# Purpose Last updated: 2023-09-25 URL for this page: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/COIs-purpose URL for site: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/COIs ## A Note about Updates This documentation is for the pilot project Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services, released in January 2022. This documentation is no longer being updated, but is preserved to accompany that pilot project. We are looking forward to releasing a new version of this tool in early 2024. [Sign up for our newsletter](https://share.investinopen.org/newsletter) to learn about the latest work. ## Overview The following documentation is meant to be the primary resource for understanding the background, content, and key frameworks for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). We define key terms, describe key inputs, and articulate our internal decision-making on what content we included and how we chose to display it in order to inform and engage users of COIs, as well as support those interested in submitting information on services not already included in COIs. ## Format As documentation, it is constructed primarily as a reference source rather than a narrative description of the catalog. We strive in this documentation for clarity and completeness, while also making this guide concise and readable for those interested in collaborating with us in this work. ## Providing Comments/Feedback We welcome respectful and constructive comments and other feedback on this document that follow our [Code of Conduct](https://investinopen.org/code-of-conduct/). You can add these by highlighting the text and clicking `Comment` in the popup, then adding your comments in the text box to the right, as shown in the GIF below. ![img](https://i.imgur.com/AW3ar4x.gif) This will help us build a more robust, usable, and informative resources for those interested in the information COIs provides. We thank you for your interest in COIs and look forward to improving both the documentation and COIs itself through a constructive dialogue with those interested, engaged, and affected by this work. If you have other feedback you'd like to provide on COIs, please email catalog@investinopen.org. --- ## See also * Archived copy of this page (via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/COIs-purpose --- This page first published: 2022-05-08 ###### tags: `cois-documentation` --- <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is made available under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Users are free to share, remix, and adapt this work. (Please attribute [Invest in Open Infrastructure](https://investinopen.org/) in any derivative work).