I've had a couple of these requests - I will ask the repository
managers if they can oblige.
--
Les Carr
On 16 Nov 2006, at 10:27, Brown, Douglas wrote:
> I'm looking forward to Piglet Squid: the Movie.
> Douglas
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John MacColl
> Sent: 16 November 2006 09:18
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> Subject: Re: spotted in an EPrints multimedia repository
>
> Les
>
> You have stimulated our imaginations. I think the first Hollywood
> blockbuster on the theme of institutional repositories is drawing
> closer.
> 'Admiral Hornblower PhD'? 'Scrutiny on the Bounty'? Or a film in
> which a
> team of upright marine scientists has their repository uploads
> intercepted by an unscrupulous rival crew - 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
> ...
>
> John
> --
> John MacColl
> Head, Digital Library 0131 651 3814 07742 424428
> Edinburgh University Library www.lib.ed.ac.uk
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Repositories discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
>> Sent: 15 November 2006 15:55
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: spotted in an EPrints multimedia repository
>>
>> On 15 Nov 2006, at 15:09, Michael Fraser wrote:
>>
>>> Can they, do they, upload from these heaving ships (is 'upload' the
>>> right word here?) directly to the repository?
>>
>> In this case, the repository is a replacement for a bespoke database.
>>
>> I have just put your question to one of their research officers. Most
>> of the time no processing, identification or classification of the
>> captured material is undertaken until the staff return to the office,
>> so the repository is not 'in situ' and deposits take place well after
>> the capture of the information.
>> --
>> Les Carr
>>
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