From: Kathleen Shearer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 11:05:09 -0500

(Sorry for the cross-posting)

COAR is pleased to announce the publication of the initial outcomes of
the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public
comment.

In April 2016, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
<https://www.coar-repositories.org/> launched a working group to help
identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and
develop a road map for their adoption. For the past several months,
the group has been working to define a vision for repositories and
sketch out the priority user stories and scenarios that will help
guide the development of new functionalities.

The vision 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.

Underlying this vision is the idea that a distributed network of
repositories can and should be a powerful tool to promote the
transformation of the scholarly communication ecosystem. In this
context, repositories will provide access to published articles as
well as a broad range of artifacts beyond traditional publications
such as datasets, pre-prints, working papers, images, software, and so
on.

The working group presents 12 user stories that outline priority
functionalities for repositories. The document, to which you can
provide public comments directly, is available here:

nextgenrepo.coar-repositories.org

We very much welcome your input, and also encourage you to share this
message with your colleagues. We hope to have widespread feedback from
the community.

Public comments are open from February 7 – March 3, 2017

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Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
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Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer