# COAR Repository Toolkit ## COAR Repository Toolkit - [Repository Toolkit](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/master.md) - [Introduction](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/introduction.md): The aim of the toolkit is to provide repository managers with best practices and educational resources to support interoperability, discoverability and the development of value added services. - [COAR's vision](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/introduction/test-sub-page.md): A sustainable, inclusive, and trusted global knowledge commons based on a network of open access digital repositories - [Role of repositories](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/introduction/role-of-repositories.md): Open access (OA) repositories are digital platforms that manage and provide free access to research outputs ensuring that valuable research is disseminated widely for the benefit of society. - [Discoverability](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability.md): Critical to the success of repositories, is that their content is discoverable through other services that are frequented by users. - [Repository registries](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability/repository-registries.md): Once you set up a repository, you should register with all relevant registries. These registries maintain lists of repositories so that value added services and individual users can discover them. - [Repository harvesters](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability/repository-harvesters.md): Repository harvesters aggregate metadata from repositories in order to support discovery, analysis and reuse of content. They generally require that repositories are OAI-PMH compliant. - [Search engine optimisation](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability/search-engine-optimisation.md): Repository content should be searchable via the major search engines in use by its users. These resources provide information to ensure repository records are indexed by search engines. - [Usage statistics](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability/usage-statistics.md): "Usage Statistics about items and content providers support the assessment of their popularity and use. They are an important complement to other kinds of metrics." (OpenAIRE) - [Copyright and licences](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/discoverability/licensing.md) - [Interoperability](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/interoperability.md): Interoperability is the technical “glue” connecting content and systems in the network of repositories and other tools, enabling value added services to be built on this integrated infrastructure. - [Metadata](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/interoperability/metadata-and-vocabularies.md): Metadata is "data about data". Metadata is the descriptive information related to each resource in the repository. - [Controlled Vocabularies](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/interoperability/controlled-vocabularies.md): "A list of standardized terminology, words, or phrases, used for indexing or content analysis and information retrieval, usually in a defined information domain." (CASRAI) - [Persistent identifiers](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/interoperability/persistent-identifiers.md): "A Persistent IDentifier (PID) is a long-lasting reference to a resource, registered at an agreed location. Often, a PID is associated to a set of metadata describing the object." (THOR Project-NCDD) - [Additional resources](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/interoperability/additional-resources.md) - [Next generation repositories](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/nextgen-repositories.md): COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group identifies the core functionalities for the next generation of repositories, as well as the architectures and technologies required to implement them. - [Network services](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/nextgen-repositories/network-services.md) - [Repository services](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/nextgen-repositories/repository-services.md) - [Technologies](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/nextgen-repositories/technologies.md) - [Case studies](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/nextgen-repositories/case-studies.md) - [Software implementation](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure.md): This section introduces open source repository softwares and their implementation process by providing links to their documentation and available webinar recordings. - [DSpace](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure/dspace.md) - [Eprints](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure/eprints.md) - [Fedora](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure/fedora.md) - [Samvera](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure/samvera.md) - [Islandora](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/infrastructure/islandora.md) - [User engagement](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/advocacy-and-user-engagement.md): Repository managers and relevant players may need to get their voice heard, make a case and persuade stakeholders as well providing trainings for their staff and user communities. - [Advocacy](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/advocacy-and-user-engagement/advocacy.md): COAR calls on the scholarly community to work together to support and contribute to a system that is truly open, functional, and driven by the needs of the research community. - [Training](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/advocacy-and-user-engagement/training.md): With the objective of providing support for the repository community, COAR aims to maintain a list of major resources and links to relevant training materials. - [Research data management](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/research-data.md): Research Data Management (RDM) concerns the organisation of data, from the start when data are collected through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. (TUDelft) - [Frameworks and standards](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/research-data/frameworks.md): Guiding frameworks, principles and standards for research data management are listed on this page. - [Data management plan](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/research-data/dmp.md): DPM is a formal statement describing how research data will be managed and documented throughout a research project and the terms regarding the subsequent deposit of the data..." (CASRAI) - [Infrastructure](https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/research-data/infrastructure.md): Relevant technologies in terms of software and services in research data management are provided on this page.