COAR Notify

Welcome to COAR Notify!

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.

On January 28, 2021, COAR launched the COAR Notify Initiative. It extists to develop and accelerate community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach (using Linked Data Notifications) to link research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services, such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. This will enable the creation of a global, decentralised, and transparent notification infrastructure for research outputs, which will be of great value to the research community, including researchers, repository managers, and service providers.

Specification
The COAR Notify Protocol consists of documented community conventions for the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.
Implementation Guide
This Implementation Guide supports the community of developers either considering or actively implementing COAR Notify. However, anyone else with an interest in the COAR Notify Initiative may also find this handbook informative.
Catalogue
Notify is starting to be implemented in workflows by repositories and other systems to satisfy a number of use-cases. These are documented here.

Recent News

Asynchronously reporting 'un-processable' notifications
In the Madrid meeting we discussed how to notify a system that it has sent an "un-processable" notification. This was also discussed in the GitHub repository discussion forum. The use case is that a system receives a notification which is "well-formed", and so the receiver sends a 202 Accepted response, queuing the notification for asynchronous processing. However, when the system attempts to process the notification, it discovers that it is "un-processable" for some reason.


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COAR is extremely grateful for the generous funding support from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, which will go towards the COAR Notify Project. The funded project began on July 1st, 2022 and will last for four years.