On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Joseph Bogen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stevan, Is there some way I can copy, in toto and in one fell swoop, > my website with its many papers, into your archive? > Joe Bogen <[email protected]>
Hi Joe, Chris Gutteridge is working on software to do bulk transfers of papers from non-OAI websites to OAI-compliant Eprints Archives. I will ask him to let you know where that feature stands. But I have to point out one detail, and then make a provisional suggestions: It is not a website that gets transfered, just the papers. To be able to do this, there has to be a source from which the essential metadata (authorname, date, journalname, papertitle, etc.) for each paper can be derived automatically. I've looked at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen/ and what I would suggest is that the number of papers is reasonable enough so the fastest solution is simply to pay a student for the 2 hours' work it would take to transfer the papers either to Cogprints or to one of CalTech's many OAI-compliant Eprint Archives! (Fortunately, it does not matter whether you pick the central, CogPrints option or the distributed, CalTech option: the OAI-compliance ensures that they will be globally interoperable and harvestable either way.) I have done this with my own papers. It's fast, costs very little (surely there is a deserving student who would be happy for a couple of hours work!), and the result is that one's papers are immediately visible and accessible, universally and in perpetuum. (As they fill, the collective interest in the preservation of these distributed Eprint Archives and their continuous migration with each successive upgrade will only grow.) As you know, I've been an admirer of your work for over 30 years. It is now accessible through google, because you have already self-archived it on your home website. I hope you will make it even more visible and accessible by having it copied to an OAI-compliant archive. (It is even conceivable that by now CalTech, perhaps the most advanced University in self-archiving, and leading the way for the others http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/aug01.html#6 may already have a service from the digital library staff, to do this sort of transfer of proxy self-archiving for its researchers http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling ) Best wishes, Stevan
