In an ideal world, yes - I would agree with you.
In fact, in an ideal world, I'd turn your idea on it's head: Have a
central store for all research output, which is then queried (using
wonderful web2.0/3.0 technologies) to create Institutional Repositories
(the "look at us, ain't we wonderful" thing) as well as individual
author Lists (ala PublicationsList.Org)
I guess it comes down to the same thing as RAE/REF/YAPOP - which wants
everything by the researcher listed, from the beginning.
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Anyway: Google [Scholar] deals with de-duplication, so what's the problem?
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More seriously, there will always be duplication - for example, let us
assume that you and I produce a paper together: which repository does it
go in? Yours or mine?
Same paper... absolutely identical, 'cos the publisher wants their
version deposited, and we have both added the full compliment of
metadata....
Paul Needham wrote:
> Wouldn’t it make more sense for an Institutional Repository to house
> just the research outputs from its own Institution? A ‘natural’
> organisational unit, as Professor Harnad has observed on many occasions.
> Otherwise we are talking about multiple institutions effectively running
> multiple Author Repositories/CVs. What happens when an author at an
> institution (A) moves on to his/her next institution (B), and the next
> (C), and the next (D)? Are A, B and C going update their repositories
> with new entries for the author now at D? No – A, B and C will just get
> increasingly out of date. Are A, B and C going to delete their IR
> entries now the author is at D? No – the institutions are likely to
> retain those entries as evidence of ‘institutional’ research outputs.
>
>
>
> Surely an Author Repository/CV system would be better catered for by
> using over-arching services such as the Intute Repository Search Service
> (http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/) in conjunction with a ‘national name and
> factual authority service’. (The JISC NAMES project
> (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/shared_services/project_names.aspx)
> is working on a pilot service.)
--
Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/
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