Greg Kuperberg writes
> But I disagree entirely with the claim that distributed
> interoperability has never been tried before. It has been tried several
> times, whole-heartedly with these two projects:
>
> MPRESS - mathnet.preprints.org
> NCSTRL - ncstrl.org
>
> And it has been a factor in many other projects, including Hypatia
> and the AMS preprint server. Some of these projects are more
> successful than others, but *all* of them suffer from inconstancy
> of the underlying archives.
The largest project that has been done with a distributed
interoperability is RePEc. RePEc catalogs 110000 items now.
While there is the occasional case that an archive my become
obsolete, from about 140 archives, I think 5 have been made obsolete,
i.e. have been moved to a place outside the original archive
maintainer's control. Thus while it is problem, it is not a minor one.
It is by far outweight by other advantages, such as distributed costs,
minimum quality control, and wide community partipation.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel
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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT