER guidelines increases over time
Total validations: 262

RepositoriesDO come back forre-evaluation

Story – Tales from Repository managers
“
Initially I just used the Validation tool to see if our repository is more or less on track and was
reassured when the results looked good,
which gave me confidence to register.
- Louw Venter, Boloka Research Repository of the North-West University South Africa
”

Story – Tales from Service providers
“
Adoption of a common standard for exporting metadata
by repositories is very important for projects such as ours,
so we can provide more effective access to their materials.
The DRIVER Guidelines provide an excellent set that we
hope many more repositories will take up.

- Phil Cross
UK Institutional Repository Search
”

TriasPoliticaModel: for reliable democracy
Legislative
Reliable Democracy
Judicial
Executive

An analogy: What we have so farfor reliable content provision
Guidelines
“Reliable Content Provision”
Validator
Helpdesk Support

A structure for formal commitment to accept Repository Interoperability Guidelines World Wide
Executive enforcement enabling action on adopting Interoperability Guidelines for Repositories, World Wide, on a National and local level
We DON’T have:

Some food for thought
What strategies can be used to create a global “TriasPolitica” for repositories in order to come to “reliable content provision” by using interoperability guidelines?
What strategies are there to maintain repository guidelines? Who is responsible?
What strategies are known to create an acceptance mechanism for global agreement to repository guidelines?
What strategies can be used to come to repository guidelines?
Who is responsible for the (metadata) quality of the repository output?

Maurice Vanderfeesten
www.SURFfoundation.nl
vanderfeesten@surf.nl
Alsomanythanks to:
NataliaManola & Elena Nicolaki – University of Athens (GR)
Friedrich Summann – University of Bielefeld (DE)
Thankyou

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