Personally, I think it would be far too easy to loose track of the deposit work-flow during an email conversation with a repository. Fine if it can be done in a single email with an attachment otherwise far better to deposit via a commonly used publication or authoring or tool such as Word as Simeon points out.
Regards,
Antony
--
Antony Corfield
ROAD Project
http://road.aber.ac.uk
tel. 01970 628724
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
> Sent: 18 November 2008 20:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Perform repository deposits from within Facebook using
> SWORD
>
> On 18 Nov 2008, at 15:02, Stuart Lewis wrote:
>
> > Within the repositories community we often talk about how to
> encourage
> > faculty to self-archive their works. We also sometimes talk about
> the
> > problems with repositories, and how repositories are not yet part
> of
> > the
> > daily toolkit of faculty. In an attempt to see whether bringing
> > these two
> > problems together by allowing faculty to deposit from within a tool
> > that
> > many do use on a daily basis, as part of the JISC funded ‘SWORD 2‘
> > project I
> > have now created a Facebook repository deposit application.
>
> I think this is a great example that responds to the challenge of
> going out to where the researchers are.
>
> Personally, I don't use facebook, but Stuart has made me think about
> what I environments I do use and where I spend all my time. To be
> honest, the answer is "email". If I had a repository deposit that
> worked by email then that would be very natural for me. I could email
> my documents as an attachment to "[log in to unmask]", and
> the repository would mail back an email form for me to fill out with
> the metadata. This conversation could go backwards and forwards -
> perhaps the first form would be very brief, asking me what kind of
> deposit it was (journal article? conference paper? lecture slides?)
> but then a subsequent (highly tailored) form might be sent asking me
> for further details. I don't mind doing this in bite-sized chunks,
> especially if each message doesn't require too much of my time.
>
> So if not facebook or email, what other computing environments do
> people spend all their times in? What program should be adapted to do
> repository deposits?
> --
> Les Carr
|