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LIS510 lecture 0

• Thomas Krichel
• 2006-09-13

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feeling nervous?

• So am I. It is my second time.
• Overall approach
• I follow what has been done before.
• I am generally open to ideas from the students.
• Test success mid-way.
• Overall a relaxed approach
• course does not have a rigid teaching agenda
• more like a test-the-water thing

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how did I get here

• I rode my bicycle from Queens.
• I was in Paris at the time of the first class.
• I took on the risk to teach this course in late
  August when an LIS650 course of mine was
  cancelled in WGC.
• I am practicing digital librarian and teacher.
• I am with the Palmer School since 2001.
• I used to be an economics professor in the UK.

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today

• First talk about the course.
• Then we have a round of introductions of you.
• Then I talk a little more extensive about my
  background.
• There will be no quiz on anything covered today.
• Therefore I have not given you printed handouts.

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compensate for unusual background

• I use Rubin's book "Foundations of Library and
  Information Science" as the center of the course
  material.
• Have some guest speakers
• Last week we had Amy.
• I will try to get more.

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Rubin's book

• Bad
• Yes it is a boring.
• It costs a lot of money, 60 in the LIU shop, so
  I dont recommend you buying it.
• Good
• He has a broad view of the field.
• I agree with much of what he says, I will be
  vocal about my disagreements but they are rare.

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other resources

• The course home page at http//openlib.org/home/kr
  ichel/lis510n06a
• It makes the slides available. If you miss a
  class, arrange a phone appointment to discuss
  class contents.
• There is class mailing list, linked to from the
  home page. Subscribe!

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assessment quizzes

• On normal lecture days, we will have a short
  quiz.
• The quiz will only concern the material done in
  the previous class. There will be two questions,
  you answer one.
• You only have to answer one question.
• You will be given about 5 minutes.
• I will post details about quizzes every week
  after class to the mailing list.

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assessment Rubino assignment

• This consists of you going to interview an LIS
  professional and find out
• What tasks they have to do.
• What time they spent on various tasks.
• What career advice they can give.
• What they think should be done in library school.
• Summarize your experience in about two printed
  pages.
• Hand in at any time before last class.

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assessment essay

• You will be writing one essay as part of the
  course.
• The topic is your choice but has to be approved
  by me.
• You will hand in a first version of it at a date
  to be agreed now. The first version is only about
  3 pages long. It will count for 10.
• I will hand it back to you with suggestions.

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assessment final essay

• On the final day of class you will hand in the
  final form of the essay, that will count for 40.
  
• Please limit yourself to 6 pages, but make them
  meaningful.

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other stuff that I teach

• LIS650 passive web site architecture and design
• LIS651 active web site architecture and design
• LIS618 online information retrieval techniques
• LIS566 Information Networks
• LIS565 Electronic Resources of the Internet

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my (hi)story

• It started with me as a research assistant an in
  the Economics Department of Loughborough
  University of Technology in 1990.
• A predecessor of the Internet allowed me to
  download free software without effort
• But academic papers had to be gathered in a
  rather cumbersome way.

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CoREJ

• published by HMSO
• Photocopied lists of contents tables recently
  published economics journal received at the
  Department of Trade and Industry
• Typed list of the recently received working
  papers received by the University of Warwick
  library
• The latter was the more interesting.

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working papers

• early accounts of research findings
• published by economics departments
• in universities
• in research centers
• in some government offices
• in multinational administrations
• disseminated through exchange agreements
• important because of 4 year publishing delay

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1991-1992

• I planned to circulate the Warwick working paper
  list over listserv lists
• I argued it would be good for them
• increase incentives to contribute
• increase revenue for ILL
• After many trials, Warwick refused.
• During the end of that time, I was offered a
  lectureship, and decided to get working on my own
  collection.

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1993 BibEc and WoPEc

• Fethy Mili of Université de Montréal had a good
  collection of papers and gave me his data.
• I put his bibliographic data on a gopher and
  called the service "BibEc"
• I also gathered the first ever online electronic
  working papers on a gopher and called the service
  "WoPEc".

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NetEc consortium

• BibEc printed papers
• WoPEc electronic papers
• CodEc software
• WebEc web resource listings
• JokEc jokes
• HoPEc
• a lot of Ec!

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WoPEc to RePEc

• WoPEc was a catalog record collection
• WoPEc remained largest web access point
• but getting contributions was tough
• In 1996 I wrote basic architecture for RePEc.
• ReDIF
• Guildford Protocol

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1997 RePEc principle

• Many archives
• archives offer metadata about digital objects
  (mainly working papers)
• One database
• The data from all archives forms one single
  logical database despite the fact that it is held
  on different servers.
• Many services
• users can access the data through many
  interfaces.
• providers of archives offer their data to all
  interfaces at the same time. This provides for an
  optimal distribution.

