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January 2010: Users are now able to manage their private space by creating their own private or public collections, saving frequent queries, used also in alerts...
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October 2009: COAR establishes a global knowledge infrastructure


The international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during...
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October 2009: DRIVER is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Eurodoc. Eurodoc is the European Council of doctoral candidates and young researchers...
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October 2009: DRIVER is pleased to announce the publication of three DRIVER studies on the European Repository Landscape. 

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"Taming the vast –and growing– digital data-sphere" and "The sum of knowledge – online and accessible, no less” are two articles featuring DRIVER published on the ICT results site, an editorial service created for the European Commission.
 
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DRIVER Guidelines

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DRIVER caters for the larger European digital library community through metadata and interoperability guidelines for exposing resources through repositories. The objective of these guidelines is to offer a best practice tool for the repository community, and to streamline repository developments accross Europe.

More specifically, the DRIVER Guidelines for Content Providers aim at:

  • supporting repository managers to expose textual resources with OAI-PMH in an interoperable way;
  • providing orientation for managers of new repositories to define their local data-management policies;
  • directing managers of existing repositories to take steps towards improved services;
  • supporting developers of repository platforms to add supportive functionalities in future versions.

Since the DRIVER guidelines are constantly updated, it is useful to check the page at regular times.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 January 2009 )
 
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