Is it a Collections Management System?
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Barker
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: Institutional Repositories: do they need a new name?
Hello Howard, everyone
I think that Howard's "repository" might be a third sense of the word, which
you might expand as "repository system"
(where a system is "A collection of components organized to accomplish a
specific function or set of functions"[1]). This would sit in between the
"repository service" as a putative component in the system (though I guess
Howard has called it Content management -- though it wouldn't be a content
management system) and "repository service" as the service you provide to
users once you have your "repository system" and agreed on a whole load of
explicit and implicit policies.
As I understand it, work on reference models will help us understand what
the components of a "repository system" might be, and the work done by other
projects represented on this list (WM-Share, CD-LOR etc) along with more
general work on "repository ecologies" (Blinco and McLean's Wheel of Fortune
[2]) will help us understand the policies required to shape these services.
(NB, I'm not suggesting a decoupling of the two areas of work, it's
necessary that they feed into each other!)
Phil
[1] IEEE Std 610 : IEEE standard computer dictionary (1990) [2] here's
another version of the Wheel of Fortune:
http://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/index.html
Howard Noble wrote:
> Hello, like the postings on this subject.
>
> How about: a repository is an integrated set of software components
> that provide discrete services, examples of which are:
> a.. 2.1 Alert
> b.. 2.2 Archiving
> c.. 2.3 Authentication
> d.. 2.4 Authorisation
> e.. 2.5 Content management
> f.. 2.6 DRM
> g.. 2.7 Federated search
> h.. 2.8 Filing
> i.. 2.9 Group
> j.. 2.10 Harvesting
> k.. 2.11 Identifier
> l.. 2.12 Member
> m.. 2.13 Metadata management
> n.. 2.14 Packaging
> o.. 2.15 Person
> p.. 2.16 Rating/ annotation
> q.. 2.17 Resolver
> r.. 2.18 Role
> s.. 2.19 Search
> t.. 2.20 Service registry
> u.. 2.21 Workflow
> v.. 2.22 Accounting
> w.. 2.23 Version control
>
>
>
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