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DARC: Distributed Africana Repositories Community
Status: Completed
Objective
The DARC project aims to lay a basis for developing a (digital) academic platform for African Studies in the Netherlands.
African studies are a part of many universities, faculties, research institutions and multidisciplinary projects, and the configurations and networks whereby expertise is exchanged are in constant flux. There is therefore a need for a more integrated communications platform. The DARC project envisages a two-tier model:
- a range of institutional repositories that store research results in a controlled and tested way (DARE level) and
- community portals that provide integrated access to intellectual output from different angles (community services level).
The aim of the DARC project is to contribute to the repositories by involving African studies researchers from various universities and research institutions in the Netherlands.
Project results
The pilot project is intended to lay the basis for the proposed DARE/DARC platform for African studies by means of the following:
- a small-scale demonstration model involving a number of ASC researchers and a DARE reposi-tory;
- an implementation model with standards and best practices for implementing the DARE/DARC platform;
- a business model with service level agreements for DARE repositories and services;
- an evaluation report containing recommendations and conclusions about the potential for develop-ing the pilot into an operational service and to expand it within the DARE programme.
| Institution: |
Universiteit Leiden
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| Project manager: |
H. van der Molen |
| Budget: |
€ 90,315.00
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| Subsidy: |
€ 46,816.00
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| Start date: |
Monday 1 September 2003
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| End Date: |
Sunday 1 February 2004
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