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Major repository networks launch international group to improve interoperability
Open access (OA) repositories are key components of the research
infrastructure. They provide open access to the products of research and
reflect an emerging commitment by research institutions towards the stewardship
of the research outputs. Repositories are also becoming an important source of
administrative information for governments, funding agencies and for tracking
research outputs and assessing the impact of the research they support.
Science is an increasingly global, distributed and cross-disciplinary endeavor.
Repository infrastructures, therefore, should mirror the needs of the research
community and enable researchers, regardless of location or disciplinary
practice, to access research outputs worldwide. All efforts should be made to
avoid silos, which act as barriers to the usability of content.
Over the past several years, a number of regional and national OA repository
networks have emerged. These networks have been developed to fulfill different
requirements and they have adopted a variety of metadata standards and
vocabularies. Greater interoperability across networks will improve discovery
and enable the development of more sophisticated cross-repository services such
as usage statistics or content analysis by text mining. In addition, a shared
understanding and common approaches to vocabularies and metadata will help
provide uniform information to governments and funding agencies about the
products of funded research, and build confidence with users and stakeholders.
This international, multi-stakeholder working group will develop a strategy to
ensure greater interoperability across repository networks as well as other
platforms. The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will be the
convener of the working group, and CASRAI will facilitate the process of
developing the strategy. Members of the working group will be representatives
from major regional repository networks (e.g. La Referencia, OpenAIRE, SHARE
and others) as well as EuroCRIS and CASRAI. Participants are committed to
adopting any outcomes resulting from their work.
In order to ensure input from all relevant stakeholders, a review circle will
be formed to consult with the broader community at major milestones. The group
will commence its work in Oct 2014 via a mix of teleconference and online
collaboration tools.
For more information, please visit the COAR website or contact Kathleen
Shearer, Executive Director of COAR: kathleen.shea...@coar-repositories.org
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