Hi Santy,
My perspective on this is that the repository service model just has
not taken off. I think the hope was that digital repositories might
have formed the basis for some kind of scholarly 'information
ecosystem' but this hasn't happened. This may be partly due to the
presence of Google which, although it does a fantastic job, does make
people less likely to adopt other search strategies. The repository
service model won't take off in the future either, at least not on its
own. It is based on an old indexing paradigm, which alone does not
deal with the 21st century problem of information overload.
What's going to happen, I think, is that people are increasingly going
to discover relevant scholarly information through social networks in
the future.
Cheers
David.
2008/5/2 Santy Chumbe <[log in to unmask]>:
> Phil,
>
> Are you surprised to learn that Google's reason to no longer support OAI
> harvesting is that "the information we gain from our support of OAI-PMH is
> disproportional to the amount of resources required to support it"?
>
> I wonder what the amount of resources invested by our institutions to
> harvest & normalize IR metadata via OAI is.
>
> Sitemaps was one of the few ones if not the last Google product to be
> offering OAI support.
>
> Santy
>
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