On 18 Nov 2008, at 15:02, Stuart Lewis wrote:
> Within the repositories community we often talk about how to encourage
> faculty to self-archive their works. We also sometimes talk about the
> problems with repositories, and how repositories are not yet part of
> the
> daily toolkit of faculty. In an attempt to see whether bringing
> these two
> problems together by allowing faculty to deposit from within a tool
> that
> many do use on a daily basis, as part of the JISC funded ‘SWORD 2‘
> project I
> have now created a Facebook repository deposit application.
I think this is a great example that responds to the challenge of
going out to where the researchers are.
Personally, I don't use facebook, but Stuart has made me think about
what I environments I do use and where I spend all my time. To be
honest, the answer is "email". If I had a repository deposit that
worked by email then that would be very natural for me. I could email
my documents as an attachment to "[log in to unmask]", and
the repository would mail back an email form for me to fill out with
the metadata. This conversation could go backwards and forwards -
perhaps the first form would be very brief, asking me what kind of
deposit it was (journal article? conference paper? lecture slides?)
but then a subsequent (highly tailored) form might be sent asking me
for further details. I don't mind doing this in bite-sized chunks,
especially if each message doesn't require too much of my time.
So if not facebook or email, what other computing environments do
people spend all their times in? What program should be adapted to do
repository deposits?
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Les Carr
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