Colin Thank you for this, very interesting. I was sorry to miss the OAI workshop (other work commitments precluded) it looks to have been a useful event.
My report was never intended to be a fully comprehensive piece of work - it was commissioned as "pathfinder" research for a conference, i.e. as background research to help plan the conference, and it was done over a fairly short period of time. I've had some other correspondence suggesting other gaps/additions (e.g. CDSWare felt they should have had more coverage). I've agreed with PALS that we should produce an updated version to include information like this that could make the report more useful and I'll certainly include some more information on ANU now I've read your slides! I'll wait to see what else arrives and then probably do a quick update something in the next couple of weeks. As others have noted, I was more interested in the broader view of institutional repositories (I find Cliff Lynch very persuasive) - the brief for the conference was to take a narrow perspective on what makes IRs special/different (e.g. excluding subject-based eprint repositories). So I find the Australian experience you report very interesting in this context. I'm giving a short talk at the PALS conference in June based on my report (www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsconference04), so I'll need to update my facts for the that and may (time permitting) think about a fuller update then - a lot has already happened since the report was finished in mid-January. Any suggestions for other areas to develop would be welcome! Regards -Mark ------------------------------------------------------------ Director Mark Ware Consulting Ltd 14 Hyland Grove Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS9 3NR T: +44 (0)117 959 3726 M: +44 (0)7973 824378 E: [email protected] W: www.markwareconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Colin Steele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:49 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Harnad (E-mail); Steve Hitchcock (E-mail) Subject: PARLS report Mark In relation to your very useful and clear report on repositories, you might be interested in the talk I gave recently in Geneva at the OAI conference - we would argue that we were a little further ahead than some of the European initiatives documented in your report and certainly have more than most of the UK repositories at the present time. See the ANU figures for example. http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a035925 We have deliberately targeted the non-Science areas and attempted to harvest material back from repositories such as the physics archive, as well as harvesting websites here. The amount of downloads shows that the more material you get in ... Grateful if you could give us a plug if you do future updates as we often feel neglected in the southern hemisphere in northern hemisphere reports! You might also be interested in the government grants of $12 million to institutional repositories in Australia which are far wider than textual, which were announced late last year. http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp Colin -------------------------------------------------------------- Colin Steele University Librarian, Australian National University (1980-2002) and Director Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003) W.K. Hancock Building (043) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel +61 (0)2 612 58983 Fax +61 (0)2 612 55526 Email: [email protected]
