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Introduction

COAR Notify is a technology for enabling the "bi-directional linking between peer review services, overlay journals and repositories". It uses "well-established W3C technologies/standards" including "linked data notifications and activity streams". For more information about COAR Notify please see: https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/notify/

Use Cases

COAR Notify has been implemented in EPrints with two main uses cases in mind.

Peer Community In (PCI)

A collection of academic communities that self-organise peer review processes. COAR Notify enables EPrints repositories to communicate with PCI communities, facilitating a process for the peer review of preprint eprint records, allowing the repository to request reviews and handle rejections or endorsements.

For more information about PCI, please see https://peercommunityin.org/

For more information about PCI in EPrints, please see COAR Notify: PCI

Inter-Repository Linking

This use case implements COAR Notify to enable repositories to announce relationships to items held within another repository. For example, where an institution may have a publications repository and a separate research data repository, items within the two can be linked using Notify's linked data notifications.

For more information, please see COAR Notify: Repository Linking

Implementation

COAR Notify has been integrated into EPrints through changes to the core EPrints code base as well as ingredients (for EPrints 3.4+) and Bazaar plugins (for EPrints 3.3). An overview of the changes are presented below...

Signposting

A pre-requisite for COAR Notify. Signposting has been implemented in EPrints 3.3 and 3.4.

To enable Signposting in your repository you need the following changes https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/pull/387

This is a minor change which introduces Typed Links to the HTTP response headers. These direct services to links where more information can be found about the resource usng a specified format, supporting COAR Notify's "pass by reference" approach to communication.

For more information about Signposting in EPrints, please see Signposting

For more information about Signposting, please see https://signposting.org/

COAR Notify

The COAR Notify integration is available as either an ingredient or Bazaar plugin at https://github.com/eprintsug/coar_notify and https://bazaar.eprints.org/1257/

Prerequisites: Signposting

This integration enables several core COAR Notify components:

Linked Data Notification (LDN) dataset
LDN inbox and handler
Framework for sending LDNs
COAR Notify: Repository Linking - input component, rendering and handling

For more information, please see COAR Notify

PCI

The PCI integration is available as either an ingredient or Bazaar plugin at: https://github.com/eprintsug/pci_review and https://bazaar.eprints.org/1258/

Prerequisites: Signposting; COAR Notify ingredient/plugin.

For more information please see: COAR Notify: PCI

Acknowledgements

COAR Notify development for EPrints has been supported by the COAR Notify Initiative via funding from Arcadia.

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-Initial work on COAR Notify integration for EPrints is taking place at:
+==Introduction==
+COAR Notify is a technology for enabling the "bi-directional linking between peer review services, overlay journals and repositories". It uses "well-established W3C technologies/standards" including "[https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/ linked data notifications] and [https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/ activity streams]". For more information about COAR Notify please see: https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/notify/
-https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/pull/387 (Signposting)
+==Use Cases==
+COAR Notify has been implemented in EPrints with two main uses cases in mind.
-https://github.com/eprintsug/coar_notify (COAR Notify plugin)
+===Peer Community In (PCI)===
+A collection of academic communities that self-organise peer review processes. COAR Notify enables EPrints repositories to communicate with PCI communities, facilitating a process for the peer review of preprint eprint records, allowing the repository to request reviews and handle rejections or endorsements.
-https://github.com/eprintsug/notifications (Notifications UI)
+For more information about PCI, please see https://peercommunityin.org/
+For more information about PCI in EPrints, please see [[COAR Notify: PCI]]
+===Inter-Repository Linking===
+This use case implements COAR Notify to enable repositories to announce relationships to items held within another repository. For example, where an institution may have a publications repository and a separate research data repository, items within the two can be linked using Notify's linked data notifications.
+For more information, please see [[COAR Notify#Repository Linking|COAR Notify: Repository Linking]]
+==Implementation==
+COAR Notify has been integrated into EPrints through changes to the core EPrints code base as well as ingredients (for EPrints 3.4+) and Bazaar plugins (for EPrints 3.3). An overview of the changes are presented below...
+===Signposting===
+A pre-requisite for COAR Notify. Signposting has been implemented in EPrints 3.3 and 3.4.
+To enable Signposting in your repository you need the following changes https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/pull/387
+This is a minor change which introduces Typed Links to the HTTP response headers. These direct services to links where more information can be found about the resource usng a specified format, supporting COAR Notify's "pass by reference" approach to communication.
+For more information about Signposting in EPrints, please see [[Signposting]]
+For more information about Signposting, please see https://signposting.org/
+===COAR Notify===
+The COAR Notify integration is available as either an ingredient or Bazaar plugin at https://github.com/eprintsug/coar_notify and https://bazaar.eprints.org/1257/
+'''Prerequisites: [[Signposting]]'''
+This integration enables several core COAR Notify components:
+* Linked Data Notification (LDN) dataset
+* LDN inbox and handler
+* Framework for sending LDNs
+* [[COAR Notify#Repository Linking|COAR Notify: Repository Linking]] - input component, rendering and handling
+For more information, please see [[COAR Notify]]
+===PCI===
+The PCI integration is available as either an ingredient or Bazaar plugin at: https://github.com/eprintsug/pci_review and https://bazaar.eprints.org/1258/
+'''Prerequisites: [[Signposting]]; [[COAR Notify]] ingredient/plugin.'''
+For more information please see: [[COAR Notify: PCI]]
+==Acknowledgements==
+COAR Notify development for EPrints has been supported by the [https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/notify/ COAR Notify Initiative] via funding from [https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/ Arcadia].