March 2018

1. COAR Next Generation Repositories
Neil Jacobs

2. Overview
1. Background
2. Vision and principles
3. Design assumptions
4. Characteristics
5. Technologies
6. My reflections
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3. Background
Open Access 3
Santa Fe convention 1999/2000 – OAI-PMH
Long time ago for an internet protocol
…
Facebook, Google Scholar,Twitter,
ResearchGate, Mendeley, OA Button,
Academic.edu, Hypothes.is, Authorea, Publons,
ORCID, SciHub…
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NGR Group 2016-17

4. Vision and principles
“Our 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.”
Open Access 4
Guiding principles
Distribution of control
Inclusiveness and diversity
Public good
Intelligent openness and accessibility
Sustainability
Interoperability

5. Design Assumptions
Focus on the resources themselves, not just
associated metadata
Pragmatism
Evolution, not revolution
Convention over configuration
Engage with users where they are
Open Access 5

6. Characteristics of Next Generation Repositories
Open Access 6
Resource centric
• Not metadata centric
Networked
• Part of the web graph
Machine-friendly
• Proper APIs
Active
• Living content
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7. Technologies
Open Access 7
Behaviour Technology Status
1. Exposing Identifiers Signposting
2. Declaring Licenses at a Resource
Level
Creative Commons Copyright Licenses
3. Discovery through Navigation Signposting
4. Interacting with Resources
(Annotation,Commentary and Review)
Activity Streams 2.0;WebAnnotation Model andWeb
Annotation Protocol
5. ResourceTransfer IPFS; ResourceSync; SWORD
6. Batch Discovery ResourceSync; Signposting; Sitemaps
7. Collecting and Exposing Activities Activity Streams 2.0; Linked Data Notifications; ResourceSync
Change Notifications
8. Identification of Users ORCID;Social Network Identities
9. Authentication of Users HTTP Signatures;OpenIDConnect 1.0
10. Exposing Standardized Usage
Metrics
COUNTER; SUSHI; Etag
11. Preserving Resources Many…

8. Reflections
Open Access 8
There is a long way to go
We have tried similar things before
Strategies:
1. Refinement and engagement
2. Take-up
1. Repository platforms
2. Repository owners
3. Repository networks
4. Service providers

9. Find out more…
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Thanks for listening.
Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Neil.Jacobs@jisc.ac.uk
@njneilj
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