Authors: Stefan Andersson, Uwe Klosa, Mimmi Sundin and Aina Svensson, Electronic Publishing Centre
Gr aphic ser vices, Uppsala Univ er sity Libr ar y, 2013.Members of the DiVA Consortium
Dalarna University
Ersta Sköndal University College Gotland University Halmstad University Jönköping University Karlstad University Kristianstad University Linköping University Linnaeus University Mid Sweden University Mälardalen University Nationalmuseum
Red Cross University College Royal College of Music
Royal Institute of Technology
Sophiahemmet University College Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm University
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Swedish Museum of Natural History
Swedish National Defence College Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Södertörn University
The Nordic Africa Institute
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
Umeå University
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design University of Gävle
University of Skövde University West Uppsala University Örebro University
Prerequisites for successful collaboration
> Use a specific and well defined model for system management > Take decisions jointly with all consortium members > Create good import and export possibilities for different metadata formats > Give every consortium member the responsibility for their own publications > Find adequate conventions and allow each member to trademark their user interface
Lessons learned
> Create well defined communication channels > Offer good API:s for third-party services > Store your metadata in a flexible way > Use standards where this is possible and feasibleDiVA – A Well Rooted and Growing Platform
alvin
Based on our experience and code from DiVA, we have begun a seedling project focusing on cultural heritage collections. alvin will handle archives and a wider range of items with different types of metadata such as manuscripts, maps, images and music.2000 Doctoral Theses
> From the beginning, the focus was to develop a plat-form and workflows for publishing doctoral theses. > From the start, we focused on long-term preservation.2003 DiVA Consortium founded
> 5 members > The publishing platform/database is now in use at 5 different universities. > To ensure that DiVA could communicate with other databases we created a rich metadata model and built services to facilitate the export and import of data. > We wanted to facilitate the creation of external web interfaces, so we extended DiVA with different types of feeds.
2013 Into the future
> 34 members > Next steps within the DiVA Consortium: to improve (or follow up) metadata standards and quality and to further customize DiVA. > We have started discussions about sharing metadata and fulltexts in the DiVA publishing system between members, facilitating the administration of publications. > Another thread is to look into the upcoming demands to make research data freely available and connect it to the publications.
Open Archive
Research Information
1999 Pilot Study
A well prepared pilot study laid the foundation for the development.2010 Increased visibility and usage
> 27 members > A growing number of universities use DiVA. > We ensured increased visibility of DiVA publications in search tools and services such as Google, Google Scholar, OpenAIRE, Europeana and many more, since this is where the casual user finds our work.
