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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Les Carr
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