virtual collections for researchers

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Virtual Collections for researchersThe HAL archive andThe Digital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research

muriel.foulonneau@ccsd.cnrs.frDublin Core Conference 2007, SingapourDublin Core Conference 2007, Singapour

Muriel Foulonneau, CNRS

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The HAL platform

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Multiple portals, multiple deposit interfaces

Deposit portals

HALINRIA HAL-SHS

OTHERUNIV

INRA

haLEXPORTSIMPORTSXML, WS

TEL

genericdomain-dependent

typologicalinstitutional

OAI-PMHREDIFRSSEtc.

Common metadata

Domain-specific metadata

Institutional metadata

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The HAL platform hosts various portals

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Virtual collections in HAL

The difference with portals: The same metadata set the same deposit interface

Criteria for creating collections? Laboratories/Institutions Congresses Project

BUT for display only Browsing Customizing interface

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A collection in HAL

Stamps documentStamps

document

Name

Identifier

Super-collection

Display template (logo, css …)

Automatic (query) or Manual collection process

Creation date

Administrator

Person who requested the collection

08/16/200708/16/2007

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The DRIVER project

Objectives: The design of an infrastructure for digital repositories Proof of concept : National networks of institutional repositories

PartnersUniversity of Athens (Gr) University of Bielefeld (Ger)CNR (It)SURF (NL)University of Nottingham (UK)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Fr) University of Bath (UK)University de Warsaw (Pol) University of Ghent (Be)University of Göttingen (Ger)

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5 National networks

From 5 countries with different IR networks history UK : SHERPA Belgium : under construction Netherlands : DAREnet Germany : DINI France : Archives-Ouvertes

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An infrastructure to connect « digital repositories »

Distributed OAI-PMH, including DC-based guidelines Service oriented architecture (SOA)

To facilitate the creation of services For access, customization etc (eg. The DRIVER demonstrator) To support research communities

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The distributed architecture (SOA)

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The demonstrator: a portal with collections

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A DRIVER collection

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Internal description of a virtual collection

DRIVER internal system

DCCAP

Name Identifier

Title Title

Creator Collector

Administrator Collector

Description Description

Number of documents

Size

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Also relations between collections + for a service

Relation to other collections

DRIVER internal system

DCCAP

Father Super-collection

Children Sub-collection

Property Inheritance

DRIVER internal system

Definition

BeFrozen Propagation of properties to children

Deletion Survival if father dies

Functional for Display

Icon

Visibility

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Problem: how do you share collection structure?

In HAL, OAI sets But does not share set description : OAI sets are metadata

collections (see DLF Forum Spring 2006 presentation M. Foulonneau, C. Arms, S. L. Shreeves)

Membership through the OAI infrastructure

DRIVER guidelines include OAI sets by service provider Textual content in open access

Need to build a Web service access But in DRIVER, membership is not an item property

Registries such as OpenDOAR are based on repository description

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References

HAL http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

DRIVER project http://www.driver-repository.eu/

An article on HAL and DRIVER : The repository jigsaw http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=128

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