On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Hamaker, Chuck wrote:
> Perhaps we need to call it something else like OA self-provision instead
> of self-archiving?
It's a bit late in the day to change terminology: "self-archiving" is
at least 12 years old (sensu online access-provision, nothing to do with
preservation archiving):
http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/
(The interested reader will find there that even the discussion of
distributed local institutional vs. central self-archiving already
predated the 1999 AmSci discussions by at least 5 years!)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#294
And the "Open Archives [sic] Initiative" metadata harvesting (sensu
interoperability, again nothing to do with preservation archiving)
has been with us since 1999:
http://www.openarchives.org/
We have since already waffled confusingly and needlessly with "archive"
vs. "repository" vs "depository" or what have you, and still we have
not succeeded in shaking off the tenacious mis-associations with
preservation archiving. I think we have no choice but to make the mental
effort to remember that "archiving" is polysemous, and not synonymous with
"preservation."
Stevan Harnad
Received on Tue Jul 11 2006 - 16:04:12 BST