[IFETS-DISCUSSION:4153] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 486

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From: Downes, Stephen (Stephen.Downes@nrc.ca)
Date: Tue 12 Nov 2002 - 11:00:52 MET 

From: "Downes, Stephen" <Stephen.Downes@nrc.ca>
Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:4153] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 486
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:00:52 +1300

From: PAUL PAVLIK <pavlik@telusplanet.net>

This strikes me as very interesting and useful tool to educators and
scientists. Thoughts?? MIT's Superarchive
A digital repository will revolutionize the way research is shared
and preserved.
http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=5fo,19a3,4rw,hje3,8xgr,1rbm,fpun

While on the one hand I am very supportive of this initiative, the open and
distributed architecture described in this article is not MIT's "genius
stroke" but an idea that developed originally in the Open Archives
Initiative. The OAI is a going concern with a variety of tools already
released and a large user base. I don't know why MIT has to reinvent this
particular wheel (much less why they have to claim to have invented it).
Maybe I'm missing something - I am prepared to be enlightened.
http://www.openarchives.org/

-- Stephen Downes http://www.downes.ca stephen@downes.ca
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