Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
After a fairly standard description of the Open Archives Initiative, metadata harvesting and RSS, the author provides an insightful list of some of the problems and issues involved in setting up a repository. The major issues: staff time overhead (especially for categorization, which is a silly waste of time); copyright; different information formats; and collection development.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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