[EP-underground] Re: Fwd: Citebase/OAIster

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Kat Hagedorn wrote:

> >>> Another big institutional archive I recommend is:
> >>> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
> >>> That is the Electronics and Computer Science Eprint Archive
> >>> at Southampton with thousands of records.
> 
> Hi Stevan,
> 
> I was just wondering something about the above repository. The 
> repository ID for it is GenericEPrints, which happens to be the same as 
> that for Utah State Unversity's Department of Instructional Technology. 
> It was a bit confusing for me, and will be confusing for harvesters and 
> sp's alike. Is there a possibility of changing the repository ID for 
> either of these repositories?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kat

Hi Kat,

Good point! Chris, is there any way to fix this (and to coordinate,
in future, the repository ID namespace?)

I am branching this to eprints-underground and OAI-Implementers as
it is a postential coordination point.

Chrs, Stevan