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Pathways: augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories

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In the emerging eScience environment, repositories of papers, datasets, software, etc., should be the foundation of a global and natively-digital scholarly communications system. The current infrastructure falls far short of this goal. Cross-repository interoperability must be augmented to support the many workflows and value-chains involved in scholarly communication. This will not be achieved through the promotion of single repository architecture or content representation, but instead requires an interoperability framework to connect the many heterogeneous systems that will exist.

We present a simple data model and service architecture that augments repository interoperability to enable scholarly value-chains to be implemented. We describe an experiment that demonstrates how the proposed infrastructure can be deployed to implement the workflow involved in the creation of an overlay journal over several different repository systems (Fedora, aDORe, DSpace and arXiv).

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  1. Computing and Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Simeon Warner, Carl Lagoze & Sandy Payette

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Ghent University, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Jeroen Bekaert

  3. Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    Xiaoming Liu & Herbert Van de Warner

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Warner, S., Bekaert, J., Lagoze, C. et al. Pathways: augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories. Int J Digit Libr 7, 35–52 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-007-0016-7

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