Chris Rusbridge wrote:
>
> IRs and related repositories have traditionally not been about change;
> they tend to be about maintaining a static version (I won't say
> "preserving", as it appears some object to that idea). However, the
> idea of moving the repository upstream into the researcher's workflow,
> as in the idea of a Research Repository System (eg
> http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2008/07/negative-click-positive-value-research.html).
> This does imply managing change much more. Besides, we're beginning to
> be troubled by multiple version problems, and we certainly have
> derivative products (from simple Word -> PDF transformations, to more
> unclear pre-print -> post-print relationships).
>
It sounds to me like you're talking about something very similar to a
content management system (I guess source code is a type of content and
a source code repository is a type of content management system):
A *content management system* (*CMS*) is a computer application used to
create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media
and electronic text.^
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system#cite_note-0>
(via wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
sourced from http://www.contentmanager.eu.com/history.htm )
I was looking at this a short time ago also came across the AIIM
definition of the components of an enterprise content management systems
as (via wikipedia again,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management )
/the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver
content and documents related to organizational processes.
/
Now change capture -> ingest; deliver -> access ... remind you of
anything? I didn't follow it up so I've no idea if the similarity to
the OAIS functions is anything other than superficial.
Phil
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