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

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Why do we needGuidelines?<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Outline<br />Currentrepository landscape<br />Insiderepository metadata<br />DRIVER initiatives<br />Guidelines<br />Validator<br />Helpdesk<br />DRIVER outcomes<br />Future<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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The Repository landscape – somefigures<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />DRIVER activity<br />254 repositories – 31 countries<br />1,116,755 documents<br />European repositories &gt; 500 <br />

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The Repository landscape – somefigures<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />¼ of the repositories come from small countries with different policies<br />

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The Repository landscape – somefigures<br />Half the documents come from 200 different repositories with different practices<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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A look inside the repository metadata<br />Various vocabularies<br />No standards<br />Various interpretations<br />No file locations<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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

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

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Examples<br />Genericdc:type<br />text - 54.068<br />texte - 15.051<br />dc:date<br />2006-11-07<br />2004-05-31T00:00:00Z<br />21st century<br />dc:language<br />Proven x00E7 al Old to 1500 - 1<br />pt, es. - 1<br />spa;cat - 1<br />eng; slv - 1<br />noreng - 1<br />[BLANK] - 1<br />[language = Uvean, West] - 1<br />[language = Madngele] – 1<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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

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What to do about all thatambiguity?<br />Guidelines <br />Talking about the issues and provide theoretical solutions <br />Validator<br />Going from theory to implementation <br />Helpdesk<br />Opening channels of communication with actual repository community<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Repositoryguidelines – the basics<br />Interoperablemetadata (field content)<br />InteroperableOAI-PHM (behaviour)<br />Cleardistinguishable Open Access set<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Guidelines – Basedon best practices<br />Cross Europeancollaborationactivity<br />from<br />Repositorymanagers<br />Service providers<br />& Metadata experts<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html<br />

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Guidelines – voluntarilytranslationinitiatives<br />Spanish<br />Japanese<br />Portugese<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Validator – interoperability check<br />HelpingRepository managers<br />to look from a service provider point of view<br />Competition: the DRIVER score<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Validator<br />http://validator.driver.research-infrastructures.eu<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Validator – deeperrorreporting<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Total validations: 270 since Oct 2008 <br />Number of validations per month<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Helpdesk – community feedback<br />HelpingRepository managers<br />implementinginteroperability<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Helpdesk<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />http://helpdesk.driver.research-infrastructures.eu<br />

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Helpdesk<br />Total tickets: 172 <br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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DRIVER outcome<br />Took 3.5 years of hard and multiple effort<br />The outcome:<br />To be continued through COAR<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />Guidelines, Validator and Helpdesk have helped increase repository interoperability<br />

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Average interoperability with the DRIVER guidelines increases over time<br />Total validations: 262 <br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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RepositoriesDO come back forre-evaluation<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Story – Tales from Repository managers<br />“<br />Initially I just used the Validation tool to see if our repository is more or less on track and was<br /> reassured when the results looked good, <br />which gave me confidence to register.<br />- Louw Venter, Boloka Research Repository of the North-West University South Africa<br />”<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Story – Tales from Service providers<br />“<br />Adoption of a common standard for exporting metadata <br />by repositories is very important for projects such as ours, <br />so we can provide more effective access to their materials. <br />The DRIVER Guidelines provide an excellent set that we <br />hope many more repositories will take up.<br /> <br />- Phil Cross<br />UK Institutional Repository Search<br />”<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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TriasPoliticaModel: for reliable democracy<br />Legislative<br />Reliable Democracy<br />Judicial<br />Executive<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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An analogy: What we have so farfor reliable content provision<br />Guidelines<br />“Reliable Content Provision”<br />Validator<br />Helpdesk Support<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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

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Some food for thought<br />What strategies can be used to create a global “TriasPolitica” for repositories in order to come to “reliable content provision” by using interoperability guidelines?<br />What strategies are there to maintain repository guidelines? Who is responsible?<br />What strategies are known to create an acceptance mechanism for global agreement to repository guidelines?<br />What strategies can be used to come to repository guidelines? <br />Who is responsible for the (metadata) quality of the repository output?<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />

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Maurice Vanderfeesten<br />www.SURFfoundation.nl<br />vanderfeesten@surf.nl<br />Alsomanythanks to:<br /><ul><li>NataliaManola & Elena Nicolaki – University of Athens (GR)

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Friedrich Summann – University of Bielefeld (DE)</li></ul>Thankyou<br />DRIVER Summit, October 20 2009 - Ghent, Belgium<br />