<div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from the Confederation of Open Access Repositories. --Peter Suber.]</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">*Apologies for Cross Posting*</span></font><font size="1" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">Dear Open Access &
Digital Repository Managers, <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">The </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""><a href="http://coar-repositories.org/" title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"><span title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/">Confederation of Open Access
Repositories (COAR)</span></span></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">
is facilitating a discussion about interoperability among Open Access
repositories within the global context. To kick off this process, COAR has
released a briefing paper, “The Case for Interoperability for Open Access
Repositories,” an overview of interoperability and selected current
issues. The paper is available here: </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""><a href="http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability" title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"><span title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability">http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability</span></span></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">The next step is to collect
and analyze stakeholder input about the current interoperability environment.
We invite you to participate and submit your thoughts about current and
anticipated interoperability challenges, problems for the research community
that might be addressed by interoperability guidelines, barriers to progress,
and other related issues. Questions to start the dialogue are posted on the
COAR Interoperability web site at </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""><a href="http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability" title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB"><span title="blocked::http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability">http://coar-repositories.org/interoperability</span></span></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">We encourage participants
to raise new questions, respond to the posted questions, and respond to
others’ comments. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">The discussion will be
available on the COAR web site until approximately 22-October 2011. After that,
we will review input and define and draft the COAR Roadmap for Global Open
Access Repository Interoperability (estimated timeframe: 4<sup>th</sup> quarter
2011, 1<sup>st</sup> quarter 2012). <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">We look forward to a lively
discussion. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">Regards, <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"" lang="EN-GB">Eloy Rodrigues<br>
COAR Interoperability Working Group Chair<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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