>
>
> Terry's note has me a tiny bit worried -- I'm not sure how many
> Swinburnes worth of energy we'd need. We have a Centre for
> Astrophysics and Supercomputing, for example, and we've got some
> experience in managing large computer arrays.
you won't need anything like that. you'll just need a basic
eprints.org repository, you'll be surprised mainly by how little
traffic the repository gets. if you need something more than
eprints, almost all the repositories that i mentioned in the
aggregator provide software, some have over 300k papers, without any
big installation.
>
>
> need a good key-word system, and work on this may in fact prove
> useful to the entire field -- perhaps involving journal editors and
> others.
this type of taxonomic project is... hard to do, computer science
managed it in the 50's... i haven't seen anyone else try of late.
most move toward 'tagging' pretty fast. these sorts of projects to
standardize taxonomy usually kill archives.
> We've got to define the scope of what we upload ... perhaps we want
> everything from all possible fields and all commercial producers,
> but perhaps we don't. Since most commercial design research is
> proprietary, that would tend to limit the material that Microsoft or
> Shell might wish to place with us.
or you don't do that at all. what you do is you set up a system
where anyone can submit anything, but anything they submit has to be
licensed for distribution by the contributor acting in good faith with
the provision that any contribution submitted not in good faith will
be removed upon notification.
if you go another route... all you make is 10x the work.
>
>
> Whatever we do, it is clear that we must create rich links to
> current repositories and work as a field to make everything easier
> to find, where ever it is.
>
>
> There are challenges to solve.
>
> The point is that it is a good idea. Swinburne University is now
> prepared to explore the idea of a digital design research repository
> to see what we can do to make this happen. I must now begin the roll-
> up-your-sleeves tasks of locating a group of activists who will join
> us in making this possibility real.
>
> Let me take this on. I'll report back in six months to see where we
> stand.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ken
>
> --
>
> Ken Friedman
> Professor
>
> Dean, Swinburne Design
> Swinburne University of Technology
> Melbourne, Australia
>
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