DRIVER SummitOct 20th, Ghent

DRIVER: National portals Use cases: Belgium & Spain

Karen Van Godtsenhoven & Alicia Lopez-Medina

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National portals in DRIVER: Be & Spain

Why have a national portal?Community building between repository managers

National funding opportunities

Streamlining content delivery to DRIVER & others

Collaboration with other national systems, e.g. CRIS

Scenarios?1. Minimal cost: GUI by national consortium, service

hosted by Driver

2. Own national portal that interacts with DRIVER IS

3. National consortium acts as main gateway to DRIVER IS, repositories are managed locally

4. Independent national aggregation portal with D-NET

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Belgium

9 repositories via national DRIVER portal

Minimal cost set-up (option 1)

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Community building in a divided country

Why do people register with DRIVER (from the usability study):

Increase content visibility

Be part of a European network of peers & learn best practices

Later also: to get official validation of repository by external organisation

What is the role of the national portal in Belgium?

DRIVER repository managers network : ‘glue’

Visibility: DRIVER returns results, logo on page

Incentive for new repositories to join DRIVER network, or for institutions to create

one

Tool for showing government authorities that there is (unfunded) national

cooperation

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Future scenario for portal

Keep adding new repositories as they ‘get in shape’

Lifespan: as long as the DRIVER IS exists, OR

Integration into a national service?

Examples: RCAAP (Portugal),NARCIS (NL), Recolecta (Spain)

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Steady growth up to 250 repositories

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UK, Spain and Germany: leaders

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Spain553.308 documents

Own national portal interacts with DRIVER IS (option 2)

National consortium acts as main gateway to DRIVER IS; repositories are managed locally (option 3)

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Why a national portal with DRIVER?

o Research is global, services should be global

o A Model

o DRIVER has opened us the door to the world (as Spain alone, we would not

have gone so far, so fast)

o Discipline

o Cultural change

o Am I doing it right?: standardization and quality

o Experience

o Leadership

o More “status” face our authorities.

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What are we doing right now

o Helping repositories to get in shape

o RECOLECTA working groups:

- Author persistent id

- Statistics

- Evaluation/Certification

- OAI-ORE pilot project

…and a national portal in Colombia

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Universidad de La Salle, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad de La Sabana, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Universidad de Medellín, Universidad del Norte, Universidad Eafit, Universidad Icesi, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

…and a regional portal in Latin America

Partners: CEDIA, CUDI, RENATA, IBICT, REUNA + ONCyT o Ministerios de Educación Superior de países socios.

Executive Agency: CLARA

Co-funding Organization: Organización Universitaria Interamericana OUI.

Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico… soon Ecuador and all the countries in the region in the future.

(Thanks to Martha I. Giraldo, Executive Director, RENATA)

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Project: Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Documentation in Latinamerica

Future scenario

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Standards, policies, technology, strategy, support, coordination, a common voice…

COARCOAR

Thanks to Tim Berners Lee