Digital Repository Federation (DRF) Japan and Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER) have signed an agreement to work closely together on promoting federated repository infrastructures. The move follows the recently held SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008.
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. It relies on research libraries for the sustainable operation of repositories and provision of high quality content through digital repositories.
DRF, a federation consisting of 86 universities and research institutes, aims to promote open access (OA) and institutional repository development in Japan. Under the auspices of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, DRF acts as a collaborative programme for institutional repositories, based on one of the R&D projects of the national framework of Cyber Science Infrastructure. DRF and DRIVER share the vision that the OA 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 OA digital repositories.
Collaboration between DRF (Japan) and DRIVER is framed by their joint support for an OA model for repositories in research and higher education institutions. They present a common strategy to enable research libraries 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.
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