
Registration for the #COAR2017 Annual Meeting is now open!

Registration for the upcoming #COAR2017 Annual Meeting is now open! The schedule is available on the meeting web page and the full program and speakers line-up will also be available soon.

Please note that due to space restrictions at the venue, the registration will only be open to members and partners of COAR as well as invited speakers until 24 March 2017.

We are looking forward to meeting our members and partners in Venice for #COAR2017.

Next generation repositories – now open for public comments!

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, COAR 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

NRF hosts first African DSpace-CRIS Repository Workshop

The NRF hosted a successful DSpace-CRIS workshop at its National Facility the iThemba Labs, in Cape Town from 04 to 05 December 2016. It was attended by 38 participants including IT administrators, librarians and repository practitioners, drawn from various universities and research councils.

The University of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries supported the hosting of this pre-conference workshop as part of the Open Access Symposium 2016 week at UCT.

The workshop was facilitated by Andrea Bollini, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at 4Science, Italy, and DSpace-CRIS developer. DSpace-CRIS is an additional open-source module for the DSpace platform and is used extensively in Europe. It extends the DSpace data model, providing the ability to manage, collect and expose data about any entities of the research domain such as people, organisational units, projects, grants, awards, patents, publications etc. A follow-up workshop is planned for 2017

The NRF appreciates the support from COAR which is an international association with over 100 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others. COAR brings together the repository community and major repository networks in order build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.

Participants from ARC, CPUT, DUT, HSRC, NRF, SABINET, SANSA, UCT, UNISA, UNIVEN, UniZulu, National University of Science & Technology (Zimbabwe), University of Dar el Salaam, and University of Namibia.

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