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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You are right of course,
services are the key, and shared services are integral to research
infrastructures. Yet as Boyle points out “Infrastructure is the
thing that we always fail to fund because it’s kind of everybody’s
problem, and therefore its nobody’s problem.” (Nature 461,2009,
p162)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Since the membership drive seems
to be taking care of itself, COAR will focus on networking international repository
federations, including, but not limited to the DRIVER infrastructure. Discussions
are underway ahead of the launch in October on agreements on data sharing,
domain or range of data to be exposed or shared, feasibility planning and
implementation of data exchange, possible mirroring or replica services,
interoperability standards, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The task of building a
sustainable business model for OA resources is enormous, and its urgency is
underlined by the vulnerability of OAIster. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On 23 Sep 2009, at 22:12, Peters, Dale wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:Consolas'>An alternative to the systematic
commercialisation of Open Access data is the formal constitution of COAR: the
Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open
Access Week 2009. <a
href="http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html">http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Apart from the fact that "systematic
commercialisation" is a bit of an exaggeration, can you explain exactly
how a repository organisation is going to provide "an alternative"
service model? Surely building other services is the alternative?
Shouldn't there be a "Confederation of Open Access Services" ????<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Emerging as the sustainable outcome of
the DRIVER infrastructure, COAR is a community-driven approach, where
institutions can determine how they want their repositories to be deployed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Institutions already determine how they want their
repositories to be
deployed. It is true that the majority of them don't publish policies
for metadata and data reuse (according to data from OpenDOAR), so that state of
affairs should be improved upon.<br>
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<p><span style='font-family:Consolas'>The action plan is directed towards
international organisational support for Open Access in research
infrastructures around the globe. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I applaud this but it is (according to the website) COAR's
*second* goal set. Its first goal set is to maintain the DRIVER confederation.
Does this mean that COAR is a membership club whose first allegiance is to its
own continued existence? Will
membership drives will be the first thing on the agenda and where membership marketing and advocacy will take priority over OA marketing and advocacy?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Les<o:p></o:p></p>
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