COAR Next Generation Repositories Project 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. However, 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. In order to leverage the value of the repository network, we need to equip them with a wider array of roles and functionalities, which can be enabled through new levels of web-centric interoperability. The vision behind this work is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, 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. In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a roadmap for their adoption. The group will share preliminary results with repository and scholarly communities in order to validate recommendations and ensure community input. The aim is to have a final report published in early 2017. Members of the Working Group are: Eloy Rodrigues, chair (COAR, Portugal) Andrea Bollini (CINECA, Italy) Alberto Cabezas (LA Referencia, Chile) Donatella Castelli (CNR, Italy) Les Carr (Southampton University, UK) Leslie Chan (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada) Rick Johnson (University of Notre Dame, US) Paolo Manghi (CNR, Italy) Lazarus Matizirofa (NRF, South Africa) Pandelis Perakakis (Open Scholar, Spain) Oya Rieger (Cornell University, US) Jochen Schirrwagen (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada) Tim Smith (CERN, Switzerland) Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) Paul Walk (EDINA, UK) David Wilcox (Duraspace/Fedora, Canada) Kazu Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
For more details, see the COAR website: https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/ <https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/>
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