On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Andy Powell wrote:
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> Yes, I was wondering along similar lines... and about, dare I say it, what
> the definition of a repository is!?!
For those who have not come across it, Lorna presented a very useful white
paper (authored with Jon Mason and Kerry Blinco) at the alt-i-lab 2004
meeting which gives an overview of repository management and
implementation, and as part of this discusses some of the various types of
repository.
see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Altilab04-repositories.pdf
At the meeting there was various mentions of need for a typology of
repositories, and more fundamentally an understanding of the 'ecology' of
reositories i.e. how they relate to each other.
A significant step would be to investigate what services are common
across various types of repository, which are distinct.
Rachel
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