my life and times

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my life and times

• Thomas Krichel
• LIU ???
• 2008-07-09

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1965 to 1993

• Made in Saarland, a border region in Germany
  close to France.
• Studied Economics and Social Sciences at the
  Universities of Toulouse, Paris, Exeter and
  Leicester.
• Always been a bit of a geek.

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1993 to 2000

• Lecturer in economics at the University of
  Surrey.
• Finished a PhD in economics.
• Started to work on my main claim to fame, the
  RePEc project, a digital library for economics

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2001 to now

• (assistant, then associate) Professor in the
  Palmer School of Library and Information Science
  in the College of Information and Computer
  Science at the CW Post Campus of Long Island
  University.
• My teaching mainly in web design because students
  can't go further without it.

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free academic publishing

• I make a contribution to making scientific
  writings freely available on the Internet.
• But there has to be some organization to the free
  availability.
• This organization should also be free. This is
  mainly what I am working on.
• RePEc remains my most important creation.

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RePEc

• It is a distributed system. It belongs to nobody.
• It's data is all freely available.
• It has no formal organization.
• It receives no external financial support.
• It appeared impossible to do when I started it.

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RePEc is large

• There are close 900 archive that contribute data.
• They describe 400k documents.
• Authors and institutional are registered.
• Users choose between competing interfaces.
• A PhD is being written about it.

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current work

• I develop a registry of institutions
  http//ariw.org.
• I am working on author registration at
  http//authorclaim.org.
• Both are supposed to cover all academic endeavors
  and be freely available.
• When both projects are finished I will die.

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link to Siberia

• Since 1997 ?????? ? ???????, then of ?? ???,
  imitated my work in his project RuPEc.
• I visited him in 1998 and 2001.
• Since 2003 I have been spending summers in
  Novosibirsk.
• Since 2005, I have a contract with ???.

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http//openlib.org/home/krichel

• Thank you for your attention!