COAR has announced the launch of a new project, Notify: The Repositories and Services Interoperability Project.
The project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed – and further articulated in the Pubfair White Paper, which describes a distributed framework for open publishing services.
In 2020, COAR published a generic technical model to enable the linking of preprints and other repository resources with external services, with an initial focus on peer-review services. The technical model – which was developed based on a number of use cases provided by preprint servers, repositories, peer-review services and overlay journals – applies a distributed, message-oriented approach based on W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN).
In a practical sense, this model will enable a researcher to deposit an article (or other types of research output) into any compliant repository, choose from a list of peer-review services and overlay journals, and request a review. The repository will send an automated message to the peer-review service, and further bilateral interactions between the author and the overlay review service will be automated.
The Notify Project will assist implementing partners with adopting a common and interoperable model to support reviews and endorsements on distributed resources in repositories, preprints and archives.
Click here to read the original press release.
