Russell Waldron's List: DMS

• Cornell faculty perceive this essentially as a non-issue
• best at creating, not preserving, new knowledge
• capture, preserve and communicate
• DSpace was the dominant content management package
• reasons for non-participation
• 80% of collections contain fewer than 10 items
• 50% deposited only a single item
• narrowly targeted collections may have rigid policies that dissuade participation
• contributor may be reluctant to deposit materials into a collection with little or no content
• a Cumulative Advantage Process may be in effect, where success breeds success
• little or no public interest in their work
• ease and control
• look and feel
• permanence
• document format migration
• hoping that it is being done for me automatically
• reducing the publication lag of journal
• more timely and speeds up dissemination of research findings
• learning curve
• not perceived as adding value
• unsure about copyright issues
• jeopardize one's publication success
• Quality association
• Releasing results before formal publication
• work that had not gone through peer review
• only four knew about the existence of DSpace
• DSpace redundant
• scanned primary documents for the purpose of teaching
• permanent home and URL
• lack of software functionality. Categories are inflexible, and one could not delete, move objects, or cross-list objects across categories
• necessary to design an additional search interface
• cannot link directly to a DSpace object
• Given the choice of associating one's work with an institution or a research community, all chose the research community
• (teaching materials, theses and dissertations, and descriptions of local resources) do associate better with an institution
• island completely isolated from other institutional repositorie
• metadata in most institutional repositories were indexed and could be searched by tools such as Google
• Journals [also] convey a certain status, something that the arXiv

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