Comments on: Against Repositories http://techticker.net/2010/01/27/against-repositories/ educational technology, eLearning & emerging technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:19:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Portals, not repositories | TechTicker http://techticker.net/2010/01/27/against-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-7691 Portals, not repositories | TechTicker Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:55:22 +0000 http://techticker.net/2010/01/27/against-repositories/#comment-7691 [...] began as a short response to @Danny Kingsley has gradually blown out into something far larger.  So rather than leave this in the comments area [...] [...] began as a short response to @Danny Kingsley has gradually blown out into something far larger.  So rather than leave this in the comments area [...]

]]> By: Danny Kingsley http://techticker.net/2010/01/27/against-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-7680 Danny Kingsley Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:21:00 +0000 http://techticker.net/2010/01/27/against-repositories/#comment-7680 I agree with much that you say but 'there are better ways of doing it' is all very well for a technically minded (and professionally aligned) person. The whole reason why we have institutional repositories is because various people (like Tom Cochrane at QUT in the late 1990s/early 2000s) waited around for disciplines to get their act together to create subject repositories for themselves. These of course are relevant and developed to address the needs of the specific area. But most disciplines didn't. There is no subject repository for Psychology, or Education, or Business - all areas with large numbers of practictioners out there in the real world. It is not just people doing research that need access to this material, not just people who are already involved in Wikis and mashups, it is people working in a field who hear about something and want to have a look at the source material. So what do we do, us institutions? Sit around and wait for even longer? Dr Danny Kingsley Manager, Scholarly Publications and ePublishing Australian National University I agree with much that you say but ‘there are better ways of doing it’ is all very well for a technically minded (and professionally aligned) person.

The whole reason why we have institutional repositories is because various people (like Tom Cochrane at QUT in the late 1990s/early 2000s) waited around for disciplines to get their act together to create subject repositories for themselves. These of course are relevant and developed to address the needs of the specific area. But most disciplines didn’t.

There is no subject repository for Psychology, or Education, or Business – all areas with large numbers of practictioners out there in the real world. It is not just people doing research that need access to this material, not just people who are already involved in Wikis and mashups, it is people working in a field who hear about something and want to have a look at the source material.

So what do we do, us institutions? Sit around and wait for even longer?

Dr Danny Kingsley
Manager, Scholarly Publications and ePublishing
Australian National University

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