Digital Academic Archives and Repositories (DABAR)

Abstract

DABAR (Digital Academic Archives and Repositories) is the key component of the Croatian e-infrastructure’s data layer. It provides technological solutions that facilitate maintenance of higher education and science institutions' digital assets, i.e., various digital objects produced by the institutions and their employees. It enables the easy establishment and maintenance of a number of reliable and interoperable institutional and thematic digital repositories and archives at no cost to institutions.

DABAR aligns with the latest OpenAIRE Guidelines for institutional and thematic repositories, ensuring interoperability with European open science infrastructures. The platform utilizes standard metadata schemas such as Dublin Core, DataCite, and Metadata Object Description Schema, facilitating consistent data description and enhanced discoverability. DABAR supports standard open protocols like OAI-PMH for metadata harvesting and integrates persistent identifiers, ensuring long-term accessibility and citation of digital objects. Each repository has basic and advanced search functionality, and the contents of the repository are indexed in search engines such as Google Scholar and openAIRE.

Overview

Country	Croatia
Start date	2015
Annual Budget	n/a
Responsible organisation(s)	Academic cooperation
Target group(s)	Academic societies/academics |Established researchers|Higher education institutes|National government|Students|Junior researchers|Private R&D|Research support staff|Public research institutes|Subnational government|Technology transfer offices|Students
Policy instrument type	Information services and access to datasets

Background

It was developed through a collaboration of many Croatian institutions, such as National and University Library in Zagreb, Ruđer Bošković Institute, SRCE and more. In December 2021 it hosted 150 active institutional repositories and 6 aggregated repositories. However, the majority of institutional repositories hosted on DABAR are still focused on archiving dissertations and theses, and more than half of all documents archived in all institutional repositories are available in OA.

Objective(s)

Providing, connecting and maintaining all the necessary computer resources and storage capacities you might need.|Ensuring the safety, stability and high availability of the digital repositories system by using advanced IT technology, making back-up copies, regularly updating system support and continuously surveilling the system.|Ensuring data collection from existing information systems to facilitate object upload (e.g. theses’ metadata are taken from the Information System of Higher Education Institutions – ISVU).|Maintaining and developing the application’s functionality by following national standards and global trends in the area of digital repositories.|Defining and implementing support for storing and describing digital objects according to the needs of academic and research community.|Implementing and promoting standard data exchange protocols (OAI-PMH).

Public access URL

https://dabar.srce.hr/dabar

All tags

• Open technical standards
• 2015
• Academic cooperation
• Information services and access to datasets
• Established researchers
• Students
• Research support staff
• Academic societies academics
• Junior researchers
• Technology transfer offices
• Higher education institutes
• Subnational government
• National government
• Private R&D
• Technical Standards & Practices
• Croatia
• Public research institutes

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