The Helmholtz INVENIO Repository Project: Between Organizational Tasks, Needs of Scientists, and Constraints

To accomodate 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), Froschungszentrum 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 flexiblity of Marc21 in mind, the choosen apporach tries to accomodate various, at first sight diverging, needs reusing the host of fuctionalities 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