Duraspace

In November 2017, COAR published the report, Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group. The report published a list of 19 technologies and protocols that are recommended to improve the way repositories function. There is tremendous interest in the community related to the vision of next generation repositories. COAR is helping to advance this vision and also monitoring developments so that we avoid redundancy of efforts. Significant progress has already been made in terms of adoption of some of the technologies into the open source platforms. This panel will have representatives from the open source repository community and platform developers to provide updates about the progress towards adoption of the NGR technologies, discuss any associated challenges, and look into the future to identify any new technologies on the horizon.

OpenVIVO is a free and open hosted semantic web platform anyone can join that gathers and shares open data about scholarship in the world. OpenVIVO, based on the VIVO open source platform, provides transparent access to data about the scholarly work of its participants. OpenVIVO demonstrates the use of persistent identifiers, automatic real-time ingest of scholarly ecosystem metadata, use of VIVO-ISF and related ontologies, attribution of work, and publication and reuse of data – all critical components of presenting, preserving, and tracking scholarship. The system was created by a cross-institutional team over the course of three months. The team created and used RDF models for research organizations in the world based on Digital Science GRID data, for academic journals based on data from CrossRef and the US National Library of Medicine, and created a new model for attribution of scholarly work. All models, data and software are available in open repositories.