+1, Mark Wood speaks sense, as always. -- HARDY POTTINGER <[email protected]> University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ "Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! I've failed my way to success!" --Thomas Edison
On 7/2/13 3:52 PM, "Mark H. Wood" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:38:29PM -0400, Michele Kimpton wrote: >> Hi David and DSpace community, >> >> I wanted to make everyone aware of a proposal that is making its way to >>the Whitehouse that could possibly have implications for open access >>repositories in the USA, including DSpace. >> Here is the link to the proposal: >>http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/share-proposal-07june13 >>.pdf >> >> This proposal is being submitted as a response to the OSTP call for >>open access and preservation to data and scholarly publications. The >>publishers are making a big push to do it, and this is the Universities >>response. What is interesting is that academic libraries (ARL) and >>Presidents of Universities (AAU) have come together to write this >>proposal. They are proposing a federated network of currently >>established digital repositories with DPN(www.dpn.org) as the >>preservation backbone. That means they are proposing to use in many >>cases their current repositories, either DSpace or Fedora and implement >>common metadata and protocols so they can be aggregated. One of the >>requirements of the repository is to have a PI identifier such as ORCID >>implemented. > >Exciting times! repositories being taken very seriously indeed. > >> If this proposal is accepted by the Whitehouse, the stakeholders of >>DSpace in the USA will need to come together to decide if and how it >>will meet the requirements outlined in SHARE. We have a much higher >>probability of success to get the work done collaboratively and for all >>to benefit I believe, than working independently to satisfy the >>requirements outlined. > >Yes, this needs early and earnest cooperation. > >I'm concerned about how the details will develop. In particular, all >I've seen about metadata so far is essentially "let there be >metadata!" but I don't know how they plan to get from there to actual >interworkability. Does anyone know how we're to get involved, or at >least be kept up-to-date? > >I also worry that this is coming at an *interesting* time, when it has >the potential to gobble up several stakeholders' meetings entire >without, perhaps, producing much that is actionable. A sharp focus on >what is known and what more we need to know would, I think, serve us >very well. > >-- >Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] >Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
