[ArchEc] about ArchEc

[Thomas Krichel]

  Thomas Krichel writes
  
> Could you be interested in ArchEc data?

  Christoph Semken writes
  
> The description on the website is very brief.  What is the difference with
> RePEc?  Does it mainly add versioning?  This could be interesting since I
> would not have to keep track of the changes myself (to notify users when an
> article they bookmarked changed).

  Well, the idea is to archive RePEc. There are really two aspects to
  that. One is to archive all RePEc metadata records and all versions
  that have existed of these records.  That part is not done. All we
  have at this time is a series of dumps of the records at a
  particualar time. The other is to archive all full-text contents in
  the sense of the File-URL payloads in all RePEc archives, and all
  versions thereof, well, within reason. That part is partially done.

  Both parts are supposed to be merged, in the follwing sense.  There
  will be a single file per RePEc handle. It will contain all versions
  of the metadata and all versions of the full text.  The format will
  be the WARC, as developed by the Internet Archive.  I have released
  an initial set of WARCs and a set of plind files. These are PayLoad
  INDex files, in json, one per series, where full-text can be found
  in the WARCS.

  If your institution could sponsor a server for ArchEc that would be
  welcome. Even if you could rsync a copy that would be great.

  I will send you a mail recently sent to ArchEc-run under separate
  cover.
  
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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                              skype:thomaskrichel