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COAR Notify

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Launched: 2021
Record Updated: Dec 10, 2025
Standard, specification or protocol
The COAR Notify Protocol is a set of profiles, constraints and conventions around the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

Mission

The aim of the project is to develop and accelerate community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with external service resources, such as overlay journals and open peer review services, using linked data notifications.

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

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Open API

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Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Content Licensing

  • Creative commons licenses

Standards

Hosting Options

  • Through solution or third party vendor

Integrations

  • bioRxiv
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Peer Community In
  • PREreview

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

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Community Statements

User Contribution Pathways

  • Contribute to code
  • Contribute to documentation
  • Contribute to education or training
  • Contribute to user research or user testing
  • Contribute to working groups or interest groups

Community Engagement Activities

  • Blogs
  • Conference participation
  • Interest, working, user, or advisory groups
  • Mailing lists and discussion forums (including Slack)
  • Webinars and training

Policies & Governance

Governance Summary

The Stichting COAR is a not-for-profit foundation that was created on April 3, 2023 in accordance with the Netherlands Civil Code (Art. 2:285 et seq.). It is governed by a board of directors.

Policies

Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

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Governance Structure & Processes

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Policy Statements

Board Structure

Editorial Board

Community Governance

  • Ad hoc

Additional Information

Organizational History

COAR-Notify builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed – and further articulated in the Pubfair White Paper, which describes a distributed framework for open publishing services.
In 2020, COAR published a generic technical model to enable the linking of preprints and other repository resources with external services. The technical model – which was developed based on a number of use cases provided by preprint servers, repositories, peer review services and overlay journals – applies a distributed, message-oriented approach based on W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN). In 2021, COAR officialy launched the Notify project. https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-launches-the-notify-project/

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Non-profit organization

Current Affiliations

No affiliations.

Funding

Primary Funding Source

  • Contributions
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