VRE Toolkit: Plans and Expections

Peter Verhaar

British Library, London22 March 2011

Collaboration on VREs

□ Utrecht University

□ “Partner in Science” programme; currently ca. 35 ‘Virtual Knowledge Centres’□ Disciplines: Geosciences, Humanities, Law, Medicine Science, Social and Behavioural Sciences,

Veterinary Medicine

□ Leiden University

□ Start of VRE programme in 2009; experimentation with RIC 1.0□ Disciplines: Humanities (History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Media Studies), Political Science

(Counter-terrorism), Law

VRE Projects

Reference Management

Public websites

Data Management

□ Storage in Dataverse Network□ SharePoint as front-end

Identity Management

Identity providers (Universities) Service providers (Publishers)

Organisation of conferences

□ National project on VREs

□ Funded by SURF

□ VRE development

□ Integration of Reference Management Systems (Zotero, Mendeley)□ Integration of data repositories (DVN)□ Repository Integration (DSpace)

Contributions to RIC 2.0