<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.<br><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Vandegrift, Micah</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mvandegrift@fsu.edu">mvandegrift@fsu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: 2 June 2015 at 22:32<br>Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Dream Institutional Repository Project #DIRP<br>To: "<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<div>Colleagues, </div>
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<div>We’ve got a really brilliant Tech-Web Dev team here at Florida State, of which my pal
<a href="https://twitter.com/bryjbrown" target="_blank">Bryan Brown</a> had a good idea. </div>
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<div>IR’s as we know them have traditionally been defined by functionality of the software that they run on. What if we approached IRs by what we want them to be/do, then mold the (open source) software to be that? </div>
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<div>Thus, the Dream Institutional Repository Project (DIRP). <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uingCca1CgsMyWNdVy5AqdmfFDVQH9gHgWQUYJw06-w/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">
Click this here link</a> and start throwing your ideas in the hat. What do you wish your IR could do? What functions or specs would make it awesomer? Which features are you waiting for that would make your work easier, but haven’t been baked into the new release
of your platform yet? What would systems on your campus do you wish the IR could integrate with? Feel free to send ideas to me if you don’t feel comfortable posting them yourself. </div>
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<div>In light of recent happenings in the battle against IRs, seems we have the opportunity to keep pushing and dig deeper into the scholarly communication ecosystem. </div>
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<div>A saying we toss around after productive meetings – Takes teamwork to make a dream work. </div>
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<div>Work that IR Dream, Team!!</div>
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<div>Micah V. </div>
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<div>PS. Nominating myself for most creative/fun emails on the SCHOLCOMM list. We all need some chuckles in this line of work. </div>
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