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RePEc is based on 630 archives

• WoPEc
• EconWPA
• DEGREE
• S-WoPEc
• NBER
• CEPR
• Blackwell

• US Fed in Print
• IMF
• OECD
• MIT
• University of Surrey
• CO PAH
• Elsevier

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to form a 402k item dataset

• 185,000 working papers
• 213,000 journal articles
• 1,350 software components
• 2,200 book and chapter listings
• 10,300 author contact and publication
  listings
• 9,500 institutional contact listings

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RePEc is used in many services

• EconPapers
• NEP New Economics Papers
• Inomics
• RePEc author service

• IDEAS
• RuPEc
• EDIRC
• LogEc

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describes documents

• Template-Type ReDIF-Paper 1.0
• Title Dynamic Aspect of Growth and Fiscal Policy
• Author-Name Thomas Krichel
• Author-Person RePEcper1965-06-05thomas_kriche
  l
• Author-Email T.Krichel_at_surrey.ac.uk
• Author-Name Paul Levine
• Author-Email P.Levine_at_surrey.ac.uk
• Author-WorkPlace-Name University of Surrey
• Classification-JEL C61 E21 E23 E62 O41
• File-URL ftp//www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/
  pub/RePEc/sur/surrec/surrec9601.pdf
• File-Format application/pdf
• Creation-Date 199603
• Revision-Date 199711
• Handle RePEcsursurrec9601

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describes persons (HoPEc)

• template-type ReDIF-Person 1.0
• name-full MANKIW, N. GREGORY
• name-last MANKIW
• name-first N. GREGORY
• handle RePEcper1984-06-16N__GREGORY_MANKIW
• email ngmankiw_at_harvard.edu
• homepagehttp//post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty
  /
• mankiw/mankiw.html
• workplace-institution RePEcedideharus
• workplace-institution RePEcedinberrus
• Author-Article RePEcaeaaecrevv76y1986i4p
  676-91
• Author-Article RePEcaeaaecrevv77y1987i3p
  358-74
• Author-Article RePEcaeaaecrevv78y1988i2p
  173-77
• .

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describes institutions

• Template-Type ReDIF-Institution 1.0
• Primary-Name University of Surrey
• Primary-Location Guildford
• Secondary-Name Department of Economics
• Secondary-Phone [phone]
• Secondary-Email economics_at_surrey.ac.uk
• Secondary-Fax [phone]
• Secondary-Postal Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH
• Secondary-Homepage
• http//www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/
• Handle RePEcedidesuruk

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key to success

• Have a small group of volunteers
• Disseminate as widely as possible
• Demonstrate to authors and institutions that it
  works for them.
• institutional registration
• author registration

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institutional registration

• It started by one sad geezer making a list of
  departments that have a web site.
• I persuaded him that his data would be more
  widely used if integrated into the RePEc
  database.
• Now he is a happy geezer and one of our three
  crucial volunteers.

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RePEc author service

• RePEc document data has author names as strings.
• The authors register with RAS to list contact
  details and identify the papers they wrote.
• This is classic access control, but done by the
  authors.

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author registration

• It started when funding allowed us to hire a
  crazy programmer to write an author registration
  system.
• The system went online as "HoPEc" in late 2000.
• It has been renamed "RePEc author service" (RAS)
• A recent grant from OSI allows for a rewrite and
  expansion.

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LogEc

• It is a service by Sune Karlsson that tracks
  usage of items in the RePEc database
• abstract views
• downloads
• There is mail that is sent by Christian
  Zimmermann to
• archive maintainers
• RAS registrants
• that contains a monthly usage summary.

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authors' incentives

• Authors perceive the registration as a way to
  achieve common advertising for their papers.
• Author records are used to aggregate usage logs
  across RePEc user services for all papers of an
  author.
• Stimulates a "I am bigger than you are"
  mentality. Size matters!

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recently

• In 2004, Peter Jasco compared RePEc services with
  the EconLit proprietary professional database.
• IDEAS and LogEc were Peters pick
• EconLit was Peters pan.
• He slammed the working paper coverage of EconLit.
  
• He could have slammed other things.

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RePEc / EconLit partnership

• RePEc now delivers all its working paper data to
  EconLit, without getting the journal data of
  EconLit in return.
• This may seem absolutely perverse! A bunch of
  volunteers laboring for a multi-million
  concern!
• In fact it serves RePEc well because it adds
  officialdom.

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summary keys to success

• Have a small group of volunteers
• Disseminate as widely as possible
• Demonstrate to authors and institutions that it
  works for them.
• institutional registration
• author registration

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RePEc information profession

• Many information professionals contribute to
  RePEc.
• librarians contribute the most
• publication department staff
• publishers
• RePEc makes their work more valuable because the
  individual bits from a greater whole.
• But RePEc is still not widely know out of the
  economics profession.

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rclis

• pronounced reckless.
• stands for research in computing and library and
  information science
• This is a dataset I am building. It works
  similarly but differently than RePEc.
• It will be another couple of years before
  reaching maturity.

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E-LIS

• E-LIS is currently the most active part of rclis.
  
• It is an international open-access eprints
  archive for library and information science. It
  currently has over 4000 eprints.
• Eprints are basically freely available digital
  scientific papers.

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http//openlib.org/home/krichel

• Thank you for your attention!