On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:38:29PM -0400, Michele Kimpton wrote: > Hi David and DSpace community, > > I wanted to make everyone aware of a proposal that is making its way to the > Whitehouse that could possibly have implications for open access repositories > in the USA, including DSpace. > Here is the link to the proposal: > http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/share-proposal-07june13.pdf > > This proposal is being submitted as a response to the OSTP call for open > access and preservation to data and scholarly publications. The publishers > are making a big push to do it, and this is the Universities response. What > is interesting is that academic libraries (ARL) and Presidents of > Universities (AAU) have come together to write this proposal. They are > proposing a federated network of currently established digital repositories > with DPN(www.dpn.org) as the preservation backbone. That means they are > proposing to use in many cases their current repositories, either DSpace or > Fedora and implement common metadata and protocols so they can be aggregated. > One of the requirements of the repository is to have a PI identifier such as > ORCID implemented.
Exciting times! repositories being taken very seriously indeed. > If this proposal is accepted by the Whitehouse, the stakeholders of DSpace in > the USA will need to come together to decide if and how it will meet the > requirements outlined in SHARE. We have a much higher probability of success > to get the work done collaboratively and for all to benefit I believe, than > working independently to satisfy the requirements outlined. Yes, this needs early and earnest cooperation. I'm concerned about how the details will develop. In particular, all I've seen about metadata so far is essentially "let there be metadata!" but I don't know how they plan to get from there to actual interworkability. Does anyone know how we're to get involved, or at least be kept up-to-date? I also worry that this is coming at an *interesting* time, when it has the potential to gobble up several stakeholders' meetings entire without, perhaps, producing much that is actionable. A sharp focus on what is known and what more we need to know would, I think, serve us very well. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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