A short time ago, details of the third generation of the DINI Certificate for Document and Publication Services were published. The full-text version is available here.
The new version builds on the tried and tested content of its predecessors while developing certain aspects further. For example:
- It pays closer attention to the Golden Road to Open Access (primary publication in an OA journal) and to the increasing virtualisation of the technical implementation of document and publication services.
- In view of the increased necessity for interoperability with overarching services (e.g. research and reference services), the guidelines for the OAI interface have been revised in order to bring them into line with the DRIVER Guidelines.
- The individual criteria have been structured more clearly and uniformly, thereby enhancing the convergence between the catalogue of criteria and the application questionnaire. This should make the certification procedure easier for all concerned.
As the holder of a DINI Certificate, your repository would have a widely recognised seal of quality that would make the excellence of your service clearly visible to authors, users, funders and the managers of your institution.
If you are interested in integrating your repository into the network currently under construction in Germany and Europe, then the first step should be an application for DINI certification. The technical standards (server, interfaces, formats, metadata etc) are tested by a group of experts.
The OA-Network project will be happy to help you with the certification of your service. For information on the procedure, the requirements to be met, and the time expenditure involved, please contact oa-net(at)dini.de.
If you would like to find out more about the new DINI Certificate, you can visit the OA-Network stand at the exhibition that will take place within the framework of the Open Access Days in Goettingen on 4 and 5 October. Between 14:00 and 16:00 hrs on the first day, there will be a beginners workshop entitled "Das kleine 1x1 fuer Repositorien" [Basic information on repositories] which will also deal with the new certificate.