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Introduction

The DRIVER Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enhances and employs the interoperability capacities of gCube and D-Net systems in order to allow the respective eInfrastructures to exploit resources that lie outside their administrative domain and functional capacity.  D-Net installations with content and computational resources that lie outside their administrative and functional domain.

 

D-Net System Installations:

  • The  Driver  Repository:  An    infrastructure     that    harvests, aggregates and curates approximately 2,140,000 documents in 260 repositories from 36 countries.
  • The OpenAIRE repository: A pilot infrastructure supported by the European Commission, to promote and strengthen OpenAccess initiative.

Objectives:

  • Functional enhancement of D-Net Installations via advanced services operating on gCube  computational and storage resources.
  • Mutual exposition of content hosted on gCube / D-Net to each other’s communities.

Indirect beneficiaries of DRIVER VRE are scientists, researchers, national community and thematic repository portals.

The DRIVER VRE is a programmatically accessible aggregation of resources. By addressing a multitude of interoperability challenges, it exposes to D-Net installations the following facilities:

  • Content transformation capacity provided by the gCube Data Transformation service (gDTS).
  • gCube content access via a multitude of means:
    • Metadata transformation (homogenisation)
    • Harvesting of gCube hosted collections
    • URL-based referencing
    • Information retrieval integration, via both gCube-native and standard OpenSearch specification interfaces.
  • Bibliometric analysis, as being exposed by the INSPIRE VRE of D4Science-II.
  • Context-free processing over the Process Execution Engine of gCube (PE2ng).

The other way round, D-Net managed content resources are exposed to gCube installations and transitively to other interoperating eInfrastructures, both directions contributing to an Ecosystem of Data and Service.

OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Access in Europe by establishing and operating an eInfrastructure, consisting of portal and services, for handling peer-reviewed articles and other important forms of publications. Additionally the project builds the support and outreach means to embrace the system operation, by the establishment of a dedicated Pan-European Help Desk for Researchers to deposit their documents on the infrastructure and the operation and collaboration of 27  National  Open  Access  Liaison  Offices.

DRIVER has established a network of experts and Open Access repositories aiming to optimise the way the e-Infrastructure is used to store knowledge.Gradually it has evolved into a fully functional, state-of-the art, system and a large confederation of repositories, facilitating access to millions of documents for a broad and large audience. Based on the D-Net software suit it builds a scalable robust eInfrastructure that offers advanced integration, retrieval and user-centric services around the repositories it confederates, promoting interoperability and facilitating Open Access to European research material.