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> For instance, I could likely help maintain engineering design stuff
> without getting anyone ticked off at me. But I'd have a nearly
> impossible time getting Ryerson U to support a repository for any
> kind of design work.
many of the large repositories have people who do this sort of
management/curation on their topic of interest, my suggestion is that
if someone takes specific interest in developing and working in an
area in an archive, then when that area becomes significantly
developed and useful, those people who worked on it should be
recognized, given official responsibilities if necessary, etc. so,
'start informal' and as it progresses formalities develop, but don't
start with the formalities and bureaucracies before you have
significant content.
jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu
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