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Institution Registry Stakeholders’ Meeting
  • Washington, DC
    October 7, 2005
    10.00am-3.00pm
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Agenda
  • 10:00-12:00
    • Welcome and Introductions
    • Overview of agenda and objectives
    • Overview of Institution Registry
      • What problem does it solve?
      • What does and doesn’t it do?
    • High-level functionality requirements
      • Libraries and publishers
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Agenda
  • 13:00-15:00
    • Emerging Services
      • Ringgold and Atypon
      • Others
    • Related standards/projects
      • ISIL, Shibboleth
    • Governance/Business Models
      • Factors for success
    • Next Steps
      • Implementation (Georgios Papadopoulas, Atypon)
      • Working groups
      • Possible prototypes
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Objectives
  • Discuss IR at a high-level
  • Discuss high-level functionality requirements – identify key requirements for libraries and publishers
  • Atypon and Ringgold presentations – what are similarities/differences?  How do they meet the requirements?
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Objectives
  • Discuss governance and business models
  • Discuss possibilities for collaboration
  • Decide next steps: working groups, possible prototypes
  • How do we make this happen in the “right” way?
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Requirements/Issues
  • Efficient exchange of information between institutions and service providers
  • Streamline processes around accessing information
  • Who owns system?  Who owns data in the system?
  • Data validation/control of data entry?
  • Who gets access to system
  • Customer support
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Institution Registry: Governance and Business Models
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Governance
  • Goal: long-term, sustainable, representative
  • Stakeholder groups need to be involved in governance
  • Not-for-profit required or is commercial company acceptable?
  • Separate organization or existing organization?
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Governance
  • Existing models
    • Project COUNTER
    • CrossRef
    • Others?
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Business model
  • Goal: long-term sustainability, cost recovery
  • Commercial service acceptable?
  • Fairness
  • Charges related to usage
  • Initial funding/startup costs vs ongoing cost recovery
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Business Model
  • Charge publishers?
  • Charge other users of data (A&Is, agents)?
  • Charge libraries?
  • Annual member fee?
  • Flat fees?
  • Transaction fees?