Exploring the values of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)

"The Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) is a web-based application designed to provide accessible, comprehensive, and actionable information for funders, users, and other stakeholders to support decision making about funding, adoption, and usage of open infrastructure services. We launched the prototype for COIs in January 2022, which featured 10 open infrastructure services. With the prototype, we solicited feedback from funders, institutional leaders, tool providers, and the broader user community to better understand COIs’ value proposition and areas for improvement. At a high level, we wanted to: Understand how funding decisions are made and identify the opportunities for COIs to be integrated into that process, to help make some steps easier and/or more transparent. Find out what information fields on the prototype are helpful/not helpful, what is missing, and what replicates existing funders’ tools from other sources, by having users engage with the prototype...."