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• SHARE proposal will require separate funding. If arXiv is potential partner/contributor to SHARE , the program will need to add metadata like unique ID, funder code, etc. How will this impact the overall IT framework?  
• CHORUS and SHARE are proposals but agencies are not entertaining proposals. Not like an RFP. Both will proceed. SHARE will move forward and is looking for funding. Time frame: refining whitepaper to think about prototype within the next year. What would it take to search across all of these repositories?
  • A consistent use of metadata that will hopefully ‘touch’ the repositories
  • Data management is still a key question
• The quality of the arXiv download statistics are good and are trusted. What are some additional statistics that we can provide?Initiatives such as OpenAIRE are developing subject classification and categorization systems for their open access repositories; can arXiv contribute to these open source initiatives? 
  • Downloads for articles that receive a lot of ‘attention’ (is this number of hits? Link outs? Popular press?)
  • Submission uploads based on IP
  • Total # of downloads/institution highlighted in the banner
• Recommendation: explore usage statistics in greater detail with our members

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• Our proposal: annual update to institutions with the invoice, in addition to:
  • Very brief survey to paying members about what they’d like to know and how they’d like to know;
  • Present Roadmap to users in order to get them to vote issues ‘up or down’ (with the understanding that such a mechanism is very useful feedback and not guarantee or orders).
• Perpetual problem with communication is that directors get receive a lot information instead of the subject librariansFor MAB high-contributing members, we will need to determine terms and voting now that we have two new members (CCSD in France and Japan-SPARC)
  • We have an email update list, anyone can sign up for arXiv updates. Will promote more especially to mailing lists such as PAM.

MAB Group Composition and Structure

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