What’s Next?
Setting the Stage for SHARE’s 2015
SHARE had a very productive 2014. We secured funding, forged a development partnership with the Center for Open Science, built a working prototype of the SHARE Notification Service, and developed a community of stakeholders encompassing repositories, libraries, university administration, funding bodies, publishers, and technology organizations.
In 2015, SHARE will be proceeding along two closely related paths. First, we will continue to develop and roll out the Notification Service. In the spring, we will officially enter beta, with a broader range of data providers and consumers beginning to test the system. The beta will continue to expand over the course of the summer, with an eye toward the first full release of the SHARE Notification Service in the fall.
Concurrently, the SHARE team will be planning for our Phase II development. As alluded to in the “SHARE at CNI" section above, we are in the process of drafting a project plan to describe how SHARE will deepen and enhance the records created by Notification Service events. For example, the Notification Service will process reports of preprints by two co-authors from their respective institutional repositories as two distinct events, the publishing of their final article as another event, and the posting of their data set in an NCBI data repository as yet another event. In Phase II of SHARE we plan to account for the relationships among these events by associating these activities with one another. We also plan to work closely with a set of pilot SHARE-Enabling institutions to determine the changes in workflow and data practices required to make this possible.
Our expectation is that a draft project plan will be available to our working group by late winter, funding will be secured by this summer, and development will commence immediately thereafter.
