Andrew suggests an interesting idea for multi-repository sharing of content, but the particular case he suggests - sharing logins between services - is fraught with difficulties. There are more practical alternatives for multiple repository deposit, which we are exploring in the JISC DepositMO project. As the name suggests, this is looking at author deposit of content to repositories using interfaces built into popular authoring applications, e.g. Word.
First, we have to separate the process of deposit from machine-machine activities that might take place later between services. We want to encourage more author self-deposit, and to enable more control by authors of all the places they might want to deposit and update content - starting with the IR, of course - from a single deposit interface integrated with an authoring application (i.e. 'save as', but to a repository).
DepositMO is both using and contributing to the development of SWORD for this purpose. We will also use facilities that Microsoft has been building into applications, Article Authoring Add-ins, for communicating with services such as repositories
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-28SoftwareToolsPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases
We believe that in the timescale of the project (to June 2011) we can adapt SWORD to mediate between applications and repositories (EPrints and DSpace), to enable authors to create-read-update content within a repository just as they might on a local hard drive or server, and to extract and enhance metadata.
There are ways of harvesting content between repositories, using e.g. OAI-PMH or OAI-ORE export, but we need to be careful not to confuse these processes with author deposit and, importantly, author authentication of deposit.
Steve Hitchcock
DepositMO Project Manager
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School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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On 8 Oct 2010, at 04:46, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Joseph Esposito wrote (in liblicense):
>>> Considering the centrality of arXiv to the physics community, it
>>> is difficult to imagine that it would ever disappear (or that
>>> anyone would want it to).
> Stevan Harnad replied:
>> No one wants Arxiv to disappear, but I'll bet that within a decade
>> Arxiv will just be an automated harvester of deposits from authors' own
>> institutional repositories, not a locus of direct, institution-external
>> deposit. In the age of Institutional Repositories, it is no longer
>> necessary -- nor does it make sense -- for authors to self-archive
>> institution-externally. It is also a needless central expense to manage
>> deposit centrally. It makes much more sense to deposit institutionally
>> and harvest centrally.
>
> If it's not in there already, I would expect the SWORD protocol to allow
> authors to include their login details for central repositories in an
> encrypted element within the IR, and for a check-box during the deposit
> process to do a push from the IR to the central archive.
>
>
> --
> Professor Andrew A Adams aaa_at_meiji.ac.jp
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/
Received on Fri Oct 08 2010 - 13:55:23 BST