Ah ha! an opportunity to ask a question which has been bothering me for
some time.... :-)
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:57 +0000, Leslie Carr wrote:
>
> > Maybe it depends on what you define the "repository system" as - is
> > it a single piece of software, is it an architecture diagram for the
> > Institution's information system, or something else?
>
> That way lies danger - once you redefine a repository to be just a
> database or an entire information environment then (I believe) you
> lose the point of it.
> --
> Les
What is the difference between an enterprise Digital Asset Management
system that has been developed for specific business needs and a
repository system that has been developed (by EPrints Services, for
example) for specific business needs?
If the single aim of the use of repositories in Universities was for
'Open Access' in it's strictest sense, then I could answer my question,
but reading literature like the JISC Roadmap report
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/publications/roadmap-200604/rep-roadmap-v15.pdf> and their Web 2.0 report <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitalrepositories/web2-content-learning-and-teaching.pdf> and looking at all the new repository projects that are being funded <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/projects.aspx> (ours included), it seems to me that academic users can't wait for repositories to serve pretty much the diversity of business functions that DAMs serve.
Given this increasing and inevitable diversity of uses repository
software is going to be employed in (and funded by JISC to do so!), what
is 'the point' of a repository as distinct from a DAM, ECMS or 'entire
information environment'?
Joss
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Joss Winn
LIROLEM Project Officer
CERD
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
LN6 7TS
Phone: 07789485910
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