During a meeting in Utrecht held today, the
leaders of the Dutch project DARE made two
important decisions.
The first is the acceptance of a 'specs' document
describing the required functional specifications
of an Institutional Repository (IR) for it to be
taken up in the nation wide system of IR's that
DARE aims to set up.
The main requirements are
that IR's should be compatible with version 2 of
the OAI protocol, that one should include a link
to the Royal Library for the eternal preservation
of the documents, and that one has to be ready to
use metadata that go beyond simple Dublin Core.
The details of the required metadata are still
under scrutiny. A small project team has been
installed to settle this issue.
The second decision was in fact a commitment. All
universities agreed to actually have a OAI (or
should I say, DARE) compatible repository by the
end of this year.
Posted by
Henk at 5/28/2003 04:37:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
