Steve Hitchcock wrote:
> How this will be done across IRs is another matter. Ian Stuart suggests
> the technology is lacking, and we could wring our hands over this and
> then a developer somewhere will change the world in two days. Maybe CRIG
> could hold a competition. Almost certainly it won't be based on some
> central cataloguing based approach, but perhaps a series of distributed
> filters configured at will through a Yahoo Pipes type arrangement.
I'm not sure I suggested we wring our hands and wait for an alturistic
developer to save our world.
I think we have a problem, and that the community needs to work out what
it needs.... and then people like JISC can fund the work.
Crig *did* hold a competition, and there were some very very interesting
solutions to the deposit problem... the Australian solution was
particularly good (better than the ORE winner, IMO)
What is interesting about this, and the reason I've actually replied to
this, is that the commercial marketing world has faced this whole
problem of the mass-market newspaper v's the influential blogger
(and there will, hopefully, be a presentation at Repository Fringe about
this whole area :) )
--
Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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