<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" class="">(Please excuse the cross-posting)</span><br class=""><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial"><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial">Major repository networks agree to collaborate on data exchange, technological development, and metadata</font></span></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38;" class="">July 16, 2015 -- On July 9 and 10, three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAire, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Center for Open Science (COS) met in Charlottesville, Virginia to discuss synergies and potential areas of collaboration.</span></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;">Open access repositories are being adopted around the world to support and promote open science, a trend which maximizes our investments in research by making research outputs freely available to the world. Many of these repositories are connected via regional aggregators, which form sustainable, distributed repository networks that provide access to and preservation of the valuable content created through research and scholarship.</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"></span></font></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial">However, research is international, with researchers collaborating across regions and continents to solve the world’s most critical problems such as climate change, health, economics, and so on. The aim of this meeting was to ensure that regional repository networks are complementary, more integrated, and working together to create a seamless global network.</font></span></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial">The meeting was very productive and revealed that the objectives, technologies and use cases for all three networks are highly aligned and that there is a strong willingness to work together. In particular, a number of specific areas were identified in which the networks commit to collaborate on:</font></span></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><ul class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Regular data exchange</span><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;">: Exchange data and develop agreements around jurisdictional harvesting and aggregation leading to greater coverage and efficiencies across regions.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Common metadata and vocabularies:</span><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Work towards consensus about key metadata elements and common vocabularies to express funders and institutional affiliations, open access status, and project IDs. This will contribute to the COAR-CASRAI work already underway aimed at developing common metadata elements and will support repository managers in better exposing their collections.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Common technological services:</span><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Assess the feasibility of adopting common broker/router technologies and other services.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Ongoing dialogue:</span><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Meet regularly to share approaches and perspectives about technical and strategic challenges.</span></font></p></li></ul><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial">Over the next several weeks, the groups will develop a more detailed plan for achieving specific outcomes.</font></span></div><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;">A list of meeting participants is available <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/aligning-repository-networks-across-regions/collaboration-on-data-exchange-technological-development-and-metadata/" class="">here</a>.<br class=""></span></font><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;"><font class="" face="Arial"><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><font class="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;">For more information about the meeting, please contact: Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kathleen.shearer@coar-repositories.org" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kathleen.shearer@coar-repositories.org">kathleen.shearer@coar-repositories.org</a><span class="" style="vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></font></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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