On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 July 2010 14:00, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The problem is that there are probably 5000 - 10000 HE institutions >> globally (anyone have a better figure?) and we can only do this by >> crowdsourcing. (Have we ever had the idea of an OKF contact/group per >> institution? This could be a very powerful way of engaging?) > > Would something along these lines work: > (0. Decide what we want) > > 1 Make a website for the project, along the lines of pantonprinciples.org, > setting out clearly what we're aiming for and why it's a good idea. > 2 Work with high profile universities (Cambridge is an obvious target, though > I don't know how they make theses available at present) to get them signed > up, preferably with a press release saying how proud they are to be working > with us, at the forefront of the internet, and so on. > 3 Provide encouragement and assistance as other universities catch on and want > to follow suit. > > We'd still have to build up enough momentum in step 2 that the idea catches > on. Two more ideas on step 2: - Mendeley are building up a "contact per institution" network ( http://www.mendeley.com/blog/community-relations/mendeley-university-advisor-applications-pouring-in%E2%80%A6/ ) and may be open for collaboration in that regard. - Basically all European universities are members of http://www.eua.be , which could be approached as well. Their current projects: http://www.eua.be/eua-projects/current-projects.aspx .
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