I'm far from an expert on OA, but I *think* we could consider google scholar
as a basic interface. In time, something more profound might be needed, but I
wouldn't want to define it at the outset. My understanding is that OA
repositories turn up well in google scholar. ...but I could be wrong.
Cheers.
fil
Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
> Oh I'd guess that as soon as you get away from ... just build it, and
> start doing bureaucratic structuring, you should as well just close up
> shop and go home. I think you would need such a structure of course
> for the distributed model that you propose. I don't think distributed
> is a good model until the tools are built for such a model, and they
> aren't built as best as I can tell. So you would have to have the human
> bureaucracy to make up for the lack of technical systems. This is why
> designwise for an archive, i prefer the old and highly successful,
> central archive + mirrors. Which can be combined with 'anyone else can
> build their own archive too'.
>
> anyway, I'm thinking that we are not supposed to go on at length about
> this possible project.
>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, David Durling wrote:
>> On 9 Apr 2008, at 1:57 pm, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
>>
>>> so, 'start informal' and as it progresses formalities develop, but
>>> don't start with the formalities and bureaucracies before you have
>>> significant content.
>>
>> Broadly I agree with this, but there seems little harm in establishing
>> some overarching structure. For example, it could be very irritating
>> to have to address many formats in different databases. Perhaps a
>> suggested template might be made available from the 'centre', together
>> with a means of organising and searching the entire network? Or at
>> least ensuring that Google Scholar makes a reasonable job of searching
>> them all and presenting the results in a meaningful way.
>>
>> David
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