1. COAR Next Generation Repositories WG

2. what is COAR?

3. Confederation of Open Access Repositories
international association with >100 members from 35 countries - 5 continents represented
libraries, universities, research institutions, government funding agencies etc.
University of Edinburgh is a long-standing member

4. what is the Repositories Next Generation Working Group?

5. ...resisting the obvious Star Trek: Next Generation joke here...
quite proud of myself for resisting that :-)

6. Repositories Next Generation Working Group
Eloy Rodrigues, chair (COAR, Portugal)
Lazarus Matizirofa (NRF, South Africa)
Pandelis Perakakis (Open Scholar, Spain)
Andrea Bollini (CINECA, Italy)
Alberto Cabezas (LA Referencia, Chile)
Oya Rieger (Cornell University, US)
Jochen Schirrwagen (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Donatella Castelli (OpenAIRE/CNR, Italy)
Daisy Selematsela (NRF, South Africa)
Les Carr (Southampton University, UK)
Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada)
Leslie Chan (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada)
Tim Smith (CERN, Switzerland)
Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
Rick Johnson (SHARE/University of Notre Dame, US)
Paul Walk (EDINA, UK)
Petr Knoth (Jisc and Open University, UK)
David Wilcox (Duraspace/Fedora, Canada)
Paolo Manghi (CNR, Italy)
▪ Kazu Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
the WG includes some luminaries from the world of repositories. And I'm in there too.

7. this is what we actually look like
yes, earnest looking people with laptops, in a back-room

8. To position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication…
The vision
“…on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community.”

9. why focus on repositories?
aren’t they old hat?

10. 3 cheers for repositories!
I’d like to propose 3 cheers for repositories
I think this is the Portugal fans celebrating Euro I wanted to use a picture of Portsmouth fans cheering, but nothing came up on Flickr for some reason....

11. cheer #1: proven technology, ubiquitous in our institutions
most of our repository systems are built from technology which has been in near-continuous development for more than a decade.

12. cheer #2: strong community support
the community support for repository systems is considerable - look around you for the evidence of that! :-)

13. cheer #3: distributed policy control
the resources within our repositories are under the control of our institutions, not under the control of a handful of publishers
monopoly avoidance startegy
the most important aspect from my point of view

14. The working group asserts that:
“The nearly ubiquitous deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication.”
so that’s good
a real opportunity!

15. However, the working group also recognises that:
“…repository platforms are still using technologies and protocols designed almost twenty years ago, before the boom of the Web and the dominance of Google, social networking, semantic web and ubiquitous mobile devices.”
so, there’s some work to do…

16. two of the ideas being discussed
looking at functional requirements

17. 1. Being of, not just on The Web
obvious…but not really done yet
the ‘splash page’ requiring human mediation is a real problem
“signposting the scholarly web”
link HTTP headers
RDFa, schema.org bib extensions
would involve very little or no effort by repository administrators
a small amount of software development in repository systems
Herbert Van de Sompel & Michael Nelson
make the webpage itself both human and machine readable

18. 2. Pro-active repositories
repositories could become pro-active components in an event-driven scholarly system
publishing ‘events’ such as the addition of a new resource (paper/dataset/whatever) to one or more notification hubs
third-party systems ‘subscribing’ to these notifications - many potential applications
would involve very little or no effort by repository administrators
modest software development
This blog post is why I was invited to join the COAR working group
some interesting musing about peer-to-peer distributed control!
alternatives to high-latency aggregation

19. imagine if:
your repository could immediately notify a funder that a compliant open-access paper had been made available, and the funder's system could then easily and automatically retrieve a copy
depositing a dataset into an institutional repository automatically notified a set of data-processing & preservation services
some quick wins

20. many other ideas being discussed
Discovery
web-friendly repository technologies and architectures
(quasi)peer-to-peer and/or notification pub-sub architectures
Assessment
overlay services on top of repositories using standardised registration, open peer-review and quality assessment services
Workflows
support the full lifecycle of research
cross-repository workflows
automated and continuous publishing of research artefacts
Impact
reliable and interoperable impact metrics for repository content
focus areas

21. thanks for listening! more info: http://bit.ly/coar-repo-ng
1. Preliminary findings for public review later this year
2. Final report in early 2017
that was a very shallow overview - please talk to me afterwards if you want to know more.
more information - follow that link!

22. I lied.
sorry…