Die Vernetzung europäischer Wissensspeicher / Networking European Knowledge Repositories / L'interconnexion des réseaux de mémoires du savoir européen
Lossau, N., & Horstmann, W. (2006). Die Vernetzung europäischer Wissensspeicher / Networking European Knowledge Repositories / L'interconnexion des réseaux de mémoires du savoir européen. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 30(3), 350–352.
English title translationNetworking European Knowledge Repositories
Abstract
The international project partnership DRIVER has begun to prepare the ground for a novel, distributed and public infrastructure for scholarly information. The acronym DRIVER stands for „Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision of European Research“. Ten partners from eight countries started the cooperation to network initially more than 50 distributed, knowledge repositories in libraries of academic institutions with content from the sciences and the humanities. With this effort, DRIVER builds a test-bed that supports the development of an internet-based knowledge space in the European Research Area. Therewith, the role of the academic library as a guarantor of access to scholarly information in the progressing digital world is put into practice.