Dear colleagues, As editor of the Ranking Web of Repositories I published the referred info in order to open debate about issues that are, in my humble opinion, very concerning for the future of repositories. As my email address is clearly stated in the webpage, I do not understand why you decided not consider my position and explanations in this debate.
I am going to answer the specific points introduced by Mark Wood and, of course, I am open not only to further discussions but to modify my proposals accordingly. > From: Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> > Date: 2 September 2014 16:28 > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] IMPORTANT NEWS: Important Info for Future > Editions | Ranking Web of Repositories > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, General List < > dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Points 4, 6 and 7 reveal a profound lack of understanding of > hypertext and fundamental security issues, and I would not be > surprised to learn that they ignore typical user behavior as well. > Does anyone but a sysadmin. or developer really type in direct URLs to > repository content? Citations please. Point 4. In many academic institutions the access to ports other than standards is forbidden due to security reasons. If you use other ones, the contents are invisible to the people accesing from other universities. Point 6 y 7. Explain me why .../handle/556/78/6789 is better than .../thesis/physics/Wood2013b and why aliasing is not possible. Probably authors will cite the URL of deposited files in their published papers, but with this awful, lengthy, useless addresses they probably prefer not to do. One of the main reasons for depositing papers is to increase their visibility, but this is only possible if other authors can locate easily them. Tipically, for example, in Google. Do you know the advantages of URL semantic content for improving position in Google? There are thousands of papers about academic SEO. For example, there are ones stating the advantages of using "library" instead of "lib" in webnames. > I would argue that we can better do without appearing in the "Ranking > Web of Repositories," whatever that is, than to give up the ability > to protect our users' credentials. (Point 4, which disallows HTTPS) Are you mixing public and private sections? You can protect your users without destroying visibility. > Point 5 is just bizarre. Why does someone think this is a problem? > Not that I think it particularly useful to use the name of supporting > software in naming a repository service, but how can it possibly hurt? The repository is the probably the most important part of the intellectual treasure of the university and their authors, You are simply proposing to brand the continent instead of the content. > Are there any actual statistics to support the belief that long URLs > in the interior of a service actually affect anyone's behavior? Interior is irrelevant, the contents of the repository are for the end-users that are not sysadmin but the institution authors and authors and readers from the rest of the world. We are talking of "Open Access" and in my opinion the referred issues are barriers to the open. > It sounds like there should be some discussion among the various > parties. Where? As mentioned before here I am for further comments. Thanks for your cooperation. > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD Cybermetrics Lab (3C1). CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid. Spain isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info ----- Terminar mensaje reenviado ----- -- Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD Cybermetrics Lab (3C1). CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid. Spain isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
