Les' presentation is really good, and includes some excellent ideas and
examples of things that individual researchers can do once their
material is in a repository. As Les says, this is all about exposing
material in repositories in other places - the places that many people
are working in nowadays, or places that they might visit or expect to
find such information.
It looks at things on a micro level - i.e. what researchers can do,
themselves, to help communicate and promote.
There's also the macro level - i.e. what can be done on a broader scale,
to showcase and promote new repository material. Image a place for new
repository material based around some of the ideas used to create things
such as http://alltop.com/ or http://www.libworm.com/ or (if you use
your imagination) http://popurls.com/ It could be done using RSS feeds.
Roddy MacLeod
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
> Sent: 18 November 2008 20:34
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> Subject: Repository Value: good ways of getting material OUT
> of your repository
>
> I have been thinking about the opposite end of repositories
> to Stuart Lewis. Where he has been looking at useful ways of
> getting material in, I have been think about getting material out!
>
> The argument has been leveled against repositories that they
> don't DO anything for their users - they don't make their
> lives (or their
> careers) better. I have put together a presentation that
> tries to list all the ways that a repository makes its
> deposit *more useful* to the depositors. I was going to
> present this at an informal meeting at SPARC Digital
> Repositories, but we used the time up in good discussion
> instead. A couple of people suggest that I post this
> presentation, so I do so in the hope that it might be useful,
> and might continue some more discussions!
>
> See
> http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositor
> ies-add.html
> for the presentation (in Slideshare format).
> --
> Les Carr
>
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