On 7 Dec 2006, at 20:21, Nigel Gilbert wrote:
> UK-based academic publishers are of course increasingly providing
> electronic versions of print-originating books, but these are
> basically
> 'bog standard books' and make little use of the possibilities of the
> electronic medium. My intention is to utilise the electronic form to
> present a body of material in a more innovative way.
I wonder whether today's repositories might not offer an interesting
basis for a collection presentation platform.
I can only speak with authority about EPrints (and not DSpace or
Fedora), but most of what a visitor sees of an EPrints repository is
an elaborate structure of static files and directories that could
easily be copied, as-is, onto a CD or DVD. So all of the clever Web
2.0 rendering devices for digital items and collections (lightboxes,
timelines, flash visualisations) that repositories are starting to
incorporate would be available on the CD.
I don't know that anyone has pursued 'a repository on a CD' before,
although I think that the Greenstone digital library software does.
(It's not really a repository, but it is often mentioned in the same
context.)
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Les Carr
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