1) I see my previous message did not went to the General List: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Peter, (copy to Valorie, Tim, Julien Schubnel and the DSpace community)
I want to apologize for my somewhat rough statement about Repository Managers involvment. But I deeply think their leadership in DSpace development is essential and I hope that something can improve at this level. Personnaly, I am looking for institutions doing research on the role of the "catalog" in the scientific information distribution and learning process (to improve discovery and learning by improving writing, publishing and distribution). The management of "subjects" and indexing is central to this problem. I would like to join a network, a community setting up projects on this theme... DSpace is my basis to create operational tools in that direction. Meanwhile, I will be delighted to bring input from my users (PoisonCentre MDs, musicians (http://www.windmusic.org) and... librarians!) to the process you propose. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2) About "techies" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sure, developpers are there because they are interested to make it "real". But needs should not be immediatly phrased in terms of functionnal specs (and solutions proposals neither). As a developper, I need to hear the voice of the institutions expressing their strategical aims and where they want to be tomorrow. From there, there will be always a time for functional proposals... But first: "Why are we doing all that?" A pragmatic approach could be to make an inventory of all the institutions which already made extensive local additions to DSpace and to describe what and why they added so much to it. For instance, University of Liege (leaders on the Open Access battlefront) or Hong Kong (authors pages programmed by Andrea)... Those local additions may be seen as "out of focus" as they may not be shared or even sharable with the DSpace community. But they are a good clue of what are the candidates for institutions investments. And there is real experience to gather... As I said above, I will keep my focus on "subject" indexing and retrieval... At this level, I would be happy to support one need assesment topic: "The role of the Repository to connect the scientific production process and the learning process" and to contribute to the report to the community. Anyone interested to team with me? Have a nice day, Christophe Dupriez Mark H. Wood a écrit : > Please be sure to invite a techie or two into the "management > requirements" group, and to task a few members to represent developing > management concerns in the tech fora. Techies need to know what is > important to users, and managers need to know what requirements cost > and what cannot be done at any cost. One important purpose of the new > group should be to complete the set of resources needed by the > community to keep two groups with different views of a common problem > in touch with each other's concerns before either one goes too far > down a blind alley. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
