A small warning….This is a long post about (open source) e-Infrastructure and (Open Access) digital repositories....
Having established the necessary network of people and institutions, the Driver network is now working on an actual pan-European infrastructure for digital repositories....
According to the Driver website, the main aim is to build a Digital Repository infrastructure....
The repositories contain today the full spectrum of scholarly materials, from theses, technical reports and working papers to digitised text and image collections and they can contain sets of primary research data.(…)
Recently they announced the software release D-NET v. 1.0. “this open source software offers a tool-box for deploying a customizable distributed system featuring tools for harvesting and aggregating heterogeneous data sources. A variety of end-user functionalities are applied over this integration, ranging from search, recommendation, collections, profiling to innovative tools for repository manager users.”
The press release continues: “A running instance of the software, namely the “European Information Space”, maintained by the DRIVER Consortium to aggregate Open Access publications from European Institutional Repositories, can be accessed online at: (Search the Repositories Portal).”
Additional Information:
“Towards one e-Infrastructure”: BELIEF’s portal allows you to explore everything about e-Infrastructures and the global virtual research communities that they empower. [Also see] the related Digital Library....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/22/2009 03:03:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
