Confederation Advisory Board

Five years ago, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities acknowledged the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access.

DRIVER “Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research”, has come to represent this vision of world-wide networks of content repositories, offering a robust infrastructure supporting scholarly communications of the future.

In the second phase of strategic development, the DRIVER Confederation will addresses the wider dynamic of building a sustainable organisational model of partners representing the repository community, drawing on the momentum of consensus  emerging  from within the community itself, and from the support of non-governmental organisations (NGO’s),  commercial and private initiatives that have grown to serve the repository community. 

Nominated representatives of the community, listed below, have been invited to join the Advisory Board to guide the development of the Confederation.  Reflecting the role of major repository software platforms;  standards, protocols and data models;  as well as service providers and NGO’s serving the repository community, the DRIVER Advisory Board  will  meet  for the first time  on 2 July,  in conjunction with the 37^th  LIBER conference in Istanbul , where they will consider the immediate priorities for the Open Access repository community, discuss appropriate strategic responses  define suitable organisational models  for the DRIVER Confederation .