[repec-help] stale archive requests
Kit Baum
baum at bc.edu
Fri Sep 26 13:21:47 EDT 2008
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
On Sep 26, 2008, at 13:17 , Christian Zimmermann wrote:
> I have added the boilerplate message to http://ideas.repec.org/repec-help.html
>
> Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL!
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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
>>
>>
>> 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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