Consortium Projects
COS has extensive experience with collaborative partnerships with consortia and external stakeholders. All collaborative engagements include clearly defined points-of-contact for ongoing communication. COS’s SHARE project has many consortium-management parallels with The Commons. SHARE is a partnership with the Association of Research Libraries and stakeholder partners the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public Land-grant Universities. COS is the technical partner and coordinates with the SHARE leadership team in product vision requirements and engagement with the library community. Likewise NGS2 is a DARPA-funded project for which COS is the technical and evaluation partner. COS provides project management of the whole program particularly with regard to performer teams’ research and technical work via OSF.
Community preprint services hosted by COS also operate via this partnership model. Each service maintains their independent governance body for defining the operating principles of their service. COS coordinates communication across service providers manages individual relationships with each service and delivers on the technical requirements to support those services. Others include COPDESS with the American Geophysical Union the International Situations Project and Lookit. Project success is a function of reliable clear lines of communication and collaborative planning and execution.

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