LISTers,
Some thoughts arising from the comments of others.
I suggest a highly distributed model (no one university or other
entity should have control) if it is to be true open source and
transparent, and be attractive to all shades of design.
It is likely to proceed at a pace if many are working on their
specialist parts of it. Self interest is a powerful force.
The discussion seems to have been around archiving papers. I am aware
that multimedia will be more server hungry. Local archivists with such
interests may provide much larger resources to cope with their
specialist areas.
It should be available to everybody, not just DRS members.
The network will require an impartial hub, either based upon some new
organisation, or an existing learned society.
Rigid taxonomies may kill it off.
Management of the resource could be hugely expensive if human
intervention is needed. I prefer individual uploading with the proviso
that there is a light-touch acceptance procedure. And of course
complaints about copyright etc. could mean withdrawing the materials.
If this project is to be successful it is important to take it beyond
the small[ish] group of scholars on phd-design, to the wider
community[s].
David
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