[eifloa] eIFL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES SETTING THE PLATFORM FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION!!

[Susan Veldsman]

Dear Maria,

Thank you so much...would appreciate if people could "spread" this news and
initiative!

KIND REGARDS
SUSAN

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Susan Veldsman
eIFL content Manager
 
30 O'Reilly Merry Street
Northmead
1510
South Africa
 
Tel: +27 11 425 4736
Fax: +27 11 425 4737
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Maria Musoke [mailto:mmusoke at med.mak.ac.ug] 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:34 PM
To: Susan Veldsman
Cc: eifloa at eifl.net; Miriam Kakai; awabwezi at mulib.mak.ac.ug;
awabwezi at mulib.mak.ac.ug; Ole Gunnar Evensen
Subject: [eifloa] eIFL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES SETTING THE PLATFORM FOR
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION!!

Dear Susan
Thank you for the information. I am copying it to Miriam and Andrew who are 
the librarians working on Makerere Univ institutional repository, but ours 
uses DSpace open source software. I have also copied the message to Ole 
Gunnar at the Univ of Bergen, our collaborative partners in the project.
Regards,
Maria. 


 Veldsman writes: 

> Dear colleagues, 
> 
>   
> 
> Over the last year we have been working hard to create a database and
record
> all aspects of Institutional Repositories that have been developed in all
> our member countries. After a lot of correspondence and updating with
> countries, we can now report that 17 member eIFL countries currently have:

> 
>   
> 
> -          27 repositories in progress 
> 
> -          69 active repositories,  
> 
> -          Total of 96 institutional repositories 
> 
>   
> 
> This gave us the opportunity to look for international co-operation with
> other projects. Being so closely associated with SURF, the Netherlands,
eIFL
> were quite aware of the DRIVER project and it follow up DRIVER II sister
> project. (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European
> Research:DRIVER) that they were involved in. One of the objectives of
DRIVER
> is to organize and build a virtual, European scale network  (portal) of
> existing institutional repositories from the Netherlands, United Kingdom,
> Germany, France and Belgium. 
> 
>   
> 
> eIFL saw the challenge and decided to piggy back on the expertise and
> technology infrastructure that the DRIVER project already had in place.
> Talks began with all parties involved and during June/July 2007 a similar
> portal(network) was created and can currently be viewed at HYPERLINK
> "http://eifl.cq2.org/"http://eifl.cq2.org. (please not that this is only a
> test site and not to be distributed yet) We hope in two weeks time (GA)
we
> will have something that you could show the world! 
> 
>   
> 
> This, therefore, implies that , eIFL has organized and built a virtual,
eIFL
> member country scale network  (portal) of existing institutional
> repositories from eIFL countries!!!! 
> 
>   
> 
> This is only the beginning of a long journey. A meeting was held in
Utrecht
> in October  to discuss the way forward with this portal/infrastructure we
> have created. The decision was that 
> 
>   
> 
> -          a contract will be signed till December  2007 with the IT
company
> to refine and adjust the portal 
> 
> -          general data e.g. base URLs, contact people , etc  will be
> continuously updated 
> 
> -          the portal will get an eIFL look and feel to it (currently it
is
> on the test site, and resembles nothing of eIFL)! 
> 
> -          The metadata will be cleaned up, so that we could present it
> internationally 
> 
> -          A statistical programme will also be attached to it , to
monitor
> usage from across the world 
> 
>   
> 
> eIFL?s ultimate goal is to develop these repositories and getting them on
an
> international standard. This will be done by training e.g  metadata, other
> standards, linking, setting up repositories. Etc etc These repositories
> should be at such a level so that they could easily feed or be included in
> e.g. DRIVER project. 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> This has brought a great profile to eIFL and feedback has been with big
> enthusiasm and excitement!.  
> 
>   
> 
> This is not the only activities we are envisaging, we are also busy to
?mass
> register?  eIFL repositories in IR registers and harvesters (OAIster and
> OpenDOAR) We are also looking at additional training that could be given
to
> countries to ?move? their repositories form inactive to active, as well as
> to start up repositories. 
> 
>   
> 
> I hope this has given countries enough overview, over the short term for
the
> eIFL OA program? 
> 
>   
> 
> KIN REGARDS 
> 
> SUSAN 
> 
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>   
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> 
> Susan Veldsman 
> 
> eIFL content Manager 
> 
>   
> 
> 30 O'Reilly Merry Street 
> 
> Northmead 
> 
> 1510 
> 
> South Africa 
> 
>   
> 
> Tel: +27 11 425 4736 
> 
> Fax: +27 11 425 4737 
> 
>   
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> 
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Maria G. N. Musoke (PhD)
University Librarian
Makerere University
P.O. Box 7062 Kampala. Uganda. East Africa. 

email: mmusoke at med.mak.ac.ug
      mariagnmusoke at yahoo.com 

Tel: 256-41-4-533735 (office-direct line)
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