Hi Les,
I understand that there is a lot under the hood in a repository. But
if I was a research manager looking for a CRIS, which already holds
publication metadata, I might be sold on simplicity. Two for the price
of one might seem good enough.
I've seen one CRIS, which hosts profile pages for research staff.
There references on each of these pages. Where full text is
available, a link to their (EPrints) repository is present.
That's why I think that R4R is a good idea.
David.
On 22 June 2010 21:42, Leslie Carr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:02, David Kane wrote:
>
>> If we ourselves are unclear as to the relative merits of CRISs and/or
>> OA repositories, then it is likely that university research
>> departments may be the same.
>>
>> I can see a time when the functionality of the OA repository will be
>> offered by CRIS vendors, managed by the research offices in all
>> universities.
>
> Well, they are both just databases, aren't they ??? :-)
>
> I think repositories and CRISes are complementary, although some vendors may choose to provide a conjoined product (cough, EPrints, cough). However, it is worth bearing in mind that repositories have come a long way in the decade since they were conceived. Managing, curating, preserving and reusing content via a range of services is quite a considerable job. I believe that some of the monolithic CRIS systems are currently re-architecting themselves to be able to function in a complex environment where different aspects of research information environment are disbursed among different systems. And so I think that repository (managing research content) will likely stay a specialist function that a CRIS (managing research metadata) will seek to interoperate with.
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