[This is primarily a question for those involved in repositories for
e-prints, but others may have interesting views]
Within your own Repository, what [primarily metadata] fields are
*Required* and what are *Desired*?
If you were advising a fellow Institution about setting up a repository,
what fields would you advise as *Required* and what are *Recommended*?
If you were to harvest[1] from a repository, what fields would you
consider essential, and what would you consider helpful?
Following on from that: if you were to harvest the Depot (or even the
Intute Repository Search), how would you hope to identify[2] deposits
that could be imported into your own Institutional Repository
[1] This is where I come in: The depot will have a transfer service, but
what to transfer?
[2] I've had loads of thoughts on this one, and they all seem to spiral
and knit and knot and hide their threads, and not actually conclude in
any meaningful way.... for me.
--
Ian Stuart.
Developer for The Depot,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/
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