What's Next?
Developing the Next Layer of SHARE
SHARE’s long-term vision is a robust repository ecosystem that will inform key stakeholders in a timely, structured, and comprehensive manner when research release events occur.
As the SHARE Notification Service charges forward in its active development, the organizations behind SHARE (ARL, AAU, and APLU) are taking steps to flesh out this broader vision. We are currently developing a project plan for the second layer of SHARE—the SHARE Registry. The Notification Service is like the “acquisitions” arm of SHARE, pulling in all sorts of raw data about research release events. The Registry is akin to our “catalog,” responsible for reconciling and transforming this flow of events into a set of works, authors, institutions, and other entities represented by those events. The Notification Service is about raw data, while the Registry will process that raw data into related bundles—a preprint, a published article, and a data set that are all part of the same research project, for example.
The Registry will provide a publicly accessible API for queries. Access to the contents of the Registry is meant to primarily flow through this open API, allowing other systems to leverage the SHARE Registry. In this manner, the SHARE Registry aims to make it substantially easier for scholars, scientists, R&D companies, and other interested parties to discover, access, and reuse research outputs.