Apologies for cross posting, I like to receive feedback on both technical aspects and user needs. At CILEA, we are exploring the opportunity to expose DSpace data to the RePEc network, http://repec.org/ googling I have found some results mostly related to the dspace2redif.pl script http://ideas.repec.org/c/rpc/script/dspace2redif.html this approach is of course simpler but imho it can't fit general requirements. The RePEc metadata for the archive and the series need to be entered manually, the script needs to be slightly modified to reflect your metadata configuration (if you have changed it...) and you have of course to setup a public ftp area. Also the performance could be better because without modification the script touch all the document in your archive also if no changes are occurred. This overload your dspace instance and the RePEc network that need to harvest any time all the records. The script is good for users that already have a RePEc repository and only want to increase it with records from one or more DSpace collections. Instead, for new users, there is no help, the setup of the RePEc repository is all on their hands (it is not much hard ;-) ) but it is more complex to deploy the dspace-oai.war and send the OAI-PMH base url. So, I'm thinking of building a webapp "dspace-repec" that, making fully use of the dspace data&structure, could simplify the building of new RePEc repository providing the most wide support to the RePEc format (all document types, multi series, multi archive for the same dspace repository and so on). The dspace-repec webapp should implement the httpserver RePEc approach: http://ideas.repec.org/t/httpserver.html
Is this an overkilling approach? how many DSpace users are interested in RePEc? are there any others project in this area that I have missed? Please share your comments, best regards, Andrea -- Dott. Andrea Bollini Project Manager, IT Architect & Systems Integrator Sezione Servizi per le Biblioteche e l'Editoria Elettronica CILEA, http://www.cilea.it tel. +39 06-59292853 cel. +39 348-8277525 --- Disclaimer: the content of this email is confidential and may be privileged, and it must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. The content of this email does not constitute legal advice, nor any responsibility is accepted for loss or damage incurred as a result of acting upon its contents or attachments. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
