LATIN AMERICA IS INTEROPERABLE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR OPEN ACCESS
LA Referencia, through its document "Metadata and Harvest Policies" (2015), establishes a series of interoperability guidelines whose fulfillment must be guaranteed by the national nodes while recommending its adoption by the repositories that make up the network. The guidelines, agreed at the regional level, are based on the Driver 2.0 Guidelines and the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 3, adopted by the European Union. Its compliance determine if a record is accepted or rejected by LA Referencia at the harvest stage.
In November 2018, the new version of the Guidelines 4.0 was published where the LA Referencia technical team collaborated and were approved by the Board of Directors of the same at the end of 2018. Its implementation will be gradual as of 2020.
BACKGROUND
The antecedents date from the Act of Agreement of the Meeting in Bogotá (May 12 and 13, 2011) where the adhesion of the Network was established to the DRIVER 2.0 guidelines. In August 2012, the Technical Group of representatives of the partner countries defined the specific methods and techniques for the implementation of the pilot based on 10 Driver fields. http://www.lareferencia.info/joomla/recursos/documentos/acuerdos-tecnicos/17-aspectos-tecnicos
The Driver guidelines date back to 2008. In 2012 it was merged with OpenAIRE which is in charge of maintaining it (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe). The current version is OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 3, April 2013, which defines the core elements of interoperability.
Broadly speaking, OpenAIRE is the natural evolution of Driver and places greater emphasis on identifying the sources of financing for open access production, as well as complement Driver with guidelines for data repositories and CRIS (Current Research Information Systems). From another angle, it is the infrastructure that underpins the Horizon 2020 program of the European Community in terms of Open Access to information
https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/index.html
Finally, globally, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has worked on the construction of a series of multilingual controlled vocabularies, to achieve greater international alignment of vocabularies and elements of the guidelines in order to ensure interoperability. The Reference participates in the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Working Group . Currently, at the moment, the Controlled Vocabularies available are those of resource type, version and access mode.
The document “Metadata and harvest policies "(2015) establishes the obligatory nature, definition and scope of each of the 14 elements of the Dublin Core metadata scheme contemplated. In addition, specific instructions are provided for registration and the cases are indicated in that the controlled vocabularies established for type of publication, version and level of access should be used.
OpenAIRE published a new version of its OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers. (V. 4.0). The Reference participated in its development and will gradually support through training and technical support the transition of the repositories of the region towards this new guideline with the purpose of consolidating repositories with greater wealth of metadata and guaranteeing its international interoperability.