DriverGuidelines, Validator & HelpdeskWorkingonrepositoryinteroperabilityMaurice VanderfeestenSURFfoundation (NL)DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Why do we needGuidelines?DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

OutlineCurrentrepository landscapeInsiderepository metadataDRIVER initiativesGuidelinesValidatorHelpdeskDRIVER outcomesFutureDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

The Repository landscape – somefiguresDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, BelgiumDRIVER activity254 repositories – 31 countries1,116,755 documentsEuropean repositories > 500

The Repository landscape – somefiguresDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium¼ of the repositories come from small countries with different policies

The Repository landscape – somefiguresHalf the documents come from 200 different repositories with different practicesDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

A look inside the repository metadataVarious vocabulariesNo standardsVarious interpretationsNo file locationsDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Exampledc:type – thesestext.thesis.masters - 28.671Text.Thesis.Doctoral - 46.594Doctoralthesis - 32.636 Dissertation - 29.287Electronic Thesis or Dissertation - 366.783TeseouDissertacaoEletronica - 357.567 Thesis - 95.626 Study - 30.203DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Exampledc:type – articleArticle in monographor in proceedings - 43.230JournalArticle - 53.606 Article/Letter toeditor - 58.978Article / Letter toeditor - 73.058 Article / Letter to the editor - 136.160article - 345.093 Article - 337.314 Artikel - 310.858雑誌掲載論文 Journal Article - 12.774peer-reviewedarticle - 56.534 journalarticle - 84.717 Journal Article - 77.745 a - 109.455 Correspondence - 108.033Peer-reviewedArticle - 49.885 PeerReviewed - 146.348 preprint - 19.1784 NonPeerReviewed - 173.643DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

ExamplesGenericdc:typetext - 54.068texte - 15.051dc:date2006-11-072004-05-31T00:00:00Z21st centurydc:languageProven x00E7 al Old to 1500 - 1pt, es. - 1spa;cat - 1eng; slv - 1noreng - 1[BLANK] - 1[language = Uvean, West] - 1[language = Madngele] – 1DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Fine when your repository is the center of the universe...It becomes a mess when repositories get aggregated!DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

What to do about all thatambiguity?Guidelines Talking about the issues and provide theoretical solutions ValidatorGoing from theory to implementation HelpdeskOpening channels of communication with actual repository communityDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Repositoryguidelines – the basicsInteroperablemetadata (field content)InteroperableOAI-PHM (behaviour)Cleardistinguishable Open Access setDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Guidelines – Basedon best practicesCross EuropeancollaborationactivityfromRepositorymanagersService providers& Metadata expertsDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgiumhttp://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html

Guidelines – voluntarilytranslationinitiativesSpanishJapanesePortugeseDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Validator – interoperability checkHelpingRepository managersto look from a service provider point of viewCompetition: the DRIVER scoreDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Validatorhttp://validator.driver.research-infrastructures.euDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Validator – deeperrorreportingDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Total validations: 270 since Oct 2008 Number of validations per monthDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Helpdesk – community feedbackHelpingRepository managersimplementinginteroperabilityDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

HelpdeskDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgiumhttp://helpdesk.driver.research-infrastructures.eu

HelpdeskTotal tickets: 172 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

DRIVER outcomeTook 3.5 years of hard and multiple effortThe outcome:To be continued through COARDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, BelgiumGuidelines, Validator and Helpdesk have helped increase repository interoperability

Average interoperability with the DRIVER guidelines increases over timeTotal validations: 262 DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

RepositoriesDO come back forre-evaluationDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

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”DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

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 CrossUK Institutional Repository Search”DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

TriasPoliticaModel: for reliable democracyLegislativeReliable DemocracyJudicialExecutiveDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

An analogy: What we have so farfor reliable content provisionGuidelines“Reliable Content Provision”ValidatorHelpdesk SupportDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

A structure for formal commitment to accept Repository Interoperability Guidelines World WideExecutive enforcement enabling action on adopting Interoperability Guidelines for Repositories, World Wide, on a National and local levelWe DON’T have:DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Some food for thoughtWhat 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?DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

Maurice Vanderfeestenwww.SURFfoundation.nlvanderfeesten@surf.nlAlsomanythanks to:NataliaManola & Elena Nicolaki – University of Athens (GR)Friedrich Summann – University of Bielefeld (DE)ThankyouDRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium

NataliaManola & Elena Nicolaki – University of Athens (GR)

Friedrich Summann – University of Bielefeld (DE)