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I'm far from an expert on OA, but I *think* we could consider google scholar as a basic interface. In time, something more profound might be needed, but I wouldn't want to define it at the outset. My understanding is that OA repositories turn up well in google scholar. ...but I could be wrong. Cheers. fil Jeremy Hunsinger wrote: > Oh I'd guess that as soon as you get away from ... just build it, and > start doing bureaucratic structuring, you should as well just close up > shop and go home. I think you would need such a structure of course > for the distributed model that you propose. I don't think distributed > is a good model until the tools are built for such a model, and they > aren't built as best as I can tell. So you would have to have the human > bureaucracy to make up for the lack of technical systems. This is why > designwise for an archive, i prefer the old and highly successful, > central archive + mirrors. Which can be combined with 'anyone else can > build their own archive too'. > > anyway, I'm thinking that we are not supposed to go on at length about > this possible project. > > On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, David Durling wrote: >> On 9 Apr 2008, at 1:57 pm, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote: >> >>> so, 'start informal' and as it progresses formalities develop, but >>> don't start with the formalities and bureaucracies before you have >>> significant content. >> >> Broadly I agree with this, but there seems little harm in establishing >> some overarching structure. For example, it could be very irritating >> to have to address many formats in different databases. Perhaps a >> suggested template might be made available from the 'centre', together >> with a means of organising and searching the entire network? Or at >> least ensuring that Google Scholar makes a reasonable job of searching >> them all and presenting the results in a meaningful way. >> >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> >> David Durling PhD FDRS | Professor of Design >> School of Arts & Education, Middlesex University >> Cat Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN4 8HT, UK >> tel: 020 8411 5108 | international: + 44 20 8411 5108 >> email: [log in to unmask] | [log in to unmask] >> web: http://www.adri.org.uk | http://www.durling.info >> http://www.dartevents.net >> _______________________________________________ > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, > School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > (www.cipr.uwm.edu) > > Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a > thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. > --Byron -- Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University Tel: 416/979-5000 x7749 350 Victoria St. Fax: 416/979-5265 Toronto, ON email: [log in to unmask] M5B 2K3 Canada http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/