The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has
just released a report from their Next Generation Repositories Working Group: Behaviours
and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working
Group. The recommendations in this report provide an interesting read
about the potential for a much more interlinked and standardized repository
front in the future.
The report states that ”many of the behaviors and recommendations
for next generation repositories pertain to establishing links across
repositories as a way to break down the silos and arrive at an environment
characterized by interconnected networked repositories.”
We currently have a somewhat “under-regulated” system of
repositories that may or may not play nice with each other. The suggested
standards and protocols within this report would move towards a more
standardized approach to repository content as well as the metadata backing
these materials. If adopted globally these standards would provide the
foundation for more interlinked data and materials by adopting, and then
adapting, resources that are already available.
Acknowledging that technology is fluid, and in some cases
the desired technology does not yet exist, the Working Group will soon be publishing
their behaviors and technologies in a GitHub repository to support updates and
engage the broader community.
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