[UPS] Interoperability via Z39.50 searching using Decomate

[Thomas Krichel]

  Paschoud,J wrote:

> I assume (mainly because Thomas Krichel has been representing RePEc in your
> meetings so far  - and Decomate2 is already accessing the RePEc Archive),
> that this *should* be technically easier than some of the commercial sources
> we've had to deal with so far.

  Yes. We intend to maintain a ReDIF conversion for the arxiv.org
  and other data. You can then basically use the software that 
  you already have written for RePEc's ReDIF dataset to build the
  Z39.50 server. Doable in a good day. 

> (b) Ways of persuading our academics and research institutes to 'join in'
> with this.

  There are already two RePEc archives at the LSE. If the library
  would get involved it maintaining these, that would be a step
  forward.


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