JPCOAR Schema: A brand-new metadata schema for smooth international distribution of scholarly output in Japan

Abstract

Scholarly output deposited in institutional repositories in Japan has been broadly distributed in a standard metadata schema called junii2, and through Institutional Repositories Database (IRDB) developed by National Institute of Informatics (NII). With recent global situation change and technology development on scholarly communications, Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (JPCOAR) has just developed and released JPCOAR Schema ver1.0 on October 2017, which is a brand-new metadata schema that will succeed junii2 and promote smooth international distribution of research outputs created in Japan. In this article, we will provide an overview and philosophy of this new schema, including discussion during the development process.