1) Current institutional repositories have issues with usability, interoperability, and acting primarily as silos for individual institutions' data. 2) The vision for next generation repositories is to position them as part of a globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, with the resources themselves, rather than the repositories, becoming the focus of services. 3) Key areas discussed for next generation repositories include improved resource discovery and content transfer using ResourceSync and Signposting, generating open usage metrics through a usage hub, and enabling annotation of content through web annotation protocols.

1. @openaire_eu
Topic:
Next Generation Repositories
Jochen Schirrwagen
Bielefeld University
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2. • The crisis of the IR
Poor usability – ”Access-, copy-, reuse, and data-mining rights are overly
restrictive or left unstated. Content consists of a mishmash of formats. The
resulting federation of IRs is useless for serious research. Even the most
basic queries cannot be implemented reliably.”
(Source (2016): http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2016/07/let-ir-rip.html)
interoperability promised by OAI-PMH has not really materialised; content
duplication has not been avoided; role and target content of institutional
repositories is manyfold, sometimes vague
(Source (2016): https://poynder.blogspot.de/2016/09/q-with-cnis-clifford-
lynch-time-to-re_22.html)
Current Situation and Challenges
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3. • Limited in functionalities
• Acting as a data silo
• Only few (global) aggregators
• Main issues: limited social interaction and technical
interoperability
Current Situation of (Institutional) Repositories
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4. “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, …”
“… making the resource, rather than the repository,
the focus of services and infrastructure.”
Vision of COAR NGR
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Source (2017,2018): https://ngr.coar-repositories.org/

5. • Position Repositories based on globally distributed network for
schol comm.
Generating value added services
Better integration of repositories in the research life-cycle and with other innovative
scholarly services
Collectively managed by scholarly community
• Improving Repository Functionality
Making resources (items, digital objects) in repositories integral part of the web
Standardization of information/data exchange on a global scale
Adoption of modern web standards and protocols
Support of any kind of digital research result
Challenges
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6. Identified Behaviours (Functionalities) of NGRs
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Defined Behaviour
1 Exposing Identifiers
2 Declaring Licenses at the Resource Level
3 Discovery Through Navigation
4 Interacting with Resources (Annotation, Commentary, and Review)
5 Resource Transfer
6 Batch Discovery
7 Collecting and Exposing Activities
8 Identification of Users
9 Authentication of Users
10 Exposing Standardized Usage Metrics
11 Preserving Resources

7. • Resource Discovery and (batch) content transfer
Based on ResourceSync and Signposting
• Open Metrics
Generating standardized Usage Statistics on repository items
Aggregation, consolidation and provision via usage statistics hub
Consider additional scientometric indicators for repository items
• Annotation of Content
i.e. related to the concept of Open Peer Review
i.e. based on service layers like hypotheses.is using web annotation protocol
NGR as Subject in OpenAIRE Advance
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8. • Plug ins and/or add ons for the implementation of
Signposting in DSpace 5 and DSpace 6
• Implementation of ResourceSync for Eprints
• Innovative techniques/methods for visualizing usage
data from and for individual repositories and
aggregator services
Proposed Activities
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9. • Synchronisation of Metadata and corresponding
fulltext files using ResourceSync
Examples of Solutions / Use Cases
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Source: https://de.slideshare.net/openminted_eu/resource-sync-overview-and-realworld-use-
cases-for-discovery-harvesting-and-synchronization-of-resources-on-the-web

10. • Making HTTP Links semantically meaningful, e.g. by
using Signposting (typed links in HTTP link headers)
Examples of Solutions / Use Cases
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curl -I "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908"
link:
<https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908>;rel="cite-as",
<https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908?format=me
tadata_jsonld>;rel="describedby";type="application/ld+json"
,
<https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908?format=cit
ation_ris>;rel="describedby";type="application/x-research-
info-systems",
<https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908?format=cit
ation_bibtex>;rel="describedby";type="application/x-bibtex",
<https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.867908?format=zip
>;rel="item";type="application/zip",
<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0856-5183>;rel="author",
<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-8524>;rel="author",
<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8877-1325>;rel="author"

11. • Visualization and analysis of Usage Statistics on
different aggregation levels, by different parameters
Examples of Solutions / Use Cases
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• Onrepository level
• OnItem level
• By topic/ subject / discipline
• By geographical region
• Incombination withother indicators
• …

12. • Annotation of content
Examples of Solutions / Use Cases
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Source (2017): https://web.hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/

13. • Alignment with OpenAIRE interoperability standards
i.e. OpenAIRE Guidelines for Content Providers
• Level of innovation
• Impact on OpenAIRE services and its stakeholders
Selection Criteria
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14. Thank you!