[repec-help] stale archive requests

Fri Sep 26 13:17:08 EDT 2008

I have added the boilerplate message to 
http://ideas.repec.org/repec-help.html

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
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University of Connecticut
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http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Kit Baum wrote:

> Hi Danielle,
>
> Thanks very much for volunteering. Here are five of the moldy goldies:
>
> IMT	Institute of Mathematical Economics, University of Bielefeld 
> friedel at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de	2007-04-19 	526
>
> OTA	Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand 
> CHaig at business.otago.ac.nz	2007-04-16 	529
>
> HEO	Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), U.S. 
> Government	amy.lakroune at ofheo.gov	2007-03-26 	550
>
> FTC	 Bureau of Economics, U.S. Federal Trade Commission 
> meaton at ftc.gov	2007-03-21 	555
>
> LAK	 Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay 
> ngradoje at lakeheadu.ca	2007-03-18 	558
>
>
> The first three letters are the archive code that has been assigned to them. 
> Dates on which they were assigned are given. The boilerplate message is:
> ---------------------
> We would be pleased to include your institution's materials in RePEc. Please 
> use the archive code 'XXX' to identify your archive. Please use the EDIRC 
> Provider-Institution code RePEc:edi:XXXXXXX in your series template to 
> identify your institution. When you have prepared archive- and 
> series-templates, a subdirectory for the series, and at least one 
> paper-template in the subdirectory, please email the URL of the directory in 
> which the archive- and series-templates reside (which should also be the URL 
> indicated in the archive template). This URL must be indexable (if HTTP) or 
> accessible with anonymous FTP (if FTP) for our mirroring software to access 
> the materials. Please consulthttp://ideas.repec.org/stepbystep.html for 
> detailed instructions on the process.
>
> Many archive maintainers have difficulty making their materials accessible 
> via HTTP, given that many web servers are not set up with indexable 
> directories (especially likely if you have a Microsoft IIS). In that case, 
> you must place an HTML file (usually default.htm or index.html) in the 
> directory referenced above, with links to each item within (i.e. the archive 
> template, series template, and subdirectory(ies), as well as in each 
> subdirectory. This will make the materials in those directories accessible to 
> our software. Please test the accessibility of your HTTP materials by going 
> to the URL in your archive template with a browser. If the browser fails to 
> display the contents of that directory, it cannot be included as a RePEc 
> archive without taking the steps described here.
>
> Please contact me if you have any questions about the process.
> Welcome to RePEc!
>
> Best wishes
> Kit Baum
> --------------------
>
> Thanks
> Kit
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
>
> Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
> http://repec.org
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>
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:47 , Engelhardt, Danielle wrote:
>
>> Hi Kit:
>> 
>> I would be willing to help.
>> 
>> Danielle
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: repec-help-bounces at lists.openlib.org
>> [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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