Today we published a concept paper proposing a new approach to discoverability of multilingual content in the scholarly commons called Semantic Multilingual Search. We want your opinions! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

@coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer reminding us how IRs are open infrastructure that should be collaborating trans-nationally.

#Osfair2025

Read our new blog post outlining COAR's proposed new approach to multilingual discoverability across the global repository network: "Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... Very exciting!!!!

Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A

COAR Notify now available to ePrints users coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

The COAR Power Networking session at #LIBER2025 was especially popular since I was joined by COAR Executive Board member, Nathalie Fargier from HAL and CCDS. Repos are going to be more important than ever in the new world of AI. Join the COAR community in charting our path forward!

No surprise that AI is a prime topic at #liber2025. Many projects using AI to improve resource curation. But, nothing ground breaking. On the other hand, interesting conversations over lunch about the potential disruptions ahead for traditional publishing model @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@libereurope.bsky.social From the opening keynote at #LIBER2025 Conference. Is the web too polluted to train AI? Yes! COAR believes that to have really valuable AI services we need to curate our resources and scope data providers appropriately, especially for science.

Push back: "Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social

And next is Richard Jones presenting the code libraries at #OR2025 they have developed for COAR Notify. All openly available for the community.

COAR Notify is becoming so well-recognized in the community it even has its own session at #OR2025. First up, Will Fyson from Co-Sector introducing the ePrints implementation

And more implementations of the COAR Resource Type vocabulary at #OR2025 - yay! It is now available in many languages. This vocabulary enables the entire repository community to use the same word to mean the same thing!

Getting a sneak peek of the Zenodo / Invenio RDM implementation of COAR Notify at #OR2025, presented by Richard Jones from Cottage Labs. It will be available soon n upcoming versions. thanks to Arcadia Fund for their support!

Last day of #COAR2025 and we close with Petr Knoth (CORE) and Martin Klein (COAR Notify) presenting some very interesting ideas for where we go next with the global network of OArepositories. Exciting times with lots of potential, and super helpful for crafting COAR's new vision in the coming months

Winding down (or up) for the day #COAR2025 with a discussion of the potential of AI tools in repositories. Imagine what we could build with AI on the full corpus of OA knowledge available in the world's repositories @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @investinopen.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social

One of the several international panels sharing about #openaccess #repositories at #COAR2025. Tons of momentum in Canada, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Now we just need to connect it all together! @investinopen.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social

Lot's of interesting discussions @COAR2025 in Tokyo. 23 countries represented with several common themes emerging: (1) strong repository-friendly policies for immediate OA; (2) national infrastructure for repositories, PIDs/ARKs, diamondOA, and; (3) research assessment reform - while AI looms large

Read our update: Expanding the COAR Notify Ecosystem: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Don't miss our recently published "Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... It outlines what repositories need to do in the coming years to take them to the next level. Thanks @libereurope.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social