[repec-help] stale archive requests
Engelhardt, Danielle
dkbishop at wsu.edu
Fri Sep 26 12:47:32 EDT 2008
Hi Kit:
I would be willing to help.
Danielle
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[mailto:repec-help-bounces at lists.openlib.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Baum
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:31 AM
To: repec-help at lists.openlib.org
Subject: [repec-help] stale archive requests
One of the most useful tasks that volunteers might be able to perform
for RePEc is to communicate with those who have requested archives and
for whatever reason have not set them up. We currently have 171
archive codes that have been assigned but not yet implemented. Those
requested more than 90 days ago are sent a reminder message every
month. Those more than 18 months old are moved to an inactive status
(currently 148 codes in that limbo) while a sizable number of the 171
requests are quite old (>12 months, >15 months...)
I would hope that some volunteers would come forward and take a list
of, say, 5 of the oldest outstanding codes and try to contact the
person who requested it. This could result in determining that
(1) the person is no longer at that institution (which often happens),
or is no longer involved with the process (in which case we could
cancel the request), or
(2) there are technical/security issues preventing them from following
the step-by-step instructions for either HTTP or FTP access (in which
case we could now direct them to the RePEc Input Service), or
(3) they have no idea how to follow the SbS instructions (e.g., they
do not know how to create ASCII text files, or subdirectories on a web
server) and need some handholding.
It would be very useful to try to clear some of these old cases and
help people get started with RePEc. For whatever reason many find the
step-by-step instructions inscrutable, so walking some would-be
maintainers through the steps may be the only way to help them figure
out what they need to do.
If you would like to try this out with several archives from our list
of 'vintage' archives, please let me know.
Thanks
Kit Baum
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
http://repec.org
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