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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Dear COAR members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">COAR aims to position universities, research institutions and their libraries as the foundation for a new scholarly communication system. A system that is community based and supports
the widespread sharing of research materials and outputs. Researchers produce huge volumes of research data, much of which remains on the hard drives and is unavailable for validation or re-use. In a system where openness is becoming the default, it is imperative
that institutions take on greater responsibility for the collection, management and sharing of this valuable content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Last week, COAR launched a Research Data Management (RDM) Interest Group to help the community expand their operations to support RDM. This group will provide a forum for discussion about
managing research data, identify best practices and strategies, and support capacity building for RDM in the repository community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">RDM is wide ranging and there are already many organizations active in this area. The aim of COAR’s work is to promote and articulate the role of research institutions in providing access
to research data and to help address the challenges of RDM for the repository community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">All outputs of the group will be made available to COAR members. </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">At our meeting last week, the interest group identified the following activities for 2016-2018:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Webinars <o:p></o:p>
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(b) Methods for linking data to publications <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
(c) Basic introduction to RDM <o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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Develop an assessment framework to help institutions evaluate data repository systems
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Undertake a brief survey of RDM activities within the COAR membership <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Identify and link to key training material and resources <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Share collection policies for RDM in repositories <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Recommend metadata standards for research data sets <o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If you are interested in <u>actively</u> participating in this group, please send a message to
<a href="mailto:office@coar-repositories.org" target="_blank">office@coar-repositories.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The webpage is here: <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-content/rda-interest-group-the-long-tail-of-research-data/" target="_blank">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-content/rda-interest-group-the-long-tail-of-research-data/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">All the best, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kathleen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kathleen Shearer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992 9068<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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