<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-33e6f1a6-a00d-5eb4-d7d6-311b4a2cd142" style="margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">COAR Next Generation Repositories Project</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-33e6f1a6-a00d-5eb4-d7d6-311b4a2cd142" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class="">The nearly ubiquitous deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication. However, repository platforms are still using technologies and protocols designed almost twenty years ago, before the boom of the Web and the dominance of Google, social networking, semantic web and ubiquitous mobile devices. In order to leverage the value of the repository network, we need to equip them with a wider array of roles and functionalities, which can be enabled through new levels of web-centric interoperability.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The vision behind this work 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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a roadmap for their adoption. The group will share preliminary results with repository and scholarly communities in order to validate recommendations and ensure community input. The aim is to have a final report published in early 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Members of the Working Group are:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Eloy Rodrigues, chair (COAR, Portugal)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Andrea Bollini (CINECA, Italy)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Alberto Cabezas (LA Referencia, Chile)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Donatella Castelli (CNR, Italy)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Les Carr (Southampton University, UK)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Leslie Chan (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Rick Johnson (University of Notre Dame, US)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Paolo Manghi (CNR, Italy)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Lazarus Matizirofa (NRF, South Africa)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Pandelis Perakakis (Open Scholar, Spain)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Oya Rieger (Cornell University, US)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Jochen Schirrwagen (University of Bielefeld, Germany)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Tim Smith (CERN, Switzerland)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Paul Walk (EDINA, UK)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">David Wilcox (Duraspace/Fedora, Canada)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Kazu Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)</span></div></li></ul><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;" class="">For more details, see the COAR website: </span><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/</span></a><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div></body></html>