One of the key aims of the COAR NGR group is to help us to overcome the challenges that still make it difficult to move beyond repositories as document silos. The group wants to see a globally interoperable network of repositories and global services built on top of repositories fulfilling the expectations of users in the 21st century. During this talk, I will address several use cases the COAR NGR working group aims to enable in the next generation of repositories. They include more effective techniques for metadata and content discovery & synchronization, enabling social notification feeds (including commenting and peer-review), supporting data mining, enabling recommender systems and offering new ways for comparing usage of content across repositories.

1. COAR Next Generation Repositories
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User stories and current developments
Petr Knoth

2. Next generation repositories working group
The aim of this activity is to develop a global network of repositories
that allows frictionless access to open content and encourages the
creation of cross-repository added-value services.

3. User stories
• Data mining
• Discovering metadata that describe a
scholarly resource
• Discovering the identifier of a scholarly
resource
• Discovering usage rights
• Resource syncing and notification
• Recognizing the user
• Commenting & annotating
• Providing a social notification feed
• Recommender systems for repositories
• Preservation
• Peer-review
• Comparing usage
https://www.coar-
repositories.org/files/COAR-Next-
Generation-Repositories-February-7-
2017.pdf

4. Current repositories
Services we can
develop with
repositories
today
Persistence layer
Interoperability
Conceptual layer
Interoperability
Metadata
Batch
disco
very

5. Repositories in crises?
»Richard Poynder’s interview with Clifford Lynch:
http://poynder.blogspot.ch/2016/09/q-with-cnis-clifford-lynch-time-
to-re_22.html
»Eric van de Velde: “Institutional Repository (IR) is obsolete. Its
flawed foundation cannot be repaired. The IR must be phased out
and replaced with viable alternatives”:
http://scitechsociety.blogspot.ch/2016/07/let-ir-rip.html
»Criticism of lack of interoperability across repositories.
»No comparison with the publishing platforms which are by far less
interoperable!

6. Importance of interoperability
Lack of interoperability in the scholarly communication system is a
major barrier to innovation.

7. Current repositories
Services we can
develop with
repositories
today
Persistence layer Persistence layer
Interoperability Interoperability
Metadata
Usage
interactions
and metrics
Content
Links between
resources
Notifications
Global sign-on
Comments
Peer-
reviews
Messages
Metadata
Services we can
develop with the next
generation
repositories
Next generation repositories
Conceptual layer
Conceptual layer
Discovery
mechanisms
-Batch
-Navigation
-Notification
Batch
disco
very

8. Beyond the metadata record
»Content! (manuscript, data)
»Links (citations, data citations, relatedness, versions, etc.)
»User interaction data
»Comments
»Messages
»Peer-reviews
»Annotations

9. Three vertical discovery mechanisms
»Batch – Transferring bulk data
»Navigation – Helping robots to find resources in repositories by
means of navigation
»Notification – Enabling robots to subscribe to changes in
repositories

10. User stories and priority areas
Discovery
and
exposing
resources
Batch
Navigation
Notification
Research
workflows
and lifecycle
Annotation
Commenting
Social
interaction
Research
evaluation
Peer review
Metrics
• Data mining
• Discovering metadata that describe a
scholarly resource
• Discovering the identifier of a scholarly
resource
• Discovering usage rights
• Resource syncing and notification
• Recognizing the user
• Commenting & annotating
• Providing a social notification feed
• Recommender systems for repositories
• Preservation
• Peer-review
• Comparing usage

11. Global sign on
As a user, I want my repository to recognize me and other users
so that I can be connected with other users who I know, leave
comments and be informed of content that is of interest to me

12. Transparent social network over repositories
»What are the components:
›Annotation
›Commenting/social interaction
›Notification feed
›Recommender systems
»Novelty:
›All this in a transparent and
distributed environment

13. Research evaluation
»Comparing usage:
›addressing the fact altmetrics don’t work yet in the OA world
›Discovery is a key repository function which has a priority over metrics
accuracy!
»Open citations
»Peer-reviews

14. Current work
»Look deeper into each use case
»Identify possible technologies
»Provide recommendations

15. Conclusions
›COAR NGR WG wants to see repositories succeed. To achieve that,
the repositories technology needs to be competitive with commercial
offerings.