Get your driver's license now! A roadmap for sustainable aquatic repositories

As in many other scientific disciplines, the issue of sustainability of the aquatic digital archive has not yet been solved in a satisfactory way. Managing a sustainable repository requires more than the "Conan"-like librarian. It needs robust mandates at local, regional and (inter)national levels. It needs an official budget. It also needs to be embedded in research funding procedures at every level, from institutional to international. Both self-archiving in repositories and Open Access publishing need appropriate funding schemes. Lastly, organized support platforms for repository managers and librarians are need to coordinate developments on a global scale. This presentation introduces an overview and state-of-the-art of aquatic repositories worldwide. It further focuses on a fine example of sustainability-supportive initiatives, the DRIVER project

DRIVER Technology Watch Report

This report is part of the Discovery Workpackage (WP4) and is the third report out of four deliverables. The objective of this report is to give an overview of the latest technical developments in the world of digital repositories, digital libraries and beyond, in order to serve as theoretical and practical input for the technical DRIVER developments, especially those focused on enhanced publications. This report consists of two main parts, one part focuses on interoperability standards for enhanced publications, the other part consists of three subchapters, which give a landscape picture of current and surfacing technologies and communities crucial to DRIVER. These three subchapters contain the GRID, CRIS and LTP communities and technologies. Every chapter contains a theoretical explanation, followed by case studies and the outcomes and opportunities for DRIVER in this field

Affect, haptics, and heterotopia in fashion curation

Reflecting on the present and future avenues of fashion curating as a discipline, this chapter looks at the kaleidoscopic range of theoretical disciplinary lenses at play in twenty-first-century fashion exhibitions, based on three use cases of exhibitions pairs, in which the author was either closely involved, or which were organized by the institutions she worked for: The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Antwerp Fashion Museum MoMu. Comparing six fashion exhibitions of different scales at different locations, this text looks at these exhibitions using three analytical lenses. Firstly, by looking at the curatorial mode of the practice of fashion exhibition-making in the twenty-first century, authorial or collaborative, and the range of academic disciplines used next to the traditional field of fashion history: sociology, literary and semiotic studies, cultural studies, architecture and design studies, new materialism, gender and queer studies, film studies, art history, psychology, biography, decolonization studies. Apart from this “cultural turn” in fashion curation, broader trends in new museology, such as the concept of the design-as-medium, the museum space as a heterotopia, and affect theory used as analytical lenses. Lastly, the concept of the traveling exhibition and its self-referentiality or meta-curatorial practices will be discussed where applicable

9. The DRIVER Project: The Socio-economic Benefits of a European Scientific Commons

The European DRIVER project (the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) builds a repository infrastructure combined with a search portal for open access (OA) European scientific communication. The goal is to aggregate all OA materials into one knowledge infrastructure or scientific commons, with collections, scientific communities and customized portals. For the infrastructure, the DRIVER open source software package D-NET v.1.0 (http://www.driverrepository.eu/index.p..

A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories : Five studies of important Digital Repository related issues and good Practices

This Driver’s guide is a practical guide to be used by repository managers and institutions for setting up and develop a repository and extra services. In this guide five essential aspects for realizing and amplifying repositories are described: the business plan, intellectual property rights, storing research data, curation of data and the long-time conservation of data. The authors have chosen for workable solutions that are applicable on local and national level

One, none and one hundred thousand profiles

Uno, Nessuno, Centomila (“One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”) is a classic novel by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. Published in 1925, it recounts the tragedy of Vitangelo Moscarda, a man who struggles to reclaim a coherent and unitary identity for himself in the face of an inherently social and multi-faceted world. What would Moscarda identity tragedy look like today? In this article we transplant Moscarda’s identity play from its offline setting to the contemporary arena of social media and online social networks. With reference to established theories on identity construction, performance, and self-presentation, we re-imagine how Moscarda would go about defending the integrity of his selfhood in the face of the discountenancing influences of the online world