Invenio@HGF – status and perspectives

To accommodate the growing needs for publication databases stemming from scientific evaluation requirements as well as the growing requirements for open access repositories, the libraries of the Helmholtz centres DESY (Hamburg), Forschungszentrum Jülich, GSI (Darmstadt) together with the university library of RWTH Aachen decided to join forces and to migrate their existing solutions to Invenio. With the flexibility of Marc21 in mind, the chosen approach tries to accommodate various, at first sight diverging, needs reusing the host of functionalities already existing within Invenio. One main goal of the project was to ease up "cataloguing" to a level where it can easily be handled by non-library staff (e.g. secretaries) while still maintaining a high standard of metadata quality. This is accomplished by introducing Marc Authority throughout the system and using these records extensively during input as well as later on for statistical purposes. Additionally, the unification of publication databases as well as the open access repository tries to increase the visibility of research and ease up access to its results. To this end interfaces to content management systems were created. In this talk an overview of the initial todo's as well as current achievements of our working group as of November 2013 are given. Several specifics of our project compared to other instances of Invenio are discussed. Besides a short overview of the project a summary of the lessons learned during the project is given