Jason et al - what about using an extant repository for something like this? There are many metadata schemas that are applicable here, and John Willinsky's Public Knowledge Project at UBC already has this infrastructure in place. There are others, too, such as e-prints, that work in similar ways. Robert JASON NOLAN wrote:
I'm in complete support of Barry's thinking. That said, perhaps the easiest solution would be something that AoIR could take up itself, in the form of an AoIR paper repository where members could put up papers, related to a conference or otherwise. If it is done by the author, then there's less work over-all, after a script has been set up to organize them. Then anyone who is an AoIR member could upload a paper or link to one, along with pertinent info and abstract, so that they were searchable from inside AoIR.
Has anyone seen a script like this? I could envision one and could probably get my students to whip one up. Provided I could grab some funding from some courseware development fund somewhere. And have it up for when we're hosting the conference next fall.
If there's interest from the powers that be.
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