<div dir="ltr">Hello Lazarus,<div><br></div><div>This looks like a very sensible position to take :)</div><div><br></div><div>Could you or someone else on the list please elaborate on some of the specifics ? One can't but agree with the strategy, but I find it quite difficult to understand where to hook into it effectively, as an infrastructure engineer and a scientist.</div><div><br></div><div>I am one of those people who are "developing value-added services on top of repositories" and have tried very hard to do technology transfer, for example. </div><div><br></div><div>If one wanted to contribute to this strategy, the question I have is : how ? </div><div><br></div><div>Clearly this is not something that can be easily answered definitively in a single reply so I would welcome some discussion on the matter, from all on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks ! </div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 May 2017 at 08:03, Lazarus Matizirofa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za" target="_blank">lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Collectively we aspire to strengthen and enhance the distributed, community-based open access infrastructure around the world.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Moreover, we acknowledge that strong relationships between regional and national repository networks are important, and that there are significant benefits of working together:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">The development of value added services on top of global repositories requires the widespread, international adoption of common, open APIs and metadata
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Concentrating efforts at the regional and national level will ensure responsiveness to local needs and contexts, and prevents overlaps and cost redundancies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Sharing metadata across regions ensures comprehensive, global data coverage.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">To further our collective vision, we agree to collaborate in the following areas:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Regular communications: Facilitated by COAR, we will communicate regularly to exchange information, network with each other, and identify areas for potential
collaboration. At least one in-person meeting will be organized annually to enable technical and strategic discussions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Common APIs, standards, and protocols: Developing global services will involve the widespread interoperability and integration across data providers,
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Technology transfer and co-development of technologies: Similar services and technologies are being envisioned and deployed by many networks. Instead
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Australia <wbr> Australasian Open Access Strategy Group<br>
Canada <wbr> Canadian Association of Research Libraries<br>
China <wbr> Confederation of Chinese Academic Institutional Repository and National Science Library, CAS<br>
Europe <wbr> OpenAIRE<br>
Japan <wbr> Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository<br>
Latin America LA Referencia*<br>
South Africa National Research Foundation<br>
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