[rclis] progress report

[Thomas Krichel]

  Jose Manuel Barrueco Cruz writes

> 	Not sure if creating a new service using AMF is a good idea. May
> be for testing purposes would be usefull, but I think we should optimize
> our forces. dois is a well known service at the moment, then why create a
> new one rather than to collaborate with it.

  The new service is indeed only for testing purposos, if it works,
  it can be come DoCIS, a successor to DoIS, and DoIS will point
  to it

> Dois doesn't make an optimal usage of Julio's data because the
> script I wrotte contains some mistakes.  I haven't the time to
> upgrade it, so the Jeremiah's work would be very usefull for us if
> he can provide an additional output in the old ReDIF format.

  I think that generating some ReDIF out of the AMG should be a couple of
  days work, I can do that. 

> BTW, here in Spain, we have got a grant of 20.000 eur to write a
> report on the implication for the Spanish scientific community of the new
> ways of distributing scientific documents using open archives. 

  Who is "we"?

> 	The funds include some money (about 7.000 eur) to buy and maintain
> the domain rclis.org, for computing support (programming and hosting of
> servers), consultancy (i. e. new dois design), etc. Thomas offered some of
> his servers in USA to host the rclis homepage. Would be possible to host
> the eprints server there too?

  I would have to ask Bob or Gerry, but in principle I see no problem with
  that. 

  I will have stab at a rclis homepage when I have finished with
  my current cycle of work on the implementation of OAI for RePEc.



  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                                   mailto:krichel@openlib.org
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