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[drf:797] DRF & DRIVER



DRFのみなさま

 金沢大学の内島です。

 横浜図書館総合展のDRF4にはたくさんのご参加を頂きありがとうございました。この後,山形(12月)
,大阪(1月),東京(2月)の3つのワークショップ開催を予定しております。後者2つについては近々
アナウンスがある予定ですので,今しばらくお待ち下さい

 それから,北大杉田さんからアナウンスがありましたように,DRFとDRIVERとの間で,文書を取り交わし
ました。リポジトリとオープンアクセス基盤についての相互協力を推進する内容です。下記はその旨記述
したプレスリリースで,JISCのメーリングリスト,ハーナッドがモデレータを努めるAMERICAN SCIENTIST
FORUM, ピーター・シューバがモデレータを努めるSPARC OPEN ACCESS FORUMの3つのメーリングリストに
ポストしました。

 杉田さんからも紹介がありましたが,DRIVERはヨーロッパ全体のJAIROみたいなものです。今年,1月
に大阪で開催されたDRFIC2008で,アムステルダム大学のバンデンベルグ氏が紹介したのが,このDRIVER
についてでした。以上,お知らせまで。

*バンデンベルグさんのDRIVERを含むプレゼンテーション
  http://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/meta-bin/mt-pdetail.cgi?smode=1&edm=0&tlang=1&cd=00027733

Press Release

Digital Repository Federation (Japan) and DRIVER sign Memorandum of Agreement

3 December 2008
Sapporo, Japan and Goettingen, Germany - As part of the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 
held in Baltimore Maryland from 17-18 November 2008, DRF (Japan) and DRIVER have agreed to work 
closely together on promoting federated repository infrastructures, signing a Memorandum of
Understanding to take this collaboration forward.

DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the European Commission, 
setting up a technical infrastructure for digital repositories and facilitating the building of
an umbrella organisation for digital repositories. DRIVER relies on research libraries for the 
sustainable operation of repositories and provision of high quality content through digital 
repositories.

Digital Repository Federation (DRF) is a federation consisting of 86 universities and research 
institutes which aims to promote Open Access and Institutional Repository development in Japan.
Under the auspices of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, DRF is a collaborative 
program for institutional repositories, based on one of the research and development projects of 
the national framework of Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI).

DRF and DRIVER share the vision that the Open Access movement in Europe and in Japan contribute 
to better scholarly communication in the world; and that each should contribute actively and 
cooperatively to a global, interoperable, trusted and long-term data and service infrastructure 
based on Open Access digital repositories.

Collaboration between DRF (Japan) and DRIVER is framed by their joint support for an Open Access 
model for repositories in research and higher education institutions. They present a common strategy 
to enable research libraries -  pressed to improve scholarly communication by establishing digital 
repositories  - to expose institutional research outputs to the world. Networks of individual 
repositories and overarching information services for aggregation, retrieval, share and re-use are 
being built on the basis of institutional, national and regional location, or by subject areas.

Norbert Lossau, Scientific Technical Co-ordinator of DRIVER, said 'The collaboration between the 
organizational structures of both DRIVER and DRF forms the nucleus of federated repository development 
of a global, interoperable, trusted and long-term repository infrastructure. We are very pleased to 
formalize our relationship by signing this Memorandum of Understanding.'

Masaaki Hemmi, the Director of DRF, said 'No doubt the coalition of DRF and DRIVER will lead to the 
best and widest dissemination of joint enterprises between researchers, who turn out scholarly fruits, 
and librarians, who manage digital repositories in every corner of the world. Nothing pleases me more 
than the start of our collaborative activities.'

For more information, contact: Dale Peters, petersd @ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
or Shigeki Sugita, sugita @ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx