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COIs Initial Feedback and Learnings
Last week we shared a first look at the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs), a prototype designed to provide insight for decision makers looking to invest or adopt open infrastructure solutions. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the initial questions we’ve received.
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Announcing the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
Today we are excited to share the first look at the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). This resource is the culmination of research, interviews, and analysis of a sampling of open infrastructure projects serving the research community.
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The costs of open infrastructure: conversations with providers, funders, and institutions
We had conversations with nine open infrastructure providers, representatives of funding bodies, and institutional budget owners to surface the obstacles and challenges that open infrastructure projects face in their daily operations and long-term planning. This blog post shares initial findings.
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The Conquest of ProQuest and Knowledge Unlatched: How recent mergers are bad for research and the public
This post is written by members of IOI's Community Oversight Council on the recent corporate acquisitions involving two library services products: Clarivate, a major academic metrics company, and Knowledge Unlatched, a crowdfunded open access provider.
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Funding open infrastructure: A survey of available data sources
In this post, we discuss the various sources of data on funding and financial performance for providers of open technologies and other systems in research and scholarship.
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Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
For the past month we've been exploring the potential of Wikidata as a public knowledge base for information about open infrastructure and its financial components. Wikidata, a sister project of Wikipedia, is a dynamic space with exciting room for growth and development.
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Funding open infrastructure: key terms and concepts in our analysis
In this post, we continue our discussion of funding open infrastructure with our key terms and a general discussion of the challenges in accessing funding data.
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Funding open infrastructure: an overview of initial work
In this post, we preview our initial findings from collecting and analyzing available data on the funding of open infrastructure. We will be following up with posts going into more depth on each aspect of this analysis to enhance the community's understanding of the funding landscape.
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Exploring costs & characteristics of open infrastructure providers
This post unpacks more about our efforts to identify an initial subset of projects in the open infrastructure landscape to interview and examine, and the characteristics and key questions we are prioritizing in our analysis.
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Introducing IOI's Research Fellows
With the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we are excited to introduce IOI’s first Research Fellows: Anne Britton and Teri Wanderi. They'll be working with us over the next few months to expand and enhance our research to support and sustain open infrastructure.
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Beyond open: Key criteria to assess open infrastructure
These criteria are designed to center community, reliability, and transformative influence into our analysis. This post elaborates on those attributes.
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Mapping the costs of open infrastructure
Earlier this summer we shared our three-year Strategic Plan, outlining the shape of the work ahead and how we were going to approach it moving forward. Today, we wanted to share more about what we're working on to prototype support for funders and decision-makers.
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