Inge Van Nieuwerburgh

Inge Van Nieuwerburgh holds a master degree in Germanic philology and a supplementary degree in library and information science. After working as a linguist for a speech products company, she joined  Ghent University in 2000, first as a library assistant in the faculty library of economics, and for the last 6 years  as co-ordinator of the digital library at Ghent University library .

She was involved in the DRIVER projects, financed by FP6 (Information Society Technologies) and FP7 (Capacities - Research Infrastructures) funds and in BOM_Vlaanderen and Archipel, Flemish research projects on long term preservation and dissemination of digital material.

New Developments in Digital Repository Infrastructure: abstract

All over Europe digital repositories emerge and grow into vast pools of interesting data. DRIVER is a multi-phase effort whose vision and primary objective is to create a cohesive, robust and flexible, pan-European infrastructure for digital repositories, offering sophisticated services and functionalities for researchers, administrators and the general public. It aims to optimise the way the e-Infrastructure is used to store knowledge, add value to primary research data and information, making secondary research more effective, provide a valuable asset for industry, and help bridging research and education. Key elements in this vision are open access to and reuse of data, and standards and protocols to achieve interoperability.

DRIVER II has ended a year ago. What are the results and how does it continue? What are the views we should take into future developments? And how can we stimulate that? What is the role of scientific and cultural heritage institutions?

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