Distributed Africana Repositories Community

DARC is an initiative of the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden to make Africanist research material and information accessible through a community portal on the Internet.

Connecting-Africa, the pilot service for African Studies in the Netherlands, is online as of April 2004.

Projects

DARC activities and development of Connecting-Africa take place in stages and by means of externally funded projects.

DARC has successfully applied for grants from the SURF Foundation, in response to Calls for Tender of the DARE Programme (Digital Academic REpositories).

DARC-2 project: September 2004 – August 2006

• Presentation by Ursula Oberst given at the Euforic Annual General Meeting in June 2006: " Under construction: Connecting-Africa - Community portal for experts on Development and African Studies”
• Article by Titia van der Werf on “Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies”, (D-Lib Magazine, February 2006)
• Presentation by Han van Dijk given at the SURF Community DAY in April 2006: “Als ik het voor het zeggen had…: een visie van een wetenschapper” (in Dutch)
• Workpackage 8 deliverable: Digital Learning environment for the Research Masters African Studies. An implementation model (Dutch, Adobe PDF)
• Presentation given at the AEGIS European Conference 2005

        DARE Summerschool 2005, Tilburg, 26 june – 1 july 2005:

• Presentation given by Titia van der Werf on repository content (in Dutch)
• Presentation given by Ursula Oberst on metadata (in Dutch)
• Handout by Ursula Oberst on metadata (in Dutch)

        Workshop on Copyrights and self-archiving held on 12 April 2005 at the ASC, Leiden:

• Presentation given by Marijke Verstappen: Copyrights and institutional repositories (Dutch)
• TEASERS: Digital access to scientific content in the African context, by Titia van der Werf (Adobe PDF)
• FAQ on copyrights: Auteursrecht in vogelvlucht (Dutch)
• Workshop report (Dutch)

press release September 2004 (Adobe PDF)

project details (Adobe PDF)

project proposal: management summary

DARC-1 project: August 2003 – March 2004

press release 15 September 2003 (Adobe PDF)

project details (Adobe PDF)

project proposal: management summary (Adobe PDF)

Contact:

Jos Damen, Head Library, Documentation and Information, African Studies Centre
telephone +31 71 5273352
jdamen@ascleiden.nl

Digital Academic Repositories