New Frontiers in Community-Led API Development: A Case Study on the OSF

This presentation will review the new Open Scholarship Open Source Environment API developed by the Center for Open Science as part of the Open Science Framework (OSF) platform and will discuss future development plans. It will also discuss the process for developing the requirements for the API with community members in order to support multiple functionalities. We will close by highlighting lessons learned from developing community-supported infrastructure for open scholarship. We believe the discussion will be a contribution to ongoing discussions of not only the actual infrastructure available for doing all types of scholarly research, but also the challenges and opportunities presented by community-developed software that integrates with and supports digital repositories.