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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Release of COAR “Resource Type” Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 4, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">COAR is pleased to announce the public release of the “Resource Type” Controlled Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories, version 1.1. This vocabulary articulates the different
types of content available in repositories (and other scholarly systems) in a standardized way. The vocabulary will enhance cross-repository interoperability and is currently available in 12 languages - English, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Common vocabularies are an important aspect of interoperability by ensuring that
<i>everyone is using the same word to mean the same thing</i>. Controlled vocabularies, if applied consistently, offer a common terminology for describing content, and greatly assist with the discovery, sharing and reuse of content. The COAR Resource Type Vocabulary
uses the SKOS standard and supports a hierarchical model that relates narrower and broader concepts. The concepts are also mapped to terms and concepts of similar vocabularies and dictionaries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To support the application of the vocabulary, COAR is offering instructional webcasts as well as (available soon) instructions to help repository managers implement the vocabularies
in their own local environments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the near future, COAR will also produce several other multilingual controlled vocabularies including “date types”, “version types”, and “access modes”. COAR is committed to
maintaining and updating the vocabularies as needed in the future. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intrinsic to the nature of vocabularies is that they will change over time as resources evolve. We welcome your feedback on version 1.1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">COAR would like to express profound thanks to the members of the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Board, led by Jochen Schirrwagen and Imma Subirats, for their great efforts
and excellent work. The members of the editorial board are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alberto Apollaro, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (MinCyT), Argentina</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sophie Aubin, INRA – the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paola Azrilevich, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (MinCyT), Argentina</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Isabel Bernal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ilaria Fava, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gültekin Gürdal, Izmir Institute of Technology Library, Turkey</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tomoya Shiota, Digital Repository Federation (DRF), Japan</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Iryna Solodovnik, Russian Language Version Editor of the AIMS website (FAO of the UN, OPCC)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wilko Steinhoff, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Agricultural Information Management Standards</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Shenghui Wang, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The “Resource Type” Vocabulary is available here.
<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability/ig-controlled-vocabularies-for-repository-assets/coar-vocabularies/deliverables/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability/ig-controlled-vocabularies-for-repository-assets/coar-vocabularies/deliverables/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Give us your feedback:
<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability/ig-controlled-vocabularies-for-repository-assets/coar-vocabularies/deliverables/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability/ig-controlled-vocabularies-for-repository-assets/coar-vocabularies/deliverables/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Information about the webcasts is available here:
<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/webinar-and-discussion/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/webinar-and-discussion/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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For more information or inquiries, please contact: the controlled vocabulary editorial team <<a href="mailto:vocabularies@coar-repositories.org">vocabularies@coar-repositories.org</a>> or the COAR office <<a href="mailto:office@coar-repositories.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">office@coar-repositories.org</span></a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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