Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)

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Invest in Open Infrastructure

@investinopen

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Richard Dunks, Director of Research & Strategy

Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director

Emmy Tsang, Engagement Lead

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Welcome & logistics

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• Shared notes doc. Please sign in!
• Have a question? Please add to the shared doc or flag in chat. (We’ll be answering those later on.)
• Sessions will be recorded. We’ll be making the recording and notes available following these calls.

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Ground Rules & Expectations

How we want to work together

This call is designed as a place for learning & conversation.

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• Seek to understand, not be understood: We’re here to learn with you!
• Be curious: We want to know what thinking this has stimulated.
• Be helpful: We want to focus on solutions to the problems identified.
• Be respectful: We want to build community, not tear it down.

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Overview of COIs

Why we did this

• Address information asymmetries
• Foster greater understanding of open infrastructure services
• Cultivate a deeper awareness of how the services are provided
• Prototype a means of standardizing key pieces of information
• Meet the needs of various stakeholders (funders, providers, and users)

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Overview of COIs

What we drew inspiration from

• Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape 2019 Census and bibliographic scan
• The Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCAT)
• The list of Open Access Publishing Tools from the Radical Open Access Collective
• The Values & Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist from the Next Generation Library Publishing Project
• The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)
• The 400+ Tools and Innovations in Scholarly Communication compiled by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer of Utrecht University Library

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Overview of COIs

How we did this work

Data collection from:

• Provider and funder websites
• Annual Reports
• US Internal Revenue Service Form 990 data
• Surveys and interviews with service providers

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Overview of COIs

What we produced

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Overview of COIs

Grateful acknowledgements

• The open infrastructure project leaders who gave us their time and thoughts
• The institutional leaders, funders, and experts in non-profit effectiveness and assessment who provided invaluable input and guidance
• Design support from Allison McCartney (Bloomberg)

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The Interest Survey

Help us craft the future of COIs

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The Interest Survey

Our aim

• Improve the value, usability, scalability, and overall utility of the application
• Gather insights into how the information could be more usable, valuable, and reliable
• Co-develop meaningful measures and standards for evaluating open infrastructure services
• Help support the transformative influence of open services for a more equitable, just, and accessible infrastructure for all

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The Interest Survey

What we’re asking of you

• Basic information about your service, including a point of contact (POC)
• Why you’re interested in being included in COIs
• Do you have data easily available on your service?
• What is the best way to get it to us in an ongoing manner?
• How can we help you in this process?
• What else would you like us to know about COIs?

Open until 20 June 2022 but please don’t wait!

Look for results in August 2022

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Future Work

Where we go from here

• Technical/conceptual documentation
• Interest Survey (ongoing)
• Interviews with stakeholders
• Strategy and Maintenance Plan for COIs
• Ongoing evaluation of COIs with various stakeholders

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What are your questions?

Please make sure your questions is added to the shared notes doc

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Additional resources

Access the catalog & FAQ

• Beyond open: Key criteria to assess open infrastructure: More on criteria we are tracking, designed to center community, reliability, and transformative influence in our analysis.
• Exploring costs & characteristics of open infrastructure providers: Details on the projects we've selected (and how we chose them) for a deep analysis, and our broader work to map the open infrastructure project landscape.
• Funding open infrastructure: an overview of initial work: The first in a series of posts on our initial findings from collecting and analyzing data on the funding of open infrastructure.
• Funding open infrastructure: key terms and concepts in our analysis: Key terms and a general discussion of the challenges in accessing funding data.

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Thank you!

Email your thoughts, questions, or other feedback to catalog@investinopen.org

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