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There is another way to look at this, sort of "working backwards" 1) We know that one good use of a "Repository" (a place of Scholarly Content, Reference And Preservation) is to allow an institution to "Blow its own Trumpet" and demonstrate the worthiness of its staff, in other words: "Look at all the work all our staff have done" 2) From this, we can deduce that this place (I'm avoiding the word "Repository" here) will want *all* the Scholarly output that its staff have done... ever (including the historical stuff) 3) Therefor, it is inevitable that the number of copies of Scholarly Content will grow for each move an academic makes. 4) Ergo, there will be multiple copies, and trying to avoid it is like trying to stop a sponge getting wet. On 30/09/09 10:21, de Montfalcon S.P. wrote: > I think John (Smith) that in a way you have answered your own > question i.e "Option 3 seems the most sensible but could involve a > great deal of work to ensure you delete the correct records and do > not delete any where there are other co-authors at your institution." > At the end of the day the big consideration with this is > administrative support - who would actually do this? I suspect that > much inconsistency could creep into removing selected records and > ensuring that co-authors' work is not removed etc, etc., and general > monitoring of this; and I work with a repository that is mediated - I > think this could end up an even bigger bugbear with unmediated > repositories... > > Diana Kornbrot's comments are probably what this boils down to in the > end. Does it matter that records are in more than one repository? > Probably not. And for me I find that the prospect of depositing > research in repository and then (selectively) stripping it out again > at some point kind of goes against the grain. -- Ian Stuart. Software Engineer, the Depot & Open Access Repository Junction EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.